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Self Portrait With A Swarm of Bees

by Jan Wagner ...

Translated by Iain Galbraith ...

Self-Portrait with a Swarm of Bees combines the poet's unerring instinct for the surprising perspective on commonplace objects or events with a mischievous delight in the detail of the absurd. Wagner is a vigilant, yet playful, chronicler of the quotidian, his meticulous handling of image and sound forging a worldly, almost luminous palpability. ... Read more

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Self-Portrait with a Swarm of Bees combines the poet's unerring instinct for the surprising perspective on commonplace objects or events with a mischievous delight in the detail of the absurd. Wagner is a vigilant, yet playful, chronicler of the quotidian, his meticulous handling of image and sound forging a worldly, almost luminous palpability.
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The UEFA European Football Championships

Politics, Media Spectacle and Social Change

by Jan Andre Lee Ludvigsen, Renan Petersen-Wagner ...

Series series Critical Research in Football
This book explores social and political issues and trends emerging around the UEFA European Football Championships. It presents a contemporary sociology of the European Championships which, despite its significance as a mega-event, has been largely overshadowed by the Olympics and the FIFA World Cup in existing literature.At a time when both sport mega-events and Europe are undergoing dramatic ... Read more

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This book explores social and political issues and trends emerging around the UEFA European Football Championships. It presents a contemporary sociology of the European Championships which, despite its significance as a mega-event, has been largely overshadowed by the Olympics and the FIFA World Cup in existing literature.At a time when both sport mega-events and Europe are undergoing dramatic
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The Party Is Over

The New Louisiana Politics

by Jeremy Alford, Stephen Barnes, Mark Davis, Chase Edwards, Beverly Moore Haydel, Michael Henderson, Mirya Holman, Michelle N. Jeanis, David Khey, Anna Mahoney, Robert Mann, Jan Moller, Steven Procopio, Albert L. Samuels, Robert Travis Scott, Joshua Stockley, Rick Swanson, Gary Wagner ...

For decades, the Louisiana political scene has been a source of interest and intrigue for scholars and casual observers alike. In recent years, the state’s political, economic, and environmental challenges have drawn sustained attention from regional and national media. Observers have typically focused on Louisiana’s distinctive political culture, including jungle primaries, colorful candidates, ... Read more

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For decades, the Louisiana political scene has been a source of interest and intrigue for scholars and casual observers alike. In recent years, the state’s political, economic, and environmental challenges have drawn sustained attention from regional and national media. Observers have typically focused on Louisiana’s distinctive political culture, including jungle primaries, colorful candidates,
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Of Caves and Shell Mounds

by Kenneth C. Carstens, Gail E. Wagner, David H. Dye, Nicholas P, Herrmann, Mary Lucas Powell, Guy Prentice, Cheryl Ann Munson, Kenneth B. Tankersley, Philip J. DiBlasi, Mary C. Kennedy0, Jan Marie Hemberger1, Christine K. Hensley2, Valerie A. Haskins3, Cheryl Claassen4, Professor Patty Jo Watson6 ...

Ancient human groups in the Eastern Woodlands of North America were long viewed as homogeneous and stable hunter-gatherers, changing little until the late prehistoric period when Mesoamerican influences were thought to have stimulated important economic and social developments. The authors in this volume offer new, contrary evidence to dispute this earlier assumption, and their studies demonstrate ... Read more

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Ancient human groups in the Eastern Woodlands of North America were long viewed as homogeneous and stable hunter-gatherers, changing little until the late prehistoric period when Mesoamerican influences were thought to have stimulated important economic and social developments. The authors in this volume offer new, contrary evidence to dispute this earlier assumption, and their studies demonstrate
... Read more
Silence

by Jan Costin Wagner ...

"To create an investigator who is both admirable and troubled and yet individual and sympathetic is a gift, and Wagner has it." —Times Literary SupplementOne ordinary summer’s day, a young girl disappears while cycling to volleyball practice. Her abandoned bike is found in exactly the same place that another girl was assaulted and murdered thirty-three years previously. The perpetrator was never ... Read more

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"To create an investigator who is both admirable and troubled and yet individual and sympathetic is a gift, and Wagner has it." —Times Literary SupplementOne ordinary summer’s day, a young girl disappears while cycling to volleyball practice. Her abandoned bike is found in exactly the same place that another girl was assaulted and murdered thirty-three years previously. The perpetrator was never
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The Rock-Art of Eastern North America

Capturing Images and Insight

by James R. Duncan, Daniel Arsenault, Mary R. McCorvie, Carol Diaz-Granados, Richard Edging, Jan F. Simek, Steven R. Ahler, Mark J. Wagner, Fred E. Coy Jr, Lori A. Stanley0, Edward J. Lenik1, Charles Swedlund2, Kevin L. Callahan3, Alan Cressler4, Robert A. Clouse Sr.5, Jack H. Steinbring6, Elayne Pope7, Cecil R. Ison8, Robert Boszhardt9, Paul A. Nevin0, Tommy Charles1, Joan M. Vastokas2, William Rex Weeks Jr3, Mark Hamilton Hedden4, Charles H. Faulkner5, Johannes Loubser6 ...

