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  • SOLVING PUZZLES WITH NEURAL CREATIVITY
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    SOLVING PUZZLES WITH NEURAL CREATIVITY
    MARCEL DANESI
    This book takes an in-depth look at the tradition of solving puzzles and considers the psychological cause and effect of the "Aha moment": that familiar flash of sudden insight. Everyone loves a good puzzle, but why is this so? Is it because puzzles provide a form of escapism from the routines of daily life? Or do they reveal something fundamental or perhaps even primal about h...

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  • ATLAS OF VERNACULAR ARCHITECTURE OF THE WORLD
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    ATLAS OF VERNACULAR ARCHITECTURE OF THE WORLD
    MARCEL VELLINGA / PAUL OLIVER / ALEXANDER BRIDGE
    The first world atlas ever compiled on vernacular architecture, this comprehensive work illustrates the variety and ingenuity of the world’s vernacular building traditions from a multi-disciplinary, cross-cultural and comparative approach, using over sixty world and regional maps. Mapping such diverse aspects as materials and resources, technologies, structural systems, symboli...

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  • DROUGHT ADAPTATION IN CEREALS
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    DROUGHT ADAPTATION IN CEREALS
    JEAN-MARCEL RIBAUT
    Learn how to best improve yield in cereal plants - even in dry conditions. The impact of drought on crop production can be economically devastating. Drought Adaptation in Cereals provides a comprehensive review of the latest research on the tolerance of cereal crops to water-limited conditions. Renowned experts extensively describe basic concepts and cutting-edge research resul...

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  • THE GIFT
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    THE GIFT
    MARCEL MAUSS
    In this, his most famous work, Marcel Mauss presented to the world a book which revolutionized our understanding of some of the basic structures of society. By identifying the complex web of exchange and obligation involved in the act of giving, Mauss called into question many of our social conventions and economic systems. In a world rife with runaway consumption, The Gift con...

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  • PSEUDOLOGY
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    PSEUDOLOGY
    MARCEL DANESI
    In an age where fake news, conspiracy theories, and outright lies by political and cultural leaders are commonplace, we may be becoming accustomed to lying, or worse, even immune to it. Pseudology unravels the reasons for this by describing a “science of lying” that looks at various aspects of this trait, from how it affects the brain to how it distorts perception. Interest in ...

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  • REGIONAL ACCOUNTABILITY AND EXECUTIVE POWER IN EUROPE
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    REGIONAL ACCOUNTABILITY AND EXECUTIVE POWER IN EUROPE
    MARCEL MORABITO
    This book discusses the major issues currently affecting the accountability of executive power in Europe. The work is divided into three parts. The first examines the territorial dimension including unitary, regional and federal. It discusses how territorial actors participate in strengthening or weakening the implementation of accountability of executive power in modern democr...

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  • STATISTICAL MODELLING OF OCCUPANT BEHAVIOUR
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    STATISTICAL MODELLING OF OCCUPANT BEHAVIOUR
    JAN KLOPPENBORG MØLLER / MARCEL SCHWEIKER / RUNE KORSHOLM ANDERSEN / BURAK GUNAY / SELIN YILMAZ / VERENA
    Do you have data on occupant behaviour, indoor environment or energy use in buildings? Are you interested in statistical analysis and modelling? Do you have a specific (research) question and dataset and would like to know how to answer the question with the data available? Statistical Modelling of Occupant Behaviour covers a range of statistical methods and models used for mod...

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  • ASSOCIATIVE DEMOCRACY AND THE CRISES OF REPRESENTATIVE DEMOCRACIES
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    ASSOCIATIVE DEMOCRACY AND THE CRISES OF REPRESENTATIVE DEMOCRACIES
    VEIT BADER / MARCEL MAUSSEN
    The familiar problems of democratic capitalism have given way to a deep crisis challenging the basic forms of governance introduced around the late 18th century and then gradually expanded and developed until the late 20th century. Associative Democracy and the Crises of Representative Democracies argues that we are in urgent need of normative guidelines and a strong understand...

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  • SWANN'S WAY
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    SWANN'S WAY
    MARCEL PROUST
    Begun in 1909, finished just before Proust's death in 1922, many of the novel's ideas, motifs, and scenes appear in adumbrated form in Proust's unfinished novel, Jean Santeuil, and in his unfinished hybrid of philosophical essay and story, Contre Sainte-Beuve. His novel has had a pervasive influence on twentieth-century literature. ...

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  • COMPARATIVE EXECUTIVE POWER IN EUROPE
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    COMPARATIVE EXECUTIVE POWER IN EUROPE
    MARCEL MORABITO
    This book provides an up-to-date interdisciplinary assessment of the accountability of executive power in different European States and at the European Union level. From a legal perspective, it wonders to what extent the forms of responsibility and accountability of executive power have evolved in terms of legal technique or framework. From a historical perspective, it looks at...

