OAPEN Library: Recent submissions
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(2023)This volume explores the complex relationships between writers through their letters. The book examines a variety of different cases, from the famous quarrel between Voltaire and La Beaumelle to the more obscure rivalry ...
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(2024)This volume undertakes a linguistic exploration of the endangered Arabic dialect spoken by the Jews of Gabes, a coastal city situated in Southern Tunisia. Belonging to the category of sedentary North African dialects, this ...
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(2024)The ‘humble petition’ was ubiquitous in early modern society and featured prominently in crucial moments such as the outbreak of the civil wars and in everyday local negotiations about taxation, welfare and litigation. ...
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(2024)Paradoxes of Migration in Tajikistan is the first ethnographic monograph on migration in Tajikistan, one of the most remittance-dependent countries in the world. Moving beyond economistic push-pull narratives about post-Soviet ...
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(2024)When we look at the artworks on display in museums, there is always a real possibility that some of these objects once belonged to victims of the Nazis – a possibility that has remained unacknowledged for far too long. ...
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(2024)The term inclusion is used to refer to moments of change on several social levels. This study finds its starting point in distinguishing between affirmations of a social, an institutional, and a professional change in the ...
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(2023)In the past, sustainability was the doctrine of economics, which assumes a quality of lifeat the level allowed by the current development of civilisation. A sustainable economy(including industry) should balance economic ...
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(2024)The work introduces a method for an efficient calibration of automated driving functions. The method is based on an initial limitation of the relevant parameter space for the optimization of function behaviour. Furthermore, ...
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(2024)On October 17, 2023, during the 100th Dies Natalis of Radboud University, Mary Beckman received an honorary doctorate from Radboud University. This doctorate was awarded in recognition of her innumerable contributions to ...
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(2024)Civil society has become an indispensable part of the global discourses on democratization, good governance, sustainable development, and security. Differing perspectives view civil society as a legitimizing actor, a ...
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(2024)Small States in EU Policy-Making analyses how small states try to impact European Union policy-making through a range of strategies. With the last rounds of enlargement and Brexit, the number and weight of small states ...
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(2024)This book investigates the life experiences of youth in South Africa, considering whether contemporary youth have benefitted from the socioeconomic reconstruction of post-apartheid society. Student protests against ...
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(2024)The role of generations is an important, yet often overlooked, variable in the study of American politics. A topic of research in sociology, business, and marketing, the focus on generations frequently occurs in American ...
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(2024)Cripping Girlhood offers a new theorization of disabled girlhood, tracing how and why representations of disabled girls emerge with frequency in twenty-first century U.S. media culture. It uncovers how the exceptional ...
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(2024)Revolutionary Stagecraft draws on a rich corpus of literary, historical, and technical materials to reveal a deep entanglement among technological modernization, political agendas, and the performing arts in modern China. ...
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(2024)Kinethic California: Dancing Funk and Disco Era Kinships documents the emergence of new forms of black social and vernacular dance invented by youth living in 1970s California, who helped build the foundations of contemporary ...
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(2024)This book demonstrates the scope and achievements of the history of written culture, with particular reference to the writings of ordinary people. It underlines the importance of writing for the subordinate classes and the ...
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(2024)Although poverty in the eighteenth century has long been an object of focus for social historians, it has figured only marginally in the intellectual history of the period. This is because it has been assumed that the ...
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(2024)This volume demonstrates how the Hundred Years War (1337–1453) provides a necessary context for late medieval literature. Many of the major writers of the period, in a variety of different languages, lived either all or ...
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(2024)The volume "International and Democratic Perspectives on Inclusion and Equal Opportunities" brings together selected contributions from the 36th Annual Conference of Inclusion Researchers (IFO), which was hosted by the ...
