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Free Download Reconsidering Archaeological Fieldwork: Exploring On-Site Relationships Between Theory and Practice By Hannah Cobb, Oliver J. T. Harris, Cara Jones (auth.), Hannah Cobb, Oliver J. T. Harris, Cara Jones, Philip Richardson (eds.)
2012 | 186 Pages | ISBN: 1461423376 | PDF | 4 MB
Digging, recording, and writing are the three main processes that archaeologists undertake to analyze a site, yet the relationships between these processes is rarely considered critically. Reconsidering Archaeological Fieldwork asserts that each of these processes involves at least a bit of subjective interpretation. As a group of archaeologists work together to reconstruct an objective view of the past, at a particular time, at a particular site, their field methods and subjective interpretations affect the final analysis.This volume explores the important nature of the relationship between fieldwork, analysis, and interpretation. Containing contributions from a diverse group of archaeologists, both academic and professional, from Europe and the Americas, it critically analyzes accepted practices in field archaeology, and provide thoughtful and innovative analysis of these procedures. By combining the experiences of both academic and professional archaeologists, Reconsidering Archaeological Fieldwork highlights key differences and key similarities in their concerns, theories, and techniques. This volume will incite discussion on fundamental questions for all archaeologists, both old and new to the field.

Free Download Linda Steele, "Disability, Criminal Justice and Law: Reconsidering Court Diversion "
English | ISBN: 0815375263 | 2020 | 276 pages | PDF | 4 MB
Through theoretical and empirical examination of legal frameworks for court diversion, this book interrogates law’s complicity in the debilitation of disabled people.

Free Download Reconsidering Historical Epistemology: French and Anglophone Styles in History and Philosophy of Science by Matteo Vagelli
English | PDF EPUB (True) | 2024 | 223 Pages | ISBN : 3031615549 | 7.6 MB
This book explores the key conceptual stakes underpinning historical epistemology. The strong Anglophone interest in historical epistemology, since at least the 1990s, is typically attributed to its simultaneously philosophical and historical synthetic approach to the study of science. Yet this account, considered by critics to be an unreflective assumption, has prevented historical epistemology from developing a clear understanding and definition, especially regarding how precisely historical and philosophical reflections on the sciences should be combined. Thus, this book uniquely analyses how the problems and tensions inherent to the "contemporary" phase of historical epistemology can be clarified by reference to the "classical" French phase. The archaeological method of Michel Foucault, which draws on and transforms fundamental insights by Gaston Bachelard and Georges Canguilhem, is used to exert an enduring influence on the field-especially through the work of Ian Hacking and his philosophical cum historical analyses of "styles of scientific reasoning". Though this book is of great value to academic specialists and graduate students, the fact it addresses questions broad in scope ensures it is also relevant to a range of scholars in many disciplines and will provoke discussion among those interested in foundational issues in history and philosophy of science.

Free Download Margarita Limón, L. Mason, "Reconsidering Conceptual Change: Issues in Theory and Practice"
English | 2002 | pages: 418 | ISBN: 140200494X, 9048159679 | PDF | 10,6 mb
This book is an important account of the state of the art of both theoretical and practical issues in the present-day research on conceptual change. Unique in its complete treatment of the questions that should be considered to further current understanding of knowledge construction and change, this book is useful for psychologists, cognitive scientists, educational researchers, curriculum developers, teachers and educators at all levels and in all disciplines.

Free Download The Green Room #1: Reconsidering the Documentary and Contemporary Art By Maria Lind; Hito Steyerl
2008 | 239 Pages | ISBN: 1933128534 | PDF | 44 MB
Documentary practices make up one of the most significant and complex tendencies within art during the last two decades. Traditional documentary photography and film have been reinvented and reinvigorated by merging with traditions such as video, performance, and conceptual art. Such recent documentary works attest to a new diversity and complexity of forms, ranging from conceptual mockumentaries to reflexive photo essays, from split-screen slide shows to found-footage video reportage, from installations without any lens-based medium to printed matter. Many of them are about searching for suitable forms and methods for discussing social content, whether historical material or effects of recent political and economic upheaval.This anthology seeks to overcome the existing dispersion of texts on documentary practices and offer new perspectives on this crucial theme. Authors include T. J. Demos, Okwui Enwezor, Carles Guerra, Vít Havránek, Jörg Heiser, Stefan Jonsson, Maurizio Lazzarato, Olivier Lugon, Jean-Pierre Rehm, Hito Steyerl, and Jan Verwoert. They discuss issues such as what the function of documentary art forms is in the context of globalizing media and an expanding art world. What is the relationship between fact and fiction, media and mediation in these documentary practices? What role do the archive and activism play? How do the operations of documentary forms change in the age of digital reproduction? Being part of the research project "The Greenroom: Reconsidering the Documentary and Contemporary Art" at the Center for Curatorial Studies, Bard College, this publication functions similar to a greenroom at a television station, where staff and guests meet before and after filming and engage in discussions which often differ from those conducted in the limelight.

Free Download N. T. Wright, "The Day the Revolution Began: Reconsidering the Meaning of Jesus’s Crucifixion"
English | 2016 | pages: 448 | ISBN: 0062334387, 0062334395 | EPUB | 1,0 mb
The renowned scholar, Anglican bishop, and bestselling author widely considered to be the heir to C. S. Lewis contemplates the central event at the heart of the Christian faith-Jesus’ crucifixion-arguing that the Protestant Reformation did not go far enough in transforming our understanding of its meaning.

Free Download Please Wait by the Coatroom: Reconsidering Race and Identity in American Art by John Yau
English | June 27, 2023 | ISBN: 1574232614 | True EPUB | 248 pages | 3 MB
Far-ranging and thought-provoking essays on the relation of art and ethnic identity.

Free Download The Lost History of 1914: Reconsidering the Year the Great War Began by Jack Beatty
English | February 21, 2012 | ISBN: 0802778119 | 456 pages | PDF | 11 Mb
In The Lost History of 1914, Jack Beatty offers a highly original view of World War I, testing against fresh evidence the long-dominant assumption that it was inevitable. "Most books set in 1914 map the path leading to war," Beatty writes. "This one maps the multiple paths that led away from it."

Free Download Reconsidering the Limits to Growth: A Report to the Russian Association of the Club of Rome by Viktor Sadovnichy, Askar Akaev, Ilya Ilyin, Sergey Malkov, Leonid Grinin, Andrey Korotayev
English | PDF (True) | 2023 | 540 Pages | ISBN : 3031349989 | 19.1 MB
Echoing the famous "The Limits to Growth" report from 1972, this edited volume analyses the changes that the World System has undergone to the present, on the fiftieth anniversary of the original report. During the past fifty years, both the concept and understanding of these limits have significantly changed. This book highlights that the evolution of the World System has approached a new critical milestone, moving into a fundamentally new phase of historical development, when the old economic and social technologies no longer work as efficiently as before or even begin to function counterproductively, which leads the World System into a systemic crisis.