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The Dutch Scientific Council for Government Policy (WRR) to examined what form development aid should take in the era of globalization. This book is based on the WRR report of over 500 interviews in 2010.
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Using the example of Amsterdam's Concertgebouw in the nineteenth century, Cressman shows how its design was in part intended to help discipline and educate concert audiences to listen attentively.
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A pioneering study of Asian cultures that officially escaped from French colonisation but nonetheless were steeped in French civilisation in the colonial era and had heavily French-influenced, largely francophone literatures.
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This book focuses on five saints: the four female Irish saints who have extant medieval biographies (Darerca, Brigid, Íte, and Samthann), and... Læs mere
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This book studies a phenomenon which is most interesting in itself, but also helps to understand religious and social life in the period in which they were swiftly... Læs mere
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This book explores one artist's transformation of alchemy and its materials into a reputation for virtuosity-and what his work can teach us about the experimental early modern world.
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Examining Old English texts, Heide Estes shows how Anglo-Saxon ideologies, which view nature as diametrically opposed to humans, have become deeply embedded in our cultural heritage, language, and more.
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This book takes a close look at films that deal with ghosts. Making a crucial distinction between atmospheric films and conventional horror, Michael Walker argues that they are most productively seen as ghost melodramas.
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This book explores the new interactions between Asia and Africa beyond the frequent narrow focus on China-Africa.
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This collection offers a set of essays that discuss the new technology of memory from a variety of perspectives that explicitly investigate their impact on the very concept of the social.
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This is the first ethnography on the Meto people of Timor-Leste's Oecussi district and provides an original and engaging description of life as a UN staffer and anthropologist.
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Motion in Maps, Maps in Motion argues that the mapping of stories, movement, and change should not be understood as an innovation of contemporary cartography, but rather as an important aspect of human cartography with a longer history than might be assumed.