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Book SynopsisThe speed and the scale with which traditional religions in China have been revived and new spiritual movements have emerged in recent decades make it difficult for scholars to stay up-to-date on the religious transformations within Chinese society. This unique atlas presents a bird’s-eye view of the religious landscape in China today. In more than 150 full-color maps and six different case studies, it maps the officially registered venues of China’s major religions - Buddhism, Christianity (Protestant and Catholic), Daoism, and Islam - at the national, provincial, and county levels. The atlas also outlines the contours of Confucianism, folk religion, and the Mao cult. Further, it describes the main organizations, beliefs, and rituals of China’s main religions, as well as the social and demographic characteristics of their respective believers. Putting multiple religions side by side in their contexts, this atlas deploys the latest qualitative, quantitative and spatial data acquired from censuses, surveys, and fieldwork to offer a definitive overview of religion in contemporary China. An essential resource for all scholars and students of religion and society in China.Trade Review“In the best tradition of the genre, this splendid Atlas of Religion in China reveals patterns—and prompts questions—about a world we have known only incompletely. Scholars will mine its insights for a long time, and anyone with an interest in modern China will find this book invaluable.” - David Bodenhamer, The Polis Center, IUPUI “This is the most sophisticated and comprehensive mapping ever of the official statistics for recognized religious institutions in China today. It provides a spatial analysis of religious activity that is many times greater than official statistics suggest.” - Peter K. Bol, Harvard University Nowhere has there been such a comprehensive mapping of religions at the national, provincial and county levels in contemporary China. An extremely valuable addition to the literature, with beautiful maps that bring to life the religious landscape in contemporary China. A treasure for the library!" - Lily Kong, Singapore Management University "Een atlas staat meestal niet op het lijstje van missiologen, maar dit boek is zeker aan te bevelen (...) Al met al geeft dit mooie boek een indrukwekkend beeld van de diversiteit van de religies en een bijzondere inkijk in de terugkeer van het religieuze leven in China". - Bas Plaisir, TussenRuimte 2019, 3.Table of ContentsAcknowledgments List of Figures List of Photos List of Maps Abbreviations Introduction The Three Markets of Religions in China The Red Market: Legal Religions  Buddhism  Islam  Protestantism  Daoism  Catholicism The Gray Market: Semi-Legal Religions  Confucianism  Folk Religion  House Churches  Underground Catholic Churches  Mao Cult The Black Market: Illegal Religions  The Shouters (Huhan pai 呼喊派)  All Scope Church (Quanfanwei jiaohui 全范围教会)  Church of the Almighty God (Quannengshen jiaohui 全能神教会)  Eastern Lightning (Dongfang shandian 东方闪电)  Cold Water Sect (Lengshui jiao 冷水教)  Dami Evangelism Association (Dami xuanjiaohui 达米宣教会)  Disciples Sect (Mentu hui 门徒会)  Narrow Gate in the Wilderness (Kuangye zhaimen 旷野窄门)  Established King (Beili Wang 被立王)  Falun Gong (法轮功)  Guanyin Method (Guanyin famen 观音法门)  Lingling Sect (Lingling jiao 灵灵教)  Lord God Sect (Zhushen jiao 主神教)  New Testament Church (Xinyue jiaohui 新约教会)  Three Ranks of Servants (Sanban puren pai 三班仆人派)  True Buddha Sect (Zhen fo zong 真佛宗)  World Elijah Association (Shijie yiliya fuyin xuanjiaohui 世界以利亚福音宣 教会)  Yiguandao (一贯道) Provinces North China 华北地区  [1] Beijing 北京  [2] Tianjin 天津  [3] Hebei 河北  [4] Shanxi 山西  [5] Inner Mongolia 內蒙古 Northeast China 东北地区  [6] Liaoning 辽宁  [7] Jilin 吉林  [8] Heilongjiang 黑龙江 East China 华东地区  [9] Shanghai 上海  [10] Jiangsu 江苏  [11] Zhejiang 浙江  [12] Anhui 安徽  [13] Fujian 福建  [14] Jiangxi 江西  [15] Shandong 山东 South-Central China 中南地区  [16] Henan 河南  [17] Hubei 湖北  [18] Hunan 湖南  [19] Guangdong 广东  [20] Guangxi 广西  [21] Hainan 海南 Southwest China 西南地区  [22] Chongqing 重庆  [23] Sichuan 四川  [24] Guizhou 贵州  [25] Yunnan 云南  [26] Xizang 西藏 (Tibet) Northwest China 西北地区  [27] Shaanxi 陕西  [28] Gansu 甘肃  [29] Qinghai 青海  [30] Ningxia 宁夏  [31] Xinjiang 新疆 Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisThe essays in this volume present a thorough re-evaluation of the idea of place for the twenty-first century, linking across theoretical interests in space and spatialisation and in motion and mobility. ‘Placing’ becomes an active process that happens in different parts of the world, and there is work here from the countries of the United Kingdom, from Ireland, the USA, Australia and mainland Europe. Placing also happens in different contexts, in the production of visual images, in translation, in performance and in poetry that is both ‘there’ and ‘here’. The range of poets under consideration matches the breadth of the range of the contributors. International in scope, and drawn from a variety of practices and processes, their combination in a single volume leads to unusual connections and new readings of their work.Trade ReviewWinner of the M. Wynn Thomas Prize in the Open Category: Dr Matt Jarvis with his paper "In/Human Place: The poetry of John Barnie" – IJWWE. "This year's M. Wynn Thomas Prize winner in the Open Category is Dr Matt Jarvis with his paper 'In/Human Place: The poetry of John Barnie'." – IJWWE and the proud reaction of the winnerTable of ContentsAcknowledgements Notes on Contributors Ian Davidson: Introduction Peter Barry: Just Looking Elżbieta Wójcik-Leese: Placing the Poem in Translation Alice Entwistle: Taking Place: Deixis, Collaboration and the Gender Politics of the Aesthetic Zoë Skoulding: Lisa Samuels: Unknown Cities Harriet Tarlo: Open Field: Reading Field as Place and Poetics Matthew Jarvis: In/human Place: The Poetry of John Barnie John Kinsella: The Movements of Yellow-Rumped Thornbills: Twittering Machines Nerys Williams: Lyric Encounters with Other Places: Juliana Spahr’s this connection of everyone with lungs and Robert Minhinnick’s ‘An Isotope dreaming’ Kaia Sand: Affording Entrance Jules Boykoff: Poets as Experimental Geographers: Mark Nowak, Kaia Sand and the Re-composition of Political-Historical Space John Wrighton: Ethnopoetics and the Performativity of Place: Jerome Rothenberg and ‘That Dada Strain’ Carol Watts: Zeta Landscape: Poetry, Place, Pastoral Index List of Illustrations