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  • POLITICS, LIES AND CONSPIRACY THEORIES
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    POLITICS, LIES AND CONSPIRACY THEORIES
    MARCEL DANESI
    Politics, Lies and Conspiracy Theories: A Cognitive Linguistic Perspective shows how language influences mechanisms of cognition, perception, and belief, and by extension its power to manipulate thoughts and beliefs. This exciting and original work is the first to apply cognitive linguistics to the analysis of political lies and conspiracy theories, both of which have flourishe...

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  • THE DARK MAFIA
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    THE DARK MAFIA
    ANTONIO NICASO / MARCEL DANESI
    This book explores how organized crime has adapted and evolved in sync with ever-expanding technologies to update its popular image and to conduct its covert operations. It shows how organized crime operates in dark virtual spaces and how it can now form a dynamic interactive system with legitimate online spaces, solidifying its criminal exploits and resources, and making them ...

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  • USING AI FOR DIALOGUING WITH TEXTS
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    USING AI FOR DIALOGUING WITH TEXTS
    YAIR NEUMAN / MARCEL DANESI / DAN VILENCHIK
    This concise volume offers an accessible introduction to state-of-the-art artificial intelligence (AI) language models, providing a platform for their use in textual interpretation across the humanities and social sciences. The book outlines the affordances of new technologies for textual analysis, which has historically employed established approaches within the humanities. Ne...

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  • THE BROKEN PROMISE OF GLOBAL ADVOCACY
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    THE BROKEN PROMISE OF GLOBAL ADVOCACY
    MARCEL HANEGRAAFF / ARLO POLETTI
    The Broken Promise of Global Advocacy addresses two key normative debates associated with the rise of transnational advocacy: whether global interest communities are biased in favor of wealthier countries; and whether the growth of global advocacy implies the emergence of a global civil society truly representative of global constituencies. The authors address these important d...

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  • STRUCTURED STOCHASTIC MATRICES OF M/G/1 TYPE AND THEIR APPLICATIONS
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    STRUCTURED STOCHASTIC MATRICES OF M/G/1 TYPE AND THEIR APPLICATIONS
    MARCEL F. NEUTS
    This book deals with Markov chains and Markov renewal processes (M/G/1 type). It discusses numerical difficulties which are apparently inherent in the classical analysis of a variety of stochastic models by methods of complex analysis. ...

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  • ORGANIZED CRIME
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    ORGANIZED CRIME
    ANTONIO NICASO / MARCEL DANESI
    This book aims to describe and demystify what makes criminal gangs so culturally powerful. It examines their codes of conduct, initiation rites, secret communications methods, origin myths, symbols, and the like that imbue the gangsters with the pride and nonchalance that goes hand in hand with their criminal activities. Mobsters are everywhere in the movies, on television, and...

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  • LINGUISTIC RELATIVITY TODAY
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    LINGUISTIC RELATIVITY TODAY
    MARCEL DANESI
    This is the first textbook on the linguistic relativity hypothesis, presenting it in user-friendly language, yet analyzing all its premises in systematic ways. The hypothesis claims that there is an intrinsic interconnection between thought, language, and society. All technical terms are explained and a glossary is provided at the back of the volume. The book looks at the histo...

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  • AUF DER SUCHE NACH DER VERLORENEN ZEIT - TEILAUSGABE
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    AUF DER SUCHE NACH DER VERLORENEN ZEIT - TEILAUSGABE
    MARCEL PROUST
    Auf der Suche nach der verlorenen Zeit (französischer Originaltitel: À la recherche du temps perdu, erschienen zwischen 1913 und 1927) ist ein siebenteiliger Roman von Marcel Proust. Er erzählt die Geschichte von Prousts eigenem Leben als allegorische Suche nach der Wahrheit und ist das Hauptwerk der französischen Romanliteratur des frühen 20. Jahrhunderts. ...

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  • SACRIFICE AND MORAL PHILOSOPHY
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    SACRIFICE AND MORAL PHILOSOPHY
    MARCEL VAN ACKEREN / ‎ALFRED ARCHER
    The aim of this book is to foster a more explicit and direct discussion of the concept of sacrifice and its importance in moral philosophy. Acts of self-sacrifice have a special place in our moral lives. We admire and celebrate those who give up their lives so that others may live. Despite this important role that sacrifice plays in our moral thinking, moral philosophers have h...

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  • LANGUAGE, SOCIETY, AND NEW MEDIA
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    LANGUAGE, SOCIETY, AND NEW MEDIA
    MARCEL DANESI
    This book presents an interdisciplinary approach to the scientific study of the relation between language and society, language and culture, language and mind. It integrates frameworks from sociolinguistics and linguistic anthropology and emerging strands of research on language and new media, in order to demonstrate how language undergirds human thought and social behaviors. I...

