OAPEN Library: Recent submissions
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(2023)This book develops a unified theory of moral progress. The author argues that there are mechanisms in place that consistently drive societies towards moral improvement and that a sophisticated, naturalistically respectable ...
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(2023)Enough! insists there is enough for all. Creating such a future is not about producing more or living with less. Instead, it starts with rethinking our politics, economics and approach to livelihoods. Mary Lawhon and Tyler ...
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(2023)Conventional notions of avant-garde art suggest innovative artists rebelling against artistic convention and social propriety, shocking unwilling audiences into new ways of seeing and living. Viewers in Distress tells a ...
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(2023)Any and all songs are capable of being remixed. But not all remixes are treated equally. Rock This Way examines transformative musical works—cover songs, remixes, mash-ups, parodies, and soundalike songs—to discover what ...
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(2023)While many nations claim to have a remarkable relationship with drink, perhaps few can rival Ireland for the sustained international attention this impression has received. Combining an historiographical survey of existing ...
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(2023)Bringing together scholars from different disciplines in the humanities and social sciences, this multidisciplinary Handbook offers a comprehensive critical overview of intoxicants and intoxication. The Handbook is divided ...
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(2022)This chapter focuses on one Russian province, the Irkutsk Oblast, which due to its location has become a trans-shipment point for legal and illegal migration of the Chinese, as well as a place of their settling, permanent ...
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(2022)WeChat (the international version of Weixin), launched in 2012, has rapidly become the most favoured Chinese social media. Globally available, equally popular both inside and outside China and widely adopted by Chinese ...
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(2023)St Olav’s Church in Tønsberg in Viken (the area surrounding the Oslo Fjord in south-eastern Norway) burned along with most of the medieval town in 1536, the same year the Reformation was introduced to Norway. The church ...
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(2023)The full extent of Plutarch’s moral educational program remains largely understudied, at least in those aspects pertaining to women and the gendered other. As a result, scholarship on his views on women have differed ...
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(2023)Schulische Übertritte sind seit einiger Zeit Gegenstand erziehungs- und bildungswissenschaftlicher Forschungsdiskurse. Gerade im mehrgliedrigen Schulsystem Österreichs zeigen sich an diesen Übergängen vielfältige ...
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(2023)Cultural heritage is not just something from the past, but always also reflects contemporary needs and desires. In the Traces of the Cold War describes the making of a diverse and innovative Swedish military heritage. The ...
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(2023)Disasters are as much cultural as natural phenomena. For centuries, news about catastrophic events has been disseminated through media such as chronicles, pamphlets, newspapers, poems, drawings, and prints. Nowadays, we ...
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(2023)Juan Marchena pointed out at the time, that "you have to stop following looking at our navels”. This phrase, intended for the context of independence American, reflects his deep concern for a story that would break the ...
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(2023)The Faculty of Health and Social Sciences of the University of the Americas, since 2020 has been developing a deep process of reflection regarding its foundations and options epistemological, in order to provide an alternative ...
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(2023)This work is the second volume of a series that looks more extensive. His direct antecedent is the book International and World Problems from the Latin American Thought, edited by Eduardo Devés and Silvia T. Álvarez, and ...
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(2023)This new volume of Labor Studies from the South is forged in a hectic contingency. And it is that since April 2022 (date on which the previous volume was published) a series of events occurred that marked the process of ...
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(2023)This book emphasizes reflections on social relations and power that arepossible to delineate in the production/reproduction of inequality and precariousness in the ordercolonial, patriarchal and capitalist; in the radical ...
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(2023)This book reviews the implications that the work of the French philosopher Louis Althusser had in Mexico, in the journey from the late 1960s to the collapse of Marxist discourses in public life. Unlike other works, some ...
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(2023)No one has given the polymath Thomas Young (1773–1829) the all-round examination he so richly deserves—until now. Celebrated biographer Andrew Robinson portrays a man who solved mystery after mystery in the face of ridicule ...
