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Mediating Industrial Change sheds light on the process of deindustrialisation that has affected much of Western Europe for many years. The chapters in this volume explore the immense economic and social challenges, and how they are represented through media.Cumulatively the work explores these themes by comparing processes of (de-) industrialisation within the United Kingdom and Germany – two European nations that were at the forefront of industrial development before unde...

The Family of Man is the most widely seen exhibition in the history of photography. The book of the exhibition, still in print, is also the most commercially successful photobook ever published. First shown at the Museum of Modern Art in New York in 1955, the exhibition travelled throughout the United States and to forty-six countries, and was seen by over nine million people. Edward Steichen conceived, curated and designed the exhibition. He explained its subject as `the everydayness of l...

Bahman Mohassess conceived his lifelong experimentation with collage as "assemblage"–an extension of the fractured figuration and charged materiality that shaped his paintings and sculptures. This publication repositions his assemblages as a radical laboratory of artistic, intellectual, and political engagement. Essays by leading scholars and curators explore how Mohassess negotiated exile, sexuality, modernism, and dissent across postwar Iran, Central Europe, and Rome. Far from peripheral...

Archaeology publications tend to focus on the history of archaeology through a lens of an account and summary of discoveries without considering the contexts (cultural, intellectual, political, economic) of knowledge production that have shaped the course of these discoveries, the research questions asked, and the practice of the discipline. Chinese archaeology in particular has been presented largely in short single-author accounts that often focus exclusively on the Central Plains and to...

D-Day and the liberation of Europe: a powerful Young Adult novel about war, fear, and loss—but above all, about friendship, love, and courage.THE JUMP INTO NORMANDYAnke Manschot"A gripping, thrilling, and fast-paced book, rich in historical detail. It makes the experience of the Airborne boys who liberated Europe feel incredibly real." — Nederlands DagbladDave can't believe his eyes. The blood freezes in his veins, and his stomach churns with dread. World Wa...

Focusing on how the history of past conflicts is mediated in the present and recent past in six European countries, this book explores media processes as they intersect with power dynamics and hegemonic narratives of history and historical memory.The analysis centers around six countries that have experienced past conflict and traumatic past histories–Bosnia and Herzegovina, Cyprus, Germany, Greece, Ireland, and Kosovo–selected based on the type of conflict (emanating from WWII, au...

This book presents papers from the 12th Cambridge Workshop on Universal Access and Assistive Technology (CWUAAT 2025), to be held in April 2025. This workshop series has hosted the multifaceted dialogue on design for inclusion since 2002, involving disciplines including design, computer science, engineering, architecture, ergonomics and human factors, policy and gerontology. The conference theme for 2025 is New frontiers for inclusion. The major themes dealt with in this collection include...

Theo thinks there' s nothing worse than being stuck on a Pacific cruise with his dad, new stepmum and annoying stepsister. But when he' s thrown overboard during a storm and washes up on a desert island, he suddenly has much bigger problems. As Theo tackles castaway life – finding food, water and shelter – he discovers the island is full of mysteries: spooky noises, possible ghosts and the strangest birds he' s ever seen. With survival getting tougher by the day and no rescue in sight, The...

Over the last two centuries, collectors from around the world have historicized, politicized, and digitized media in the pursuit of knowledge and education. This collected volume explores collections of educational media and their bearing on the ways in which people learn in both the present and future, how and why material objects have been used worldwide to store and maintain knowledge for politically expedient reasons, and how our understanding of digital collections can be adequately u...

African philosophy under the specific conditions of a colonial and postcolonial world is – at least since the 20th century if not even earlier – inherently intercultural. The aim and target of the volume is to reveal, interrogate and analyse the intercultural dimension in African philosophy, and to critically interrogate the project of an intercultural philosophy from an African perspective. This volume is the first publication that explicitly discusses African philosophy as a challenge to...

The book provides a broad overview of the challenges and recent developments in the field of smart mobility and transportation, including technical, algorithmic and social aspects of smart mobility and transportation. It reviews new ideas for services and platforms for future mobility. New concepts of artificial intelligence and the implementation in new hardware architecture are discussed. In the context of artificial intelligence, new challenges of machine learning for autonomous vehicle...

This textbook gives an insight into the importance of cell migration in health during development, wound healing and immune responses as well as in disease with particular focus on cancer. The reader will learn about the different ways cells migrate to allow cellular changes during development to occur, as well as responses to injury and threat by foreign invaders. Cell migration is a driver of invasion and ultimately metastasis in cancer and as such we will give examples from highly aggre...