OAPEN Library: Recent submissions
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(2023)How do Brazilians in Germany experience the integration process? This volume investigates this question using a method that analyzes conversations multimodally – i.e., by incorporating gestures – and sets them in relation ...
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(2023)This text addresses the Russian war of aggression against Ukraine and the general development of international law. It focuses on three questions: What consequences does the Russian breach of the prohibition of violence ...
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(2023)This book revisits the encounter between Chinese and Western philosophy while unfolding questions about the way "comparative philosophy" is conducted today. The currently dominant exegesis organizes philosophical landmarks ...
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(2023)Repetition is a fundamental cultural act that appears in all fields of human behavior and communication. This volume inquires into the creativity of repetitive conversational patterns in premodernity (German, Spanish, ...
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(2023)This study examines the relationship between sensory perception and exoticism in German, French, and British literature written between the late eighteenth and early twentieth centuries. Its starting point is the proposition ...
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(2023)Tracing a practice called "playing American" through the stages of videogame development, gameplay, and reception, this book delineates how aspects of American culture are reproduced transnationally through popular open-world ...
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(2023)Ecdotics, or the study of text editions, is an essential part of Hispanic humanism. In a pluridisciplinary approach, the volume gathers contributions by scholars from Italy, Spain and Colombia about the vicissitudes of ...
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(2023)The Table of Kings by Ptolemy, a second-century Alexandrian astronomer, presents a continuous list of rulers from the Neo-Assyrian Empire to the Roman Empire. It is a crucial source for our chronological approach to the ...
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(2023)Over the last two decades, social scientists, legal scholars, human rights activists, and historians, have sought common conceptual grounds in the study of enslavement, thus forging a new perspective that comprises historical ...
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(2023)Every book form – from China to West Africa, from Europe to Mesopotamia – requires a way to secure cohesion of its constituent elements and keep them together. Whereas codex binding, as it still appears in modern printed ...
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(2023)Like ancient Rome, the medieval metropolis on the Tiber is also a landscape of transmission due to the diversity of its epigraphic legacy. This legacy had a lasting impact on the municipal area of the urbs and provides ...
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(2023)A cross-cultural, comparative view on the transition from a predominant ‘culture of handwriting’ to a predominant ‘culture of print’ in the late medieval and early modern periods is provided here, combining research on ...
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(2023)Synthetic biology attempts to redesign entire species and intervenes in the human germline with CRISPR. Martin Müller problematizes the technologies and discourses of this Promethean biology and situates them in a critical ...
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(2023)This study examines The Posthumous Memoirs of Brás Cubas (1880), the magnum opus of Brazilian author Machado de Assis. Those interested in literature and cultural theory will find here a shining model of that which affects ...
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(2023)Characteristic of the premodern Mediterranean world were the manifold connections between communities shaped by diverse traditions. German-speaking actors influenced these transcultural entanglements: as rulers, traders, ...
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(2023)This edited volume fills a gap in the research on place, product and personal branding in the Middle East and North Africa. It critically analyses processes of strategic communication and image building under conditions ...
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(2023)From various disciplinary perspectives, this issue examines the significance and forms of multilingualism in the German-language press of Eastern Europe from the Vormärz to the eve of World War II. Linguistic practices in ...
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(2023)This book brings together a variety of regions and periods to provide fresh perspectives on the study of labour. It deconstructs the polarisation between mobility and immobilisation in labour history and instead stresses ...
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(2023)SOS signals, knocks, flares, or messages in a bottle: when people find themselves in distress, they must use all possible means to draw attention to themselves. They have to send distress signals in order to stay alive. ...
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(2023)This collected volume explores Foucault's literary thought, in light of the recent publication of unpublished works from his first period (1960s–1970s). It aims at establishing an archeology of the texts that Foucault ...
