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Changing Orders in International Economic Law Volume 1 A Japanese Perspective

Changing Orders in International Economic Law Volume 1 A Japanese Perspective

These two groundbreaking volumes look at complex legal issues in the changing global economy from the perspective of Asia and/or Japan. Contributors scrutinize the past present and future and discuss what the global legal order in economic fields could be like by navigating uncertain and turbulent times. The books address six main themes: (1) Polarization and diversification of values progress of regionalism and restructuring of multilateral rules (2) Full-scale arrival of the digital economy and its impact (3) Empowerment of private persons/entities (4) Reconsideration of the concept of “territorial jurisdiction” (5) Law of national security and rule in emergency situations and (6) Values of Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) in trade and investment liberalization rules. The book also examines various legal problems under the COVID-19 crisis and suggests how the post COVID-19 global economic order will be from the perspective of Asia and/or Japan. This comprehensive insight will shed light on the intertwined and complex phenomena of the world economy and allow readers of business law and international law to have a better understanding of this volatile era. | Changing Orders in International Economic Law Volume 1 A Japanese Perspective

GBP 130.00
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Math Workshop in Action Strategies for Grades K-5

Math Workshop in Action Strategies for Grades K-5

Find out how Math Workshops engage students and increase learning. This practical book from bestselling author Dr. Nicki Newton explains why Math Workshops are effective and gives you step-by-step instructions for implementing and managing your own workshop. You‘ll find out how to. create a math-rich environment; use anchor charts effectively; manage the workshop; begin a workshop with activities; lead whole-group mini-lessons; make workstations meaningful and engaging; create guided math groups; implement the Share effectively; and ensure balanced assessments. Each chapter offers a variety of charts and tools that you can use in the classroom immediately as well as reflection questions and key points. The book also features a handy Quick-Start Guide to help you as you implement your own workshop. | Math Workshop in Action Strategies for Grades K-5

GBP 105.00
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Optimization in Industry Volume 1 Optimization Techniques

Optimization in Industry Volume 1 Optimization Techniques

As optimization techniques have developed a gap has arisen between the people devising the methods and the people who actually need to use them. Research into methods is necessarily long-term and located usually in academic establishments; whereas the application of an optimization technique normally in an industrial environment has to be justified financially in the short term. The gap is probably inevitable; but there is no need for textbooks to reflect it. Teaching of optimization techniques separately from their connection with applications is pointless. This book gives a detailed exposition of the techniques. In this first volume T. A. J. Nicholson demonstrates the full range of techniques available to the practitioner for the solution of varying problems. For each technique the background reasoning behind its development is explained in simple terms; where helpful it is supported by a geometrical argument; and the iterative algorithm for finding the optimum is defined clearly. These steps enable the reader not only to see plainly what is happening in the method but also to reach a level of understanding necessary to write computer programs for optimization techniques. Problems are tackled in the same way-by searching a feasible region for an optimum. This approach helps the reader to develop the most essential of all skills-selecting appropriate techniques for different circumstances. The numerous worked examples in the text supported by worked solutions and the exercises at the end of the chapters are important aids to learning and to teachers. This book serves as an introduction to optimization techniques for students as well as a reference work for the practitioner in business and industry. | Optimization in Industry Volume 1 Optimization Techniques

GBP 130.00
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The Laboratory of Progress Switzerland in the Nineteenth Century Volume 1

The Laboratory of Progress Switzerland in the Nineteenth Century Volume 1

The Laboratory of Progress: Switzerland in the 19th Century tells the improbable story of how a small backward mountainous agricultural country with almost no raw materials became an industrial powerhouse a hub of innovation a touristic mecca and a pioneer in transportation – all in the course of a single century. That a tiny landlocked country should become a dominant steamship builder for the rest of the world; that a country that had never seen a cotton plant should become the world’s second-largest textile producer; that a country with hardly any level terrain should come to boast the world’s most highly developed railway network; and that a country whose main export was impoverished emigrants should be transformed into one of the world’s major financial centres – these astonishing developments among many others are explored and explained both through the specific stories of individual innovators and through a prescient analysis of the political economic societal and cultural structures that formed the context in which Switzerland’s astonishing transformation took place. The book is a compelling read both for professional historians and for general readers with an interest in Switzerland; it highlights the roles of transport networks and individual pioneers in industrial and political development. | The Laboratory of Progress Switzerland in the Nineteenth Century Volume 1

