Helaine Selin, "Nature Across Cultures: Views of Nature and the Environment in Non-Western Cultures"
English | 2003 | ISBN: 9048162718, 1402012357 | EPUB | pages: 506 | 3.1 mb
Nature Across Cultures: Views of Nature and the Environment in Non-Western Cultures consists of about 25 essays dealing with the environmental knowledge and beliefs of cultures outside of the United States and Europe. In addition to articles surveying Islamic, Chinese, Native American, Aboriginal Australian, Indian, Thai, and Andean views of nature and the environment, among others, the book includes essays on Environmentalism and Images of the Other, Traditional Ecological Knowledge, Worldviews and Ecology, Rethinking the Western/non-Western Divide, and Landscape, Nature, and Culture. The essays address the connections between nature and culture and relate the environmental practices to the cultures which produced them. Each essay contains an extensive bibliography. Because the geographic range is global, the book fills a gap in both environmental history and in cultural studies. It should find a place on the bookshelves of advanced undergraduate students, graduate students, and scholars, as well as in libraries serving those groups.

Designing Across Senses: A Multimodal Approach to Product Design by Christine W. Park, John Alderman
English | April 6th, 2018 | ISBN: 1491954248 | 295 pages | True PDF | 28.80 MB
Today we have the ability to connect speech, touch, haptic, and gestural interfaces into products that engage several human senses at once. This practical book explores examples from current designers and devices to describe how these products blend multiple interface modes together into a cohesive user experience.

Riamsara Kuyakanon, "Cosmopolitical Ecologies Across Asia: Places and Practices of Power in Changing Environments "
English | ISBN: 036747736X | 2021 | 276 pages | PDF | 18 MB
Cosmopolitical Ecologies Across Asia offers a unique insight into the non-human and spiritual dimensions of environmental management in a changing world.

Patterns of Interaction: Computational Design Across Scales
English | 2023 | ISBN: 9811990824 | 171 Pages | PDF EPUB (True) | 33 MB
This book is a reflection on contemporary computational design thinking at the intersection of architecture, urban design, and landscape architecture, in a time marked by complex challenges like climate change, urbanization and population growth. Based on a critical rethinking of the notion of ground and the relation between the manmade and the natural environment, an understanding of architecture as regenerative practice is proposed. It aims at a built environment as landscape, at an architecture of prosthetic nature. The design approach is illustrated by a number of design experiments conducted within a studio setting and complemented by a series of conversations with leading experts on sustainable design and landscape architecture.

George T. Díaz, "Border Contraband: A History of Smuggling across the Rio Grande "
English | ISBN: 1477310134 | 2015 | 255 pages | EPUB | 5 MB
Winner, Jim Parish Award for Documentation and Publication of Local and Regional History, Webb County Heritage Foundation, 2015

Across the Great Divide: Between Analytic and Continental Political Theory by Jeremy Arnold
English | May 26th, 2020 | ISBN: 1503612139, 1503612147 | 232 pages | True EPUB | 0.31 MB
The division between analytic and continental political theory remains as sharp as it is wide, rendering basic problems seemingly intractable. Across the Great Divide offers an accessible and compelling account of how this split has shaped the field of political philosophy and suggests means of addressing it. Rather than advocating a synthesis of these philosophical modes, author Jeremy Arnold argues for aporetic cross-tradition theorizing: bringing together both traditions in order to show how each is at once necessary and limited.

Elina Vuola, "The Virgin Mary across Cultures"
English | ISBN: 0367786125 | 2021 | 188 pages | EPUB | 15 MB
This book examines women's relationship to the Virgin Mary in two different cultural and religious contexts, and compares how these relationships have been analyzed and explained on a theological and a sociological level. The figure of the Virgin Mary is a divisive one in our modern culture. To some, she appears to be a symbol of religious oppression, while to others, she is a constant comfort and even an inspiration towards empowerment.

Islam, Society and States across the Qazaq Steppe (15th - early 20th Centuries) By Nicccolò Pianciola (editor)
2013 | 352 Pages | ISBN: 3700173369 | PDF | 2 MB
Dieser Band verfolgt neue Forschungszugange zur Sozialgeschichte des inneren Eurasien von der fruhen Neuzeit bis zum Beginn der sowjetischen Periode. Die Beitrage beschaftigen sich mit der von kasachischen Gemeinschaften bewohnten Region, in deren Zentrum die Steppen des heutigen Kasachstan sowie Gebiete liegen, die heute zu Xinjiang, Sibirien, Turkmenistan und Usbekistan gehoren. Die einzelnen Artikel beleuchten transnationale Formen imperialer Regierung, Netzwerke islamischer Gelehrsamkeit und die politischen Strategien lokaler Eliten, von denen die soziale und kulturelle Geschichte eines grossen Gebiets im Herzen Eurasiens geformt wurde. Der Band versucht auf diese Weise, die sozialen und religiosen Raume der Kasachen mit dem historischen Kontext der verschiedenen Staaten, die um die Herrschaft uber das innere Eurasien konkurrierten, und mit der islamischen Welt insgesamt in Verbindung zu setzen.

Felicity Sedgewick, "Understanding Autistic Relationships Across the Lifespan: Family, Friends, Lovers and Others"
English | ISBN: 0367491036 | 2023 | 296 pages | PDF | 2 MB
Understanding Autistic Relationship Across the Lifespan is an accessible overview of autistic relationships from the early years through to old age. This much-needed book combines the latest research findings with first-hand accounts to offer insight into the relationships of autistic people and how they differ to those of non-autistic people in a range of ways.

The Shamama Case: Contesting Citizenship across the Modern Mediterranean by Jessica M. Marglin
English | November 15th, 2022 | ISBN: 0691235872 | 384 pages | True EPUB | 25.81 MB
How a nineteenth-century lawsuit over the estate of a wealthy Tunisian Jew shines new light on the history of belonging