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Long Narrative Songs from the Mongghul of Northeast Tibet: Texts in Mongghul, Chinese, and English
Open Book PublishersContaining ballads of martial heroism, tales of tragic lovers and visions of the nature of the world, Long Narrative Songs from the Mongghul of Northeast Tibet: Texts in Mongghul,...
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Terrestrial Mammal Conservation: Global Evidence for the Effects of Interventions for Terrestrial Mammals Excluding Bats and Primates
Sutherland, William J.; Littlewood, Nick A.; Rocha, Ricardo; K. Smith, Rebecca; Martin, Philip A.; Lockhart, Sarah L.; Schoonover, Rebecca F.; Wilman, Elspeth; Bladon, Andrew J.; Sainsbury, Katie A.; POpen Book PublishersTerrestrial Mammal Conservation provides a thorough summary of the available scientific evidence of what is known, or not known, about the effectiveness of all of the conservation...
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What Works in Conservation 2020
Open Book PublishersIs reduced tillage in arable fields beneficial for farmland biodiversity? Is prescribed burning in grasslands beneficial for bird conservation?Does livestock exclusion from degrade...
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The Juggler of Notre Dame and the Medievalizing of Modernity. Volume 4: Picture That: Making a Show of the Jongleur
Ziolkowski, Jan M.Open Book PublishersThis 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 rebirt...
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Conservation Biology in Sub-Saharan Africa
Wilson, Johnny W.; Primack, RichardOpen Book PublishersEasy to read, this lucid and accessible textbook includes fifteen chapters that cover a full range of conservation topics, including threats to biodiversity, environmental laws, an...
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Arab Media Systems
Open Book PublishersThis volume provides a comparative analysis of media systems in the Arab world, based on criteria informed by the historical, political, social, and economic factors influencing a...
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Romanticism and Time: Literary Temporalities
Open Book Publishers‘Eternity is in love with the productions of time’. This original edited volume takes William Blake’s aphorism as a basis to explore how British Romantic literature creates its own...
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What is Authorial Philology?
Open Book PublishersA stark departure from traditional philology, What is Authorial Philology? is the first comprehensive treatment of authorial philology as a discipline in its own right. It provides...
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Like Nobody's Business: An Insider's Guide to How US University Finances Really Work
Comrie, Andrew C.Open Book PublishersHow do university finances really work? From flagship public research universities to small, private liberal arts colleges, there are few aspects of these institutions associated w...
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Jane Austen: Reflections of a Reader
Bartlett, NoraOpen Book PublishersThis exhilarating collection of essays is the product of a lifetime's engagement with Jane Austen's writing. They are modest, searching, wonderfully perceptive essays from which al...
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'The Philosophes' by Charles Palissot
Open Book PublishersIn 1760, the French playwright Charles Palissot de Montenoy wrote Les Philosophes – a scandalous farcical comedy about a group of opportunistic self-styled philosophers. Les Philos...
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The Marvels Found in the Great Cities and in the Seas and on the Islands: A Representative of ‘Aga’ib Literature in Syriac
Minov, SergeyOpen Book PublishersThis volume presents the original text, accompanied by an English translation and commentary, of a hitherto unpublished Syriac composition, entitled the Marvels Found in the Great...
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Studies in the Grammar and Lexicon of Neo-Aramaic
Open Book PublishersThe Neo-Aramaic dialects are modern vernacular forms of Aramaic, which has a documented history in the Middle East of over 3,000 years. Due to upheavals in the Middle East over the...
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Acoustemologies in Contact: Sounding Subjects and Modes of Listening in Early Modernity
Open Book PublishersIn this fascinating collection of essays, an international group of scholars explores the sonic consequences of transcultural contact in the early modern period. They examine how c...
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Photography in the Third Reich: Art, Physiognomy and Propaganda
Open Book PublishersThis lucid and comprehensive collection of essays by an international group of scholars constitutes a photo-historical survey of select photographers who embraced National Socialis...
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The Image of Africa in Ghana's Press: The Influence of Global News Organisations
Serwornoo, MichaelOpen Book PublishersThe Image of Africa in Ghana’s Press is a comprehensive and highly analytical study of the impact of foreign news organisations on the creation of an image of Africa in its own pre...
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Mendl Mann’s 'The Fall of Berlin'
Mann, MendlOpen Book PublishersMendl Mann’s autobiographical novel The Fall of Berlin tells the painful yet compelling story of life as a Jewish soldier in the Red Army. Menakhem Isaacovich is a Polish Jew who,...
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Global Warming in Local Discourses: How Communities around the World Make Sense of Climate Change
Open Book PublishersGlobal news on anthropogenic climate change is shaped by international politics, scientific reports and voices from transnational protest movements. This timely volume asks how loc...
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Plato's 'Republic': An Introduction
McAleer, SeanOpen Book PublishersIt is an excellent book – highly intelligent, interesting and original. Expressing high philosophy in a readable form without trivialising it is a very difficult task and McAleer...
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Making up Numbers: A History of Invention in Mathematics
Kopp, EkkehardOpen Book PublishersMaking up Numbers: A History of Invention in Mathematics offers a detailed but accessible account of a wide range of mathematical ideas. Starting with elementary concepts, it leads...