“…The China Story Yearbook 2015: Pollution looks at how China’s Communist Party-state addresses these problems and how Chinese citizens have coped with and expressed their concerns about living with chronic, worsening pollution. This Yearbook also explores the broader ramifications of pollution in the People’s Republic for culture, society law and social activism, as well as the Internet, language, thought, and approaches to history. …”

“…Martin Paul Eve's engaging and far-reaching study explores the novel's contribution to the ongoing displacement of cultural authority away from university English. …”

“…Tracing the history of Lihirian engagement with outside forces, from the colonial period through to recent mining activities, this book brings new light to bear on the bigger question of what ‘development’ means in contemporary Melanesia. The Lihir Destiny explores how Lihirian leaders devised future plans for a cultural revolution based upon the maximisation of mining activities and the influential philosophies of the Personal Viability movement. …”

“…The olfactory systems unique anatomy, functional organization, sensory processes, and perceptual experiences offers a fecund area for exploring all aspects of consciousness, as well as a external perspective for re-examining the assumptions of contemporary theories of consciousness. …”

“…In science fiction films, we explore remote universes and use yet unknown technologies – the world as we know it is left behind. …”

“…This volume aims to understand how law might see and unsee, and how in its turn is seen and unseen. It explores devices and practices of visibility, the evolution of iconology and iconography, and the relation between the gaze of the law and the blindness of justice. …”

“…Considering the unique character of cultural routes, their formation as a consequence of cultural accumulation in a region is the main objective of the project. The project aims to explore the basic principles of cultural route planning and management in regard to the values of historic, natural, rural, modern and archeological components of cultural accumulation and cultural landscapes. …”

“…De la rubrique des faits divers du XIXe siècle aux rapports médicolégaux, en passant par les ouvrages des aliénistes, les romans réalistes et naturalistes, les feuilletons cousus de rebondissements et de drames, jusqu'aux dictionnaires d'argot, de police ou de gendarmerie, ce livre retrace le parcours du discours criminel à travers l'exploration des écrits professionnels du siècle. Les méthodes et les outils de l'analyse du discours permettent de mener, à partir des faits divers criminels des années 1830 aux années 1880, une enquête sur la permanence et la circulation d'un interdiscours tissé de stéréotypes narratifs, lexicaux et syntaxiques, ainsi que sur la façon dont les différents scripteurs, administratifs, romanciers, journalistes, s'en saisissent, les éprouvent et les mettent à distance…”

“…Les questions du nationalisme, l'importance des transferts culturels ‒ par les traductions ou les adaptations ‒, la présence nouvelle et plus fréquente du corps féminin, les innovations techniques sont autant de thématiques que l'auteur a abordées au fil des années, explorant ainsi la place du social et du politique dans les pratiques culturelles autant que le rôle complexe et ambigu de la modernité dans les genres dits "de masse"…”

“…This book captures issues involved in meeting the challenges of people's movements in the twenty-first century. It explores attitudes of previously colonized people in a post-colonial period, analyses food insecurity in Canada, quality of life of elderly Turkish and Polish migrants in Germany, suicidal behaviours of immigrants admitted to an Italian-teaching hospital, and migration from a public healthcare perspective and points to the problem of tuberculosis among immigrants. …”

“…Elles sont devenues indispensables pour simuler des opérations chirurgicales, créer de nouveaux modes d’expression artistique ou explorer les ressources naturelles. La géométrie algorithmique apparaît à l’intersection de la géométrie et de l’informatique. …”

“…Taking as its premise that the proposed geologic epoch of the Anthropocene is necessarily an aesthetic event, this book explores the relationship between contemporary art and knowledge production in an era of ecological crisis, with contributions from artists, curators, theorists and activists. …”

“…This book, written by Renato Rovai, explores the evolution of digital journalism in Brazil from 1995 to 2017. …”

“…This biographical study of an unusual southern policeman explores the relationship between religion and power in Thailand during the early twentieth century when parts of the country were remote and banditry was rife. …”

“…This book examines the representation of drug trafficking in audiovisual media from 2010 to 2015. It explores how narratives about drug cartels and their operations are portrayed in popular series and films, reflecting on the societal and political implications of these depictions. …”

“…Here he presents art as the medium itself, giving us wide permission to explore and examine our deepest feelings and senses, our world and its becoming. …”

“…Posthumanism and the Graphic Novel in Latin America, which is the first book-length study of the topic, argues that the graphic novel is emerging in Latin America as a uniquely powerful force to explore the nature of twenty-first century subjectivity. …”

“…Against the background of the debates on the American Revolution of 1776 and the French Revolution of 1789, to which he made significant contributions, Bentham worked first on producing a complete penal code, which involved him in detailed explorations of fundamental legal ideas, and then on his panopticon prison scheme. …”

“…This ethnography explores contemporary narratives of “Han-ness,” revealing the nuances of what Han identity means today in relation to that of the fifty-five officially recognized minority ethnic groups in China, as well as in relation to home place identities and the country’s national identity. …”

“…"Based on New Zealand Election Study (NZES) data from a sample of 2,830 eligible voters, A Bark But No Bite explores a puzzle. While there was a lot of talk about inequality before the 2014 general election in New Zealand, and during the campaign, concern about inequality appeared to have no tangible effect on the election outcome. …”