Rituals of Death and Dying in Modern and Ancient Greece
Writing History from a Female Perspective
This study examines women’s crucial role in the cult of the dead in ancient and modern Greece. It combines ethnography with historical sources to offer a female perspective on death rituals, challenging a history written almost exclusively by men.
This study examines women’s crucial role in the cult of the dead in ancient and modern Greece. It combines ethnography with historical sources to offer a female perspective on death rituals, challenging a history written almost exclusively by men.
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Rituals of Ilé-Ifẹ̀, Nigeria
Narratives and Performances of Archetypes
This book reveals the hidden beauties of six prominent ritual festivals in Ile-Ifẹ̀, the spiritual capital of the Yoruba people. It provides rare information and profound analysis, an important record of enduring cultural legacies for Yoruba cultural studies.
This book reveals the hidden beauties of six prominent ritual festivals in Ile-Ifẹ̀, the spiritual capital of the Yoruba people. It provides rare information and profound analysis, an important record of enduring cultural legacies for Yoruba cultural studies.
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Rivals and Conspirators
The Paris Salons and the Modern Art Centre
This history exposes the rivalry and conflict behind Paris’s rise as the “modern art centre.” It reveals how the most powerful Salons were not the avant-garde, and how a welcoming internationalism gave way to nationalist xenophobia.
This history exposes the rivalry and conflict behind Paris’s rise as the “modern art centre.” It reveals how the most powerful Salons were not the avant-garde, and how a welcoming internationalism gave way to nationalist xenophobia.
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Road Memories
Aspects of Migrant History
This volume explores the image of the Traveller/Gypsy, the migrant, and the “Other.” In an age of mass migration, diaspora communities such as Travellers and Gypsies disrupt dominant cultural narratives and serve to hybridise the discourse.
This volume explores the image of the Traveller/Gypsy, the migrant, and the “Other.” In an age of mass migration, diaspora communities such as Travellers and Gypsies disrupt dominant cultural narratives and serve to hybridise the discourse.
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Road Safety
From Global to Local and Vice Versa
This book is for all road users and designers, highlighting their shared responsibility to protect lives. It shows how coordinating safety management at all levels—from global to local—can make it possible to achieve zero deaths in road traffic accidents by 2050.
This book is for all road users and designers, highlighting their shared responsibility to protect lives. It shows how coordinating safety management at all levels—from global to local—can make it possible to achieve zero deaths in road traffic accidents by 2050.
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Road Safety Management in Africa
The Need to Calibrate Effort
This book examines Africa's capacity to reduce road deaths. It evaluates crash data accuracy, causes of death, and institutional weaknesses through detailed case studies, offering policy suggestions. Ideal for students and policy makers, this text encourages reflective practice.
This book examines Africa’s capacity to reduce road deaths. It evaluates crash data accuracy, causes of death, and institutional weaknesses through detailed case studies, offering policy suggestions. Ideal for students and policy makers, this text encourages reflective practice.
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The road inspires freewheeling adventure, but it is also a site of our vulnerabilities. This collection highlights artists, writers, and filmmakers who have drawn upon the road as a cultural landscape, revealing our curiosity, anxieties, sorrows, and disquiet.
The road inspires freewheeling adventure, but it is also a site of our vulnerabilities. This collection highlights artists, writers, and filmmakers who have drawn upon the road as a cultural landscape, revealing our curiosity, anxieties, sorrows, and disquiet.
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Roaming, Wandering, Deviation and Error
Dialogues Between Paradise Lost and the Novels of Salman Rushdie
This title presents a comparative reading of John Milton’s epic Paradise Lost in relation to four novels by Salman Rushdie, namely The Satanic Verses, The Moor’s Last Sigh, Fury and The Ground Beneath Her Feet, confronting terms such as influence and inheritance.
This title presents a comparative reading of John Milton’s epic Paradise Lost in relation to four novels by Salman Rushdie, namely The Satanic Verses, The Moor’s Last Sigh, Fury and The Ground Beneath Her Feet, confronting terms such as influence and inheritance.
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Robert le Diable
The Facsimile
In *Robert le Diable*, Meyerbeer saw man divided between the angel and the devil. Its sensational 1831 première became the principal expression of French Romanticism. This facsimile of the long-lost manuscript reveals the creation of a work that changed opera.
In *Robert le Diable*, Meyerbeer saw man divided between the angel and the devil. Its sensational 1831 première became the principal expression of French Romanticism. This facsimile of the long-lost manuscript reveals the creation of a work that changed opera.
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Robert Serumaga and the Golden Age of Uganda’s Theatre (1968-1978)
Activism and Innovation
This is the first complete examination of playwright Robert Serumaga’s work and the Golden Age of Uganda’s theatre (1968-1978). It is a study of a theatre of commitment, dissidence, and survival, born under the unrelenting glare of severe, scorching censorship.
