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  • The Contemporary Monologue: Women

    Edited by Michael Earley, Philippa Keil ...
    First published in 1995. This selection of speeches of all types - serious and comic, realist and absurdist - is drawn from contemporary plays by English, American and European playwrights. The editors have set each piece in its context, presenting a useful resource for acting classes, contests, auditions and rehearsals. ... Read more

    $54.95 CAD

  • Governing Arctic Change

    Global Perspectives

    Edited by Kathrin Keil, Sebastian Knecht ...
    Series series Political Science and International Studies (R0)
    This volume explores the governance of the transforming Arctic from an international perspective. Leading and emerging scholars in Arctic research investigate the international causes and consequences of contemporary Arctic developments, and assess how both state and non-state actors respond to crucial problems for the global community. Long treated as a remote and isolated region, climate change ... Read more

    $179.39 CAD

  • The Disappearance of Insight

    When Technology Undermines How and Why

    by Frank C. Keil ...
    How we can prepare children to find insights and cognitive agency in a world of ever shrinking opportunities to learn how things work.From infancy onwards, children show a natural interest in the hidden causes of surface patterns. But that kind of childhood is being derailed by a world that is no longer causally transparent. Younger generations seek different kinds of explanations now, value ... Read more

    $43.99 CAD

  • Heidegger's Being and Time

    A Critical Guide

    Edited by Aaron James Wendland, Tobias Keiling ...
    Series series Cambridge Critical Guides
    Martin Heidegger's Being and Time, published in 1927, is widely regarded as his most important work and it has had a profound influence on twentieth-century philosophy. This Critical Guide draws on recently translated and published primary sources as well as the latest developments in Heidegger scholarship to provide a series of in-depth studies of this influential text. Twelve newly-written ... Read more

    $110.39 CAD

  • Turning up the heat

    Urban political ecology for a climate emergency

    Edited by Maria Kaika, Roger Keil, Tait Mandler, Yannis Tzaninis ...
    Since its emergence in the 1990s, the field of Urban Political Ecology (UPE) has focused on unsettling traditional understandings of the ‘city’ as entirely distinct from nature, showing instead how cities are metabolically linked with ecological processes and the flow of resources. More recently, a new generation of scholars has turned the focus towards the climate emergency. Turning up the heat ... Read more

    $40.69 CAD

  • Peripheral Centralities

    The Lost and Past Urbanity of the Suburbs

    Edited by Nicholas A. Phelps, Roger Keil, Paul Maginn ...
    Series series Planning, History and Environment Series
    The term ‘peripheral centralities’ may seem something of an oxymoron and yet the spatial peripheries of cities have often been more central to urban development processes than is appreciated. To better understand the nature of peripheral centrality, Peripheral Centralities: The Lost and Past Urbanity of the Suburbs brings together a wide variety of examples of lost and forgotten peripheral ... Read more

    $79.69 CAD

  • Changing Asian Urban Geographies

    Urbanism and Peripheral Areas

    Edited by Fulong Wu, Roger Keil ...
    This book investigates changing geographies of fast growing Asian metropolitan regions, in particular their peripheral areas.Through examining the intersection of global suburbanisation and Asian urbanism, the book depicts a complex (sub)urban world in Asia. It explains how the forces of globalisation, the logic of capital accumulation, and the history of rural-urban divide and interaction, path ... Read more

    $83.81 CAD

  • Aristotle's Anthropology

    Edited by Geert Keil, Nora Kreft ...
    This is the first collection of essays devoted specifically to the nature and significance of Aristotle's anthropological philosophy, covering the full range of his ethical, metaphysical and biological works. The book is organised into four parts, two of which deal with the metaphysics and biology of human nature and two of which discuss the anthropological foundations and implications of ... Read more

    $43.19 CAD

  • Vagueness and Law

    Philosophical and Legal Perspectives

    Edited by Geert Keil, Ralf Poscher ...
    Vague expressions are omnipresent in natural language. As such, their use in legal texts is virtually inevitable. If a law contains vague terms, the question whether it applies to a particular case often lacks a clear answer. One of the fundamental pillars of the rule of law is legal certainty. The determinacy of the law enables people to use it as a guide and places judges in the position to ... Read more

    $105.59 CAD

  • Funny Pictures

    Animation and Comedy in Studio-Era Hollywood

    Edited by Daniel Ira Goldmark, Charles Keil ...
    This collection of essays explores the link between comedy and animation in studio-era cartoons, from filmdom’s earliest days through the twentieth century. Written by a who’s who of animation authorities, Funny Pictures offers a stimulating range of views on why animation became associated with comedy so early and so indelibly, and illustrates how animation and humor came together at a pivotal ... Read more

    $38.49 CAD

  • Leviathan Undone?

    Towards a Political Economy of Scale

    Edited by Roger Keil, Rianne Mahon ...
    Caught in the trap of the nation-state and frozen in postwar bloc logic, critical political economy has been found wanting when it comes to problematizing space and scale. Globalization and the rise of world cities and regions have shaken the discipline's foundations and fostered new interest in the concept of scale. Leviathan Undone? brings together leading theorists and scholars from a variety ... Read more

    $27.99 CAD

  • Biologically Inspired Computer Vision

    Fundamentals and Applications

    Edited by Gabriel Cristobal, Laurent Perrinet, Matthias S. Keil ...
    As the state-of-the-art imaging technologies became more and more advanced, yielding scientific data at unprecedented detail and volume, the need to process and interpret all the data has made image processing and computer vision increasingly important. Sources of data that have to be routinely dealt with today's applications include video transmission, wireless communication, automatic ... Read more

    $159.99 CAD