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Book SynopsisThis study presents a unique collection of essays which focus on the relationships among form, aesthetics, and transnational women’s writing produced in recent years. The essays in this volume treat literary works from diverse cultures and geographies, concentrating on the intersections of theory and literature. This results in a wide spectrum of identities and texts – including the work of Swedish poet Aase Berg, the Indian translation market, the Chicana novel, creative non-fiction by Croatian writer Dubravka Ugrešić, and multilingual hybrid texts by Theresa Hak Kyung Cha – in order to provide a framework for an overarching theory of transnationalism as it interacts with newer paradigms of gendered identity and the new forms of literature to which they contribute. Transnationalism and Resistance offers a multifaceted approach to transnational studies and constitutes a cogent analysis of the ways in which women’s writing informs contemporary global literary production. This volume is of interest for scholars in women’s studies, literature, the social sciences, cultural studies and all other fields that take an interest in writing that addresses contemporary global issues.Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction Adele Parker and Stephenie Young: Experience and Experiment in a Transnational Perspective Bodies of Female Experience and Experiment Flore Chevaillier: Erotics and Corporeality in Theresa Hak Kyung Cha’s DICTEE Liamar Durán Almarza: “At Home at the Border”: Performing the Transcultural Body in Josefina Báez’s Dominicanish Johannes Göransson: “Antibody”: Aase Berg’s Grotesque Poetry and the Swedish Welfare State Trauma, Resistance, Nation Anastasia Valassopoulos: Assia Djebar’s Seductive Trails in So Vast the Prison: “A Philosopher’s Thought Experiment”? Tamara Lea Spira: Remembering Trauma, Refusing Disappearance: Corregidora, Bastard Out of Carolina, and the Transnational Labors of Memory Ruben Murillo: ¿Ser o no ser?: Where Death, Violence, and Silence Intersect in Margarita Cota-Cárdenas’ Puppet Stephenie Young: Transnational Memories and a Post-Yugoslav Writer Limits of Transnationalism Adele Parker: Writing as Mirror: Origins and Identities in the Work of Brina Svit Maria-Theresia Holub: Language Borders/Border Languages Ulrike Tancke: Beyond “Helpless Heterogeneity”: Difference and Identity in Contemporary British Women’s Fictions of Migration Epilogue: Marketing Transnationalism Pavithra Narayanan: Transcending Borders in Publishing: The Example of Mallika Sengupta, Bengali Woman Writer Notes on Contributors Index