GBP 130.00
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Southern European Challenger Parties against the Mainstream Podemos SYRIZA and MoVimento 5 Stelle in Comparative Perspective

Southern European Challenger Parties against the Mainstream Podemos SYRIZA and MoVimento 5 Stelle in Comparative Perspective

This book focuses on the rise of new challenger parties and the magnitude of their impact on political systems and the existing political order in Southern Europe in the aftermath of the Great Recession. Examining Podemos (Spain) SYRIZA (Greece) and M5S (Italy) it highlights the differences and commonalities between them and their voters. The book reveals whether these parties were effectively able to change the status quo represented by mainstream parties and secondly whether they created novel organizational structures capable of “bring the people in” that is of re-mobilizing disenfranchised voters and of re-inventing the concept of participation within the political party. This book will be of key interest to scholars and students of party politics representation leadership political elites public opinion populism and more broadly to comparative politics European studies and contemporary European history. | Southern European Challenger Parties against the Mainstream Podemos SYRIZA and MoVimento 5 Stelle in Comparative Perspective

GBP 130.00
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Learning as Interactivity Movement Growth and Becoming Volume 1 Ecologies of Learning in Higher Education

Learning as Interactivity Movement Growth and Becoming Volume 1 Ecologies of Learning in Higher Education

The two inter-linked volumes in this series are dedicated to the development of analysis and theorisation of learning and teaching in higher education. The two volumes focus on the multi-scalar ecological inter-connectedness of learners with teachers with artefacts with cultural patterns and resources with places with social activities and practices with social institutions with time and temporality and with technologies. Learning reflects inter-individual dynamics that are shaped by biology and culture. Against prevailing orthodoxies that view learning in higher education in terms of information transmission and content delivery the contributors articulate leading developments in distributed cognition distributed language ecological psychology enactivist and embodied-embedded cognitive science interactivity and multimodal event analysis. They also extend several earlier traditions such as American pragmatism embodied curriculum theory and Vygotsky's latter day anti-dualist Spinozan turn. Through detailed empirical analysis of in vivo episodes of learning using multimodal event analysis cognitive event analysis and cutting-edge theory the authors show how and why learning is not adequately explainable as internal mental processes per se. Instead sophisticated empirical analysis and innovative theory are put to work to reveal the emergence of learning in the interactivity of learners and teachers with the affordances of a distributed brain-body-environment learning system. Volume 1 is an edited collection of seven chapters written by internationally renowned researchers together with an Introduction and an Afterword written by King and Thibault. Volume 1 (and its successor Volume 2) will serve as valuable reading for educationalists and researchers in the cognitive communication learning and language sciences who are looking for new multidimensional tools for thinking about and new empirical tools for analysing learning and teaching as multi-scalar interactive processes in radical embodied ecologies of learning and teaching. | Learning as Interactivity Movement Growth and Becoming Volume 1 Ecologies of Learning in Higher Education

GBP 130.00
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Academia and Trade The Numismatic World in the Long Nineteenth Century Volume 1

Academia and Trade The Numismatic World in the Long Nineteenth Century Volume 1

This first part of a 2-volume collection comprises a collection of essays in English by leading scholars on the 19th-century Academia and Trade presenting the latest developments in international scholarship on the numismatic world in the long 19th century. In the 19th century developments in the study and collection of coins set the cornerstone for modern numismatics. This volume comprises a collection of essays in English by international leading scholars that highlight significant figures of the 19th-century research and the state of the numismatic trade in their time. Centering around collectors and scholars of ancient medieval and modern numismatics and on non-Western coinage and medals against the backdrop of the political cultural economic and social changes of the era this book presents the latest scholarship on numismatics’ contribution to the cultural history of the 19th century. This volume is essential for students and scholars alike interested in 19th -century history and the history of coins. | Academia and Trade The Numismatic World in the Long Nineteenth Century Volume 1

