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The Prophet: A Graphic Novel Adaptation (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
A graphic novel adaptation of The Prophet by Kahlil Gibran, illustrating the story of an exile preparing to return to his home and sharing his thoughts on the human condition.
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Sensorial Investigations: A History of the Senses in Anthropology, Psychology, and Law (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
Presents a history of the senses in the fields of anthropology, psychology, and law, identifying important shifts and key disciplinary concerns.
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The Moving Statues of Seventeenth-Century Amsterdam: Automata, Waxworks, Fountains, Labyrinths (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
Explores the visual and cultural history of Amsterdam in the early modern era, focusing on the doolhoven: winding mazes behind pubs and taverns that featured pleasure gardens, waterworks, wax galleries, and automata.
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An Imperial Homeland: Forging German Identity in Southwest Africa (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
Examines the relationship between imperial Germany and its empire in southwest Africa (present-day Namibia), exploring how Africans confronted foreign rule and altered German national identity between 1842 and 1915.
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Scented Visions: Smell in Art, 1850-1914 (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
Explores the iconography and symbolism of scent in nineteenth-century art and visual culture, with a particular focus on Pre-Raphaelite art and Aestheticism.
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Fear and Nature: Ecohorror Studies in the Anthropocene (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
A collection of essays analyzing ecohorror motifs in literature, manga, film, and television, illuminating ambiguities that arise from human encounters with nonhuman nature and examining the scale and effect of ecohorror in, and of, the Anthropocene.
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Under the Literary Microscope: Science and Society in the Contemporary Novel (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
A collection of essays examining literary discussions of the role of science, focusing on the interactions between processes of knowledge formation and the socioeconomic and political spheres.
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I Don’t Want to Be a Mom (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
A recollection, in graphic novel format, of the author’s ambivalent feelings regarding motherhood while growing up, and an exploration of the imposition of motherhood on women as both an expectation and a path toward fulfillment.
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Tribal Talk: Black Theology, Hermeneutics, and African/American Ways of “Telling the Story” (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
This text studies slave narratives as a source for a constructive black theology, while paying attention to their... Læs mere
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From Subjects to Citizens: Honor, Gender, and Politics in Arequipa, Peru, 1780–1854 (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
A history of Peru's transition from colony to republic. The author illustrates how changing meanings of honour played a central role in politics, resulting in openings for working men but repression for poor women.
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American Public Architecture: European Roots and Native Expressions (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
This work explores European roots and native expressions in American public architecture.
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Light on the Eternal City: Observations and Discoveries in the Art and Architecture of Rome (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
This text discusses observations and discoveries in the art and architecture of Rome.
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