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Book SynopsisLiterature as cultural discourse has always courted mobility. From the nomadic wanderings of the heroes of Homer and Virgil through the adventures of the medieval knight-errants to the travellers of modern times, movement and mobility have been constitutive elements of story-telling. Since writers have begun to explore the experiential dimension of movement their texts have embraced the essential changeability and instability of ‘mobile worlds’. In this sense literature reflects and processes the transformative force of movement on the perception of the world and is part of the broader cultural discourses of mobility. From the 1936 film Night Mail to the rapid movements of the dime novel detective and the metaphorical coding of automobility in Futurist poetry, the essays in this volume offer new perspectives on the phenomenon of mobility at the intersection between the literary imagination and cultural experience. They explore movement as a decisive force of change in the history of modernity and show how literature in its representation of mobility simultaneously aims both to mirror and to grasp the phenomenon.Table of ContentsAcknowledgements Ingo Berensmeyer and Christoph Ehland: Movement and Mobility: An Introduction Part One: Movement and the Making of Space Christian Huck: The Total Mobility of the Dime Novel Detective Renate Brosch: Mapping Movement: Reimagining Cartography in The Selected Works of T.S. Spivet Chris Thurgar-Dawson: Reality Mining and Meaningful Motion Patterns: A Critical GIS for Literary Studies Klaus Benesch: Places of Beginning: Topography and Renewal in Thoreau’s Walden and Douglass’s Narrative Anna Beck: Subjective Spaces - Spatial Subjectivities: Movement and Mobility in Monica Ali’s Brick Lane and Ian McEwan’s Saturday Part Two: Conceptual Spaces Birgit Neumann: Patterns of Global Mobility in Early Modern English Literature: Fictions of the Sea Philipp Erchinger: Mobility, Movement, Method and Life in G.H. Lewes Peter Merriman: Unpicking Time-Space: Towards New Apprehensions of Movement-Space Sven Strasen, Timo Lothmann, and Peter Wenzel: On the Move: Discursive Integration of New Mobility Technologies through Poetry Timo Lothmann and Antje Schumacher: Automobility in Poetry: A Conceptual Metaphor Approach Notes on Contributors Index

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Book SynopsisDo traditional distinctions between "belief" and "knowledge" still make sense? How are differences between knowledge and belief understood in different cultural contexts? This book explores conflicts between various types of knowledge, especially between orthodox and heterodox knowledge systems, ranging from religious fundamentalism to heresies within the scientific community itself. Beyond addressing many fields in the academy, the book discusses learned individuals interested in the often puzzling spatial and cultural disparities of knowledge and clashes of knowledge.Table of ContentsContents,- Introduction to the book series „Knowledge and Space':Peter Meusburger,-: Introduction to this volume Clashes of Knowledge inside, outside, and at the Threshold of Science: Edgar Wunder,- Chapter 1: Forms of Knowledge: Problems, Projects, Perspectives: Günter Abel,- Chapter 2: The Nexus of Knowledge and Space: Peter Meusburger,- Chapter 3: Cultural boundaries: Settled and unsettled: Thomas F. Gieryn,- Chapter 4: Actor’s and Analysts’ Categories in the Social Analysis of Science: Harry Collins,- Chapter 5: Science and the Limits of Knowledge: Mikael Stenmark,- Chapter 6: Science and Religion in Popular Publishing: Aileen Fyfe,- Chapter 7: Reason, Faith, and Gnosis: Potentials and Problematics of a Typological Construct: Wouter J. Hanegraaff,- Chapter 8: The Demarcation Problem of Knowledge and Faith. Questions and Answers from Theology: Michael Welker ,- Chapter 9: Types of Sacred Space and European Responses to New Religious Movements: Eileen Barker,- Chapter 10: When Faiths Collide: The Case of Fundamentalism: Roger W. Stump,- Chapter 11: The Theory of Cognitive Dissonance: State of the Science and Directions for Future Research: Peter Fischer, Dieter Frey, Claudia Peus and Andreas Kastenmüller,- Chapter 12: Turning Persuasion from Art into a Science: Robert B. Cialdini,- Abstracts of the contribution,- Addresses of the contributors,- On the Klaus Tschira Foundation