GBP 120.00
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The Dawn of Agriculture and the Earliest States in Genesis 1-11

The Dawn of Agriculture and the Earliest States in Genesis 1-11

This book invites a close textual encounter with the first 11 chapters of Genesis as an intimate drama of marginalised peoples wrestling with the rise of the world’s first grain states in the Mesopotamian alluvium. The initial 11 chapters of Genesis are often considered discordant and fragmentary despite being a story of beginnings within the context of the Bible. Readers discover how these formative chapters cohere as a cross-generational account of peoples grappling with the hegemonic spread of domesticated grain production and the concomitant rise of the pristine states of Mesopotamia. The book reveals how key episodes from the Genesis narrative reflect major societal revolutions of the Neolithic period in Mesopotamia through a three-fold hermeneutical method: literary analysis of the Bible and contemporary cuneiform texts; modern scholarship from archaeological anthropological ecological and historical sources; and relevant exegesis from the Second Temple and rabbinical era. These three strands entwine to recount a generally sequential story of the earliest archaic states as narrated by non-elites at the margins of these emerging state spaces. The Dawn of Agriculture and the Earliest States in Genesis 1–11 provides a fascinating reading of the first 11 chapters of Genesis appealing to students and scholars of the Hebrew Bible and the Near East as well as those working on ecological injustice from a religious vantage point. | The Dawn of Agriculture and the Earliest States in Genesis 1-11

GBP 130.00
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Cities Citizenship and Jews in France and the United States 1905–2022 (Volume 1)

Cities Citizenship and Jews in France and the United States 1905–2022 (Volume 1)

This comparative transatlantic two-volume work covers nearly 120 years of the history of the rights integration and security of the Jewish people in both the United States and France the countries with the largest and third-largest Jewish populations. Religious freedom and secularism have evolved differently in France and the United States reinforcing their separate national identities. Yet there are parallels to their Jewish history and in how the security of Jews has repeatedly defined and tested the national interests of France and the United States in world affairs. Drawing on the author’s personal experience as an international civil servant these volumes explore topics such as tensions and common interests between France and the United States the memory of the Shoah social mobility the tepid commitment of the United States to the rights of French Jews during World War II trends in antisemitism and tolerance and global climate change as a threat to largely coastal Jewish communities. They highlight what makes insecurity different in the 21st century and why a paradigm shift in policy is needed. This title is intended both for a general audience and advanced undergraduate and graduate students interested in Jewish history urban history and international relations. | Cities Citizenship and Jews in France and the United States 1905–2022 (Volume 1)

GBP 130.00
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Instant Vegas 5

Instant Vegas 5

Nonlinear or digital editing permits editors to move film bites around and place them anywhere in the sequence of the film with much greater ease than was ever possible with conventional film editing techniques. Instant Vegas 5 is a PC-platform nonlinear application distributed by Sony. Carefully detailed screenshots and step-by-step directions illustrate how to use the latest version of the Vegas software in a concise time-efficient way. Readers learn the rudiments of navigating the application and using it to perform a complete range of tasks from editing video and audio to compositing and outputting - including the use of the DVD authoring tool DVD Architect. This is the fourth book in the new VASST Instant Series produced in cooperation with the Sundance Media Group.

