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    A Primer of Case Studies, Theories, and Analyses for the Player-Academic

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    This book, the first multi-disciplinary study of nostalgia and videogame music, allows readers to understand the relationships and memories they often form around games, and music is central to this process. The quest into the past begins with this book, a map that leads to the intersection between nostalgia and videogame music.Informed by research on musicology and memory as well as practices of ... Read more

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  • An Archaeology of the Turkish War of Independence

    Landscape and Time

    Series series Material Culture and Modern Conflict
    This book is about the conflict which resolved the Greek–Turkish War of 1919–1922: the Great Offensive. On 26 August 1922, the army of the GNA executed the Great Offensive against the Greek defence line extending from the Bay of Gemlik to the Meander River. The Turkish Forces split the Greek Army into two large groups, annihilated one of the groups in the field at the Battle of Dumlupınar on 30 ... Read more

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  • Impossibility in Modern Private Law

    A Comparative Study of German, Swiss and Turkish Laws and the Unification Instruments of Private Law

    Series series Law and Criminology (R0)
    This book provides an analysis of the treatment of impossibility in modern private law. The author explains the regulation of impossibility in German, Swiss and Turkish laws with a comparative analysis of the subject under (i) the United Nations Convention on International Sale of Goods (CISG), (ii) UNIDROIT Principles of International Commercial Contracts (PICC), (iii) Principles of European ... Read more

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