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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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Aromas of Asia: Exchanges, Histories, Threats (Bog, Hardback, Engelsk)
A multidisciplinary collection of essays exploring the interconnections and disjunctures in Asian cultural histories of scent. Examines how scent functions as a category of social and moral boundary-marking and boundary-breaching within, between, and beyond Asian societies.
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Speculum Lapidum: A Renaissance Treatise on the Healing Properties of Gemstones (Bog, Hardback, Engelsk)
A full translation of Camillo Leonardi’s Speculum Lapidum, with an introduction and annotations. Examines the role that medical astrology and astral magic played in the life of an Italian court in the early modern period.
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Saint George Between Empires: Image and Encounter in the Medieval East (Bog, Hardback, Engelsk)
Examines the image networks of St. George in the eastern Mediterranean, revealing how the different portrayals became central to Crusader, East Christian, and Islamic visual cultures.
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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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Good Girls Go to Hell (Bog, Hardback, Engelsk)
A coming-of-age graphic memoir set in the West Bank, depicting the reality of growing up in a region split by religious tensions—and sometimes violent conflict.
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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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From Nomadism to Monarchy?: Revisiting the Early Iron Age Southern Levant (Bog, Hardback, Engelsk)
A collection of essays reevaluating the archaeology and history of the early Iron Age Southern Levant and how the period may be reflected in the biblical accounts.
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Rawlsian Explorations in Religion and Applied Philosophy (Bog, Hardback, Engelsk)
Explores the political philosophy of John Rawls in relation to public policy issues, including war, mental disability, nonhuman animals, legacy,... Læs mere
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