GBP 145.00
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Experiments in Moral and Political Philosophy

Experiments in Moral and Political Philosophy

This volume presents new research on the use of experimental methodologies in moral and social philosophy. The contributions reflect the growing plurality of methodologies and strategies for implementing experimental work on morality to new domains problems and topics. Philosophers are exploring the ways in which empirical approaches can transform our idea of the good our understanding of the social nature of norms and morality and our methods of fulfilling ethical goals. The chapters in this volume extend experimental work on morality to previously underexplored areas. The contributions in Part 1 explore the methods and foundations of experimental work in areas such as folk moral judgments metaethical beliefs moral explanations and reflective equilibrium. Part 2 focuses on issues in normative ethics and legal and political philosophy such as virtue ethics utilitarianism theories of justice and criminal responsibility. Finally the chapters in Part 3 tackle various applied ethical issues including feminist X-Phi animal welfare experimental bioethics and self-driving cars. Experiments in Moral and Political Philosophy will be of interest to scholars and advanced students working in ethics applied ethics experimental philosophy social and political philosophy and philosophy of law. Chapter 1 and 15 of this book are available for free in PDF format as Open Access from the individual product page at www. taylorfrancis. com. They have been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives (CC-BY-NC-ND) 4. 0 license.

GBP 130.00
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Dialogues in Middle Level Education Research Volume 1 Insights from the AMLE New Directions 2020 Roundtable Discussions

Dialogues in Middle Level Education Research Volume 1 Insights from the AMLE New Directions 2020 Roundtable Discussions

Mirroring the roundtable discussions conducted at the 2020 Association for Middle Level Education (AMLE) conference this volume highlights the dialogic knowledge-building process critical to advancing middle level teaching and research. Launching the new AMLE Innovations in Middle Level Education Research series this collection captures the synergetic dialogue that occurs during professional meetings by collating and centering five recent studies on topics such as mathematics achievement personalized and project-based learning and teacher collaboration. A companion essay and critical external response accompanies each study serving to re-situate original research and reconsider findings in view of professional insights and external critique gained through discussion at AMLE 2020. Ultimately these response essays foreground potential avenues for future research and alternative thinking laying the groundwork for implementation of critical discussion in the classroom environment. This text will benefit researchers doctoral students and academics in the fields of middle level education educational research and specifically research methods in education. Those interested in teaching and learning and adolescent development more broadly will also benefit from this volume. | Dialogues in Middle Level Education Research Volume 1 Insights from the AMLE New Directions 2020 Roundtable Discussions

GBP 130.00
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Changing Orders in International Economic Law Volume 2 A Japanese Perspective

Changing Orders in International Economic Law Volume 2 A Japanese Perspective

These two groundbreaking volumes look at complex legal issues in the changing global economy from the perspective of Asia and/or Japan. Contributors scrutinize the past present and future and discuss what the global legal order in economic fields could be like by navigating uncertain and turbulent times. The books address six main themes: (1) Polarization and diversification of values progress of regionalism and restructuring of multilateral rules (2) Full-scale arrival of the digital economy and its impact (3) Empowerment of private persons/entities (4) Reconsideration of the concept of “territorial jurisdiction” (5) Law of national security and rule in emergency situations and (6) Values of Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) in trade and investment liberalization rules. The books also examine various legal problems under the COVID-19 crisis and suggest how the post-COVID-19 global economic order will be from the perspective of Asia and/or Japan. This comprehensive insight will shed light on the intertwined and complex phenomena of world economy and allow readers of business law and international law to have a better understanding of this volatile era. | Changing Orders in International Economic Law Volume 2 A Japanese Perspective

GBP 130.00
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Temporalities in/of Crises in Anglophone Literatures

Temporalities in/of Crises in Anglophone Literatures

Literary works play a crucial role in modelling and conceptualising temporalities. This becomes particularly apparent in times of crises which put conventionalised temporal patterns and routines under pressure. During crises past present and future appear to collapse into each other and give way to temporal disjunction and rupture. Offering pluralised and context-sensitive approaches to temporalities in and of crises this volume explores how literature’s engagement with crises suggests both the need for and possibility of rethinking ‘time’. The volume is committed to examining the affordances of specific genres and their potential in pointing beyond temporalities of crises to facilitate a sense of futurity. Individual essays are grounded in recent theories of temporality and literary form which are related to novel advancements in ecocriticism queer studies affect theory and postcolonial studies. The chapters cover a broad range of examples from different literary genres to reveal the knowledge of literature about temporalities in and of crises. | Temporalities in/of Crises in Anglophone Literatures

