Engaging Art
Essays and Interviews from Around the Globe
In essays from around the globe, this book reveals how artists make their art, resist censorship, and retain a creative spirit. It explores how they find space to work and exhibit in a politicized world where artistic freedom is often limited by economic and political pressures.
In essays from around the globe, this book reveals how artists make their art, resist censorship, and retain a creative spirit. It explores how they find space to work and exhibit in a politicized world where artistic freedom is often limited by economic and political pressures.
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Mathematics for Intermediate Teachers
From Models to Methods
For teachers, this book goes beyond traditional, formula-based approaches. Learn the reasoning behind the methods using visual models, manipulatives, and classroom-ready activities. These methods support better learning for all and are aligned with Indigenous ways of knowing.
For teachers, this book goes beyond traditional, formula-based approaches. Learn the reasoning behind the methods using visual models, manipulatives, and classroom-ready activities. These methods support better learning for all and are aligned with Indigenous ways of knowing.
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Alexandria's Library attracted scholars whose study of its scrolls led to outstanding contributions in science, literature, and philosophy. This book recalls the city's rise and the incredible series of wars and intrigues that brought about its inexorable decline.
Alexandria’s Library attracted scholars whose study of its scrolls led to outstanding contributions in science, literature, and philosophy. This book recalls the city’s rise and the incredible series of wars and intrigues that brought about its inexorable decline.
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Claiming the Ice
Britain and the Antarctic 1900-1950
Ministers and their officials are the unsung heroes of Britain’s history in Antarctica. Exploring the twists and turns of policy over half a century, this work covers the whaling industry, territorial tensions, and how science ultimately came to underpin Britain’s aims.
Ministers and their officials are the unsung heroes of Britain’s history in Antarctica. Exploring the twists and turns of policy over half a century, this work covers the whaling industry, territorial tensions, and how science ultimately came to underpin Britain’s aims.
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Ambassador Joseph Grew’s 1927-1932 diary provides valuable historical insight into the difficult modern US-Turkey relationship. It details the foundation of their diplomacy and offers prescient analysis of the Turkish Revolution, which still influences politics in Turkey today.
Ambassador Joseph Grew’s 1927-1932 diary provides valuable historical insight into the difficult modern US-Turkey relationship. It details the foundation of their diplomacy and offers prescient analysis of the Turkish Revolution, which still influences politics in Turkey today.
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Twice colonised by Portugal, São Tomé and Príncipe was a pioneer in the world's sugar and cocoa trades. These essays explore its 500-year history, revealing how this small archipelago overcame its struggles to become a surprising model of African democracy.
Twice colonised by Portugal, São Tomé and Príncipe was a pioneer in the world’s sugar and cocoa trades. These essays explore its 500-year history, revealing how this small archipelago overcame its struggles to become a surprising model of African democracy.
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Of Mice and Men
Animals in Human Culture
This collection of essays by international scholars examines human views of animals. Addressing topics from animal rights and ecology to feminism and domestication, the book considers global issues from ancient to contemporary times.
This collection of essays by international scholars examines human views of animals. Addressing topics from animal rights and ecology to feminism and domestication, the book considers global issues from ancient to contemporary times.
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Comparative Literature in Europe
Challenges and Perspectives
Researchers from across Europe explain how comparative literature works in their countries. This unique book offers an expansive panorama with emphasis on usually “invisible” countries. A handbook for the present and a laboratory for the future of the discipline.
Researchers from across Europe explain how comparative literature works in their countries. This unique book offers an expansive panorama with emphasis on usually “invisible” countries. A handbook for the present and a laboratory for the future of the discipline.
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This text evaluates the promises, myths, and critiques of sustainable consumption from a wide range of perspectives, covering individual consumptive choices and the carbon footprint of cities, as well as resource sharing and environmental entrepreneurism.
This text evaluates the promises, myths, and critiques of sustainable consumption from a wide range of perspectives, covering individual consumptive choices and the carbon footprint of cities, as well as resource sharing and environmental entrepreneurism.
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Hunter-Gatherers’ Tool-Kit
A Functional Perspective
This volume provides a multifaceted overview of the study of stone tools. With case studies from various continents centred on hunter-gatherer communities, it explores tool production and use to address major questions about past human economic and social behaviour.
This volume provides a multifaceted overview of the study of stone tools. With case studies from various continents centred on hunter-gatherer communities, it explores tool production and use to address major questions about past human economic and social behaviour.
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From Autocracy to Democracy to Technocracy
An Evolution of Human Polity
Is political evolution a rational design, a random process, or an inevitable march from autocracy to democracy to technocracy? This book examines the social forces that shape governments and offers a compelling new framework for understanding our political future.
