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Jun 18, 2020
06/20
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Kenneth L. Davis; Christian Montag
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Animal Emotions: How They Drive Human Behavior gives a concise overview of ancient mammalian emotions deeply rooted in the human brain. Jaak Panksepp, a world-renowned neuroscientist, dedicated his life career to the study of mammalian emotions and he carved out seven distinct emotional systems he called seeking, lust, care, and play (positive emotions), and fear, anger, and sadness (negative emotions), all exerting a tremendous influence on human behavior.Christian Montag, a neuroscientist and...
Topics: JMQ, PSVP, NAT001000, PSY013000, animal studies, anthropology, emotion, Jaak Panksepp, motivation,...
Source: https://doi.org/10.21983/P3.0305.1.00
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May 26, 2017
05/17
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Christian Hite
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Coming from behind (derrière)—how else to describe a volume called “Derrida and Queer Theory”? — as if arriving late to the party, or, indeed, after the party is already over. After all, we already have Deleuze and Queer Theory and, of course, Saint Foucault. And judging by Annamarie Jagose’s Queer Theory: An Introduction, in which there is not a single mention of “Derrida” (or “deconstruction”) — even in the sub-chapter titled “The Post-Structuralist Context of Queer”...
Topics: JFSK, PHI043000, SOC064000, deconstruction, gender, Jacques Derrida, queer theory, sexuality
Source: https://doi.org/10.21983/P3.0172.1.00
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Oct 22, 2020
10/20
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Stephen Robertson
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The idea that the digital age has revolutionized our day-to-day experience of the world is nothing new, and has been amply recognized by cultural historians. In contrast, Stephen Robertson’s 'BC: Before Computers' is a work which questions the idea that the mid-twentieth century saw a single moment of rupture. It is about all the things that we had to learn, invent, and understand – all the ways we had to evolve our thinking – before we could enter the information technology revolution of...
Topics: B, GPF, JNV, U, UB, COM031000, COM032000, COM059000, R63, T58.5, Science, Science: History of...
Source: https://doi.org/10.11647/OBP.0225
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Nov 22, 2016
11/16
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Petra Weschenfelder; Vincent W.J. van Gerven Oei; Vincent Pierre-Michel Laisney; Giovanni Ruffini; Alexandros Tsakos; Kerstin Weber-Thum
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The Old Nubian Texts from Attiri is the first publication in the Dotawo: Monographs series. It presents heretofore unpublished material: an edition of a series of manuscripts discovered during the Aswan High Dam campaign at the site of Attiri, a rocky island in the Batn el-Hajjar region in Sudan, and does so in an innovative way, through an intensive collaboration of the editors under the name of the Attiri Collaborative. By bringing together their diverse backgrounds in linguistics,...
Topics: 2HNR, archaeology, Attiri, epigraphy, Nubian Studies, Sudan
Source: https://doi.org/10.21983/P3.0156.1.00
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Oct 17, 2016
10/16
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Martin Paul Eve
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This is a book about the power game currently being played out between two symbiotic cultural institutions: the university and the novel. As the number of hyper-knowledgeable literary fans grows, students and researchers in English departments waiver between dismissing and harnessing voices outside the academy. Meanwhile, the role that the university plays in contemporary literary fiction is becoming increasingly complex and metafictional, moving far beyond the ‘campus novel’ of the...
Topics: DS, DSK, FA, FIC019000, LIT000000, LIT004020, LIT024060, American and Latin American Studies,...
Source: https://doi.org/10.11647/OBP.0102
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Apr 17, 2018
04/18
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Manja Stephan-Emmrich; Philipp Schröder
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This collection brings together a variety of anthropological, historical and sociological case studies from Central Asia and the Caucasus to examine the concept of translocality. The chapters scrutinize the capacity of translocality to describe, in new ways, the multiple mobilities, exchange practices and globalizing processes that link places, people and institutions in Central Asia and the Caucasus with others in Russia, China and the United Arab Emirates. Illuminating translocality as a...
Topics: 1FC, JH, JHMC, JPS, RGCP, SOC002010, SOC015000, JV6121, Anthropology, Archaeology and Religion,...
Source: https://doi.org/10.11647/OBP.0114
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Dec 17, 2020
12/20
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D.M. White
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The Old Icelandic text The Saga of Þórður kakali survives today as part of the fourteenth-century compilation The Saga of the Sturlungar. In extant form, The Saga of Þórður kakali is a biography of Þórður kakali Sighvatsson (c.1210–56) – chieftain, royal retainer, and sheriff – and covers the periods 1242–50 and 1254–56, providing an interesting view of power politics and political culture from the periphery of medieval Europe, challenging dominant historiographical...
Topics: FT, FIC008000, DBSN, Icelandic literature, Nordic civil wars, saga, The Age of the Sturlungar,...
Source: https://doi.org/10.21983/P3.0309.1.00
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Oct 26, 2016
10/16
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Katerina Kolozova; Eileen A. Joy
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Recent forms of realism in continental philosophy that are habitually subsumed under the category of “speculative realism,” a denomination referring to rather heterogeneous strands of philosophy, bringing together object-oriented ontology (OOO), non-standard philosophy (or non-philosophy), the speculative realist ideas of Quentin Meillassoux and Marxism, have provided grounds for the much needed critique of culturalism in gender theory, and the authority with which post-structuralism has...
Topics: JFFK, feminism, new materialisms, new realisms, object studies, speculative realism
Source: https://doi.org/10.21983/P3.0152.1.00
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Nov 18, 2011
11/11
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Ingo Gildenhard
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Looting, despoiling temples, attempted rape and judicial murder: these are just some of the themes of this classic piece of writing by one of the world’s greatest orators. This particular passage is from the second book of Cicero’s Speeches against Verres, who was a former Roman magistrate on trial for serious misconduct. Cicero presents the lurid details of Verres’ alleged crimes in exquisite and sophisticated prose. This volume provides a portion of the original text of Cicero’s...
Topics: 4KL, CFP, HBLA1, FOR033000, HIS002020, LIT004190, PA6279.A4, Classics, Classics: Latin Textbooks,...
