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Qi Ai
Feng Xiaogang's New Year Films

This book offers not only an in-depth study of Feng Xiaogang as a cinematic auteur but also a comprehensive and informative discussion of the industrial transformation of mainstream Chinese cinema under p…

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Danielle Alesi
Eating Animals in the Early Modern Atlantic World

This book examines how the perceived edibility of animals evolved during the colonization of the Americas. Early European colonizers ate a variety of animals in the Americas, motivated by factors like cur…

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Stephanie Assmann
Food Education and Rural Resilience in Japan

Food education initiatives exist worldwide, but Japan remains unique with its food education law known as shokuiku. The country's impressive health metrics-high life expectancies, low obesity, and afforda…

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Hadi Baghaei-Abchooyeh
Beyond Orientalism

This volume examines the enduring legacy of Sir William Jones, a seminal figure in the intellectual exchange between East and West during the Enlightenment.

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Maurits Berger
Introduction to International Studies

This book provides students with a solid foundation in the basic frameworks and concepts of International Studies.

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Sara Burdorff
Maternity, Monstrosity, and Heroic (Im)mortality from Homer to Shakespeare

This work uses an adaptation of monster theory to rethink the foundations of epic-heroic immortality. Rather than focusing on a specific monster or monsters, the author identifies the "belly-monstrou…

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Chien-Peng Chung
Competing Nationalisms in China's Borderlands

This book endeavors to provide a balanced analytical treatment of ethnic nationalists, state leaders, and foreign intervenors in China's frontier politics, explaining systematically the circumstances of t…

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Alexis Culotta
The Frescoed Facade in Renaissance Roman Visual Culture

This book examines Roman façades decorated with fresco and sgraffito between the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries that once enveloped the central rioni of Rome within a web of symbolic social, political,…

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Esther Captain, Onno Sinke
Resonance of Violence

Views the terrifying Bersiap period against the backdrop of the violent first phase of the Indonesian National Revolution.

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Dominique Darmon
Have I Got Dirt For You

Even though office gossip is generally frowned upon, many studies show that gossip in organizations is not only inevitable, but can even be a positive communication tool. However, by gossiping in the wron…

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Olivia Dear, Sarah Dear
Behaviour in the Classroom

Behaviour in the Classroom, The Practical Guide is for any teacher who wants to make their classroom environment a better one for children to learn in. Olivia Dear and Sarah Dear, drawing on their diverse…

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Beate Fricke
Creation and Creativity in Medieval Art

Creation imagery in manuscripts made in the Middle Ages became a locus for visual experimentation as well as the expression of ideas about creativity. By examining representations of divine creation and i…

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Dag Nikolaus Hasse
What is European?

It is common to define Europe by its democratic, scientific, religious, and cultural traditions. But in What is European?, Dag Nikolaus Hasse argues that the search for Europe's essence has taken a troubl…

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Mykola Homanyuk, Mischa Gabowitsch
Monuments and Territory

From the very first days of their large-scale attack on Ukraine in February 2022, the Russian invaders have made exceptional efforts to interact with the war memorial landscape of the newly occupied terri…

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Edwin Hoogschagen
B-32 Dominator

The Consolidated B-32 Dominator was a powerful American bomber used by the U.S. Army Air Forces during World War II. Notably, it holds the distinction of being the last Allied aircraft to see combat in th…

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Tingting Hui
Accented Speech in Literature, Art, and Theory

In our globalized world, a unique type of intercultural encounter has emerged: that between the speaking body and the foreign language. From Vladimir Nabokov and Maxine Hong Kingston to Yoko Tawada, write…

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Miguel Ibanez Aristondo
Ecological Imperialism in Early Modern Spanish Narratives

How are the environmental conflicts of our time intertwined with the legacies of Spanish imperialism and early modern globalization? In Ecological Imperialism in Early Modern Spanish Narratives: Excavatin…

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Frank Ijpma, Thomas van Gulik
Amsterdam Anatomy Lessons Dissected

In the 'Anatomy lessons' that were painted for the Surgeons' Guild in Amsterdam, the surgeons portrayed, their teachers, the corpse and the dissection are described and discussed.

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Jerome Jamin
L'Imaginaire du Complot

This book explores the importance of conspiracy rhetoric within populist and far right speeches in Europe and the United States. It shows how a "New World Order" plot give to populist and far ri…

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Hyun-Ah Kim
Music, Rhetoric and Christian Hebraism in Early Modern Europe

This book presents the first in-depth exploration of the relationship between music, rhetoric and Christian Hebraism, by re-appraising the significance of the "first German humanist" Johannes Re…

lieferbar ab 21.8.2025.

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