Understanding Hypoxia
This textbook provides a comprehensive exploration of hypoxia, covering its molecular mechanisms and clinical implications. It bridges the gap between basic science and practice, serving as a valuable resource for students, clinicians, and researchers.
Underwater Worlds
This anthology throws open a new area in the emerging field of “blue” environmental humanities by exploring how subaqueous environments have been imagined and represented across cultures and media.
This volume challenges established knowledge in Dance Studies, exploring how dance can affect change and politics. It ‘undisciplines’ academic thinking, creating alternative modes for perceiving and making through choreographic practices, somatics, and critical dance pedagogies.
Undoing the Visual Arts Since 1960
This timely study assesses how contemporary art replaced the artistic medium with art as text. The rise of the institutional theory of art, its academisation, and an ideological agenda made contemporary art immune from criticism—completing the undoing of visual art.
Urban Planning in the Middle East
A partial professional autobiography, this book describes diverse urban planning projects across Turkey, the Gulf, Afghanistan, and Syria. The author personally worked on all projects, tackling themes from slum upgrading to post-war reconstruction.
Useless Beauty
The story of Australian art is not just landscape. Useless Beauty puts flowers front and centre, exploring how major artists like Margaret Preston and Sidney Nolan used blossoms to define identity and bring a psychological dimension to the everyday.
Artists are collaborating with scientists and communities to encourage pro-environmental behavior. This book unites 28 contributors to examine the vital role of the arts in provoking change and making connections to ecology, science, and Indigenous culture.
Utopia and Neoliberalism in Latin American Cinema
This book reflects upon the crisis and recovery of utopia, from classic Greece to the neoliberal era in Latin America. Using decolonialist theory, it contributes a new model of analysis for Latin American cinema: “the allegory of the motionless traveler.”
Victorian Cultures of Liminality
This volume focuses on cross-fertilisation in the arts, liminal spaces, and marginal figures. It contributes to scholarship on Anglo-French exchanges, evoking a sense of temporal shift as nineteenth-century values progress and showing how pictures and texts shape identity.
Views on Eighteenth Century Culture
Using the Portuguese architect and city planner Eugénio dos Santos as a reference point, contributions to this text provide insights into the Enlightenment in Portugal and its relationships with other European cultural movements in fields such as philosophy and literature.
Views, Positions, Legacies
This book collects 24 interviews with German and British theatre artists over 20 years. Actors, directors, and dramatists discuss boulevard comedy, Brecht’s legacy, and seminal productions like Sir Richard Eyre’s account of his Hamlet at the Royal Court.
Vignettes Relating to Kathakali and Shakespeare
For lovers of the performing arts, especially Kathakali, the dance drama of Kerala. This book uniquely compares Shakespearean plays and characters to the stories and characters in Kathakali, offering a completely new perspective.
This book reveals how Sarah Kane’s plays immerse audiences in the raw, embodied experience of violence and trauma. It presents a compelling case for her enduring relevance, cementing her legacy as one of modern theatre’s most provocative and essential voices.
Visible Exports / Imports
New perspectives on medieval and renaissance art and culture. Essays explore 14th and 15th century European art production, from workshop practice and patronage to the circulation of styles and ideas.
Vision of Change in African Drama
This book focuses on Fémi Òsófisan, a major Nigerian dramatist and postcolonial writer. It explores how he questions colonial and postcolonial identity by exploiting his Yorùbá heritage, re-writing mythology and history to comment on contemporary social and political issues.
These essays examine the elusive dream of the Irish and Irish Americans. From 19th-century emigrants to contemporary artists, this study explores the conflicted visions of a people striving to come to terms with what it means to be Irish.
Visual Conflicts
This collection of essays explores how visual cultures engage with armed conflict and violence. Each author considers how visual representations of conflict across various media—from painting to photography—shape the meanings of events, identity, and memory.
This book examines the 2011 Occupy LSX protest at St Paul’s Cathedral in relation to media spectacle. Based on extensive ethnographic research, it demonstrates how protestors subverted media and manifested formidable resistance to capitalism.
Explore the history of Chinese food and drink through its utensils, ingredients, and dining practices. This collection of essays examines items from Han jade goblets to 18th century imperial tea houses to reveal the evolution of culinary concepts and food cultures in China.
Visualizing Rituals
The essays in this compilation examine the dynamic relationship between art and ritual. Drawing from art historical and theoretical discourses, these papers seek new ways of defining both, with topics ranging from Ancient Greek temples to the art of Kahinde Wiley.
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