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The Playbook: A Story of Theater, Democracy, and the Making of a Culture War 剧本：一个关于戏剧、民主和文化战争的故事

4区社会学

Common Knowledge Pub Date : 2025-05-01 DOI: 10.1215/0961754x-11783588

Matthew Wilson Smith

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Multi-attribute decision-making based on novel Fermatean fuzzy similarity measure and entropy measure. 基于新型 Fermatean 模糊相似度测量和熵测量的多属性决策。

IF 0.6 4区社会学

Common Knowledge Pub Date : 2023-04-03 DOI: 10.1007/s41066-023-00378-x

Reham A Alahmadi, Abdul Haseeb Ganie, Yousef Al-Qudah, Mohammed M Khalaf, Abdul Hamid Ganie

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Ninety-Nine Variations on a Proof 关于一个证明的九十九种变体

4区社会学

Common Knowledge Pub Date : 2023-01-01 DOI: 10.1215/0961754x-10333073

R. Netz

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The Cambridge Centenary Ulysses: The 1922 Text with Essays and Notes 剑桥百年纪念尤利西斯:1922年文本随笔和笔记

4区社会学

Common Knowledge Pub Date : 2023-01-01 DOI: 10.1215/0961754x-10332933

W. Chace

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Iconoclasm as Child's Play 儿童游戏的标志性等离子体