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Solar Energy Technologies in Cultural Heritage

Solar Energy Technologies in Cultural Heritage offers a comprehensive overview of the solar renewable energy possibilities, developments, innovations, and challenges for cultural heritage applications. Th…

Katja Lindqvist

Cultural and Creative Industries Policymaking

This book traces the emergence and development of cultural and creative industries (CCI) policy in Europe in the last 25 years. Why and how CCI policy has been designed and implemented in Europe is a cent…

Elena Ziliotti

Meritocratic Democracy

Meritocratic Democracy examines the effectiveness of democracy as a decision-making system, the role of political leaders and political parties in real-world democracies and shows that cross-cultural dial…

Martin Gicharu

The Gospel and Cultural Applicability

Just as the four brave young men in the book of Daniel, today as believers we can stand in the midst of culture mix-up and represent Christ. The young men defied the gargantuan King Nebuchadnezzar, and we…

Julio Carvalho

A Cultural History of Copyright

Combining philosophical and historical perspectives, this book focuses on the rise of a legal institution that has dominated the economy of knowledge ever since it burst onto the scene at the dawn of mode…

Abdalla Uba Adamu

Hausa Cinema of Northern Nigeria

Providing a historical account of cinema in Nigeria, this book explores the transcultural transfer of media from India to Africa in Hausa cinema

Alborosie

For The Culture

»For The Culture« ist ein weiterer Meilenstein auf dem Weg des Alberto d'Ascola, wie Alborosie bürgerlich heisst. Der in Sizilien geborene Künstler lebt bereits seit 20 Jahren in Jamaika und hat sich der …

Liz Bucar

Stealing My Religion

Liz Bucar navigates the thorny terrain of religious appropriation, from yoga classes to non-Muslims who signal allyship by donning hijabs. Exploring the ethics of alleged appropriations, Bucar argues that…

A Cultural History of Plants in Antiquity

Examines the uses and meanings of plants from 10,000 BCE to 500 CE, from the transition from hunter-gatherer subsistence to the practice of agriculture in Mesopotamia and elsewhere.

A Cultural History of Medicine in Antiquity

Patient, disease and physician were the three corners of the 'medical triangle' according to one of the texts attributed to Hippocrates, a famous ancient Greek doctor. This volume, covering a period from …

Jeffrey R Di Leo

Contemporary Literary and Cultural Theory

The most exhaustive mapping of contemporary literary theory to date, this book offers a comprehensive introduction and overview of the current state of the field of contemporary literary theory.

Fabrizio Aimar

The Resilience of Cultural Landscapes

This book explores the possibility of building the resilience of the UNESCO cultural landscapes, both using theoretical conceptions and practical strategies and actions. Two case studies have been selecte…

Birgit Haberpeuntner,

Walter Benjamin and Cultural Translation

"Dissecting the radical impact of Walter Benjamin on contemporary cultural, postcolonial and translation theory, this book investigates the translation and reception of Benjamin's most famous text ab…

Aviad Sar Shalom, Yuval Peled, Rachel Singer, Elissa Rosenberg

Cultural Landscapes of Israel

This book introduces an inventory of proposed cultural landscapes in Israel, which have been identified, researched and mapped by the Israel Nature and Parks Authority.The categories as defined by the Ope…

Adaptive Reuse of Cultural Heritage

This open access book addresses the gap in existing knowledge on cultural heritage from a circular economy and sustainable development perspective for cities. It introduces innovative economic, environmen…

Law and the Humanities: Cultural Perspectives

This volume investigates interdisciplinary intersections between law and the humanities from the Renaissance to the present day. It allows for fruitful encounters between different disciplines: from liter…

Henry Cow

Western Culture (SHM-CD) (Papersleeve)

Globalisation, Cultural Diversity and Human Rights

This book analyses major discourses of cultural diversity and human rights. The chapters contained in this book examine critically major issues confronting cultural diversity and human rights, both locall…

Leith Davis

Jacobitism and Cultural Memory, 1688-1820

This Element has three objectives. First, it highlights the diversity of the nature of Jacobitism in the long eighteenth century by drawing attention to multi-media representations of Jacobitism and also …