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How Divine Images Became Art tells the story of the parallel 'discovery' of Russian medieval art and of the Italian 'primitives' at the beginning of the twentieth century. While these two...

How Divine Images Became Art tells the story of the parallel 'discovery' of Russian medieval art and of the Italian 'primitives' at the beginning of the twentieth century. While these two...

How to Read a Folktale offers the first English translation of Ibonia, a spellbinding tale of old Madagascar. Ibonia is a folktale on epic scale. Much of its plot sounds familiar: a powerful royal...

Human Evolutionary DemographyAuthor: Oskar Burger, Ronald Lee, Rebecca SearPublisher: Open Book PublishersPublication Date: Jun 14, 2024Number of Pages: NA pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding:...

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...

Paradoxes, such as the Liar ('What I am saying is false'), fascinated medieval thinkers. What I said can't be true, for if it were, it would be false. So it must be false-but then it would be true...

The fifth volume in the European Public Investment Outlook series explores how Europe can drive structural transformation through strategic public investment. Reflecting on the lessons from the...

It is fashionable to criticize economic theory for focusing too much on rationality and ignoring the imperfect and emotional way in which real economic decisions are reached. All of us facing the...

For his fifteenth-century followers, Jesus was everywhere - from baptism to bloodcults to bowling. This sweeping and unconventional investigation looks at Jesus across one hundred forty years of...

In this book the author argues for a groundbreaking perspective that knowledge is inherently interest-relative. This means that what one knows is influenced not just by belief, evidence, and truth,...

Learning Statistics with Jamovi: A Tutorial for Beginners in Statistical AnalysisAuthor: Danielle NavarroPublisher: Open Book PublishersPublication Date: Jan 15, 2025Number of Pages: 492...

Les Bienveillantes de Jonathan Littell a cr?? l'?v?nement de la rentr?e litt?raire ?tudes r?unies par 2006 en France ? sa publication. Selon l'auteur, la port?e du roman d?passe le seul g?nocide des...

This collection brings together for the first time select works in English by the major Swedish modernist poet and critic G?ran Printz-P?hlson. It was Printz-P?hlson who introduced poetic modernism...

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...

Meta-Xenakis offers readers a comprehensive collection of insights into the history, works and legacy of Iannis Xenakis, one of the twentieth century's most significant creative figures. It presents...

What do we expect when we say something to someone, and what do they expect when they hear it? When is a conversation successful? The book considers a wide set of two-person conversations, and a bit...

This volume presents an exploration of Digital Humanities (DH), a field focused on the reciprocal transformation of digital technologies and humanities scholarship. Central to DH research is the...

This volume traces the life, thought and work of Ralph Waldo Emerson, a giant of American intellectual history, whose transforming ideas greatly strengthened the two leading reform issues of his day:...

The normalisation of hate speech, including antisemitic rhetoric, poses a significant threat to social cohesion and democracy. While global efforts have been made to counter contemporary...

Japan was the first non-Western nation to compete with the Western powers at their own game. The country's rise to a major player on the stage of Western music has been equally spectacular. The...

The letters and journals of Ernst Moritz ('Mope') and Vera Hirsch Felsenstein, two German Jewish refugees experiencing the tumultuous years leading up to the Second World War, form the core of this...

The letters and journals of Ernst Moritz ('Mope') and Vera Hirsch Felsenstein, two German Jewish refugees experiencing the tumultuous years leading up to the Second World War, form the core of this...

While current economic theory focuses on prices and games, this book models economic settings where harmony is established through one of the following societal conventions: -A power relation...

While current economic theory focuses on prices and games, this book models economic settings where harmony is established through one of the following societal conventions: - A power relation...

Edited by Lionel Gossman, this volume contains three programmatic essays by Michelet. The first two are available here for the first time in English translation. The third, the Preface to the 1869...

Ruth Finnegan's Oral Literature in Africa was first published in 1970, and since then has been widely praised as one of the most important books in its field. Based on years of fieldwork, the study...

Thanks to ever-greater digital connectivity, interest in oral traditions has grown beyond that of researcher and research subject to include a widening pool of global users. When new publics consume,...

Recent acts of terrorism and the pro-democracy unrest in the Middle East remind us how important it is to understand the relationship between violence, peace and democracy. In a challenging and...

Our contemporary world is undeniably intertwined with technology, influencing every aspect of human life. This edited volume delves into why modern philosophical approaches to technology closely...

Jane Eyre, written by Charlotte Bront? and first published in 1847, has been translated more than five hundred times into over sixty languages. Prismatic Jane Eyre argues that we should see these...