OAPEN Library: Recent submissions

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    • Divining Nature
      Cuillé, Tili Boon (2021)
      The Enlightenment remains widely associated with the rise of scientific progress and the loss of religious faith, a dual tendency that is thought to have contributed to the disenchantment of the world. In her wide-ranging ...
    • Capital Redefined
      HOSSEINI, S A Hamed; Gills, Barry K. (2024)
      Capital Redefined presents a unique perspective on the nature of “capital,” departing from the prevailing reductionist accounts. Hosseini and Gills offer an expanded perspective on Marxian value theory by addressing its ...
    • Decolonising Political Concepts
      Clavé-Mercier, Valentin; Wuth, Marie (2024)
      This book presents a transdisciplinary and transnational challenge to the enduring coloniality of political concepts, discussing the need to decolonise both their theoretical constructions as well as their substantive ...
    • Shopping i Stockholm
      Hellsing, My; Ilmakunnas, Johanna (2023)
      When Anna Johanna Grill travelled from Sweden to England in 1788, she was impressed by the vast array of consumer goods in shops. In her travel diary, she writes how the shopkeepers displayed goods in myriad of ways that ...
    • Living Communities and Their Archaeologies in the Middle East
      Bonnie, Rick Gerard Lorenz Maria; Lorenzon, Marta; Thomas, Suzie (2023)
      This volume presents theoretical ideas, case studies, and reflective insights on community archaeology across the Middle East, with contributions by scholars working in and from Iraq, Israel, Jordan, Palestine, and Syria. ...
    • Human and Planetary Health
      van laarhoven, Kees (2023)
      In his professional journey, travelling through an upcoming field of surgery with apparently unlimited possibilities, Kees van Laarhoven witnessed major milestones and breakthroughs. Already as a medical student, he was ...
    • Paris and the Art of Transposition
      Chau, Angie (2023)
      A brief stay in France was, for many Chinese workers and Chinese Communist Party leaders, a vital stepping stone for their careers during the cultural and political push to modernize China after World War I. For the Chinese ...
    • The Escape from Poverty
      De Schutter, Olivier; Frazer, Hugh; Guio, Anne-Catherine; Marlier, Eric (2023)
      ePDF and ePUB available Open Access under CC-BY-NC-ND license. The perpetuation of poverty across generations damages lives. It weakens social cohesion and the economy and undermines environmental sustainability. This ...
    • Handbuch Audiovisuelle Translation
      Künzli, Alexander; Kaindl, Klaus (2024)
      This handbook provides compact, well-founded and comprehensible information on the entire spectrum of audiovisual translation, or AVT for short. In five thematic sections, 30 experts provide a comprehensive overview of ...
    • The Making of a Mosque with Female Imams
      Petersen, Jesper (2022)
      In the last decade a number of women-led mosques have emerged in Europe and North America. In The Making of a Mosque with Female Imams Jesper Petersen documents the serendipitous, yet predictable, emergence of the Mariam ...
    • The Spectre of Capital: Idea and Reality
      Arthur, Christopher J. (2022)
      What is money? What is capital? The Spectre of Capital tackles such fundamental questions at a deep philosophical level. It argues that the modern world is ruled by a ‘spectre’, the spectre of capital. This insight is ...
    • The Jesuit Encounters with Islam in the Asia-Pacific
      Coello de la Rosa, Alexandre; Melo, João Vicente (2023)
      This book explores the strategies adopted by the Jesuit missions under the Portuguese and Spanish patronage before Islamic powers such as the Mughal Empire in South Asia and the expansion of Islam in the Southeast Asian ...
    • The Land between Two Seas: Art on the Move in the Mediterranean and the Black Sea 1300–1700
      Payne, Alina (2022)
      The Land Between Two Seas: Art on the Move in the Mediterranean and the Black Sea 1300-1700 focuses on the strong riverine ties that connect the seas of the Mediterranean system (from the Western Mediterranean through the ...
    • The Origin and Early Development of the Zhou Changes
      Shaughnessy, Edward (2022)
      The Zhou Changes, better known in the West as I Ching, is one of the masterpieces of world literature. This book, the climax of more than forty years of research in Chinese archaeology, explores the text’s origins in the ...
    • The Secret of Time: Reconfiguring Wisdom in the Dead Sea Scrolls
      Bakker, Arjen F. (2023)
      This book contributes to the rethinking of the Dead Sea Scrolls as an essential and integral part of Judaism in the Greco-Roman period. The Qumran manuscripts attest to the reconfiguration of Jewish wisdom concepts in this ...
    • The Idea of Economic Constitution in Europe
      Grégoire, Guillaume; Miny, Xavier (2022)
      Behind the controversies that have marked the history of the idea of Economic Constitution emerges the highly political issue of the room for manoeuvre left to public authorities in the economic sphere. The notion thus ...
    • The Linguistic Landscape of the Indian Himalayas
      Saxena, Anju (2022)
      This monograph is a contribution to the documentation of the linguistic situation of the Kinnaur district in Himachal Pradesh (Indian Himalayas) which has been so far almost undescribed. The Sino-Tibetan languages Kinnauri ...
    • The Wallachian Gold-Washers
      Rotaru, Julieta; Gaunt, David (2023)
      This is the first monograph on the history of the Rudari people of Romania and the first mapping of their settlements. The Rudari are a population which has traditionally inhabited the Balkan area and much of Central Europe. ...
    • The Post-Secular City
      Costa, Paolo (2022)
      “The Post-Secular City” is the first attempt to systematically map and assess the recent debate about secularization. “The Post-Secular City” examines the alleged shift from a “secular” to a “post-secular” dispensation ...
    • The Paradox of ASEAN Centrality: Timor-Leste Betwixt and Between
      Seixas, Paulo Castro; Mendes, Nuno Canas; Lobner, Nadine (2023)
      ASEAN, as being on the very core of this matter, deserves close attention through the case of Timor-Leste for understanding international strategic inclusion-exclusion dynamics. The manuscript we provide tackles this case ...