Showcases the wealth of new research on sacred imagery found in twelve states and four Canadian provincesIn archaeology, rock-art—any long-lasting marking made on a natural surface—is similar to material culture (pottery and tools) because it provides a record of human activity and ideology at that site. Petroglyphs, pictographs, and dendroglyphs (tree carvings) have been discovered and recorded ... Read more

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Showcases the wealth of new research on sacred imagery found in twelve states and four Canadian provincesIn archaeology, rock-art—any long-lasting marking made on a natural surface—is similar to material culture (pottery and tools) because it provides a record of human activity and ideology at that site. Petroglyphs, pictographs, and dendroglyphs (tree carvings) have been discovered and recorded
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Colloidal Suspension Rheology

by Jan Mewis, Norman J. Wagner ...

Series series Cambridge Series in Chemical Engineering
Colloidal suspensions are encountered in a multitude of natural, biological and industrially relevant products and processes. Understanding what affects the flow behaviour, or rheology, of colloid particles, and how these suspensions can be manipulated, is important for successful formulation of products such as paint, polymers, foods and pharmaceuticals. This book is the first devoted to the ... Read more

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Colloidal suspensions are encountered in a multitude of natural, biological and industrially relevant products and processes. Understanding what affects the flow behaviour, or rheology, of colloid particles, and how these suspensions can be manipulated, is important for successful formulation of products such as paint, polymers, foods and pharmaceuticals. This book is the first devoted to the
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Kubernetes Autoscaling

Build efficient, cost-optimized clusters with KEDA and Karpenter

by Christian Melendez ...

Learn to scale workloads efficiently, reduce cloud costs, and optimize performance with real-world strategies for event-driven and infrastructure-level scalingKey FeaturesAutoscale Kubernetes workloads and infrastructure using KEDA and KarpenterImprove performance, reduce cloud costs, and eliminate resource waste with smarter scalingWork with hands-on labs, real-world use cases, and step-by-step ... Read more

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Learn to scale workloads efficiently, reduce cloud costs, and optimize performance with real-world strategies for event-driven and infrastructure-level scalingKey FeaturesAutoscale Kubernetes workloads and infrastructure using KEDA and KarpenterImprove performance, reduce cloud costs, and eliminate resource waste with smarter scalingWork with hands-on labs, real-world use cases, and step-by-step
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Transforming the Landscape

Rock Art and the Mississippian Cosmos

Edited by Carol Diaz-Granados, Jan Simek, George Sabo, Mark Wagner ...

Series series American Landscapes
This beautifully illustrated volume examines American Indian rock art across an expansive region of eastern North America during the Mississippian Period (post AD 900). Unlike portable cultural material, rock art provides in situ evidence of ritual activity that links ideology and place. The focus is on the widespread use of cosmograms depicted in Mississippian rock art imagery. This approach ... Read more

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This beautifully illustrated volume examines American Indian rock art across an expansive region of eastern North America during the Mississippian Period (post AD 900). Unlike portable cultural material, rock art provides in situ evidence of ritual activity that links ideology and place. The focus is on the widespread use of cosmograms depicted in Mississippian rock art imagery. This approach
... Read more
Punishment in International Society

Norms, Justice, and Punitive Practices

Edited by Wolfgang Wagner, Linet R. Durmusoglu, Ronald Kroeze, Jan-Willem van Prooijen, Wouter G. Werner, Barbora Holá ...

Series series Perspectives on Justice and Morality
Punitive practices are highly revealing of a society's social fabric, its normative order, and power structure. Punishment in International Society examines the penal philosophies and practices in international society. The contributions to this book show the added value of a punitive lens to international politics in two major ways: First, punitive practices reveal the contours of the ... Read more

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Punitive practices are highly revealing of a society's social fabric, its normative order, and power structure. Punishment in International Society examines the penal philosophies and practices in international society. The contributions to this book show the added value of a punitive lens to international politics in two major ways: First, punitive practices reveal the contours of the
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Innigst/ Dearly

Gedichte eines Lebens / Poems of a Lifetime | Das poetische Andenken an ihren Mann von Bestseller-Autorin Margaret Atwood

by Margaret Atwood ...

Translated by Jan Wagner ...

Mit »Dearly« veröffentlicht Margaret Atwood nach zehn Jahren erstmals wieder einen Lyrikband. Es geht darin um all das, womit sie sich, berühmtermaßen, auseinandersetzt: ob hinreißend genaue Naturbeschreibungen oder witzige Begegnungen mit Außerirdischen, ob drängende politische Fragen oder Mythen und Legenden. Klug, dabei oft verspielt sprechen die Gedichte von Abwesenheit, Altern und Rückschau, ... Read more

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Mit »Dearly« veröffentlicht Margaret Atwood nach zehn Jahren erstmals wieder einen Lyrikband. Es geht darin um all das, womit sie sich, berühmtermaßen, auseinandersetzt: ob hinreißend genaue Naturbeschreibungen oder witzige Begegnungen mit Außerirdischen, ob drängende politische Fragen oder Mythen und Legenden. Klug, dabei oft verspielt sprechen die Gedichte von Abwesenheit, Altern und Rückschau,
... Read more
Prospects of Legal Semiotics

Edited by Anne Wagner, Jan M. Broekman ...

Series series Law and Criminology (R0)
This book examines the progress to date in the many facets – conceptual, epistemological and methodological - of the field of legal semiotics. It reflects the fulfilment of the promise of legal semiotics when used to explore the law, its processes and interpretation.This study in Legal Semiotics brings together the theory, structure and practise of legal semiotics in an accessible style. The book ... Read more

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This book examines the progress to date in the many facets – conceptual, epistemological and methodological - of the field of legal semiotics. It reflects the fulfilment of the promise of legal semiotics when used to explore the law, its processes and interpretation.This study in Legal Semiotics brings together the theory, structure and practise of legal semiotics in an accessible style. The book
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