GBP 130.00
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Sexual Adjustment in Marriage

Sexual Adjustment in Marriage

In the 1950s sexual instruction was still a considerable problem despite the very great freedom of discussion that was common. The high level of so-called sexual neurosis among women the problems of sexual compatibility and birth control and the spread of venereal disease all bore witness to the need for responsible information. Originally published in 1954 Dr Henry Olsen in this comprehensive survey of the problems of sexual adjustment draws fully from a very wide and thoroughly grounded experience. Since 1937 he had been closely connected with the instruction in sexual hygiene in Denmark where the majority of public schools and high schools included it as part of the syllabus. Of the 1 232 public libraries at the time all but three had copies of his Textbook on Sexual Hygiene. Sexual Adjustment in Marriage is admirably clear in style and arrangement. It is divided into subjects of particular importance such as The Sex Organs; Living Together; Disturbances in a Couple’s Sex Life; Sex Life of the Unmarried; Fertilization Pregnancy and Childbirth; Sexual Abnormalities; Diseases of Sex Life. Each of the sixteen main sections is divided into chapters within which every topic discussed is numbered. Reference to any part of the book is thus extremely simple. Knowledge alone cannot prevent all disasters in the difficult field of sexual life. But this book aimed to give all that one needed for a basic understanding of the elementary laws – from the genes and chromosomes of one’s own make-up to the sex education of one’s children. Today it can be read and enjoyed in its historical context. This book is a re-issue originally published in 1954. The language used and views portrayed are a reflection of its era and no offence is meant by the Publishers to any reader by this re-publication.

GBP 105.00
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Language in Society in Bangladesh and Beyond Voices of the Unheard in the Global South

Language in Society in Bangladesh and Beyond Voices of the Unheard in the Global South

This collection presents a holistic picture of the sociolinguistic landscape in Bangladesh offering a critical understanding of language ideologies and social inequalities in the country as they connect more widely to dynamics in the Global South. The book seeks to untangle the voices embedded in the language practices of a range of communities and professions in the region which have been little studied in the literature and encourage a rethinking of the relationships between language and nationality class ethnicity race and gender. Highlighting perspectives from established and emerging researchers and drawing on a wide range of theoretical approaches and methodologies the volume is organized around such key themes as bilingualism and diglossia; language variation across domains; language and identity in literature; and the interconnectedness of language identity and globalization. Taken together the collection calls attention to the socially and spatially situated nature of language practices in Bangladesh and in turn the ways in which scholars in the Global South make sense of the sociolinguistic landscape at both the local and global levels. This book will appeal to scholars working in sociolinguistics particularly those working on language policy language and identity language variation and in or about the Global South. | Language in Society in Bangladesh and Beyond Voices of the Unheard in the Global South

GBP 130.00
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Administration in India Challenges and Innovations

Administration in India Challenges and Innovations

This book offers a comprehensive analysis of the administration in India from independence to date. It examines the major transformation in the administrative service initiated by the ‘Minimum Government and Maximum Governance’ initiative of the Government of India in 2014. In spite of enormous diversity and population India has made remarkable progress in various fields such as health education infrastructure and technology. Structured in three parts (1) social sector (2) infrastructure and economy and (3) e-governance and service delivery the book examines challenges of governance and provides insight into different innovations undertaken to address these challenges. E-governance lies at the core of this transformation of accountability transparency and time-bound service delivery. Contributions in this book are written by experts working in the Indian Administrative Service (IAS) academia and the private sector and cover a wide spectrum of administration from the point of view of different departments of government as well as the experiences of the authors ranging from senior bureaucrats to mid-career officers and analyses of researchers on administration and its challenges. The initiatives covered in this book can serve as solutions to similar challenges faced by other developing countries in the world. The book will be of interest to researchers in the fields of administration and policy civil service public management South Asian politics and Development Studies. | Administration in India Challenges and Innovations

