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The Pogroms in Ukraine, 1918-19: Prelude to the Holocaust
Shtif, NokhemOpen Book PublishersBetween 1918 and 1921 an estimated 100,000 Jewish people were killed, maimed or tortured in pogroms in Ukraine. Hundreds of Jewish communities were burned to the ground and hundred...
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The Essence of Mathematics Through Elementary Problems
Gardiner, Tony; Borovik, AlexandreOpen Book PublishersIt 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 benefi...
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Social Media in Higher Education:Case Studies, Reflections and Analysis
Open Book PublishersHow does social media affect working life in Higher Education? How are universities harnessing its power to aid student learning? This innovative collection brings together academi...
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Love and Intrigue
Schiller, FriedrichOpen Book PublishersSchiller’s play Kabale und Liebe, usually translated into English as Love and Intrigue, represents the disastrous consequences that follow when social constraint, youthful passion...
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Tennyson’s Poems: New Textual Parallels
Winnick, R. H.Open Book PublishersIn Tennyson’s Poems: New Textual Parallels, R. H. Winnick identifies more than a thousand previously unknown instances in which Tennyson phrases of two or three to as many as sever...
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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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From Darkness to Light: Writers in Museums 1798-1898
Open Book PublishersFrom Darkness to Light explores from a variety of angles the subject of museum lighting in exhibition spaces in America, Japan, and Western Europe throughout the nineteenth and twe...
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Whose Book Is it Anyway? A View from Elsewhere on Publishing, Copyright and Creativity
Jefferiess, Janis; Kember, SarahOpen Book PublishersWhose Book is it Anyway? is a provocative collection of essays that opens out the copyright debate to questions of open access, ethics, and creativity. It includes views – such as...
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A Fleet Street in Every Town: The Provincial Press in England, 1855-1900
Hobbs, AndrewOpen Book PublishersAt the heart of Victorian culture was the local weekly newspaper. More popular than books, more widely read than the London papers, the local press was a national phenomenon. This...
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Delivering on the Promise of Democracy. Visual Case Studies in Educational Equity and Transformation
Jhaj, SukhwantOpen Book PublishersMany educators can recite the faults of their schools or universities, but far fewer can recognize and develop existing strengths to benefit a wider audience. Sukhwant Jhaj has cra...
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The Juggler of Notre Dame and the Medievalizing of Modernity. Volume 6: War and Peace, Sex and Violence
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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Life Histories of Etnos Theory in Russia and Beyond
Open Book PublishersThe idea of etnos came into being over a hundred years ago as a way of understanding the collective identities of people with a common language and shared traditions. In the twenti...
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Hyperion, or the Hermit in Greece
Hölderlin, FriedrichOpen Book PublishersFriedrich Hölderlin’s only novel, Hyperion (1797–99), is a fictional epistolary autobiography that juxtaposes narration with critical reflection. Returning to Greece after German e...
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Hanging on to the Edges: Essays on Science, Society and the Academic Life
Nettle, DanielOpen Book PublishersWhat does it mean to be a scientist working today; specifically, a scientist whose subject matter is human life? Scientists often overstate their claim to certainty, sorting the wo...
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The Juggler of Notre Dame and the Medievalizing of Modernity. Volume 5: Tumbling into the Twentieth Century
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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The Life and Letters of William Sharp and "Fiona Macleod". Volume 1: 1855-1894
Halloran, William F.Open Book PublishersWilliam Sharp (1855-1905) conducted one of the most audacious literary deceptions of his or any time. Sharp was a Scottish poet, novelist, biographer and editor who in 1893 began t...
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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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With and Without Galton: Vasilii Florinskii and the Fate of Eugenics in Russia
Krementsov, NikolaiOpen Book PublishersIn 1865, British polymath Francis Galton published his initial thoughts about the scientific field that would become ‘eugenics.’ The same year, Russian physician Vasilii Florinskii...
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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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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...