Source: https://doi.org/10.11647/OBP.0016
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Sep 11, 2017
09/17
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Eugenia Smagina; José Andrés Alonso de la Fuente
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Eugenia Smagina (Евгeния Б. Смaгина) first published her grammar of the Old Nubian language in 1986 in Russian. For more than thirty years the work has remained untranslated, even though the late Gerald M. Browne affirmed that “this lucid, well-argued presentation should be available to all Nubiologists and ought therefore be translated into a western language.” Slavicist José Andrés Alonso de la Fuente has prepared a first English translation of this concise but...
Topics: 2HNR, grammar, linguistics, Old Nubian, philology
Source: https://doi.org/10.21983/P3.0179.1.00
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Apr 20, 2012
04/12
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Ariel Rubinstein
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I had the good fortune to grow up in a wonderful area of Jerusalem, surrounded by a diverse range of people: Rabbi Meizel, the communist Sala Marcel, my widowed Aunt Hannah, and the intellectual Yaacovson. As far as I'm concerned, the opinion of such people is just as authoritative for making social and economic decisions as the opinion of an expert using a model. Part memoir, part crash-course in economic theory, this deeply engaging book by one of the world's foremost economists looks at...
Topics: KCA, BIO021000, BUS044000, HB71, Economics, Politics and Sociology, Beautiful Mind, economic...
Source: https://doi.org/10.11647/OBP.0020
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Dec 4, 2018
12/18
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Zairong Xiang
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Queer Ancient Ways advocates a profound unlearning of colonial/modern categories as a pathway to the discovery of new forms and theories of queerness in the most ancient of sources. In this radically unconventional work, Zairong Xiang investigates scholarly receptions of mythological figures in Babylonian and Nahua creation myths, exposing the ways they have consistently been gendered as feminine in a manner that is not supported, and in some cases actively discouraged, by the texts themselves....
Topics: JFSK, LIT004160, LIT004190, JBSJ, NHTQ, QRRT1, Babylonian mythology, creation myths, decolonialism,...
Source: https://doi.org/10.21983/P3.0235.1.00
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Mar 12, 2014
03/14
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Léopold Lambert
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The Funambulist Pamphlets is a series of small books archiving articles published on The Funambulist, collected according to specific themes. These volumes propose a different articulation of texts than the usual chronological one. The eleven volumes are respectively dedicated to Spinoza, Foucault, Deleuze, Legal Theory, Occupy Wall Street, Palestine, Cruel Designs, Arakawa + Madeline Gins, Science Fiction, Literature, and Cinema. Volume 8 is dedicated to The Reversible Destiny Foundation...
Topics: AMA, Arakawa, architecture, design, Medline Gins, mortality
Source: https://doi.org/10.21983/P3.0064.1.00
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Jun 2, 2022
06/22
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Janet Sarbanes
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In the face of rising authoritarianism and on the heels of urgent struggle, autonomy calls to us. How might we excavate the theory and history of autonomous politics to arrive at new possibilities for radical democracy and the radical imaginary? How can we rethink the ways in which artistic autonomy is theorized and practiced beyond the shrunken horizon of liberal individualism? How might we understand political and artistic autonomies as linked, rather than diametrically opposed? And what role...
Topics: HPS, JPWF, PHI019000, POL035000, JPWG, QDTS, art, autonomy, Cornelius Castoriadis, pedagogy,...
Source: https://doi.org/10.53288/0358.1.00
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Dec 22, 2014
12/14
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Jon Røyne Kyllingstad
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The notion of a superior ‘Germanic’ or ‘Nordic’ race was a central theme in the ideology of the Nazis. But it was also a commonly accepted idea in the early twentieth century, and an actual scientific concept originating from anthropological research on the physical characteristics of Europeans. The Scandinavian Peninsula was considered to be the historical cradle and the core area of this ‘master race’. This book investigates the role played by Scandinavian scholars in inventing...
Topics: 1DN, JHMP, JPFQ, HIS044000, SOC002020, SOC031000, GN50.45.N6, Anthropology, Archaeology and...
Source: https://doi.org/10.11647/OBP.0051
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Jun 30, 2022
06/22
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Geoffrey Khan; Paul M. Noorlander; Masoud Mohammadirad; Dorota Molin
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This comparative anthology showcases the rich and mutually intertwined folklore of three ethno-religious communities from northern Iraq: Aramaic-speaking (‘Syriac’) Christians, Kurdish Muslims and—to a lesser extent—Aramaic-speaking Jews. The first volume contains several introductory chapters on language, folkore motifs and narrative style, followed by samples of glossed texts in each language variety. The second volume is the anthology proper, presenting folklore narratives in several...
Topics: 1FBQ, 2BXK, 2CSA, CFF, CFP, JFHF, HIS026030, LAN009010, SOC011000, Cambridge Semitic Languages and...
Source: https://doi.org/10.11647/OBP.0307
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Jul 1, 2010
07/10
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Kevin R. Brine; Elena Ciletti; Henrike Lähnemann
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The Book of Judith tells the story of a fictitious Jewish woman beheading Holofernes, the general of a powerful army, to free her people. The story has fascinated artists and authors for centuries, and is becoming a major field of research in its own right. The Sword of Judith is the first multidisciplinary collection of essays to discuss representations of Judith throughout the centuries. Bringing together scholars from around the world, it transforms our understanding of Judith’s enduring...
Topics: HBTB, HRCG, ART015000, MUS048000, REL006740, BS1735.55, Anthropology, Archaeology and Religion,...
Source: https://doi.org/10.11647/OBP.0009
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Nov 4, 2017
11/17
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Jen Boyle; Wan-Chuan Kao
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Is it possible to conceive of a Hello Kitty Middle Ages or a Tickle Me Elmo Renaissance? The Oxford English Dictionary dates the first reference to “cute” in the sense of “attractive, pretty, charming” to 1834. More recently, Sianne Ngai has offered a critical overview of the cuteness of the twentieth-century avant-garde within the context of consumer culture. But if cuteness can get under the skin, what kinds of surfaces does it best infiltrate, particularly in the framework of...
Topics: DSBD, SOC002010, SOC022000, Bollywood, cultural studies, cuteness, Renaissance literature, Second...
Source: https://doi.org/10.21983/P3.0188.1.00
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Nov 24, 2014
11/14
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A.M. Halpern; Amy Miller
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The Quechan are a Yuman people who have traditionally lived along the lower part of the Colorado River in California and Arizona. They are well known as warriors, artists, and traders, and they also have a rich oral tradition. The stories in this volume were told by tribal elders in the 1970s and early 1980s. The eleven narratives in this volume take place at the beginning of time and introduce the reader to a variety of traditional characters, including the infamous Coyote and also Kwayúu the...
