OAPEN Library: Recent submissions
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(1994)Although the significance of Walt Whitman's thinking about African Americans and slavery to his poetry has been largely ignored by Whitman scholars, Martin Klammer argues that Leaves of Grass is a major text dealing with ...
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(1995)In September 1787 the Constitutional Convention in Philadelphia proposed a new Federal Constitution to replace the beleaguered Articles of Confederation. Each state then had to call a convention of its own to vote on ...
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(1997)When first proposed in this country during the 1970s, waste-to-energy (WTE) incinerators appeared to be ideal solutions to the growing mounds of trash in our "throw-away" society. Promising to convert useless garbage into ...
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(2001)Since 1965 the Korean American population has grown to over one million people. These Korean Americans, including immigrants and their offspring, have founded thousands of Christian congregations and scores of Buddhist ...
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(2020)Found in two-thirds of the world, rabies is a devastating infectious disease with a 99.9 percent case-fatality rate and no cure once clinical signs appear. Rabies in the Streets tells the compelling story of the relationship ...
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(2020)In 1786, Guatemalan priest Pedro José de Arrese published a work instructing readers on their duty to perform the cesarean operation on the bodies of recently deceased pregnant women in order to extract the fetus while it ...
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(2016)This book explores the arguments, appeals, and narratives that have defined the meaning of infertility in the modern history of the United States and Europe. Throughout the last century, the inability of women to conceive ...
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(2001)This volume is the Tenth Anniversary Edition of a book that was honored in 1992 as an "Outstanding Book" by the Gustavus Myers Center for the Study of Human Rights in the United States. Reprinted many times since its first ...
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(2010)The first wave of neoliberal reform that swept across Latin America in the early 1990s focused on economic policies favoring structural adjustment, such as currency devaluation, cuts in state-supplied social services, and ...
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(2025)This book deals with the first three campaigns of the German-Israeli Tell Iẓṭabba Excavation Project, conducted by the Institute for Classical Archaeology and Christian Archaeology / Archaeological Museum of the University ...
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(2026)When the Church of Sweden General Synod decided to open the priesthood to women on 28 September 1958, a long theological and political debate came to an end. On Palm Sunday in 1960 the first three women were ordained as ...
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(2026)This book is about the role of monarchy as an institution when the king has no power. During the Age of Liberty (1718–1772), absolutism was abolished in Sweden and the king reduced to a mere figurehead. Even so, the monarchy ...
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(2026)This book looks beyond the traditional nexus of painting, anatomy, and optics to explore a wider, more complex network of material, institutional, and theoretical connections between visual art and medicine in early modern ...
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(2026)Amid the global migration crisis, the UK has created an increasingly hostile environment for people seeking asylum that has pushed many into unnecessary hardship and homelessness. This book offers a politically engaged ...
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(2026)The Making of the Scottish Dream-Vision provides the first sustained book-length study of Scotland’s engagement with one of the most significant literary forms of the medieval world. The book situates the dream-vision at ...
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(2026)How do people talk about words? This work investigates naming constructions like This formation is called a “coral reef” that introduce lexicalized concepts like coral reef through metalinguistic reference. Based on ...
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(2026)A fresh reading of medieval thinker Ibn Taymiyya, offering pathbreaking insight into his lasting relevance in debates on Islam, authority, and religious thought. Ibn Taymiyya’s Thought: Corpus, Reception, and Legacy explores ...
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(2026)This publication shows how art and cultural institutions can help shape the development of new technologies in society. It draws on the experiences of leading European cultural organizations and highlights the role that ...
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(2026)The Bulgarians of Bessarabia and Tauria constitute a large yet little-known historical diaspora in what is today Ukraine and the Republic of Moldova. Drawing on international scholarship and their own field studies, the ...
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(2026)Texts written in simplified language are essential for accessible communication. However, manually writing accessible texts or simplifying difficult-to-read texts into accessible language is very time-consuming. Machine ...
