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(2025)Available open access digitally under CC-BY-NC-ND licence. How do we hold onto friends and communities in a world that feels increasingly fragmented? This timely collection explores how social connection unfolds across ...
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(2025)In African literature, Christianity has long been represented as a foreign religion, associated with the history and ongoing legacies of European colonialism and mission. But in recent decades, writers have begun to engage ...
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(2025)There is no shortage of Black characters in Miguel de Cervantes’s works, yet there has been a profound silence about the Spanish author’s compelling literary construction and cultural codification of Black Africans and ...
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(2025)Recent years have seen a flurry of interest in longtermism: roughly, the view that positively influencing the long-term future is a key moral priority of our time. Familiar calls to take a long-term view towards global ...
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(1921)These two volumes are a catalog of the various instruments held by the University of Michigan's Stearns Collection of Musical Instruments. This collection grew out of a donation by private collector, Frederick Stearns. The ...
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(1935)The Lichen Flora of the United States, first published in 1935, is made available again in answer to numerous requests. The manual presents a general discussion of the morphology and reproduction of the group. There are ...
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(2025)By Touch Alone demonstrates how reading by touch not only changed the lives of nineteenth-century blind people, but also challenged longstanding perceptions about blindness and reading. Over the course of the nineteenth ...
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(1956)The Story of Willow Run is a success story—the life history of a small community, the "Bomber City" that had sprung up in World War II. It tells what a group of returning veterans and their families did to make into a ...
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(1939)This book presents old-time Michigan, its songs and their tunes, collected and edited by Emelyn E. Gardner, a folklorist of wide experience, the author of Folklore from the Schoharie Hills, with the aid of Geraldine Jencks ...
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(2006)Inca archaeology has traditionally been intimately tied to the study of the Spanish chronicles, but archaeologists are often asked to explain how Inca civilization relates to earlier states and empires in the Andean ...
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(2025)Der Sammelband würdigt das Lebenswerk von Cléo V. Altenhofen anlässlich seines 60. Geburtstags mit Beiträgen zur Erforschung germanischer und romanischer Varietäten in Südamerika. In über 20 Studien werden diachrone, ...
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(2025)Some decades ago, Jean-Luc Nancy asked, ‘Has not everything been said on the subject of love? … Could we perhaps be exhausted?’ The question is a pertinent one; why devote yet another book to the subject? Grounding love ...
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(2025)As Asia’s role in world politics becomes increasingly central, a deeper understanding of the cultural underpinnings of its global entanglements is urgent and overdue. What defines Asia from a cultural perspective? How has ...
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(2025)Collocandosi all’incrocio tra critica letteraria e storia delle idee, il libro propone una nuova lettura dell’opera di Federigo Tozzi alla luce della psicologia sperimentale francese e della sua circolazione in Italia tra ...
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(2025)Lilo Baurs Theater lebt von der starken körperlichen Unmittelbarkeit. Seelenregungen gerinnen bei ihr zu vielsagenden Haltungen und Gesten, in denen sie oft auch eine entlarvende Komik aufspürt. In Analysen und Gesprächen ...
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(2025)The volume covers the field of digital humanities regarding the future of work. What digital skills will be needed in the nearby future? How digitization and digitalization change the very nature of science and the workplace? ...
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(2025)Surviving Revolution explores how two wealthy and well-connected families with roots in Lyon responded to the French Revolution and the resulting transformations. In building a new political system based on liberty, equality, ...
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(2025)Labor on the Line provides insights into the world's largest tea-growing region of Assam. Anna-Lena Wolf examines everyday conceptualizations of justice: how they emerge, become prevalent, transform, and are negotiated by ...
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(2025)At the heart of cybersecurity lies a paradox: Cooperation makes conflict possible. In Age of Deception, Jon R. Lindsay shows that widespread trust in cyberspace enables espionage and subversion. While such acts of secret ...
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(2025)The volume is based an documents, charters and letters, in the Municipal and Provincial Archives of Vienna from the reign of King Frederick III (1440-1451).