Topics: 2J, JFHF, JHMC, FOR031000, LIT004060, SOC002010, E99.Y94, American and Latin American Studies,...
Source: https://doi.org/10.11647/OBP.0049
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Jun 18, 2016
06/16
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Katherine Behar; Emmy Mikelson
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In And Another Thing: Nonanthropocentrism and Art, Katherine Behar and Emmy Mikelson explore how artists engage with nonanthropocentrism, one of the primary tenets shared by recent speculative realist and new materialist philosophies. Extending their investigations in And Another Thing, an exhibition which the authors curated in 2011, this volume documents both that exhibition and expands on two of its curatorial aims: prioritizing art historical contexts for contemporary philosophy (rather...
Topics: HPN, aesthetics, anthropocene, cultural theory, posthumanism, thing theory
Source: https://doi.org/10.21983/P3.0144.1.00
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Mar 15, 2017
03/17
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Michael Munro
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“No longer imminent, the End is immanent.” “Ends are ends,” Frank Kermode goes on to clarify, “only when they are not negative but frankly transfigure the events in which they were immanent.” From its imminence to its immanence, not “negative,” “no longer,” but transformative, how is “the End” in turn “transfigured”? In what may ending be said then to consist? To “the end times” of apocalypse and eschatology Giorgio Agamben, following Gianni Carchia, opposes...
Topics: HPCF, parables, philology, philosophy, poetics, utopia
Source: https://doi.org/10.21983/P3.0168.1.00
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Apr 22, 2021
04/21
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Peter Valente
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Essays on the Peripheries contains essays written by translator and scholar Peter Valente over a twenty-year period, stretching from the 1990s to 2019. They are a record of literary exploration and discovery, concerned with the recovery of lost works, with those writers whose works were out of print or hard to find, and whose names were somehow not fashionable in the current discourse, but who are important nevertheless. Edouard Roditi, Barbara Barg, and Tom Savage, for example, should be...
Topics: DSC, DSK, LIT004160, LIT014000, 5PS, Callimachus, literary studies, Pier Paolo Pasolini, Pierre...
Source: https://doi.org/10.21983/P3.0291.1.00
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Aug 3, 2020
08/20
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Adang Camilla; Bruno Chiesa; Omar Hamdan; Wilferd Madelung; Sabine Schmidtke; Jan Thiele
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Jewish-Muslim Intellectual History Entangled unearths forgotten texts that once belonged to the library of the Karaite community in Cairo. Consigned to oblivion for centuries, many of these manuscripts were sold in the second half of the nineteenth century to the National Library of Russia in St Petersburg, where they remained inaccessible to most scholars until the end of the Cold War. The texts from the Karaite library cover a remarkable spectrum of medieval literary genres and scholarly...
Topics: HB, HRH, JFSR1, HIS022000, REL037010, DS119.7, Cambridge Semitic Languages and Cultures, Material...
Source: https://doi.org/10.11647/OBP.0214
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Oct 31, 2022
10/22
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Juraj Buzalka; Agnieszka Pasieka
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This collection of essays is the result of the joint efforts of colleagues and students of the leading social anthropology and post-socialism theorist, Professor Chris Hann. With the thirtieth anniversary of the collapse of the Berlin Wall in 2019 as their catalyst, the authors reflect upon Chris Hann’s lifelong fieldwork in the discipline, spanning regions as diverse as East Central Europe, Turkey, and the Chinese north-west. The collapse of the Berlin Wall naturally triggered a plethora of...
Topics: J, JH, JPF, JPFF, POL005000, POL032000, SOC002000, SOC002010, GN316, Anthropology, Archaeology and...
Source: https://doi.org/10.11647/OBP.0282
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Apr 6, 2021
04/21
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Aaron D. Hornkohl; Geoffrey Khan
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Most of the papers in this volume originated as presentations at the conference Biblical Hebrew and Rabbinic Hebrew: New Perspectives in Philology and Linguistics, which was held at the University of Cambridge, 8–10th July, 2019. The aim of the conference was to build bridges between various strands of research in the field of Hebrew language studies that rarely meet, namely philologists working on Biblical Hebrew, philologists working on Rabbinic Hebrew and theoretical linguists. This volume...
Topics: CFF, CFP, HRCG, LAN009010, REL006020, Cambridge Semitic Languages and Cultures, Linguistics,...
Source: https://doi.org/10.11647/OBP.0250
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May 31, 2018
05/18
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Joseph A. Dane
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Mythodologies challenges the implied methodology in contemporary studies in the humanities. We claim, at times, that we gather facts or what we will call evidence, and from that form hypotheses and conclusions. Of course, we recognize that the sum total of evidence for any argument is beyond comprehension; therefore, we construct, and we claim, preliminary hypotheses, perhaps to organize the chaos of evidence, or perhaps simply to find it; we might then see (we claim) whether that evidence...
Topics: DSBB, bibliography, book history, Chaucer, intellectual history, medieval studies
Source: https://doi.org/10.21983/P3.0202.1.00
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Nov 30, 2011
11/11
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John R.W. Speller
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Bourdieu and Literature is a wide-ranging, rigorous and accessible introduction to the relationship between Pierre Bourdieu's work and literary studies. It provides a comprehensive overview and critical assessment of his contributions to literary theory and his thinking about authors and literary works. One of the foremost French intellectuals of the post-war era, Bourdieu has become a standard point of reference in the fields of anthropology, linguistics, art history, cultural studies,...
Topics: 2ADF, DSA, JHBA, PHI040000, SOC026000, HM479.B68, European Studies, European Studies: French...
Source: https://doi.org/10.11647/OBP.0027
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Dec 19, 2016
12/16
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TJ Bliss; Patrick Blessinger
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This insightful collection of essays explores the ways in which open education can democratise access to education for all. It is a rich resource that offers both research and case studies to relate the application of open technologies and approaches in education settings around the world. Global in perspective, this book argues strongly for the value of open education in both the developed and developing worlds. Through a mixture of theoretical and practical approaches, it demonstrates that...
