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Anthropological Provenance Research at the Museum der Kulturen Basel

by Anna Schmid, Isabella Bozsa, Basil Bucher, Tabea Buri, Silvia Greber, Taloi Havini, Zainabu Jallo, Tevodai Mambai, George Paul Meiu0, Daniela Müller1, Aila Özvegyi2, David Rentsch3, Julia Singh4, Beatrice Voirol5, Beat Keusch6 ...

Provenance research is so much more than a search for origin: It offers new perspectives on objects, collections, their histories, and the multifaceted relationships embedded within them. The Museum der Kulturen Basel is systematically examining its collection for coloniality and highlighting the central importance of collaborating with communities in the Global South. This work also reveals how ... Read more

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Provenance research is so much more than a search for origin: It offers new perspectives on objects, collections, their histories, and the multifaceted relationships embedded within them. The Museum der Kulturen Basel is systematically examining its collection for coloniality and highlighting the central importance of collaborating with communities in the Global South. This work also reveals how
... Read more
Invasion Genomics

by Malika L. Ainouche, Elena Barni, Paul Battlay, Jingwen Bi, Vanessa C. Bieker, Bernd Blossey, Oliver Bossdorf, Bethany Burns, Bing Chen, Yiyong Chen, Peipei Cao, Armand Cavé-Radet, Manpreet K. Dhami, Stacy B. Endriss, Carol Eunmi Lee, Elisa Giaccone, Yaolin Guo, Uta Grünert, Kathryn A. Hodgins, Xuena Huang, Ruth A. Hufbauer, Ramona E. Irimia, Ruiting Ju, Sophie Karrenberg, Kyle Keefer, Olga Kozhar, Katie Lee, Bo Li, Zhiyong Liao, Michael D. Martin, Angela McGaughran, Jane Molofsky, Kattia Palacio-Lopez, Madalin Parepa, Elahe Parvizi, Marta Pascual, Christina L. Richards, Lee A. Rollins, Armel Salmon, Anna W. Santure, Marc W. Schmid, Nicole Sebesta, Jane E. Stewart, Katarina C. Stuart, Carolyn Tepolt, Isolde van Riemsdijk, Amy L. Vaughan, Juntao Hu, Frédérique Viard, Shengyu Wang, Jihua Wu, Tianchun Wu, Wei Yuan, Aibin Zhan, Lei Zhang, Weihan Zhao, Yujie Zhao, Xin Zhuang ...

This book explores how genomic data are revolutionising basic and applied invasion science. It shows how genomic technologies can reveal key drivers of biological invasions, such as hybridisation and rapid adaptation, and illustrates major breakthroughs achieved through the study of model systems. Multiple layers of variation are considered, including epigenetic variation and genetic variation, ... Read more

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This book explores how genomic data are revolutionising basic and applied invasion science. It shows how genomic technologies can reveal key drivers of biological invasions, such as hybridisation and rapid adaptation, and illustrates major breakthroughs achieved through the study of model systems. Multiple layers of variation are considered, including epigenetic variation and genetic variation,
... Read more
Winter Tourism

Trends and Challenges

by Bruno Abegg, Coralie Achin, Emma Alegria, Wolfgang Arlt, Þorvardur Árnason, Thomas Bausch, Mikolaj Bielanski, Dorothee Bohn, Philippe Bourdeau, Federica Buffa, Tatiana Chekalina, John Daigle, Cecilia De Bernardi, Sandra De Urioste-Stone, O. Cenk Demiroglu, Rainer Flaig, Peter Fredman, Emmanuelle George, Alison M. Gill, Barbara Haller Rupf, Joanna Hibner, Claudia Hödl, Lydia Horne, Leandra Jänicke, Alexandra Jiricka-Pürrer, Hubert Job, Milosz Jodlowski, Hope Kohtala, Raija Komppula, Felix Kraus, Serena Lonardi, Linda Lundmark, Markus Mailer, Luca Mariotti, Umberto Martini, Marius Mayer, Aubrey D. Miller, Nina Mostegl, Gero Nischik, Caroline Noblet, Cameron Owens, Joe Pavelka, Mike Peters, Alexander Plaikner, Laura Rickard, Reto Rupf, Murray B. Rutherford, Anna Dóra Sæþórsdóttir, Katrin Schillo, Johannes Schmid, Iain Stewart-Patterson, Magnus Strömgren, Karolina Taczanowska, Rainer Unger, Ilse van Ipenburg, Jerry Vaske, Johannes T. Welling, Tomas Zwijacz-Kozica, C Michael Hall ...