Is political evolution a rational design, a random process, or an inevitable march from autocracy to democracy to technocracy? This book examines the social forces that shape governments and offers a compelling new framework for understanding our political future.
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Soupy Sales and the Detroit Experience
Manufacturing a Television Personality
While Soupy Sales achieved national fame in the 1960s, the template was set in Detroit. This study of his early WXYZ TV shows explores the manufacturing of a personality and offers insights into 1950s pop culture, the Cold War, Jewish-inflected humor, and jazz.
While Soupy Sales achieved national fame in the 1960s, the template was set in Detroit. This study of his early WXYZ TV shows explores the manufacturing of a personality and offers insights into 1950s pop culture, the Cold War, Jewish-inflected humor, and jazz.
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The Possibility of Love
An Interdisciplinary Analysis
Is love actually possible, or is it an illusion? This book explores the obstacles to love, the consequences of its absence, and our unquenchable desire for it through an interdisciplinary analysis of philosophy, psychoanalysis, and poetry.
Is love actually possible, or is it an illusion? This book explores the obstacles to love, the consequences of its absence, and our unquenchable desire for it through an interdisciplinary analysis of philosophy, psychoanalysis, and poetry.
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Opposing Colonialism, Antisemitism, and Turbo-Nationalism
Rethinking the Past for New Conviviality
This volume explores how racism and nationalism are shaped by collective amnesia. Essays connect disparate genocides, from Belgian colonialism to Bosnia, to show how nation-states are built on practices of oblivion, demanding we critically rethink the past for a new future.
This volume explores how racism and nationalism are shaped by collective amnesia. Essays connect disparate genocides, from Belgian colonialism to Bosnia, to show how nation-states are built on practices of oblivion, demanding we critically rethink the past for a new future.
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How can words and melody so successfully manipulate us? This book examines how music—from folk and rock to rap—is used to protest and to promote political, commercial, and religious authority, fueling feminist movements, propaganda, and songs of resistance.
How can words and melody so successfully manipulate us? This book examines how music—from folk and rock to rap—is used to protest and to promote political, commercial, and religious authority, fueling feminist movements, propaganda, and songs of resistance.
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Freer and Bell’s volume presents a rich and powerful range of essays by leading and emerging T.S. Eliot and literary modernist scholars, considering the doctrinal, religious, humanist, mythic and secular aspects of Eliot’s poetry.
Freer and Bell’s volume presents a rich and powerful range of essays by leading and emerging T.S. Eliot and literary modernist scholars, considering the doctrinal, religious, humanist, mythic and secular aspects of Eliot’s poetry.
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Promised End
The Last Scene of King Lear
The whole meaning of Shakespeare’s greatest tragedy depends on Lear’s last lines. Is his vision an epiphany or delusion? Is the play nihilistic or redemptive? This book deploys a wide spectrum of critical approaches to enlist readers in a quest for the answer.
The whole meaning of Shakespeare’s greatest tragedy depends on Lear’s last lines. Is his vision an epiphany or delusion? Is the play nihilistic or redemptive? This book deploys a wide spectrum of critical approaches to enlist readers in a quest for the answer.
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Translation and Language Teaching
Continuing the Dialogue
This volume creates a dialogue between translation studies and language teaching, showing how integrating insights from both can solve contemporary challenges. It presents empirical studies for developing translator competences, with suggestions for redefining curricula.
This volume creates a dialogue between translation studies and language teaching, showing how integrating insights from both can solve contemporary challenges. It presents empirical studies for developing translator competences, with suggestions for redefining curricula.
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AfroMecca in History
African Societies, Anti-Black Racism, and Teaching in al-Haram Mosque in Mecca
This book discusses anti-Black racism in the Arab world, centered on the term “ʿabd” (slave). It explores the ancient Black diaspora in Mecca and its contributions, as well as the religious and political role of the al-Haram Mosque's teaching system throughout history.
This book discusses anti-Black racism in the Arab world, centered on the term “ʿabd” (slave). It explores the ancient Black diaspora in Mecca and its contributions, as well as the religious and political role of the al-Haram Mosque’s teaching system throughout history.
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Arthur Conan Doyle’s Art of Fiction
A Revaluation
This groundbreaking book rescues Arthur Conan Doyle from the sub-literary category of popular fiction. Instead of focusing on Victorian attitudes, this study shifts the emphasis to the neglected art of his stories, demonstrating they can be read as canonical literary fiction.
This groundbreaking book rescues Arthur Conan Doyle from the sub-literary category of popular fiction. Instead of focusing on Victorian attitudes, this study shifts the emphasis to the neglected art of his stories, demonstrating they can be read as canonical literary fiction.
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