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Book SynopsisMediterranean inhabitants depend on natural resources for their livelihoods. Livestock production and forestry are key sources of income yet are carried out under harsh conditions such as limited land resources, marginal agricultural conditions, isolation, and scant equipment and infrastructure. Livestock is of particular importance in mountain production systems as they convert plant biomass into useful products for humans such as milk, meat and draught power. These products are key to the regions' sustainability. The main topics discussed in this book are: Human geography of Mediterranean mountain territories. Livestock production and natural resources. Improving the efficiency of livestock systems in Mediterranean mountain areas. Applications of new technologies for environmentally sound management of livestock and natural resources. The role livestock plays in rural development and in safeguarding natural resources.Table of ContentsPreface 1 Session 1: Human geography of Mediterranean mountain areas Theatre presentations 5 Posters 33 Session 2: Sustainable Utilization of Forest Areas Livestock Land Use and Landscape Sub-session 2.1: Sustainable utilisation of forest areas Theatre presentations 47 Poster presentations 99 Session 2: Sustainable utilization of forest areas livestock land use and landscape Session 2.2: Livestock, land use and landscape Theatre presentations 151 Posters 199 Session 3: Improving the efficiency of livestock systems in Mediterranean mountains Session 3.1: Dairy sheep systems / Dairy goats systems / Small ruminant meat systems Theatre presentations 235 Posters 279 Session 3: Improving the efficiency of livestock systems in Mediterranean mountains Session 3.2: Cattle, pigs and poulytry systems Theatre presentations 395 Posters 427 Session 4: Application of new technologies for environmentally sound management of livestock and natural resources in mountain areas Theatre presentations 455 Posters 483 Session 5: Livestock as a fundamental factor for rural development and safeguard of natural resources in mountain areas Theatre presentations 505 Posters 597