Winter tourism has seen increased levels of investment in recent times, in an effort to reduce economic risk, address environmental concerns and adapt to the effects of global warming. New ski destinations are developing and merging with traditional ones to increase spatial distribution, while many established leading resorts are adapting their management models. Climate change adaptation ... Read more

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Winter tourism has seen increased levels of investment in recent times, in an effort to reduce economic risk, address environmental concerns and adapt to the effects of global warming. New ski destinations are developing and merging with traditional ones to increase spatial distribution, while many established leading resorts are adapting their management models. Climate change adaptation
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Africa’s Struggle for Its Art

History of a Postcolonial Defeat

by Bénédicte Savoy ...

Translated by Susanne Meyer-Abich ...

A major new history of how African nations, starting in the 1960s, sought to reclaim the art looted by Western colonial powersFor decades, African nations have fought for the return of countless works of art stolen during the colonial era and placed in Western museums. In Africa’s Struggle for Its Art, Bénédicte Savoy brings to light this largely unknown but deeply important history. One of the ... Read more

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A major new history of how African nations, starting in the 1960s, sought to reclaim the art looted by Western colonial powersFor decades, African nations have fought for the return of countless works of art stolen during the colonial era and placed in Western museums. In Africa’s Struggle for Its Art, Bénédicte Savoy brings to light this largely unknown but deeply important history. One of the
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Relentless Evolution

by John N. Thompson ...

At a glance, most species seem adapted to the environment in which they live. Yet species relentlessly evolve, and populations within species evolve in different ways. Evolution, as it turns out, is much more dynamic than biologists realized just a few decades ago.In Relentless Evolution, John N. Thompson explores why adaptive evolution never ceases and why natural selection acts on species in so ... Read more

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At a glance, most species seem adapted to the environment in which they live. Yet species relentlessly evolve, and populations within species evolve in different ways. Evolution, as it turns out, is much more dynamic than biologists realized just a few decades ago.In Relentless Evolution, John N. Thompson explores why adaptive evolution never ceases and why natural selection acts on species in so
... Read more
Art, History, and Anachronic Interventions Since 1990

by Eva Kernbauer ...

This book examines contemporary artistic practices since 1990 that engage with, depict, and conceptualize history.Examining artworks by Kader Attia, Yael Bartana, Zarina Bhimji, Michael Blum, Matthew Buckingham, Tacita Dean, Harun Farocki and Andrei Ujica, Omer Fast, Andrea Geyer, Liam Gillick and Philippe Parreno, Hiwa K, Amar Kanwar, Bouchra Khalili, Deimantas Narkevičius, Wendelien van ... Read more

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This book examines contemporary artistic practices since 1990 that engage with, depict, and conceptualize history.Examining artworks by Kader Attia, Yael Bartana, Zarina Bhimji, Michael Blum, Matthew Buckingham, Tacita Dean, Harun Farocki and Andrei Ujica, Omer Fast, Andrea Geyer, Liam Gillick and Philippe Parreno, Hiwa K, Amar Kanwar, Bouchra Khalili, Deimantas Narkevičius, Wendelien van
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Animal Evolution

Genomes, Fossils, and Trees

by NATURAL SCIENCES and MATHEMATICS (500), ZOOLOGICAL SCIENCES (590) ...

