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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...
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Maria Stuart
Schiller, FriedrichOpen Book PublishersMaria Stuart, described as Schiller’s most perfect play, is a finely balanced, inventive account of the last day of the captive Queen of Scotland, caught up in a great contest fo...
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Introducing Vigilant Audiences
Open Book PublishersThis ground-breaking collection of essays examines the scope and consequences of digital vigilantism – a phenomenon emerging on a global scale, which sees digital audiences using s...
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Waltzing Through Europe: Attitudes towards Couple Dances in the Long Nineteenth-Century
Bakka, Egil; Buckland, Theresa Jill; Saarikoski, Helena; Bibra Wharton, Anne vonOpen Book PublishersFrom ‘folk devils’ to ballroom dancers, Waltzing Through Europe explores the changing reception of fashionable couple dances in Europe from the eighteenth century onwards. A refres...
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The Life and Letters of William Sharp and "Fiona Macleod". Volume 3: 1900-1905
Halloran, William F.Open Book PublishersWhat an achievement! It is a major work. The letters taken together with the excellent introductory sections - so balanced and judicious and informative - what emerges is an amazin...
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Liminal Spaces: Migration and Women of the Guyanese Diaspora
Open Book PublishersLiminal Spaces is an intimate exploration into the migration narratives of fifteen women of Guyanese heritage. It spans diverse inter-generational perspectives – from those who lea...
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The Bavarian Commentary and Ovid: Clm 4610, The Earliest Documented Commentary on the Metamorphoses
Böckerman, Robin WahlstenOpen Book PublishersThe Bavarian Commentary and Ovid is the first complete critical edition and translation of the earliest preserved commentary on Ovid’s Metamorphoses. Today, Ovid’s famous work is o...
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Chronicles from Kashmir: An Annotated, Multimedia Script
Dinesh, NanditaOpen Book Publishers‘What is happening in Kashmir?’ Chronicles from Kashmir explores this question through a site-adaptive 24-hour theatrical performance. Developed between 2013 and 2018 by the Ensemb...
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A Lexicon of Medieval Nordic Law
Love, Jeffrey; Larsson, Inger; Djärv, Ulrika; Peel, Christine; Simensen, ErikOpen Book PublishersThis volume is an indispensable resource for scholars and students of medieval Scandinavia. This polyglot dictionary draws on the vast and vibrant range of vernacular legal termino...
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Simplified Signs: A Manual Sign-Communication System for Special Populations, Volume 1.
Bonvillian, John D.; Lee, Nicole Kissane; Dooley, Tracy T.; Loncke, Filip T.Open Book PublishersSimplified Signs presents a system of manual sign communication intended for special populations who have had limited success mastering spoken or full sign languages. It is the cul...
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Simplified Signs: A Manual Sign-Communication System for Special Populations, Volume 2.
Bonvillian, John D.; Lee, Nicole Kissane; Dooley, Tracy T.; Loncke, Filip T.Open Book PublishersSimplified Signs presents a system of manual sign communication intended for special populations who have had limited success mastering spoken or full sign languages. It is the cul...
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Jewish-Muslim Intellectual History Entangled: Textual Materials from the Firkovitch Collection, Saint Petersburg
Open Book PublishersJewish-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...
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Sailing from Polis to Empire: Ships in the Eastern Mediterranean during the Hellenistic Period
Open Book PublishersWhat can the architecture of ancient ships tell us about their capacity to carry cargo or to navigate certain trade routes? How do such insights inform our knowledge of the ancie...
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Discourses We Live By: Narratives of Educational and Social Endeavour
Open Book PublishersWhat are the influences that govern how people view their worlds? What are the embedded values and practices that underpin the ways people think and act? Discourses We Live By appr...
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A European Public Investment Outlook
Open Book PublishersThis outlook provides a focused assessment of the state of public capital in the major European countries and identifies areas where public investment could contribute more to stab...
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Studies in Semitic Vocalisation and Reading Traditions
Open Book PublishersThis volume brings together papers relating to the pronunciation of Semitic languages and the representation of their pronunciation in written form. The papers focus on sources rep...
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Creative Multilingualism: A Manifesto
Open Book PublishersMultilingualism is integral to the human condition. Hinging on the concept of Creative Multilingualism – the idea that language diversity and creativity are mutually enriching – th...
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Living Earth Community: Multiple Ways of Being and Knowing
Open Book PublishersLiving Earth Community: Multiple Ways of Being and Knowing is a celebration of the diversity of ways in which humans can relate to the world around them, and an invitation to its r...
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Studies in Rabbinic Hebrew
Open Book PublishersThis 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 Pal...