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Book SynopsisThe aim of this book is to elucidate the role of forests as part of a landscape in the life of people. Most landscapes today are cultural landscapes that are influenced by human activity and that in turn have a profound effect on our understanding of and identification with a place. The book proposes that a better understanding of the bond between people and forests as integrated part of a landscape may be helpful in landscape planning, and may contribute to the discussion of changes in forest cover which has been motivated by land use changes, rural development and the global climate debate. To this end, people’s perception of forest landscapes, the reasons for different perceptions, and future perspectives are discussed. Given the wide range of forest landscapes, and cultural perspectives which exist across the world, the book focuses on Europe as a test case to explore the various relationships between society, culture, forests and landscapes. It looks at historical evidence of the impacts of people on forests and vice versa, explores the current factors affecting people’s physical and emotional comfort in forest landscapes, and looks ahead to how changes in forest cover may alter the present relationships of people to forests. Drawing together a diverse literature and combining the expertise of natural and social scientists, this book will form a valuable reference for students and researchers working in the fields of landscape ecology and landscape architecture, geography, social science, environmental psychology or environmental history. It will also be of interest to researchers, government agencies and practitioners with an interest in issues such as sustainable forest management, sustainable tourism, reserve management, urban planning and environmental interpretation.Trade ReviewFrom the reviews:“The book is the exploration of the cultural, biological, spiritual, economic, and emotional components of the forested landscape of northern Europe from the earliest records of interactions between humans and forests to the present day. … This volume should certainly be considered as part of the literature of landscape ecology, as it considers throughout the interactions between humans, forests, and forested landscapes. … For those with a humanistic or philosophical bent, it is likely a worthwhile read … .” (Ralph E. J. Boerner, Landscape Ecology, Vol. 27, 2012)Table of ContentsPrefaceContentAbout the authorsContributorsPART I1 Introduction – The crooked timber of humanityDainis Dauksta2 Forests in landscapes – The myth of untouched wildernessEva Ritter2.1 People and forests in prehistoric times2.1.1 Hunter-gatherers in Europe2.1.2 The mid-Holocene elm decline2.1.3 The Great Transition2.1.4 Early agricultural impacts on forests2.2 Forest development in historical times2.2.1 The great deforestation of the Ancient World2.2.2 Impacts on forests in Northern and Central Europe2.2.3 Forest protection and forest expansion2.3 Conclusion3 Overcoming Physicophobia – Forests as the sacred source of our human originsRoy Jackson3.1 The forest as nothing more than useful3.2 Rousseau: Friend of the forest3.2.1 The demystification of the forest3.2.2 The “Savage Man”3.3 Nietzsche and the sacredness of nature3.3.1 Nietzsche’s criticism of modernity3.3.2 Nietzsche’s “religious” experience3.4 ConclusionPART II4 Royal forests – Hunting and other forest use in Medieval EnglandDella Hooke4.1 Forests as game reserves4.1.1 The location of forests4.1.2 Forest rights and administration4.2 Medieval hunting4.2.1 Anglo-Saxon hunting and game reserves4.2.2 Medieval hunting methods4.2.3 Hunting iconography in medieval literature4.3 The use of other forest resources4.3.1 Forest pasture4.3.2 Other forest products4.4 The decline of the forests4.5 Hunting in post-medieval times4.6 Conclusion5 Forests as commons – Changing traditions and governance in EuropeChristopher Short5.1 Introduction to the commons5.2 History of forests as commons in Europe5.2.1 Northwestern Europe and the Alps5.2.2 Southern Europe5.2.3 United Kingdom5.3 How the role and use of forests is changing5.4 The relationship between people and forest commons5.5 Conclusion6 New forest owners – Small scale forestry and changes in forest ownershipÁine Ní Dhubháin6.1 What is small-scale forestry?6.2 Characteristics of small-scale forests6.3 Owners of small-scale forests6.3.1 Ownership structure6.3.2 Objectives of small-scale forest owners6.4 Nature of small-scale forests6.5 Consequences of the changing ownership structure6.5.1 Forest fragmentation6.5.2 Recreation and access6.5.3 Timber production6.5.4 Nature conservation6.6 Conclusion7 Forest and recreation – New functions of afforestation as seen in DenmarkCarla K. Smink7.1 Forest recreation: a policy perspective7.2 Forest use in Denmark7.3 Afforestation: creation of recreation opportunities7.4 ConclusionPART III8 From post to pillar – The development and persistence of an arboreal metaphorDainis Dauksta8.1 The wooden post in prehistory and the growth of symbols8.1.1 Timber circles8.1.2 Celtic and La Tène sites8.2 The layering of connected symbols8.2.1 The anthropomorphic tree8.2.2 The lopped tree, the axe and the thunder god8.2.3 The Maypole8.3 The Classical column8.4 Two modern vestiges of the sacred pillar8.5 Conclusion9 Landscape painting and the forest – The influence of cultural factors in the depiction of trees and forestsDainis Dauksta9.1 Medieval symbolic and factual landscapes9.1.1 Symbols of Christ, crucifixion and redemption9.1.2 Perspective, nature and classical mythology9.1.3 Hunting, forestry and country life9.2 Poetic landscapes as concept9.3 New symbolic and factual landscapes9.4 Modern transcendentalism and symbolism9.4.1 David Jones; a coalescence of ancient themes9.4.2 Modern symbolism: irony, the sacred and the secular9.5 Conclusion10 Space and place – Popular perceptions of forestsCarl Griffin10.1 Space and place10.1.1 A range of perceptions, a range of perspectives10.1.2 Understanding popular perceptions of forests10.2 Forests in the landscape and the popular imagination10.2.1 Changing meanings, changing contexts10.2.2 Forests as places apart10.3 The cultural distinctiveness of forests10.3.1 Floral and faunal cultures10.3.2 Everyday cultures10.4 Conclusions: persistences and reimaginings11 Materiality and identity – Forests, trees and senses of belongingOwain Jones11.1 Introduction11.2 Identity11.3 Forests, identity and place11.3.1 Forests as material places of becoming11.3.2 Forests of places of (sensed) dwelling11.4 Forests and practices of identities11.4.1 Global sense of identity11.4.2 National sense of identity11.4.3 Regional sense of identity11.4.4 Local and individual sense of identity11.5 Complex and contested identities11.5.1 Forests as spaces of otherness11.5.2 Forests as places to lose identity11.5.3 Forests as places to find identity11.5.4 Forests: Gender and identity11.6 Conclusion12 Definition and concepts – The etymology and use of the concepts forests and landscapeHanna Byskov Ovesen and Kirsten Krogh Hansen12.1 The use of concepts12.2 Forest12.2.1 Etymology12.2.2 Present use12.3 Landscape12.3.1 Etymology12.3.2 Present use12.4 ConclusionPART IV13 Tree use and landscape changes – Development of a woodland area in SwedenMårten Aronsson and Eva Ritter13.1 The area of Bråbygden13.2 Tree species in the Bråbygden area13.2.1 The natural tree vegetation13.2.2 The function and use of tree species13.3 Human impact on forests, trees and the landscape13.3.1 Grazing and browsing13.3.2 Forest fires and slash-and-burn cultivation13.3.3 Tar distillation and charcoal production13.3.4 Pollards and leaf-fodder harvesting13.3.5 Population growth13.4 Landscape development during medieval times13.5 Landscape development since the 18th century13.5.1 Forest description and forest functions13.5.2 Landscape development13.5.3 Land us changes during the 20th century 13.6 Some thoughts about the future14 Forest landscapes in Europe – Visual characteristics and the role of arboricultureEva Ritter14.1 Landscape perception and analysis14.1.1 Landscape perception and preferences14.1.2 Concepts of landscape analysis14.2 Visual landscape characteristics14.2.1 Degree of openness14.2.2 Complexity and contrast14.3 Tree use and landscape development14.4 Aesthetics in landscape management14.5 ConclusionPART V15 Conclusions – Towards a symbiotic relationshipEva Ritter and Dainis Dauksta15.1 Contradicting forest values15.2 Changing attitudes and relationships15.3 Future perspectivesIndex