Topics: JNF, JNM, JNQ, JNV, EDU041000, LC5803.C65, Education, democratisation, inclusion, open access, open...
Source: https://doi.org/10.11647/OBP.0103
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Aug 23, 2022
08/22
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Ruth Rosengarten
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In this intimate memoir, Ruth Rosengarten explores the subject of evocative objects through a series of interconnected essays. Evocative objects reflect our attitudes to our own lives and how we seek to display ourselves to ourselves. They are therefore, closely linked to our memories, and how we filter, process and reconstruct them. Rosengarten explores the themes and associations invoked by her own evocative objects, which are frequently shabby things of no material value. They are,...
Topics: AGB, AJB, BG, DSA, JFCD, JMRM, ART065000, BIO000000, BIO001000, BIO022000, PHO011010, N6797.R5765,...
Source: https://doi.org/10.11647/OBP.0285
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Dec 17, 2014
12/14
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John McKeown
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The human population's annual total consumption is not sustainable by one planet. This unprecedented situation calls for a reformation in religious cultures that promote a large ideal family size. Many observers assume that Christianity is inevitably part of this problem because it promotes "family values" and statistically, in America and elsewhere, has a higher birthrate than nonreligious people. This book explores diverse ideas about human reproduction in the church past and...
Topics: HRAM, HRCG3, RNA, NAT011000, REL006050, REL012030, QP251, American and Latin American Studies,...
Source: https://doi.org/10.11647/OBP.0048
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Apr 14, 2022
04/22
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Lajos Brons
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In the early twentieth century, Uchiyama Gudō, Seno’o Girō, Lin Qiuwu, and others advocated a Buddhism that was radical in two respects. Firstly, they adopted a more or less naturalist stance with respect to Buddhist doctrine and related matters, rejecting karma or other supernatural beliefs. And secondly, they held political and economic views that were radically anti-hegemonic, anti-capitalist, and revolutionary. Taking the idea of such a “radical Buddhism” seriously, A Buddha Land in...
Topics: HPQ, HRE, PHI028000, REL007000, QDTQ, QRFB2, anti-capitalism, Buddhism, ethics, naturalism,...
Source: https://doi.org/10.53288/0373.1.00
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Mar 7, 2018
03/18
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David Gamez
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Consciousness is widely perceived as one of the most fundamental, interesting and difficult problems of our time. However, we still know next to nothing about the relationship between consciousness and the brain and we can only speculate about the consciousness of animals and machines. Human and Machine Consciousness presents a new foundation for the scientific study of consciousness. It sets out a bold interpretation of consciousness that neutralizes the philosophical problems and explains how...
Topics: HPM, JMT, PDA, PSAN, UYQ, COM004000, OCC000000, PHI015000, SCI075000, SCI089000, B105.C477,...
Source: https://doi.org/10.11647/OBP.0107
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Jan 20, 2022
01/22
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Carmen Martinez-Vargas
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In this book Carmen Martinez-Vargas explores how academic participatory research and the way it is carried out can contribute to more, or less, social justice. Adopting theoretical and empirical approaches, and addressing multiple complex, intersectional issues, this book offers inspiration for scholars and practitioners to open up alternative pathways to social justice, viewed through a Global South lens. Martinez-Vargas examines the colonial roots of research and emphasises the importance of...
Topics: HBTR, HPQ, HPS, JHBC, JHBL, KCP, KCR, POL024000, POL029000, POL045000, SOC045000, SOC050000,...
Source: https://doi.org/10.11647/OBP.0273
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Sep 22, 2022
09/22
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Stephanie Polsky
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The Dark Posthuman: Dehumanization, Technology, and the Atlantic World explores how liberal humanism first enlivened, racialized, and gendered global cartographies, and how memory, ancestry, expression, and other aspects of social identity founded in its theories and practices made for the advent of the category of the posthuman through the dimensions of cultural, geographic, political, social, and scientific classification. The posthuman is very much the product of world-building narratives...
Topics: JFMG, PDR, POL042020, SOC054000, JBFV5, UBJ, capitalism, colonialism, ecology, liberalism,...
Source: https://doi.org/10.53288/0381.1.00
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Nov 28, 2022
11/22
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Daniel James Waller
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The Bible in the Bowls represents a complete catalogue of Hebrew Bible quotations found in the published corpus of Jewish Babylonian Aramaic magic bowls. As our only direct epigraphic witnesses to the Hebrew Bible from late antique Babylonia, the bowls are uniquely placed to contribute to research on the (oral) transmission of the biblical text in late antiquity; the pre-Masoretic Babylonian vocalisation tradition; the formation of the liturgy and the early development of the Jewish prayer...
Topics: 2CSA, HRCG, HRJ, JFSR1, LAN009010, REL006020, REL040010, PJ5208.A2, Cambridge Semitic Languages and...
Source: https://doi.org/10.11647/OBP.0305
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Sep 24, 2019
09/19
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Maria Manuel Lisboa
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In these powerful and stylishly written essays, Maria Manuel Lisboa dissects the work of Paula Rego, the Portuguese-born artist considered one of the greatest artists of modern times. Focusing primarily on Rego’s work since the 1980s, Lisboa explores the complex relationships between violence and nurturing, power and impotence, politics and the family that run through Rego’s art. Taking a historicist approach to the evolution of the artist’s work, Lisboa embeds the works within Rego’s...
Topics: AFC, JFFK, JPSL, VFVX, ART037000, POL007000, SOC010000, N7133.R44, Biography, Literature, Visual...
Source: https://doi.org/10.11647/OBP.0178
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Feb 26, 2016
02/16
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John Turri
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Language is a human universal reflecting our deeply social nature. Among its essential functions, language enables us to quickly and efficiently share information. We tell each other that many things are true—that is, we routinely make assertions. Information shared this way plays a critical role in the decisions and plans we make. In Knowledge and the Norm of Assertion, a distinguished philosopher and cognitive scientist investigates the rules or norms that structure our social practice of...
Topics: CFA, GTR, HPK, PHI004000, PHI038000, PSY008000, SCI090000, P95.55, Philosophy, Science, Science:...
Source: https://doi.org/10.11647/OBP.0083
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Jun 11, 2018
06/18
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Jan M. Ziolkowski
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This ambitious and vivid study in six volumes explores the journey of a single, electrifying story, from its first incarnation in a medieval French poem through its prolific rebirth in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. The Juggler of Notre Dame tells how an entertainer abandons the world to join a monastery, but is suspected of blasphemy after dancing his devotion before a statue of the Madonna in the crypt; he is saved when the statue, delighted by his skill, miraculously comes to life....
