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Cicero, Philippic 2, 44–50, 78–92, 100–119. Latin Text, Study Aids with Vocabulary, and Commentary
Gildenhard, IngoOpen Book PublishersCicero composed his incendiary Philippics only a few months after Rome was rocked by the brutal assassination of Julius Caesar. In the tumultuous aftermath of Caesar’s death, Cic...
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An Anglo-Norman Reader
Bliss, JaneOpen Book PublishersThis book is an anthology with a difference. It presents a distinctive variety of Anglo-Norman works, beginning in the twelfth century and ending in the nineteenth, covering a broa...
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Human and Machine Consciousness
Gamez, DavidOpen Book PublishersConsciousness 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 betw...
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Mobilities, Boundaries, and Travelling Ideas: Rethinking Translocality Beyond Central Asia and the Caucasus
Open Book PublishersThis collection brings together a variety of anthropological, historical and sociological case studies from Central Asia and the Caucasus to examine the concept of translocality. T...
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Remote Capture: Digitising Documentary Heritage in Challenging Locations
Open Book PublishersThis is a must-read how-to guide if you are planning to embark on a scholarly digitisation project. Tailored to the specifications of the British Library’s EAP (Endangered Archives...
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Tales of Darkness and Light: Soso Tham's The Old Days of the Khasis
Tham, SosoOpen Book PublishersSoso Tham (1873–1940), the acknowledged poet laureate of the Khasis of northeastern India, was one of the first writers to give written poetic form to the rich oral tradition of hi...
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Text Genetics in Literary Modernism and Other Essays
Gabler, Hans WalterOpen Book PublishersThis collection of essays from world-renowned scholar Hans Walter Gabler contains writings from a decade and a half of retirement spent exploring textual criticism, genetic critici...
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The Red Countess: Select Autobiographical and Fictional Writing of Hermynia Zur Mühlen (1883-1951)
Zur Mühlen, HermyniaOpen Book PublishersBorn into a distinguished aristocratic family of the old Habsburg Empire, Hermynia Zur Mühlen spent much of her childhood and early youth travelling in Europe and North Africa with...
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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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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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Advanced Problems in Mathematics: Preparing for University
Siklos, StephenOpen Book PublishersThis book is intended to help students prepare for entrance examinations in mathematics and scientific subjects, including STEP (Sixth Term Examination Papers). STEP examinations a...
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Advanced Problems in Mathematics: Preparing for University
Siklos, StephenOpen Book PublishersThis book is intended to help candidates prepare for entrance examinations in mathematics and scientific subjects, including STEP (Sixth Term Examination Paper). STEP is an examina...
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Agency: Moral Identity and Free Will
Weissman, DavidOpen Book PublishersThere is agency in all we do: thinking, doing, or making. We invent a tune, play, or use it to celebrate an occasion. Or we make a conceptual leap and ask more abstract questions...
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The Anglo-Scottish Ballad and its Imaginary Contexts
Atkinson, DavidOpen Book PublishersThis is the first book to combine contemporary debates in ballad studies with the insights of modern textual scholarship. Just like canonical literature and music, the ballad shoul...
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Animals and Medicine: The Contribution of Animal Experiments to the Control of Disease
Botting, JackOpen Book PublishersAnimals and Medicine: The Contribution of Animal Experiments to the Control of Disease offers a detailed, scholarly historical review of the critical role animal experiments have p...
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Annunciations: Sacred Music for the Twenty-First Century
Corbett, GeorgeOpen Book PublishersOur contemporary culture is communicating ever-increasingly through the visual, through film, and through music. This makes it ever more urgent for theologians to explore the resou...
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ANZUS and the Early Cold War: Strategy and Diplomacy Between Australia, New Zealand and the United States, 1945-1956
Kelly, AndrewOpen Book PublishersThe ANZUS Alliance was a defence arrangement between Australia, New Zealand and the United States that shaped international policy in the aftermath of the Second World War and the...
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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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The Atheist's Bible: Diderot's 'Éléments de physiologie'
Warman, CarolineOpen Book Publishers‘Love is harder to explain than hunger, for a piece of fruit does not feel the desire to be eaten’: Denis Diderot’s Éléments de physiologie presents a world in flux, turning on the...
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B C, Before Computers: On Information Technology from Writing to the Age of Digital Data
Robertson, StephenOpen Book PublishersThe 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 R...