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Book SynopsisA New Thinking: The Idea of Advanced City Thinking.- The Future of Cities vs. The Future Cities.- Just Because Smart Cities DO NOT Imply Smart People.- Advanced City Thinking (ACT): Development, Determination and Dimensions.

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Book SynopsisSection I: Insights Into The Theory of Recursion.- How Minimalism Captures the Emergence of Categorical Recursion in Acquisition.- Recursion, Coordinate NPs, and the Acquisition Path.- Toward the Construction of a Formal Definition/Classification System for Recursion.- The Category Hybridization Hypothesis and Poss-ing Gerunds.- Recursion in Language and Beyond: A Biolinguistic Perspective.- Section II: Psycholinguistic Perspectives on Recursion.- The Grammar of ‘Unanalyzable’ Sentences in Early Child Language Production: Production Mismatches in the Development of Recursion in English.- The Cat’s (and) Dog’s Bear: Children’s Planning of Conjoined and Embedded Recursive Possessives.- Not Noticing the Evidence: How Big are Illusion Effects on Coordination, Adjunction and Embedding?.- The Recursive Set-Subset Ordering Restriction and adjectives in child Romanian.- Relative Gradable Adjective Recursion is More Challenging for Acquisition than Possessive Recursion in English.- Generic Possessives and the Acquisition of Recursive Possessives in English.- Tamil Children’s Comprehension of Recursive phrases: Evidence from Possessives, Locatives and Relativized Sentences.- Recursion and Verb stacking in Tamil and Their Acquisition.- Sound, Meaning and Recursion.- A Shared Developmental Path of Recursion: Evidence from DeP Recursion in Mandarin.- Recursion in Children’s Hungarian. The Acquisition of Complex PPs and Recursive Possessives.

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Book SynopsisPart I - Chapter 1 Introduction.- Chapter 2 From Vertical to Volumetric.- Chapter 3 Lived Experiences in the High-Rise Vertical and Volumetric City.- Chapter 4 New Definitions of Space; New Ways of Socialise or New Social Settings.- Chapter 5 Vertical and Volumetric Urban Design Principles and Framework.- Part II - Chapter 6 Micro-Scale Interior Public Realms and Spaces.- Chapter 7 Meso Scale Interior Public Realms and Spaces.- Chapter 8 Findings; An Emotional and Spatial Cognition Correlation Index for Assessing KPIs.- Chapter 9 Conclusion.