Topics: ACK, D, JFHF, LIT011000, LIT022000, LIT025040, PQ1534.T5, European Studies, European Studies:...
Source: https://doi.org/10.11647/OBP.0132
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Jul 22, 2021
07/21
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Craig Dworkin
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Part art history essay, part experimental fiction, part theoretical manifesto on the politics of equivalence, Helicography examines questions of scale in relation to Robert Smithson’s iconic 1970 artwork Spiral Jetty. In an essay and film made to accompany the earthwork, Smithson invites us to imagine the stone helix of his structure at various orders of magnitude, from microscopic molecules to entire galaxies. Taking up this invitation with an unrelenting and literal enthusiasm, Helicography...
Topics: ACXJ5, DCF, ART008000, POE023030, 6CK, Alfred Jarry, conceptual art, land art, pataphysics, Robert...
Source: https://doi.org/10.53288/0352.1.00
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Aug 1, 2012
08/12
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Franck Billé; Grégory Delaplace; Caroline Humphrey
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China and Russia are rising economic and political powers that share thousands of miles of border. Yet, despite their proximity, their practical, local interactions with each other — and with their third neighbour Mongolia — are rarely discussed. The three countries share a boundary, but their traditions, languages and worldviews are remarkably different. Frontier Encounters presents a wide range of views on how the borders between these unique countries are enacted, produced, and crossed....
Topics: JHMC, RGCP, HIS003000, POL011010, SOC002010, DS740.5.R8, Anthropology, Archaeology and Religion,...
Source: https://doi.org/10.11647/OBP.0026
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Apr 27, 2014
04/14
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Anthony Cross
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Over the course of more than three centuries of Romanov rule in Russia, foreign visitors and residents produced a vast corpus of literature conveying their experiences and impressions of the country. The product of years of painstaking research by one of the world’s foremost authorities on Anglo-Russian relations, In the Lands of the Romanovs is the realization of a major bibliographical project that records the details of over 1200 English-language accounts of the Russian Empire. Ranging...
Topics: 1DVUA, GBCR, WTL, REF004000, TRV023000, Z2508, European Studies, European Studies: Eastern European...
Source: https://doi.org/10.11647/OBP.0042
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Dec 21, 2016
12/16
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Ceciel Meiborg; Sjoerd van Tuinen
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In recent years the humanities, social sciences and neuroscience have witnessed an ‘affective turn,’ especially in discourses around post-Fordist labor, economic and ecological crises, populism and identity politics, mental health, and political struggle. This new awareness would be unthinkable without the pioneering work of Gilles Deleuze, who replaced judgment with affect as the very material movement of thought: every concept is an affective experience, a becoming. Besides entirely...
Topics: HPCF, affect studies, Gilles Deleuze, ontology, phenomenology, philosophy
Source: https://doi.org/10.21983/P3.0161.1.00
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Aug 18, 2022
08/22
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Catalin Taranu; Michael J. Kelly
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In his Historia Ecclesiastica Gentis Anglorum (circa 731 CE), Bede says that he will write his account of the past of the English following only vera lex historiae (the true law of history). Whether explicitly or implicitly, historians narrate the past according to conceptions of what constitutes historical truth that emerge in the use of narrative strategies, formulae, and other textual forms, in establishing one’s ideological authority or that of one’s informants, and in faithfulness to a...
Topics: 1D, 3F, HBLC1, HIS016000, HIS037010, 3KH, NHDJ, Bede, Early Middle Ages, historiography, Medieval...
Source: https://doi.org/10.53288/0369.1.00
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Dec 14, 2021
12/21
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Nick Posegay
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In the first few centuries of Islam, Middle Eastern Christians, Muslims, and Jews alike all faced the challenges of preserving their holy texts in the midst of a changing religious landscape. This situation led Syriac, Arabic, and Hebrew scholars to develop new fields of linguistic science in order to better analyse the languages of the Bible and the Qurʾān. Part of this work dealt with the issue of vocalisation in Semitic scripts, which lacked the letters required to precisely record all the...
Topics: CFF, CFP, LAN009010, REL006020, PJ5414, Cambridge Semitic Languages and Cultures, Linguistics,...
Source: https://doi.org/10.11647/OBP.0271
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Sep 8, 2022
09/22
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Peter Valente
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A Credible Utopia: Essays on Selected Films of Werner Schroeter offers unique and personal insights into Schroeter’s cinematic universe. Many of the films discussed in this book are those upon which Schroeter’s worldwide reputation rests: Der Bomberpilot, an absurdist comedy; The Death of Maria Malibran, a film about ecstatic redemption in death; Willow Springs, about the complex relationships between men and women; Day of the Idiots, a visually baroque, operatic and highly dramatic film...
Topics: APFA, APFB, ART009000, ART057000, ART066000, ATFA, ATFB, esthetics, film studies, German cinema,...
Source: https://doi.org/10.53288/0391.1.00
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Dec 6, 2022
12/22
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William J. Sutherland
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There are severe problems with the decision-making processes currently widely used, leading to ineffective use of evidence, faulty decisions, wasting of resources and the erosion of public and political support. In this book an international team of experts provide solutions. The transformation suggested includes rethinking how evidence is assessed, combined, communicated and used in decision-making; using effective methods when asking experts to make judgements (i.e. avoiding just asking an...
Topics: RND, RNKC, RNKH, NAT000000, NAT010000, NAT011000, SCI000000, SCI026000, S944.5.D42, Environmental...
Source: https://doi.org/10.11647/OBP.0321
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Aug 20, 2019
08/19
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Enrique Dussel; David I. Backer; Cecilia Diego
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Enrique Dussel is considered one of the founding philosophers of liberation in the Latin American tradition, an influential arm of what is now called decoloniality. While he is astoundingly prolific, relatively few of his works can be found in English translation — and none of these focus specifically on education. Founding members of the Latin American Philosophy of Education Society David I. Backer and Cecilia Diego bring to us Dussel’s The Pedagogics of Liberation: A Latin American...