Animal life, now and over the past half billion years, is incredibly diverse. Describing and understanding the evolution of this diversity of body plans - from vertebrates such as humans and fish to the numerous invertebrate groups including sponges, insects, molluscs, and the many groups of worms - is a major goal of evolutionary biology. In this book, a group of leading researchers adopt a ... Read more

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Animal life, now and over the past half billion years, is incredibly diverse. Describing and understanding the evolution of this diversity of body plans - from vertebrates such as humans and fish to the numerous invertebrate groups including sponges, insects, molluscs, and the many groups of worms - is a major goal of evolutionary biology. In this book, a group of leading researchers adopt a
... Read more
Architecture, Power and National Identity

by Lawrence Vale ...

The first edition of Architecture, Power, and National Identity, published in 1992, has become a classic, winning the prestigious Spiro Kostof award for the best book in architecture and urbanism. Lawrence Vale fully has fully updated the book, which focuses on the relationship between the design of national capitals across the world and the formation of national identity in modernity. Tied to ... Read more

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The first edition of Architecture, Power, and National Identity, published in 1992, has become a classic, winning the prestigious Spiro Kostof award for the best book in architecture and urbanism. Lawrence Vale fully has fully updated the book, which focuses on the relationship between the design of national capitals across the world and the formation of national identity in modernity. Tied to
... Read more
Introduction to Conservation Genetics

by Richard Frankham, Jonathan D. Ballou, David A. Briscoe ...

This impressive author team brings the wealth of advances in conservation genetics into the new edition of this introductory text, including new chapters on population genomics and genetic issues in introduced and invasive species. They continue the strong learning features for students - main points in the margin, chapter summaries, vital support with the mathematics, and further reading - and ... Read more

$83.99 CAD

This impressive author team brings the wealth of advances in conservation genetics into the new edition of this introductory text, including new chapters on population genomics and genetic issues in introduced and invasive species. They continue the strong learning features for students - main points in the margin, chapter summaries, vital support with the mathematics, and further reading - and
... Read more
Lifelines of Our Society

A Global History of Infrastructure

by Dirk van Laak ...

Translated by Erik Butler ...

Series series Infrastructures
A comprehensive history and examination of global infrastructures and the outsized role they play in our lives.Infrastructure is essential to defining how the public functions, yet there is little public knowledge regarding why and how it became today’s strongest global force over government and individual lives. Who should build and maintain infrastructures? How are they to be protected? And why ... Read more

$36.79 CAD

A comprehensive history and examination of global infrastructures and the outsized role they play in our lives.Infrastructure is essential to defining how the public functions, yet there is little public knowledge regarding why and how it became today’s strongest global force over government and individual lives. Who should build and maintain infrastructures? How are they to be protected? And why
... Read more
Eco-Evolutionary Dynamics

by Andrew P. Hendry ...

In recent years, scientists have realized that evolution can occur on timescales much shorter than the "long lapse of ages" emphasized by Darwin—in fact, evolutionary change is occurring all around us all the time. This book provides an authoritative and accessible introduction to eco-evolutionary dynamics, a cutting-edge new field that seeks to unify evolution and ecology into a common conceptual ... Read more

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In recent years, scientists have realized that evolution can occur on timescales much shorter than the "long lapse of ages" emphasized by Darwin—in fact, evolutionary change is occurring all around us all the time. This book provides an authoritative and accessible introduction to eco-evolutionary dynamics, a cutting-edge new field that seeks to unify evolution and ecology into a common conceptual
... Read more
Culture and Value

Tourism, Heritage, and Property

by Regina F. Bendix ...

An "eminently readable" collection of essays exploring what happens when cultural heritage meets commerce ( Asian Ethnology).When heritage becomes a commodity, when culture is instrumental in driving tourism, and when individuals assert ownership over either, social, ideological, political, and economic motivations intertwine. Bestowing value on "culture" is itself a culturally rooted act, and the ... Read more

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An "eminently readable" collection of essays exploring what happens when cultural heritage meets commerce ( Asian Ethnology).When heritage becomes a commodity, when culture is instrumental in driving tourism, and when individuals assert ownership over either, social, ideological, political, and economic motivations intertwine. Bestowing value on "culture" is itself a culturally rooted act, and the
... Read more

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