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Book SynopsisChapter One: Introduction: Decolonising Southeast Asian Social Science.- Chapter Two: Gender: New Paradigms of Equity and Identity in Southeast Asia.- Chapter Three: Popular Culture and Digital Media in Contemporary Southeast Asia.- Chapter Four: Wealth, Poverty and Health in Southeast Asia.- Chapter Five: Political Struggle and Globalisation in Contemporary Southeast Asia.- Chapter Six: Climate Change and Environmental Struggles in Southeast Asia.- Chapter Seven: Innovative Studies of Migration and Mobility in Southeast Asia.- Chapter Eight: The Struggle for Minority Representations in Southeast Asia.- Chapter Nine: ASEAN and the Countries of Southeast Asia.- Chapter Ten: Innovations in Social Science Research in Southeast Asia: A Final Consideration.

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Book SynopsisIntroduction.-  Ch 1 From “Dingy and Incommodious” to “Quite Palatial”? The Local and Regional Newspaper’s Presence in the English Townscape, c. 1850 - 2015.- Ch 2 The Newsroom as a State of Mind: Place, Emotions and Journalism Cultures in Britain.- Ch 3 In the Face of Fire and Dynamite: Racial Violence and Black Press Buildings during the ‘Nadir’.- Ch 4 Above the Street or in the Field? Newsroom Space and Serendipity in Martinique.- Ch 5 Architectures of the Air: Radio Buildings and the Urban Politics of Media Production in Germany, 1930-1938.- Ch 6- Up and Out: Mediality and Verticality at Toronto’s CN Tower.- Ch 7 With a Whoosh and a Bang: Pneumatic Tubes and the American Newsroom, 1910-1960.- Ch 8 The Heart of a Newsroom: The Relevancy of the News Library Then and Now for News Organizations.- Ch 9 Desk Reject? How Computational Journalists Reconceptualized Newsroom “Office Space” for the Data Age.- Ch 10 Media Infrastructure, Natural Disaster, and the Emergence of Convergence Newsrooms in Nepal.- Ch 11 Journalists and Objects of Journalism Relations During the COVID-19 Pandemic: An Ethnographic Study in Three Indonesian Newsrooms.

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Book Synopsis1. Early Modern Nautical Cartography of the Adriatic Sea: An Overview.- 2. Cultural Directions for the Adriatic Sea, or the Gulf of Venice.- 3. Early Modern Nautical Charts of the Adriatic Sea as a Medium of Communication.- 4. Navigare et Regere: The Venetian Cartography Through the Centuries: from Planning Tool to Symbol of Power.- 5. Symbolism of Artistic Elements on Nautical Charts of the Adriatic Sea.- 6. Religious Symbolism on Old Nautical Charts of the Adriatic Sea.- 7. Credibility of the Maps of the Adriatic Isolarii in the Sixteenth Century: Creation of Different Geographical Identities.- 8. Mapping the Adriatic: Ottoman Nautical Charts Before the Treaty of Karlowitz.- 9. Cartometric Analyses: Methodological Issues and their Significance for the History of Cartography and Historical Studies in General.

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Book SynopsisRural work, rural workers or working in the rural.- Actors and Networks building coworking spaces in rural Austria Motivations, contributions and challenges.- Labouring Together: An Assemblage Perspective on Rural Collaborative Workspaces.- Exploring Hybridity in Non-urban Collaborative Workspaces Case Studies from Alpine Regions.- Coworking as a driver for flexible work in Sweden.- How the ‘Middleground’ is Leveraged to Foster Cross-Industry Innovation and Drive Socio-Economic Development.- From Vacancy to Vitality: How ‘Meanwhile’ Spaces Shape Urban-Rural Socio-Economic Dynamics in Oxfordshire, UK.- Unlocking the Potential of Rural Collaborative Workspaces through Short-Term Coworking Experiences.- Exploring women’s experiences of wellbeing in rural CWS evidence from Italy and Austria.- Revitalizing Rural Landscapes through Coworking Spaces An Exploration of Narratives and Discourses on Place Identity.- Coworking from (and for) which rural Spatial imaginaries within the project “Spazi Generativi” in Piedmont, Italy.- Collaborative Workspaces Enhancing Youth Employment in Rural Areas.- Impact of Makerspace on the socio-economic sphere in peripheral areas in Poland.- How to engage with local communities for regional development in rural areas? Participatory formats in outreach hubs.- Rural and peripheral CWS: Some considerations and common conclusions.

