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Islamic Sensory History
(2024)
Stalin vs Gypsies
(2024)
In their centuries-old history, the Roma (formerly known as Gypsies) experienced many difficult moments and cruel trials from their arrival in Europe until now. The history of the Roma in the USSR is no exception in this ...
Against the Fetishisation of Plural Time
(2025)
It has become an unflinching belief that time is plural and temporal multiplicity is the best framework to study the relationship between time and society. Through a critical reading of existing scholarship, Sinha questions ...
Towards Effective Flow Control and Mitigation of Shock Effects in Aeronautical Applications
(2025)
This open-access book reports on both experimental and numerical findings from the H2020-funded project TEAMAero (Towards Effective Flow Control and Mitigation of Shock Effects in Aeronautical Applications). It covers novel ...
Venture Builders and the Creation of Scaleups
(2025)
This open access book explores the potential of venture-builders, which is a groundbreaking model for creating startups from scratch. Unlike traditional accelerators or incubators, venture-builders leverage structured ...
Spinning the Cosmos
(2025)
This open access book investigates the epistemological concept of and the knowledge transfer interwoven with the moveable paper wheels found in medieval and early modern books—the so-called “volvelles.” The earliest known ...
The Future of Humans and Emotional Machines
(2025)
This book explores human‑machine interaction in Japan, providing a new focus on how and in what form people build affective bonds to new technologies. To gain insights into the feelings, identities, fears, and desires of ...
The Euthalian Tradition of the New Testament: A Catalogue of Greek Manuscripts
(2025)
The Euthalian tradition is a complex and pervasive set of late ancient prefaces, lists, divisions, and other paratexts transmitted alongside Acts, the Catholic Epistles, and Pauline Epistles, preserved (at least in part) ...
Modern China in Flux
(2025)
This transformative volume bridges the rich texture of modern China's history with the innovative realm of network analysis, bringing forth a fresh perspective that captures the heartbeat of a nation in flux. By leveraging ...
American Philosophy and the Intellectual Migration
(2025)
In the 1930s, the rise of fascism forced dozens of philosophers to flee to the United States. How did immigrant scholars such as Rudolf Carnap, Max Horkheimer, and Alfred Schütz influence the development of philosophy? And ...
Intentional Invisibilization in Modern Asian History: Concealing and Self-Concealed Agents
(2025)
Concealing Agents addresses the invisibilization and concealment of people, knowledge and ideas in history and historiography. With studies ranging from modern to contemporary history, language and translation studies, and ...
The Students and Their Books
(2025)
In the practices of teaching and learning in the academy of the early modern age, epochal factors intervene, such as the rupture of the religious-ideological unity of the West, the spread of the printing press, the rise ...
Chapter 8 “One Woman Started It All”. Gendered Approaches to the Governance of Knowledge in Post-War Greece
(2025)
This innovative volume analyzes the historical entanglement of gender, technosciences, and government/governance. Situated at the crossroad of women and gender studies, science and technology studies, and political sociology, ...
Icons, Ornaments, and Other Charms of Christian Arabic Books
(2025)
This edited volume collects the proceedings of the second of two conferences organized by the Typarabic project. It presents the research results of the project, with a focus in this second volume on decorative features ...
Nicholas of Methone, Reader of Proclus in Byzantium
(2025)
This volume is the first complete study of the 12th-century CE Byzantine philosopher Nicholas of Methone, offering a critical examination of a key moment in 11th–12th-century Byzantine philosophy. Although traditionally ...
Rural Imaginations for a Globalized World
(2025)
This volume explores what aspects of contemporary rural life as deeply globalized – and thus implicated in the ongoing, destructive unfolding of colonialism and capitalism – are highlighted and obscured in social, political, ...
Santo Antão
(2025)
The volume delves into the multifaceted history of Lisbon's Jesuit College of Santo Antão, tracing its evolution from its establishment to the eventual suppression of the Society of Jesus. This scholarly work examines an ...
Contacts of Languages and Peoples in the Hittite and Post-Hittite World
(2025)
During the 1st millennium BCE, Pre-Classical Anatolia acted as a melting pot and crossroads of languages, cultures and peoples. The political map of the world changed after the collapse of the Bronze Age, the horizon of ...