GBP 130.00
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Risk and Insurance in Construction

Risk and Insurance in Construction

The new 3rd edition of Nael Bunni’s Risk and Insurance in Construction now co-authored with Lydia Bunni explains the need for insurance in construction and engineering projects and why it must be incorporated into the Conditions of Contract for such projects. It is unique in bringing together the background of the two topics of 'risk' and 'construction insurance' explaining the flow and the interaction between them and then dealing with how they have been used to formulate the 2017 FIDIC Suite of Contracts and the 2021 Green Book. This edition has been fully updated and new chapters deal with the latest definitions of 'risk' outlined in ISO 31000: 2009 and specifically explains the principles embodied in the new Clauses 17 18 and 19 of the Major Suite of the FIDIC forms of contract and how they should be used. An important chapter (Chapter 5) is included discussing the logical transition from decision-making to risk identification to responsibility for those allocated with particular risks to the potential liability that results. This includes discussing particular liabilities that may arise for parties typically involved in construction and engineering projects including developers owners contractors and designers. This part of the book links insurance to the law and explains the interaction between the two topics. The correlation between liability and the need for indemnity which can only be provided properly through insurance is highlighted. The book is essential reading for practitioners from both the engineering profession and the insurance industry in all types of projects. Engineers who are required to use one of the Major Forms of the FIDIC Suite of Contracts whether they are designers or contractors and those involved in the insurance sector whether brokers claim consultants or insurance company personnel will find this book to be an indispensable reference.

GBP 175.00
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Racism in Contemporary Germany Islamophobia in East and West

Racism in Contemporary Germany Islamophobia in East and West

This book presents a critical and empirically informed examination of Islamophobia and related issues of racism and nationalism in Germany today with particular attention to the East/West distinction. The authors representing several disciplines such as anthropology sociology and media and literary studies situate the topic in the global and German context of the 2015-16 migration crisis and its aftermath and of the ongoing transformations seen in the postsocialist regions of the European Union. Since the 2015-16 refugee crisis illiberal leaders and parties within Europe have instrumentalized Islamophobia in an attempt to dislodge the traditional political elites. Strikingly such illiberal movements have been most successful in the formerly socialist areas of the EU. This is mirrored within Germany itself where political formations with an Islamophobic agenda remain more popular in the East than in the West. This volume examines the reasons for this difference including not only the ideological heritage of Soviet-dominated socialism but also the effects of western interventions in the formerly socialist areas in and beyond Germany since the end of the Cold War. Some Islamophobic and other hateful tendencies were in fact introduced from and continue to prosper also in the West. The chapters in this book were originally published as a special issue of the Journal of Contemporary European Studies. | Racism in Contemporary Germany Islamophobia in East and West

GBP 130.00
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A Semiotics of Multimodality and Signification in the Divine Comedy

A Semiotics of Multimodality and Signification in the Divine Comedy

A new critical method for the Divine Comedy which focuses not only on language-as-writing but also and equally on other discursive modes that the Divine Comedy authorizes. Multimodality was already present in Dante’s time and the reception of the Divine Comedy took place multimodally. Thus a theoretical study of multimodality carried out under the semiotic lens sheds light on how and why a mode is more effective than another and/or how they may combine in producing signification and new ontologies warranted by Dante’s text. Also we do not yet have a critical theory that allows us to understand the function of multimodality for the creation of new forms of signification and of clarifying the ontological boundaries set forth by different modalities. It is a new and original study which contributes to the advancement of Dante Studies Literary Criticism (with a focus on literary semiotics) Multimedia/Multiliteracy philosophy of language communication and education. Chapters 1 2 and 5 of this book are freely available as a downloadable Open Access PDF at http://www. taylorfrancis. com under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives (CC-BY-NC-ND) 4. 0 license. . | A Semiotics of Multimodality and Signification in the Divine Comedy

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