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Kategorier: Antikviteter och samlarobjekt Kulturvetenskap Kulturvetenskap och medievetenskap Livsstil, hobby och fritid Populärkultur Samhälle och kultur: allmänt Samhälle och samhällsvetenskap
How do we come to know the world around us? What about worlds apart from our own-outer space, distant cultures, or even long-past eras of history? Engaging Smithsonian Objects through Science, History and the Arts explores these questions and suggests an answer: we come to know our world and worlds apart through the…
The latest volume in the Artefacts series, Objects in Motion: Globalizing Technology delves into globalization’s various manifestations throughout the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Each chapter highlights the movement of a specific object within the global economy. Transported out of their original…
This eighth volume of the Artefacts series explores how material culture has affected music and sound. Presented are a collection of essays exploring technological innovations and their effects on musical culture. Contributors include composers, performers, musicologists and scientists, providing diverse insights into…
Guide to the Wildlife of Southwest China allows readers to enter the fascinating world of Southwest China, a biodiverse hot spot teeming with interesting wildlife. This field guide, designed to inform nature reserve staff, students of natural history, and casual wildlife tourists alike, presents one hundred and thirty…
Kategorier: Biologi och biovetenskap Insects (entomology) Matematik och naturvetenskap Zoologi Zoologi: insekter (entomologi)
With loss of habitats throughout the world occurring at a staggering rate, it is critical to document what is being lost. This book strives to do that by focusing on longhorned woodboring beetles in Bolivia. Wholesale clearing of large tracts of land kills everything or forces species to move quickly to other areas,…
Kategorier: Författningsrätt och förvaltningsrätt Grundlagar, konstitution Juridik Särskilda rättsområden
The debate over the Second Amendment has unveiled new and useful information about the history of guns and their possession and meaning in the United States of America. History itself has become contested ground in the debate about firearms and in the interpretation of the Second Amendment to the Constitution of the…