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  • STOPPING THE SPREAD OF NUCLEAR WEAPONS
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    STOPPING THE SPREAD OF NUCLEAR WEAPONS
    DAVID FISCHER
    Although in the early 1990s, nearly fifty countries had a nuclear capacity, and many more were close to it, only a handful were actually in possession of nuclear weapons. David Fischer’s book, originally published in 1992, was of particular interest in the light of the collapse of the post-war power structure, and the intensive militarization in the Middle East at the time, add...

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  • EXPRESSIVIST RELIGIOUS ZIONISM
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    EXPRESSIVIST RELIGIOUS ZIONISM
    SHLOMO FISCHER
    This book presents a new approach to the study of Religious Zionism. In counter-distinction to the prevalent fundamentalist approach, it argues that mainstream of Religious Zionism is a romantic religious nationalist movement in which the modern idea of self-expression and related notions, such as the free and authentic self and the overcoming of alienation, forms its philosoph...

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  • MODEL-BASED ENTERPRISE
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    MODEL-BASED ENTERPRISE
    BRYAN R. FISCHER
    Model-Based Enterprise describes Model-Based Enterprise (MBE) and Model-Based Definition (MBD) in detail, focusing on how to obtain significant business value from MBE. This book presents MBE from technical and business perspectives, focusing on process improvement, productivity, quality, and obtaining greater value from our information and how we work. The evolution of MBD and...

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  • DAS GLÜCK DER WEISSENSTEINERS
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    DAS GLÜCK DER WEISSENSTEINERS
    CHRISTOPH FISCHER
    In der verschlafenen Stadt Bratislava verliebt sich im Jahr 1933  ein romantisches Mädchen in einen Buchhändler aus Berlin. Greta Weissensteiner, Tochter eines jüdischen Webers, lebt sich langsam in das Leben des Winkelmeier-Clans ein. Das politische Klima und der langsame Zerfall der multikulturellen Gesellschaft in der Tschechoslowakei werden immer komplexer und beeinflussen ...

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  • THE ROUTLEDGE COMPANION TO PERFORMANCE-RELATED CONCEPTS IN NON-EUROPEAN LANGUAGES
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    THE ROUTLEDGE COMPANION TO PERFORMANCE-RELATED CONCEPTS IN NON-EUROPEAN LANGUAGES
    ERIKA FISCHER-LICHTE
    Investigating more than 70 key concepts relating to the performing arts in more than six non-European languages, this volume provides a groundbreaking research tool and one-of-a-kind reference source for theatre, performance and dance studies worldwide. The Companion features in-depth explorations of and expert introductions to a select number of performance-related key concept...

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  • US FOR THEM
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    US FOR THEM
    AUSTIN FISCHER
    Us versus them--it's one of the oldest stories ever told, and we keep finding new ways to tell it.The conservative versus progressive cultural holy war over social justice, reconciliation, unity, and politics is the most recent version of the story, and our lives are increasingly defined by it. Which side are you on? Do you want justice or friendship? Diversity or unity? Victor...

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  • POWER AND PROPAGANDA IN THE LARGE IMPERIAL CAMEOS OF THE EARLY ROMAN EMPIRE
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    POWER AND PROPAGANDA IN THE LARGE IMPERIAL CAMEOS OF THE EARLY ROMAN EMPIRE
    JULIA C. FISCHER
    This study examines the five extant large Imperial cameos of the Early Roman Empire as a coherent whole, revealing that these gemstones were a referential group with complex interrelationships. Power and Propaganda in the Large Imperial Cameos of the Early Roman Empire offers a feminist theory that explains why large Imperial cameos were in dialogue and why the medium appears w...

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  • WHAT DO WE OWE OTHER ANIMALS?
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    WHAT DO WE OWE OTHER ANIMALS?
    BOB FISCHER / ANJA JAUERNIG
    Philosophers Bob Fischer and Anja Jauernig agree that human society often treats animals in indefensible ways and that all animals morally matter; they disagree on whether humans and animals morally matter equally. In What Do We Owe Other Animals?: A Debate, Fischer and Jauernig square off over this central question in animal ethics. Jauernig defends the view that all living be...

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  • FORWARD IN THE FOG
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    FORWARD IN THE FOG
    LORI D. FISCHER
    When Lori's musician son Joe first mentioned numbness in two of his fingers, she didn't think much of it. But as days passed and he was hit with a crippling migraine and relentless nausea, her concern deepened. Then came a doctor's devastating diagnosis: "Brain cancer . . . aggressive . . . inoperable . . . twelve-to-fifteen months." Join Lori on an emotional journey through lo...

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  • FORWARD IN THE FOG
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    FORWARD IN THE FOG
    LORI D. FISCHER
    When Lori's musician son Joe first mentioned numbness in two of his fingers, she didn't think much of it. But as days passed and he was hit with a crippling migraine and relentless nausea, her concern deepened. Then came a doctor's devastating diagnosis: "Brain cancer . . . aggressive . . . inoperable . . . twelve-to-fifteen months." Join Lori on an emotional journey through lo...

