OAPEN Library: Recent submissions
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(2024)Amalia Witt sheds light on questions of inheriting and bequeathing texts based on the extraordinary friendship between the author Montaigne and Marie de Gournay, one of the first female editors and authors of the early ...
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(2024)Contemporary theory has pushed the boundaries of the concept of the living, urging us to consider a vitality that manifests beyond the human, animal or even the organic altogether. Lindner explores this passive vitalism ...
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(2024)This monograph analyses metaphysics and epistemology in the medieval Mādhva tradition of Vedānta. It focuses primarily on the ideas of the sixteenth-century philosopher Vyāsatīrtha. The volume explores Vyāsatīrtha’s defence ...
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(2024)Digital spaces are saturated with metaphor: we have pages, sites, mice, and windows. Yet, in the world of digital textuality, these metaphors no longer function as we might expect. Martin Paul Eve calls attention to the ...
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(2019)This book offers a critical perspective to the proliferation of official multilingualism in the contemporary world. Through diachronic and synchronic comparisons, it shows that official multilingualism has become a norm ...
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(2024)Urban Lives emphasizes the importance of a micro-level approach in examining the lives of individuals and families in an industrial city, spanning over a century. The work deepens the understanding of major societal shifts ...
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(2024)Zukunft Bestand is a holistic concept for the ecological and socially inclusive renovation of existing housing complexes. Using two case studies representative of typical building methods of the 20th century, the book shows ...
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(2023)Die lateinische Bibel, in den ersten christlichen Jahrhunderten entstanden und zu einem großen Teil von Hieronymus um das Jahr 400 geschaffen, ist das bedeutendste Literaturwerk des abendländischen Christentums. Bis heute ...
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(2024)The management of resources associated with knowledge is one of the most controversial and discussed topics of our time. Global debates and conflicts about the use, transfer, monopolization, democratization and diversification ...
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(2024)Processes of variation and change in the Spanish of Seville and Las Palmas de Gran Canaria focuses its attention on the Andalusian and Canarian varieties, known for their innovative tendency within current Spanish. In this ...
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(2024)In an epoch driven by hyper-consumption and marvelously destructive futility, and in the context of a hegemonic utilitarianism where one goes to university to work rather than to “develop a meaningful philosophy of life,” ...
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(2024)The human mind is capable of entertaining an astounding range of thoughts. These thoughts are composed of concepts or ideas, which are the building blocks of thoughts. This book is about where all of these concepts come ...
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(2025)The Routledge Handbook of Nostalgia serves as a guide to the complex and often contradictory concept of nostalgia, as well as the field of “nostalgia studies” more broadly. Nostalgia is an area of intense interest across ...
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(2025)The Routledge Handbook of Nostalgia serves as a guide to the complex and often contradictory concept of nostalgia, as well as the field of “nostalgia studies” more broadly. Nostalgia is an area of intense interest across ...
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(2024)When considering the title of this book, we, as its editors, had to reflect on the notion of change. Change is constant and inevitable, but fundamental changes do not happen overnight. Such changes result from actions and ...
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(2024)This book examines Chinese film in the twenty-first century. Organized around the themes "movements,"genres," and "intermedia," it reflects on how Chinese cinema has changed, adapted, and evolved over past decades and ...
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(2024)This book examines Chinese film in the twenty-first century. Organized around the themes "movements,"genres," and "intermedia," it reflects on how Chinese cinema has changed, adapted, and evolved over past decades and ...
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(2022)Japan in the Heisei Era (1989–2019) provides a retrospective and multidisciplinary account of a society in flux. Featuring analyses from leading scholars around the globe, this textbook examines the evolving contexts of ...
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(2024)This is the first book that engages with the history of diagrams in physical, evolutionary, and genetic anthropology. Since their establishment as scientific tools for classification in the eighteenth century, diagrams ...
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(2024)Questo secondo volume del Dizionario di sociologia per la persona continua l’opera collettiva dedicata alla comprensione di categorie e concetti sociologici e fenomeni sociali secondo la prospettiva specifica di chi intende ...