Topics: 1KL, HBTR, JNA, EDU040000, PHI019000, 5PB-US-H, NHTR, Argentina, decoloniality, ethical philosophy,...
Source: https://doi.org/10.21983/P3.0257.1.00
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Jun 27, 2019
06/19
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Alexandre Borovik; Tony Gardiner
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It is increasingly clear that the shapes of reality – whether of the natural world, or of the built environment – are in some profound sense mathematical. Therefore it would benefit students and educated adults to understand what makes mathematics itself ‘tick’, and to appreciate why its shapes, patterns and formulae provide us with precisely the language we need to make sense of the world around us. The second part of this challenge may require some specialist experience, but the...
Topics: PB, PBK, PBM, PBT, YQM, MAT000000, MAT002000, MAT004000, MAT012000, QA39.3, Mathematics, Textbooks...
Source: https://doi.org/10.11647/OBP.0168
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Jan 9, 2018
01/18
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Martyn Hudson
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This book treads new paths through the labyrinths of our human thought. It meanders through the darkness to encounter the monsters at the heart of the maze: Minotaurs, Centaurs, Automata, Makers, Humans. One part of our human thought emerges from classical Ionia and Greek civilisation more generally. We obsessively return to that thought, tread again its pathways, re-enact its stories, repeat its motifs and gestures. We return time and time again to construct and re-construct the beings which...
Topics: HRKP3, ancient history, centaurs, classical literature, monsters, mythology
Source: https://doi.org/10.21983/P3.0192.1.00
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Nov 7, 2022
11/22
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Daniel J. Crowther; Aaron D. Hornkohl; Geoffrey Khan
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This volume brings together papers on topics relating to the transmission of the Hebrew Bible from Late Antiquity to the Early Modern period. We refer to this broadly in the title of the volume as the ‘Masoretic Tradition’. The papers are innovative studies of a range of aspects of this Masoretic tradition at various periods, many of them presenting hitherto unstudied primary sources. They focus on traditions of vocalisation signs and accent signs, traditions of oral reading, traditions of...
Topics: 2CSJ, CFF, HBTD, HRCG7, HRJS, FOR011000, LAN009010, LAN009050, LAN011000, REL006410, REL040030,...
Source: https://doi.org/10.11647/OBP.0330
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Oct 24, 2019
10/19
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Stephen Siklos
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This book is intended to help candidates prepare for entrance examinations in mathematics and scientific subjects, including STEP (Sixth Term Examination Paper). STEP is an examination used by Cambridge colleges as the basis for conditional offers. They are also used by Warwick University, and many other mathematics departments recommend that their applicants practice on the past papers even if they do not take the examination. 'Advanced Problems in Mathematics' is recommended as preparation...
Topics: PB, PBK, PBM, PBT, YQM, MAT000000, MAT002000, MAT004000, MAT012000, QA11.2, Mathematics, Textbooks...
Source: https://doi.org/10.11647/OBP.0181
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Jan 4, 2019
01/19
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Nico Jenkins
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Echoes of No Thing seeks to understand the space between thinking which Martin Heidegger and the 13th-century Zen patriarch Eihei Dōgen explore in their writing and teachings. Heidegger most clearly attempts this in Contributions to Philosophy (of the Event) and Dōgen in his Shōbōgenzō, a collection of fascicles which he compiled in his lifetime. Both thinkers draw us towards thinking, instead of merely defining systems of thought. Both Heidegger and Dōgen imagine possibilities not...
Topics: HPDF, PHI018000, PHI028000, Asian philosophy, comparative philosophy, continental philosophy, Eihei...
Source: https://doi.org/10.21983/P3.0239.1.00
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Dec 5, 2012
12/12
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Lauren Berlant
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“There is nothing more alienating than having your pleasures disputed by someone with a theory,” writes Lauren Berlant. Yet the ways in which we live sexuality and intimacy have been profoundly shaped by theories — especially psychoanalytic ones, which have helped to place sexuality and desire at the center of the modern story about what a person is and how her history should be read. At the same time, other modes of explanation have been offered by popular and mass culture. In these...
Topics: JFSJ, SOC032000, SOC064000, JBSF, JBSJ, desire, fantasy, love, psychoanalysis, sexuality
Source: https://doi.org/10.21983/P3.0015.1.00
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Dec 31, 2018
12/18
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Jonathan Goldberg
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In Sappho, Jonathan Goldberg takes as his model the fragmentary state in which this sublime poet’s writing survives, a set of compositional and theoretical resources for living and thinking in more fully erotic ways in the present and the future. This book thus offers fragmentary commentary on disparate (Sapphic) works, such as the comics of Alison Bechdel, the paintings and cartoons of Leonardo da Vinci, Robert Reid-Pharr’s “Living as a Lesbian,” Madeleine de Scudéry’s Histoire de...
Topics: DSBB, ancient Greece, classical literature, gay poetry, lesbian poetry, queer studies, Sappho,...
Source: https://doi.org/10.21983/P3.0238.1.00
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Jun 20, 2011
06/11
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Amartya Sen
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Recent acts of terrorism and the current unrest in the Middle East remind us how important it is to understand the relationship between violence, peace and democracy. In a challenging and insightful essay, Amartya Sen explores ideas around 'organised violence' (such as war, genocide and terrorism) and violence against the individual. Highlighting the inadequacies of some of the widely accepted explanations for violence—including the idea that the world is experiencing a 'clash of...
Topics: JPA, JPV, POL003000, POL035000, SOC051000, JZ5538, Economics, Politics and Sociology, Amartya Sen,...
Source: https://doi.org/10.11647/OBP.0014
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Jul 20, 2019
07/19
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James E. Dobson; Rena J. Mosteirin
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Moonbit is a hybrid work comprised of experimental poetry and a critical theory of the poetics and politics of computer code. It offers an extended intellectual and creative engagement with the affordances of computer software through multiple readings and re-writings of a singular text, the source code of the Apollo 11 Guidance Computer or the “AGC.” Moonbit re-marks and remixes the code that made space travel possible. Half of this book is erasure poetry that uses the AGC code as the...
Topics: DCF, TTDS, POE005010, SCI098020, DCC, TTDX, Apollo Mission, computer code, cultural theory, digital...
