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The juggler of Notre Dame and the medievalizing of modernity : volume 6 war a…
This ambitious and vivid study in six volumes explores the journey of a single, electrifying story, from its first incarnation in a medieval French poem through its prolific rebirth in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. The Juggler of Notre Dame tells how an entertainer abandons the world to join a monastery, but is suspected of blasphemy after dancing his devotion before a statue of the M…
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- 9781783745418
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- 324 p. : ill. ; 25.4 cm.
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- 841.109 ZIO t
The right-wing critique of Europe : nationalist, souverainist and right-wing …
The Right-Wing Critique of Europe analyses the opposition to the European Union from a variety of right-wing organisations in Western, Central and Eastern Europe. In recent years, opposition to the processes of globalisation and the programme of closer European integration, understood as a threat to the sovereignty of individual member states, has led to an intensification of Eurosceptic sentim…
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- 2
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- 9781003226123
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- x, 290 p. : ill.
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- 341.2422 SON t
Essays on paula rego : smile when you think about hell
Prologue: A Patriot for Me In the Prologue, Lisboa identifies the key themes permeating the book: love and reversals of love; negative aspects and interests of patriarchy; and the ways in which Paula Rego connects the personal and the political. Discussed is Rego’s perspective; her destabilization of expectations and assumptions; and a set of tensions in her life and work – between exter…
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- 9781783747603
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- xiii. :ill. ;512 p.
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- 759 MAR e
Artificial intelligence and international economic law : disruption, regulati…
Artificial intelligence (AI) technologies are transforming economies, societies, and geopolitics. Enabled by the exponential increase of data that is collected, transmitted, and processed transnationally, these changes have important implications for international economic law (IEL). This volume examines the dynamic interplay between AI and IEL by addressing an array of critical new questions, …
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- 9781108954006
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- xi, 352 p. : ill
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- 343.087 PEN a
Dialogues between media
This book unites essays on the interplay of media or inter-arts studies, as well as papers with a focus on comics studies, further testimony to the fact that comics have truly arrived in mainstream academic discourse. "Adaptation" is a key term for the studies presented in this volume various articles discuss the adaptation of literary source texts in different target media - cinematic versions…
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- 9783110642056
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- 665 p. : B&W, ill.
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- XXI. Congress of the ICLA - Proceedings,
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- 809 FER d
Chronicles from Kashmir : an annotated, multimedia script
Chronicles from Kashmir explores this question through a site-adaptive 24-hour theatrical performance. Developed between 2013 and 2018 by the Ensemble Kashmir Theatre Akademi and Nandita Dinesh, the play uses a durational, promenade format to immerse its audience within a multitude of perspectives on life in Kashmir. From a wedding celebration that is interrupted by curfew, to schoolboys divide…
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- 9781800640191
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- xi, 254 p. ; ill
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- 791.09730904 DIN c
Early greek alphabetic writing : a linguistic approach
Despite the flourishing of epichoric studies on the Archaic Greek scripts in the 1960s, embodied by archaeologists Lilian Hamilton Jeffery and Margherita Guarducci, most scholarship on early alphabetic writing in Greece has focused on questions around the origin of ‘the Greek alphabet’ instead of acknowledging the diversity of alphabetic systems that emerged in Geometric and Archaic times. …
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- 9781789257441
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- ix, 139 p.
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- 481.1 AST e
Diversity and rabbinization: jewish texts and societies between 400 and 1000 CE
This volume is dedicated to the cultural and religious diversity in Jewish communities from Late Antiquity to the Early Middle Age and the growing influence of the rabbis within these communities during the same period. Drawing on available textual and material evidence, the fourteen essays presented here, written by leading experts in their fields, span a significant chronological and geograph…
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- 9781783749959
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- xxiii, 474 p. : ill. : ind. ; 24 cm
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- 296.1 DIV d
Warlike and peaceful societies : the interaction of genes and culture
Read Agner Fog's introductory post on our blog [...] it presents a valuable overview of the extensive literature on the societal correlates of modern warfare and makes a convincing, and timely, case for the deceptive use of the threat of war by populists or budding dictators. — Carel P. van Schaik, University of Zurich, Adaptive Behaviour (May 2018) https://doi.org/10.1177/105971231877197…
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- 9781783744053
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- 364p.: colour, ill.
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- 303.4 WAR f
Mothers on mothers : maternal readings of popular television
From Supernanny to Gilmore Girls, from Katie Price to Holly Willoughby, a wide range of examples of mothers and motherhood appear on television today. Drawing on questionnaires completed by mothers across the UK, this book sheds new light on the diverse ways in which mothers make sense of popular representations of motherhood on television.
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- 9783035307917
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- ix, 265 p.
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- 302.23082 FEA m
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