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  • SHOULD YOU CHOOSE TO LIVE FOREVER?
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    SHOULD YOU CHOOSE TO LIVE FOREVER?
    STEPHEN CAVE / JOHN MARTIN FISCHER
    Should You Choose to Live Forever?: A Debate addresses a centuries old question in philosophy, but also one with increasing relevance as scientists now see the real possibility of extending people’s lives for many hundreds of years. This accessible yet profound debate from two leading researchers in the area, Stephen Cave and John Martin Fischer, offers: Engaging philosophical ...

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  • STRATEGIC ENVIRONMENTAL ASSESSMENT IN TRANSPORT AND LAND USE PLANNING
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    STRATEGIC ENVIRONMENTAL ASSESSMENT IN TRANSPORT AND LAND USE PLANNING
    THOMAS B. FISCHER
    Assessing the full scale of environmental impacts is essential for effective planning of transport and land use. This is an analysis of transport and land-use planning using strategic environmental assessment (SEA). It establishes the effectiveness of SEA through comparative studies of practice in three countries: Britain, the Netherlands and Germany. The author shows that use ...

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  • INTERNATIONAL TRADE, LABOR RELATIONS, AND BARGAINING POWER
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    INTERNATIONAL TRADE, LABOR RELATIONS, AND BARGAINING POWER
    MATTHEW M. FISCHER-DALY
    International Trade, Labor Relations, and Bargaining Power: International Strawberry Commodity Networks examines power in the commercial food system through the history of always available strawberries. Applying an interdisciplinary approach to case studies on strawberry production and sales in Mexico, Spain, and the United States, the author untangles the symbiotic relationshi...

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  • VEGETARIANISM, MEAT AND MODERNITY IN INDIA
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    VEGETARIANISM, MEAT AND MODERNITY IN INDIA
    JOHAN FISCHER
    Never before in human history have vegetarianism and a plant-based economy been so closely associated with sustainability and the promise of tackling climate change. Nowhere is this phenomenon more visible than in India, which is home to the largest number of vegetarians globally and where vegetarianism is intrinsic to Hinduism. India is often considered a global model for vege...

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  • PERFORMANCE CULTURES AS EPISTEMIC CULTURES, VOLUME II
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    PERFORMANCE CULTURES AS EPISTEMIC CULTURES, VOLUME II
    TORSTEN JOST, ERIKA FISCHER-LICHTE, MILOS KOSIC AND ASTRID SCHENKA
    This volume investigates performance cultures as rich and dynamic environments of knowledge practice through which distinctive epistemologies are continuously (re)generated, cultivated and celebrated. Epistemologies are dynamic formations of rules, tools and procedures not only for understanding but also for doing knowledges. This volume deals in particular with epistemological...

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  • PERFORMANCE CULTURES AS EPISTEMIC CULTURES, VOLUME I
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    PERFORMANCE CULTURES AS EPISTEMIC CULTURES, VOLUME I
    TORSTEN JOST, ERIKA FISCHER-LICHTE, MILOS KOSIC AND ASTRID SCHENKA
    This volume investigates performances as situated "machineries of knowing" (Karin Knorr Cetina), exploring them as relational processes for, in and with which performers as well as spectators actively (re)generate diverse practices of knowing, knowledges and epistemologies. Performance cultures are distinct but interconnected environments of knowledge practice. Their characteri...

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  • ENTANGLED PERFORMANCE HISTORIES
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    ENTANGLED PERFORMANCE HISTORIES
    FISCHER-LICHTE, ERIKA
    Entangled Performance Histories is the first book-length study that applies the concept of "entangled histories" as a new paradigm in the field of theater and performance historiography. "Entangled histories" denotes the interconnectedness of multiple histories that cannot be addressed within national frameworks. The concept refers to interconnected pasts, in which historical p...

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  • EMOTION PICTURES
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    EMOTION PICTURES
    LUCY FISCHER
    This book investigates a group of exceptional films that single-mindedly consider one particular emotion – be it pity, lust, grief, or anxiety – to examine cinematic emotion in depth. Drawing on philosophical and psychological approaches, Fischer’s unique analysis offers unparalleled case studies for comprehending emotion in the movies. The book provides the reader with an oppo...

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  • INTRODUCING THE NEW SEXUALITY STUDIES
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    INTRODUCING THE NEW SEXUALITY STUDIES
    NANCY L. FISCHER
    Introducing the New Sexuality Studies: Original Essays is an innovative, reader-friendly collection of essays that introduces the field of sexuality studies to undergraduate students. Examining the social, cultural, and historical dimensions of sexuality, this collection is designed to serve as a comprehensive yet accessible textbook for sexuality courses at the undergraduate l...

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  • COMPUTATIONAL ATOMIC STRUCTURE
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    COMPUTATIONAL ATOMIC STRUCTURE
    CHARLOTTE FROESE-FISCHER / TOMAS BRAGE / PER JONSSON
    Computational Atomic Structure: An MCHF Approach deals with the field of computational atomic structure, specifically with the multiconfiguration Hartree-Fock (MCHF) approach and the manner in which this approach is used in modern physics. Beginning with an introduction to computational algorithms and procedures for atomic physics, the book describes the theory underlying nonre...