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Book SynopsisPreface.- PART 1 BIOGEOGRAPHY AND CONSERVATION.- Development of Conservation Biogeography.- Conservation Biogeography and Social Sciences.- Multitherapeutic Attributes of Ethnomedicinal Plants, Use and Marketing by Indigenous Communities in the Northeastern Hotspots of India.- Ethno-Veterinary Practices by Rural and Indigenous Communities Across India.- PART 2 CONSERVATION BIOGEOGRAPHY AND FOREST COMMUNITIES.- Forest Communities, Threatened and Near-Threatened Medicinal Trees and Climate-Imposed Threats in Central India.- Exploring socio-ecological interactions, including the role of formal & informal rules, in forest management outcomes: A case study from selected forests in Central India.- Rehabilitation and Reclamation of Iron and Manganese Mines in Bellary, India: Theory and Practices.- Impact of Landuse Change on Forest Fringe Communities: Cases from India and Africa.

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Book SynopsisHistorical Tracing: The Accumulation and Development Origin of Subject Data of Ethnic Geography in China.- Ethnic Geography: Object, Content, Concept, Disciplinary System, Method.- Great Migration of Eurasian Nationalities: Regional Differentiation and Spatial Changes in Ethnic Communities.- Nation and Nature: Ethnic Ecological Views on the Relationship Between Man and Land.- Geographical Background of the Formation, Development and Evolution of Ethnic Culture.- Ethnogeography in China.

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Book SynopsisChapter 1: A changing development geography intertwined with disasters, housing recovery and resilience.- Chapter 2: Indian case studies.- Chapter 3: Thailand case studies.- Chapter 4: Japan case studies.- Chapter 5: Cross-cultural insights from long-term analysis of housing recovery.

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Book SynopsisChapter 1. Crisis, Conflict and Celebration in European Cities. An Introduction (Katarzyna Kajdanek, Anna Bednarczyk, Rui Carvalho).- Part I: The Urbanisation Of Contemporary Global Crises: Military, Pandemic, Environmental.- Chapter 2. Mitigating Displaced Place Identities in Ukrainian Wartime Art (Oleksandra Nenko).-Chapter 3. The taxi driver and the city. (Post)pandemic navigations of Lisbon, an ethnography of the night appropriation (Guilherme Costa, Manuel Garcia-Ruiz).-Chapter 4. Food Question in Planning: Perspectives from Two Turkish Metropolis (Zeynep Özçam, Sila Özkavaf Senalp).- Chapter 5. Sites of Culture of Regeneration - Curating Regenerative Practices and Relations with City Sewage and Soil in Wroclaw, Poland (Jakub Pawlak, Katarzyna Krzeminska).- Chapter 6. Green is the new "smart". Global Cities, data driven sustainability and the metrics of climate urbanism (Sabine Barthold).- Part II: The Conflictual Nature Of Urban Governance: Politics, Activists, And Organisations.- Chapter 7. A city of water: Mantua lakes through the lens of socio-spatial relations (Caterina Bracchi; Francesco Galli, Giorgio Osti).- Chapter 8. Landscapes of hope and emancipation: community care practices, gender and welfare transformations in Southern European context (Pinelopi Vergou).- Chapter 9. Urban reviewers and the non-post-socialist municipalism in Poland and pre-2022 Ukraine (Lukasz Drozda).- Chapter 10. Emotions and Islandness: Exploring Interactions of Urban Activist Communities in the Prince Islands of Istanbul (Yasemin Bahçekapili, Yalçintan Murat Cemal).- Chapter 11. The Spatial Social and Experiential Dimension of Sharing: An Urban Experiment of Participatory Urbanism in Spain (Rossana Galdini, Silvia De Nardis).- Part III: Celebrating Urban Diversity And Communities: Social Innovation And Urban Lived Experiences.- Chapter 12. Invisible spaces of resistance: performing the ordinary at Bilbao's Aste Nagusia(Le-Lina Kettner).- Chapter 13. Everyday Hybrid Inclusions in Le Lignon: Ethnography of Newcomers' Experience Over Time (Nerea Viana Alzola).-Chapter 14. Framing the Riviera: touristic performances and photography in contemporary Cascais, Portugal (Eduardo Silva, Lígia Ferro).- Chapter 15. The new flâneries in the urban space: from individualization to collective participation. A transdisciplinary approach (Giampaolo Nuvolati, Lucia Quaquarelli).- Chapter 16. Social innovation hubs: experiences of incubators as promoters of territorial development and urban regeneration (Mario Coscarello).

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