This is the first complete examination of playwright Robert Serumaga’s work and the Golden Age of Uganda’s theatre (1968-1978). It is a study of a theatre of commitment, dissidence, and survival, born under the unrelenting glare of severe, scorching censorship.
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Rock Art of the Qsur and ‘Amour Mountains, Algeria
A Cognitive Approach
Artists leave some of their bodies in their art. This book studies the embodied intentionality in the works of artists from Algeria’s Qsur and ‘Amour mountains, revealing the sensations and emotions they inscribed into immersive installations and intricate labyrinthine forms.
Artists leave some of their bodies in their art. This book studies the embodied intentionality in the works of artists from Algeria’s Qsur and ‘Amour mountains, revealing the sensations and emotions they inscribed into immersive installations and intricate labyrinthine forms.
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Rock n Roll and Nationalism
A Multinational Perspective
In essays on countries from the United States to Russia, scholars, performers, and journalists explore the fascinating interplay between national identities and the rock music idiom, leading to a new understanding of rock and nationalism.
In essays on countries from the United States to Russia, scholars, performers, and journalists explore the fascinating interplay between national identities and the rock music idiom, leading to a new understanding of rock and nationalism.
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This book explores the elastic-anisotropic properties of rocks, showing that velocity, density, and anisotropy increase with metamorphic transformations. It also details an acoustopolariscope for analyzing rocks, anisotropic alloys, plastics, ceramics, and gemstones.
This book explores the elastic-anisotropic properties of rocks, showing that velocity, density, and anisotropy increase with metamorphic transformations. It also details an acoustopolariscope for analyzing rocks, anisotropic alloys, plastics, ceramics, and gemstones.
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Rockin’ the Borders
Rock Music and Social, Cultural and Political Change
This volume investigates how rock music has shaped identities and lifestyles since the 1950s. It offers a comparative perspective on rock's role in everyday life in the USA and Europe, including states on both sides of the Iron Curtain.
This volume investigates how rock music has shaped identities and lifestyles since the 1950s. It offers a comparative perspective on rock’s role in everyday life in the USA and Europe, including states on both sides of the Iron Curtain.
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Roidis and the Borrowed Muse
British Historiography, Fiction and Satire in Pope Joan
Using diverse sources ranging from hagiographies and historiographies to historical novels and satirical poems, this is the first full-length examination of Emmanouil Roidis’ Pope Joan (1866).
Using diverse sources ranging from hagiographies and historiographies to historical novels and satirical poems, this is the first full-length examination of Emmanouil Roidis’ Pope Joan (1866).
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In a time of stagnating markets, resolving economic crises requires new solutions. This volume shows how stability is related to clustering, exploring the formation of modern economic clusters, their advantages and negative aspects, and the contradictions of the phenomenon.
In a time of stagnating markets, resolving economic crises requires new solutions. This volume shows how stability is related to clustering, exploring the formation of modern economic clusters, their advantages and negative aspects, and the contradictions of the phenomenon.
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Technology profoundly influences our social fabric. This book explores its impact across business, commerce, and lifestyle, examining both advantages and drawbacks. It guides readers through cutting-edge topics like blockchain, the Internet of Things, AI, and machine learning.
Technology profoundly influences our social fabric. This book explores its impact across business, commerce, and lifestyle, examining both advantages and drawbacks. It guides readers through cutting-edge topics like blockchain, the Internet of Things, AI, and machine learning.
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The papers in this collection consider how nation building is a multi-dimensional process, addressing various components, including perspectives of the country in question. It deals with these inter-linked aspects, and the development of these structures and institutions.
The papers in this collection consider how nation building is a multi-dimensional process, addressing various components, including perspectives of the country in question. It deals with these inter-linked aspects, and the development of these structures and institutions.
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Romance
The History of a Genre
This book proposes a fascinating journey into the history and geography of the popular and controversial romance genre. From its origins to its latest developments, from print to film and Facebook, explore its many shapes from North America to India.
This book proposes a fascinating journey into the history and geography of the popular and controversial romance genre. From its origins to its latest developments, from print to film and Facebook, explore its many shapes from North America to India.
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Romanesque Art and Craftsmanship in Central Europe, 900-1300
Artistic Aspects of the Style
This book reviews the embellishing cloister arts of the Romanesque period, discussing work in textiles, ivory, wood, metals, and manuscripts. Illustrations stress common themes, placing these objects of art in their historical and spiritual contexts.
This book reviews the embellishing cloister arts of the Romanesque period, discussing work in textiles, ivory, wood, metals, and manuscripts. Illustrations stress common themes, placing these objects of art in their historical and spiritual contexts.
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