Source: https://doi.org/10.21983/P3.0260.1.00
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Nov 13, 2014
11/14
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Jeffrey Skoblow
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In a Trance is just the sort of genre-defying work we at Peanut and punctum and, as it happens, Jeffrey Skoblow, revel in. It is a book-length essay by a fiction writer. It is a fictional essay by a literary scholar. It is a gallant assay by a smart man who thinks while he walks, and he walks a lot. The book is a meta-meditation on Paleolithic cave drawings and the humans who ponder them. It is fact-based and entrancing just as the cave drawings are actual (existing in time — loosely — and...
Topics: ACC, art history, cave paintings, cultural studies, paleolithic art, posthumanism
Source: https://doi.org/10.21983/P3.0081.1.00
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Feb 20, 2018
02/18
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Hans-Walter Gabler
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This collection of essays from world-renowned scholar Hans Walter Gabler contains writings from a decade and a half of retirement spent in exploration of textual criticism, genetic criticism, and literary criticism. In these sixteen stimulating contributions, he develops theories of textual criticism and editing that are inflected by our advance into the digital era; structurally analyses arts of composition in literature as well as music; and traces the cultural implications discernible in...
Topics: DS, DSK, U, COM087000, LIT004130, LIT024000, P47, Digital Humanities, European Studies, Literature,...
Source: https://doi.org/10.11647/OBP.0120
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Jun 30, 2022
06/22
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Geoffrey Khan; Dorota Molin; Masoud Mohammadirad; Paul M. Noorlander
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This comparative anthology showcases the rich and mutually intertwined folklore of three ethno-religious communities from northern Iraq: Aramaic-speaking (‘Syriac’) Christians, Kurdish Muslims and—to a lesser extent—Aramaic-speaking Jews. The first volume contains several introductory chapters on language, folkore motifs and narrative style, followed by samples of glossed texts in each language variety. The second volume is the anthology proper, presenting folklore narratives in several...
Topics: 1FBQ, 2BXK, 2CSA, CFF, CFP, JFHF, HIS026030, LAN009010, SOC011000, GR295.I7, Cambridge Semitic...
Source: https://doi.org/10.11647/OBP.0306
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Jul 31, 2019
07/19
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Erik Ringmar
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Existing textbooks on international relations treat history in a cursory fashion and perpetuate a Euro-centric perspective. This textbook pioneers a new approach by historicizing the material traditionally taught in International Relations courses, and by explicitly focusing on non-European cases, debates and issues. The volume is divided into three parts. The first part focuses on the international systems that traditionally existed in Europe, East Asia, pre-Columbian Central and South...
Topics: H, HB, EDU016000, HIS000000, HIS037000, HIS039000, HIS054000, JZ1305, Economics, Politics and...
Source: https://doi.org/10.11647/OBP.0074
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Jul 25, 2018
07/18
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Jan M. Ziolkowski
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This ambitious and vivid study in six volumes explores the journey of a single, electrifying story, from its first incarnation in a medieval French poem through its prolific rebirth in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. The Juggler of Notre Dame tells how an entertainer abandons the world to join a monastery, but is suspected of blasphemy after dancing his devotion before a statue of the Madonna in the crypt; he is saved when the statue, delighted by his skill, miraculously comes to life....
Topics: ACK, D, JFHF, LIT011000, LIT022000, LIT025040, PQ1534.T5, European Studies, European Studies:...
Source: https://doi.org/10.11647/OBP.0143
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Feb 16, 2016
02/16
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Ruti Sela Maayan Amir
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The concept of extraterritoriality designates certain relationships between space, law, and representation. This collection of essays explores contemporary manifestations of extraterritoriality and the diverse ways in which the concept has been put to use in various disciplines. Some of the essays were written especially for this volume; others are brought here together for the first time. The inquiry into extraterritoriality found in these essays is not confined to the established boundaries...
Topics: JFC, architecture, cultural studies, extraterritoriality, geography
Source: https://doi.org/10.21983/P3.0131.1.00
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Nov 25, 2019
11/19
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Alfie Bown; Dan Bristow
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Art-form, send-up, farce, ironic disarticulation, pastiche, propaganda, trololololol, mode of critique, mode of production, means of politicisation, even of subjectivation -- memes are the inner currency of the internet’s circulatory system. Independent of any one set value, memes are famously the mode of conveyance for the alt-right, the irony left, and the apoliticos alike, and they are impervious to many economic valuations: the attempts made in co-opting their discourse in advertising...
Topics: JFD, SOC052000, JBCT1, Digital Humanities, internet culture, media studies, memes, popular culture,...
Source: https://doi.org/10.21983/P3.0255.1.00
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Aug 1, 2014
08/14
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John W. Carroll
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Is time travel just a confusing plot device deployed by science fiction authors and Hollywood filmmakers to amaze and amuse? Or might empirical data prompt a scientific hypothesis of time travel? Structured on a fascinating dialogue involving a distinguished physicist, Dr. Rufus, a physics graduate student and a computer scientist this book probes an experimentally supported hypothesis of backwards time travel – and in so doing addresses key metaphysical issues, such as causation, identity...
Topics: HPJ, PGZ, PH, PHI013000, SCI066000, BD638, Philosophy, Branching time, Causal loop, Paradox,...
Source: https://doi.org/10.11647/OBP.0043
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Feb 25, 2014
02/14
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Marina Zurkow
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The Petroleum Manga, first conceived of and rendered as 10-foot banners printed on Tyvek for gallery installation is now reproduced in book form. Originally, manga was used in Japanese to refer to whimsical drawings or picture books. Long before manga was a multi-billion-dollar-a-year comic book industry, there was Hokusai’s thirteen-volume manga, depicting everything from trees to demons, from squirrels to shingles. This was the work that inspired the form for Marina Zurkow’s own crazy...
Topics: AKLB, CGN004050, THFP, XQA, ecology, illustration, manga, nature, petroleum, philosophy, poetry
Source: https://doi.org/10.21983/P3.0062.1.00
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May 19, 2020
05/20
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Shai Heijmans
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This volume presents a collection of articles centring on the language of the Mishnah and the Talmud – the most important Jewish texts (after the Bible), which were compiled in Palestine and Babylonia in the latter centuries of Late Antiquity. Despite the fact that Rabbinic Hebrew has been the subject of growing academic interest across the past century, very little scholarship has been written on it in English. Studies in Rabbinic Hebrew addresses this lacuna, with eight lucid but...
