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Academic Crowdsourcing in the Humanities lays the foundations for a theoretical framework to understand the value of crowdsourcing, an avenue that is increasingly becoming important to academia as the web transforms collaboration and communication and blurs institutional and professional boundaries. Crowdsourcing projects in the humanities have, for the most part, focused on the generation or enhancement of content in a variety of ways, leveraging the rich resources of knowledge, creativity, effort and interest among the public to contribute to academic discourse. This book explores...

During a baseball game in a French forest, Don narrowly escapes a sniper's bullet. In Verviers, and Liege Belgium, he has daily encounters with buzz bombs but suffers only minor cuts dodging shrapnel. Using forged passes to visit a girlfriend; he freely roams restricted areas when similarly-daring soldiers are court-martialed.

But Sergeant Quix's...

Americans Without Law shows how the racial boundaries of civic life are based on widespread perceptions about the relative capacity of minority groups for legal behavior, which Mark S. Weiner calls -juridical racialism.- The book follows the history of this civic discourse by examining the legal status of four minority groups in four successive historical periods: American Indians in the 1880s, Filipinos after the Spanish-American War, Japanese immigrants in the 1920s, and African Americans in the 1940s and 1950s.

Weiner reveals the significance of juridical...

During a baseball game in a French forest, Don narrowly escapes a sniper's bullet. In Verviers, and Liege Belgium, he has daily encounters with buzz bombs but suffers only minor cuts dodging shrapnel. Using forged passes to visit a girlfriend; he freely roams restricted areas when similarly-daring soldiers are court-martialed.

But Sergeant Quix's...

Nepal ist die Wasserscheide Asiens. Das Land liegt zwischen Indien und Tibet mit Landschaftsformen, die von subtropischem Dschungel bis zu den eisigen Höhen des Himalaya reichen. Zehn der höchsten Berge der Welt gehören ganz oder teilweise zu Nepal. Mindestens ebenso vielfältig ist die Kultur: Ein Dutzend große ethnische Gruppen mit 50 Sprachen und Dialekten leben in diesem kleinen Pufferstaat, in dem sich Hinduismus und Buddhismus, zwei der großen Weltreligionen, mit Naturverehrung und Schamanismus verflechten. Diesem landschaftlichen und kulturellen Reichtum trägt das Travel...