OAPEN Library: Recent submissions
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(2024)This book offers a comprehensive treatment of research on mutual intelligibility between closely related languages and its linguistic and extra-linguistic determinants. It synthesizes existing research and reflects on new ...
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(2024)Spirituality and Knowledge Dynamics is a seminal book bringing together research illuminating how spirituality, wisdom traditions, faith at work, and contemplative practices can positively influence organizational outcomes ...
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(2024)This edited volume brings together research on religious, esoteric, and philosophical practices that intentionally aim to transform their practitioners. Various analytical tools will be developed to shed new light on ...
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(2024)The Cold War influenced how people, societies and states dealt with the Holocaust and its aftereffects. This book challenges previous perceptions that the democratic West embraced commemoration while the totalitarian East ...
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(2024)What should scholarship do about research denialism? Can the research community solve this problem – should it even try? Can research communication help here? Does it make sense, where are its limits, and how can it be ...
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(2024)To which extent is the notational iconicity of text (layout, emphasis, etc.) grammatically significant? This volume provides an answer by taking an expanded cognitive-grammatical approach to examine a corpus of food packaging ...
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(2024)This collection brings together studies on vernacular manuscripts in regional Chinese dialects such as Cantonese and Hokkien, those of non-Han peoples in China and Southeast Asia, and one in Vietnamese. Coverage includes ...
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(2024)Countless systems of shorthand have been in use for the past two millennia, but over the past century of scholarship this rich set of writing systems has been given short shrift. This volume serves as the first scholarly ...
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(2024)Literary genres don't just exist, they are made. The volume therefore takes a praxeological perspective on genres and their changing dynamics: The focus is on the question in which way - through which concrete practices - ...
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(2024)This study analyzes the socioeconomic perspective of subjects migrating from the Global South in contemporary narrative works in Romance languages. It inquires into the status of the subaltern characters and their role as ...
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(2024)The Ḥatäta Zärʾa Yaʿǝqob and the Ḥatäta Wäldä Ḥəywät are enigmatic and controversial works set in 17th-century Ethiopia. Expressed in powerful prose, they bear witness to pivotal events in Ethiopian history and develop a ...
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(2024)The latest issue of History of Intellectual Culture (HIC) explores experimental spaces for knowledge production in the long nineteenth century, moving beyond traditional academic institutions. Articles delve into intentional ...
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(2024)The libraries of Tunis are considered lost since the sack of the city by European armies in 1535. This study reconstructs the original holdings of Tunis’ medieval libraries by bringing together dispersed manuscripts from ...
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(2024)Libraries are caught in an ethical balancing act with their acquisition decisions: on the one hand, they must uphold freedom of expression and information, and use their collections to reflect the plurality of society. On ...
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(2024)Interviews are omnipresent and play a crucial role in various public discourses, from collecting research data to providing persons in the public eye a media platform. This volume assembles contributions by theoreticians ...
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(2024)The volume focuses on the translation of texts in its broadest meaning, from linguistic aspects to the transfer of culture and knowledge. Examples from Latin, English, Slavic, and Scandinavian philologies demonstrate the ...
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(2024)Delve into an exploration of dynamic entrepreneurial ecosystems in lesser-known regions around the world. Anchored in robust theoretical frameworks, this work unveils the intricate interplay of policy, culture, and innovation ...
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(2024)The volume examines figures of finitude in European Romanticism. The starting point is the observation that figures of the last - last people (J.-B Grainville: Le dernier homme (1805); M. Shelley: The Last Man (1826)), ...
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(2024)This volume explores the historical, socio-political, transcultural, and intertextual connections between East Central Europe and Latin America from the nineteenth century to the present. The contributions from different ...
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(2024)One of the most polysemic Latin words, humanitas was a core concept in Roman society and has become very influential in Western culture. Notwithstanding, some periods in the long history of humanitas have been little ...