Topics: CFF, CFP, HRCG, LAN009010, REL006020, PJ4908, Cambridge Semitic Languages and Cultures,...
Source: https://doi.org/10.11647/OBP.0164
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Jun 30, 2014
06/14
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Joseph Nechvatal
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Minóy is a rescue operation with several life rafts. Minóy-the-book provides an introduction and overview to the important noise music artist Minóy — the pseudonym of American electronic art musician and sound artist Stanley Keith Bowsza (1951-2010). Minóy’s audio compositions, often conjuring up an enigmatic world of almost dreadful depth, earned him a key position in the homemade independent cassette culture scene of the 1980s. Minóy-the-CD (available HERE) makes available nine of...
Topics: HPN, aesthetics, cassette culture, cultural studies, music, noise art
Source: https://doi.org/10.21983/P3.0072.1.00
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Jun 27, 2016
06/16
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David John Brennan
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In 1798, William Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor Coleridge were engaged in a top secret experiment. This was not, as many assume, the creation of a book of poetry. A book emerged, to be sure—the landmark Lyrical Ballads. But in Murder Ballads, David John Brennan posits that the two poets were in fact pursuing far different ends: to birth from their poems a singular, idealized Poet. Despite their success, such Frankensteinian pursuits proved rife with consequence for the men. Doubts and questions...
Topics: DSC, criticism, experimental poetry, plays, poetry, Wordsworth
Source: https://doi.org/10.21983/P3.0145.1.00
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Jul 9, 2021
07/21
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Pascal Boyer
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This volume brings together a collection of seven articles previously published by the author, with a new introduction reframing the articles in the context of past and present questions in anthropology, psychology and human evolution. It promotes the perspective of ‘integrated’ social science, in which social science questions are addressed in a deliberately eclectic manner, combining results and models from evolutionary biology, experimental psychology, economics, anthropology and...
Topics: JH, JHM, JHMC, PSA, SCI080000, SCI086000, SOC002000, SOC002010, SOC002020, GN502, Anthropology,...
Source: https://doi.org/10.11647/OBP.0257
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Jul 21, 2022
07/22
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Floris Schönfeld; Kees Ligtelijn; Vincent W.J. van Gerven Oei; David Yonge-Mallo; Marc Okrand
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paq’batlh: The Klingon Epic is the definitive edition of the grand Klingon epic of Kahless the Unforgettable (qeylIS lIjlaHbogh pagh). The story of Kahless is a tale of legendary proportions comparable to those of ancient heroes Hercules, Ulysses, and Gilgamesh. Betrayed by his brother and witness to his father’s brutal slaying, Kahless is pitted against his bitter enemy, the mighty tyrant Molor. To regain his honor he must travel into the Underworld, create the first bat’leth, and unite...
Topics: 2ZX, FLS, DRA006000, POE014000, conlang, epic literature, Kahless the Unforgettable, Klingon,...
Source: https://doi.org/10.53288/0345.1.00
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Feb 12, 2016
02/16
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Nachoem M. Wijnberg; Vincent W.J. van Gerven Oei
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The Jews is an anti-historical thriller in the form of a Talmudic tragicomedy, taking place sometime during the Second World War. Stalin and his Minister of Security Beria are worried about the political developments in Germany, where Martin Heidegger has replaced Adolf Hitler as Chancellor of the Third Reich. Suspecting that the Frankfurt School, headed by Vice-Chancellor Walter Benjamin, has masterminded this takeover, he dispatches two Jewish actors, Salomon Maimon and Natalia Goncharova, to...
Topics: FA, FIC112000, 5PGJ, FD, fiction, holocaust, Jewish studies, Martin Heidegger, Walter Benjamin
Source: https://doi.org/10.21983/P3.0129.1.00
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Dec 22, 2022
12/22
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M.H. Bowker
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The Angels Won’t Help You is a book about the uniqueness and primacy of help, particularly in relation to care, love, and caritas. It relies heavily on psychoanalytic and philosophical accounts of help and care and finds that help requires the establishment of a real relationship between persons, where help is given and received in a transitional space that is collapsed by care, unity, or love, which are mental constellations that, while profound, remain within the individuals involved. It...
Topics: HPQ, JMAF, PSY017000, PSY026000, QDTQ, care, cultural studies, help, hikikomori, philosophy,...
Source: https://doi.org/10.53288/0388.1.00
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Apr 20, 2015
04/15
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Mikuláš Teich
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The Scientific Revolution Revisited brings Mikuláš Teich back to the great movement of thought and action that transformed European science and society in the seventeenth century. Drawing on a lifetime of scholarly experience in six penetrating chapters, Teich examines the ways of investigating and understanding nature that matured during the late Middle Ages and the Renaissance, charting their progress towards science as we now know it and insisting on the essential interpenetration of such...
Topics: HBJD, HBTB, PDX, HIS010000, HIS054000, SCI034000, Q125.2, Economics, Politics and Sociology,...
Source: https://doi.org/10.11647/OBP.0054
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Nov 30, 2022
11/22
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Marcel Cobussen
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'Engaging With Everyday Sounds' is a rich and inspiring exploration of the role of sounds in everyday life, including their impact on human actions, emotions, and imagination. Marcel Cobussen intertwines sonic studies with philosophy, sound art, sociology and more to create an impressively lucid and innovative guide to sonic materialism, calling for a re-sensitization to our acoustic environment and arguing that everyday sounds have (micro)political, social, and ethical impact to which we...
Topics: AVA, HPS, HPX, JHMC, TTA, MUS020000, MUS054000, TEC001000, Economics, Politics and Sociology, Media...
Source: https://doi.org/10.11647/OBP.0288
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Aug 31, 2018
08/18
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Jan M. Ziolkowski
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This ambitious and vivid study in six volumes explores the journey of a single, electrifying story, from its first incarnation in a medieval French poem through its prolific rebirth in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. The Juggler of Notre Dame tells how an entertainer abandons the world to join a monastery, but is suspected of blasphemy after dancing his devotion before a statue of the Madonna in the crypt; he is saved when the statue, delighted by his skill, miraculously comes to life....
Topics: ACK, AMX, D, FW, JFHF, ARC005070, LIT011000, LIT022000, LIT025040, PQ1534.T5, European Studies,...
Source: https://doi.org/10.11647/OBP.0146
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