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Analysing the work of Ethiopian-Somali smugglers and return-migrant investors, this study explores the relationship between cities and borders amid Africa's rapid urbanization. Daniel Thompson describes how African city-dwellers' lives are shaped by global border security regimes, and how they contest these borders in daily urban life.

Leon Battista Alberti emerged in 1435 with De pictura, the modern era's earliest discourse on Western art. Peter Weller challenges the popular notion that De pictura's compendium on lines, points, mathematics, composition, narrative, and portraiture is primarily the result of Alberti's return to Florence and his short exposure to its visual art.

Courts play an increasingly important role in democracies. Understanding their role is important to all who are concerned about the future of democracy. This book explains why the role of courts has expanded and explores their relationship with the executive arm of government and their role in protecting fundamental rights.

This Element explores the idea of publication in media used before, alongside, and after print. It contrasts multiple traditions of unprinted communication in their diversity and particularity.

"The city was one of the central and defining features of the Greek and Roman Mediterranean. Andrew Wallace-Hadrill argues that, far from 'declining and falling', cities used memories of the past to adapt and remain relevant in the changing post-Roman world"--

Becoming Heritage examines how ostensibly inclusive heritage policies created exclusion and conflict among groups within the Afro-descendant Palenquero community in Colombia. Bringing together broader discussions on race, nation and inclusion, this book is for students and scholars interested in heritage, ethnicity and politics in Latin America.

Between 1780 and 1918, over one million petitions from across the four nations were sent to the House of Commons. This first study of the nineteenth-century heyday of petitioning explores the central role of petitions in reshaping the political culture of the United Kingdom, as well as the history of modern British politics.

Ranging from the early Royal Society of London in the seventeenth century to the uptake of experimental philosophy in Paris and Berlin in the eighteenth, this book is the first integrated history of early modern experimental philosophy, one of the most significant developments of the period.

This book is for students and scholars of law, political science, sociology, and economics who are interested in democratic theory, authoritarianism, marketization and democratization, property rights and development, and the relationship between rule of law and democracy, and for those interested in China's past, present and future.

The first English biography of the Belgian Jesuit, Father Bulcke who came to colonial India and found spiritual inspiration in the life and compositions of Goswami Tulsidas and emerged as a renowned exponent of Ramkatha and the Hindi language.

Provides in-depth guidance on understanding and treating typical and atypical parkinsonisms and other movement disorders. Over 200 figures and 90 videos illustrate the concepts covered in the book, offering a visual reference for the disorders discussed. A multidisciplinary overview of the fundamental and clinical aspects of movement disorders.

Polyhedral Graphic Statics is a geometry-based structural design method based on polyhedral reciprocal diagrams first proposed by Rankine and Maxwell 150 years ago. Providing a unique design guide for structural form finding of efficient spatial structures, this book offers up-to-date insights into the field of geometry-based structural design. The author introduces a different design domain, the force domain, and explains the relationship between the geometry of efficient structural forms and the geometric equilibrium of forces called the force diagram. Beginning with step-by-step geometric methods to construct the reciprocal force diagram for simple structural forms, the book then advances to more articulated systems. These include spatial compression-only forms and systems with mixed tensile and compressive forces. Presenting computational applications, the text provides algebraic formulation for form finding in 3D. Discover the applications of this pioneering method in Material Science, Mechanical Engineering, Aerospace, and the design of carbon-absorbing structures.