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  • AN ANTHROPOLOGY OF PUZZLES
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    AN ANTHROPOLOGY OF PUZZLES
    MARCEL DANESI
    An Anthropology of Puzzles argues that the human brain is a "puzzling organ" which allows humans to literally solve their own problems of existence through puzzle format. Noting the presence of puzzles everywhere in everyday life, Marcel Danesi looks at puzzles in society since the dawn of history, showing how their presence has guided large sections of human history, from disc...

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  • HANDBOOK OF DISASTER MEDICINE
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    HANDBOOK OF DISASTER MEDICINE
    JAN DE BOER / ‎MARCEL DUBOULOZ
    Technological development has not only provided mankind with more prosperity, but with increased destructive power as well. These developments, combined with an explosive growth of the world population, have led to mass casualty situations, varying from traffic accidents to war. In the 20th Century over 200 million people were killed as a result of man-made disasters --- a figu...

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  • SWANN'S WAY
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    SWANN'S WAY
    MARCEL PROUST
    The Narrator begins by noting, "For a long time, I went to bed early." He comments on the way sleep seems to alter one's surroundings, and the way habit makes one indifferent to them. He remembers being in his room in the family's country home in Combray, while downstairs his parents entertain their friend Charles Swann, an elegant man of Jewish origin with strong ties to socie...

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  • PROBLEMS AND OPPORTUNITIES IN U.S.QUEBEC RELATIONS
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    PROBLEMS AND OPPORTUNITIES IN U.S.QUEBEC RELATIONS
    MARCEL DANEAU
    The failure of the May 1980 Quebec referendum on sovereignty and the ratification in 1982 of a Canadian constitution, over Quebec's vehement objection but with the acquiescence of all other provinces, would appear to indicate that the likelihood of Quebec's independence has been sharply reduced, if not eliminated. Not so, is the considered judgment ...

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  • RELIGIOUS ACTORS AND CONFLICT TRANSFORMATION IN SOUTHEAST ASIA
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    RELIGIOUS ACTORS AND CONFLICT TRANSFORMATION IN SOUTHEAST ASIA
    JÜRGEN RÜLAND / CHRISTIAN VON LÜBKE / MARCEL BAUMANN
    Drawing on a rich body of multimethod field research, this book examines the ways in which Indonesian and Philippine religious actors have fostered conflict resolution and under what conditions these efforts have been met with success or limited success. The book addresses two central questions: In what ways, and to what extent, have post-conflict peacebuilding activities of Ch...

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  • SOCIAL AND BEHAVIORAL RESEARCH AND THE INTERNET
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    SOCIAL AND BEHAVIORAL RESEARCH AND THE INTERNET
    MARCEL DAS, PETER ESTER AND LARS KACZMIREK
    Highlighting the progress made by researchers in using Web-based surveys for data collection, this timely volume summarizes the experiences of leading behavioral and social scientists from Europe and the US who collected data using the Internet. Some chapters present theory, methodology, design, and implementation, while others focus on best practice examples and/or issues such...

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  • EUROPEAN DISCOURSES ON ENVIRONMENTAL POLICY
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    EUROPEAN DISCOURSES ON ENVIRONMENTAL POLICY
    MARCEL WISSENBURG
    First published in 1999, this volume contributed to the debate on the European Union in furthering the study of environmental policy and, expressly, by introducing promising young scholars to the debate. The volume is based on a series of seminars for the Interdisciplinary Research Network on Environment and Safety (IRNES) with funding from the UK Economic and Social Research C...

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  • COLLAGEN
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    COLLAGEN
    MARCEL E. NIMNI
    This series was conceived with the idea of integrating current aspects of ongoing research in the collagen field. The book consists of a spectrum of papers which discus divers aspects such as X-ray structure, the thermodynamics and mechanism of fibrillogenesis, and the use of collagen as a biomaterial for the manufacturing of many implantable, sometimes lifesaving, devises. ...

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  • COLLAGEN
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    COLLAGEN
    MARCEL E. NIMNI
    This series was conceived with the idea of integrating current aspects of ongoing research in the collagen field. The book consists of a spectrum of papers which discus divers aspects such as X-ray structure, the thermodynamics and mechanism of fibrillogenesis, and the use of collagen as a biomaterial for the manufacturing of many implantable, sometimes lifesaving, devises. ...

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  • SOIL AND WATER CONTAMINATION
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    SOIL AND WATER CONTAMINATION
    MARCEL VAN DER PERK
    Soil and Water Contamination, Second Edition gives a structured overview of transport and fate processes of environmental contaminants. Providing a structured overview of transport and fate processes of environmental contaminants, this textbook approaches the environmental issues of soil and water contamination from a spatial and earth science point of view. The new edition con...

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