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  • ROUTLEDGE HANDBOOK OF THE HISTORY OF COLONIALISM IN SOUTH ASIA
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    ROUTLEDGE HANDBOOK OF THE HISTORY OF COLONIALISM IN SOUTH ASIA
    FISCHER-TINÉ, HARALD
    The Routledge Handbook of the History of Colonialism in South Asia provides a comprehensive overview of the historiographical specialisation and sophistication of the history of colonialism in South Asia. It explores the classic works of earlier generations of historians and offers an introduction to the rapid and multifaceted development of historical research on colonial Sout...

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  • DRAMATURGIES OF INTERWEAVING
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    DRAMATURGIES OF INTERWEAVING
    ERIKA FISCHER-LICHTE, CHRISTEL WEILER AND TORSTEN JOST
    Dramaturgies of Interweaving explores present-day dramaturgies that interweave performance cultures in the fields of theater, performance, dance, and other arts. Merging strategies of audience engagement originating in different cultures, dramaturgies of interweaving are creative methods of theater and art-making that seek to address audiences across cultures, making them uniqu...

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  • GREEN INTERNET OF THINGS FOR SMART CITIES
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    GREEN INTERNET OF THINGS FOR SMART CITIES
    HARALD FISCHER-TINÉ AND MARIA FRAMKE
    The bright future of green IoT will change our tomorrow environment to become healthier and green, with very high quality of service that is socially, environmentally, and economically sustainable. This book covers the most recent advances in IoT, it discusses Smart City implementation, and offers both quantitative and qualitative research. It focuses on greening things such as...

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  • BODIES IN EARLY MODERN RELIGIOUS DISSENT
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    BODIES IN EARLY MODERN RELIGIOUS DISSENT
    ELISABETH FISCHER
    In early modern times, religious affiliation was often communicated through bodily practices. Despite various attempts at definition, these practices remained extremely fluid and lent themselves to individual appropriation and to evasion of church and state control. Because bodily practices prompted much debate, they serve as a useful starting point for examining denominational...

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  • ESTABLISHING DEMOCRACIES
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    ESTABLISHING DEMOCRACIES
    MARY ELLEN FISCHER
    Balancing historical and contemporary cases, this comparative text examines the crucial question of what promotes or prevents the successful founding of democratic systems. The country case studies are placed in context by a substantial introduction surveying theories of democracy and democratic transition and by a conclusion assessing the cases and suggesting common patterns i...

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  • CHAOS, FRACTALS, AND DYNAMICS
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    CHAOS, FRACTALS, AND DYNAMICS
    FISCHER
    This book contains eighteen papers, all more-or-less linked to the theory of dynamical systems together with related studies of chaos and fractals. It shows many fractal configurations that were generated by computer calculations of underlying two-dimensional maps. ...

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  • SAFEGUARDING THE ATOM
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    SAFEGUARDING THE ATOM
    DAVID FISCHER / PAUL SZASZ
    Safeguards play a key role in verifying the effectiveness of restraints on the spread of nuclear weapons. Originally published in 1985, this book is a study of the safeguards system of the International Atomic Energy Agency, an important element of the non-proliferation regime. It breaks new ground by focusing on the politics of safeguards, especially the political problems of ...

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  • THE CASE FOR YOUTH POLICE INITIATIVE
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    THE CASE FOR YOUTH POLICE INITIATIVE
    NINA ROSE FISCHER
    This book investigates the Youth Police Initiative (YPI) intervention with a comprehensive look at its effects in Boston as well as Brownsville, Brooklyn, a neighborhood that has both rich community networks as well as the highest crime rate in New York City. Based on a phenomenological approach, The Case for Youth Police Initiative: Interdependent Fates and the Power of Peace ...

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  • THEATRICAL SPEECH ACTS: PERFORMING LANGUAGE
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    THEATRICAL SPEECH ACTS: PERFORMING LANGUAGE
    ERIKA FISCHER-LICHTE, TORSTEN JOST AND SASKYA IRIS JAIN
    Theatrical Speech Acts: Performing Language explores the significance and impact of words in performance, probing how language functions in theatrical scenarios, what it can achieve under particular conditions, and what kinds of problems may arise as a result. Presenting case studies from around the globe—spanning Argentina, Egypt, Germany, India, Indonesia, Korea, Kenya, Niger...

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  • ROUTLEDGE INTERNATIONAL HANDBOOK OF HETEROSEXUALITIES STUDIES
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    ROUTLEDGE INTERNATIONAL HANDBOOK OF HETEROSEXUALITIES STUDIES
    JAMES JOSEPH DEAN / NANCY L. FISCHER
    While a majority of people identify as "heterosexual" if asked about their sexual identity, what does that really mean? How did identifying as "straight" arise, particularly in relation to identifying as "queer," "lesbian," and "gay"? How are individuals socialized to view themselves and others as straight, even when many people are sexually fluid? How do institutions like gove...

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