Social Sciences

A History of Textiles and Fashion in the Twentieth Century Yoruba World

By: Mutiat Titilope Oladejo

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Central to Yoruba fashion is the role of women in its making. This book shows how textile commodities, entangled in global economic histories, created a local industry that portrays new ways of work—revealing a critical, but often neglected, aspect of being Yoruba.

Formal Education as Economic and Social Value and as an Object of the Social Sciences

By: Odaci Luiz Coradini

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This book explores the social conditions for valuing education and the limits of sociology in addressing this problem. Its central idea is that the main challenges refer to the conditions of autonomy of the social sciences, especially when studying higher social spheres.

Stuart Hood, Twentieth-Century Partisan

Edited By: David Hutchison, David Johnson

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Stuart Hood’s year fighting with the Italian Resistance in WWII shaped his peacetime trajectory. This collection assesses the achievements of this broadcaster, media studies pioneer, translator, and novelist, showing how his life offers fresh insights into 20th-century history.

PhotographyDigitalPainting

Expanding Medium Interconnectivity in Contemporary Visual Art Practices

Edited By: Carl Robinson

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This anthology explores the connections between photography, the digital, and painting in contemporary art. Renowned artists, academics, and theorists investigate medium-fluidity through essays on AI generation, hyperreal photography, and art that synthesises the three mediums.

Contemporary Icons of Nonviolence

Edited By: Anna Hamling

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This volume places Martin Luther King Jr and Mahatma Gandhi within the tradition of nonviolence, from Tolstoy to Mandela. This collection of essays explores the concept of nonviolence in a philosophical and religious context, highlighting its application in the 21st century.

Reclaimative Post-Conflict Justice

Democratizing Justice in the World Tribunal on Iraq

By: Janet C. Gerson, Dale T. Snauwaert

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In response to the 2003 Iraq War, citizens formed the World Tribunal on Iraq to investigate war responsibilities. This book explores their experimental tribunal as a new form of post-conflict justice—a guide for reclaiming democracy for a peaceful and just world order.

Cognitive Approaches to Contemporary Media

Edited By: Teodora Popescu

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Uncover the hidden power of metaphor in the media. This collection reveals how manipulative framing in news and film shapes reality and offers fresh insights to help you decode bias and avoid being misled. Essential for any critical thinker.

Civil Liberties in Real Life

Seven Studies

Edited By: Timothy C. Shiell

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US authors explore ‘What is civil liberty?’, examining how and why marginalized groups used freedoms of speech, religion, and assembly in their struggle for equality. This must-read covers topics from the influence of consumerism to free speech in the classroom.

Pedagogies of Difference and Desire in Professional Learning

Plugging in to Shared Images

By: Anna N. Wilson

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This book explores what we can learn from images shared among professional communities on social media. It traces how professional learning unfolds online and considers how we can use these images as pedagogical resources, opening up windows into professional life for students.

Observations on Music, Culture, and Politics

By: Daniel Asia

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This book collects Daniel Asia's writings on classical music, universities, Judaism, politics, and American culture. Written in clear, elegant prose with a wry sense of humor, this is a fine introduction to high culture, with an emphasis on classical music and its composers.

This book collects Daniel Asia’s writings on classical music, universities, Judaism, politics, and American culture. Written in clear, elegant prose with a wry sense of humor, this is a fine introduction to high culture, with an emphasis on classical music and its composers.

Marketing, Creativity and Experiential Design

Edited By: Nelson de Matos, Manuela Guerreiro, Patrícia Pinto, Júlio Mendes

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This book helps students and practitioners understand marketing and design. It provides an overview of experiential marketing, innovation, branding, and human-centred design, while considering future avenues for creativity in the field.

Encounters in Greek and Irish Literature

Creativity, Translations and Critical Perspectives

Edited By: Paschalis Nikolaou

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Literary experts and novelists explore the relationships between Greek and Irish writing. Through fiction, self-reflective essays, and discussions, this volume considers two literatures at the edges of Europe. Selected works are presented in both Greek and English.

Power Politics in Africa

Nigeria and South Africa in Comparative Perspective

Edited By: Olusola Ogunnubi, Samuel Oyewole

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This collection examines power politics in Africa, focusing on the strategies of regional powers like Nigeria and South Africa. It contrasts the struggle for hegemony with pan-African solidarity, contributing a vital African perspective to a largely Eurocentric field.

François Ravary SJ and a Sino-European Musical Culture in Nineteenth-Century Shanghai

By: David Francis Urrows

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A Jesuit missionary, musician, and builder of Shanghai's famed bamboo organs. François Ravary’s unpublished letters reveal the crises of the Catholic mission in nineteenth-century China and his creation of the nation's first brass band and school orchestra.

A Jesuit missionary, musician, and builder of Shanghai’s famed bamboo organs. François Ravary’s unpublished letters reveal the crises of the Catholic mission in nineteenth-century China and his creation of the nation’s first brass band and school orchestra.

Borders and Borderlands

Explorations in Identity, Exile and Translation (Durrell Studies 1)

Edited By: Richard Pine, Vera Konidari

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This book addresses how borders—between states, languages, and cultures—inhibit people and ideas. It explores identity through translation and gender transition, featuring firsthand accounts of the refugee crisis and historical and current "Poetry of Exile."

The Confucian Revival in Taiwan

Xu Fuguan and His Theory of Chinese Aesthetics

By: Téa Sernelj

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Xu Fuguan is a central representative of Modern Confucianism. This book focuses on his fundamental contributions to philosophy, particularly his reinterpretations of Confucian and Daoist aesthetics. It highlights the link between ethics and aesthetics in his innovative theories.

Literary Misogyny and Praise of Women in the Middle Ages

Commented Readings of Medieval Texts

By: Pedro Carlos Louzada Fonseca

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This book examines two major traditions in medieval literature: the praise of women and misogyny. It explores misogyny from the Church Fathers to secular authors and discusses the major literary works that praised women as a response to their misogynist counterparts.

Errors in English Pronunciation among Arabic Speakers

Analysis and Remedies

By: Mohamed Fathy Khalifa

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This book analyzes Arabs’ errors in English pronunciation, covering consonants, vowels, and word stress. It explains the reasons behind these errors, which stem from applying Arabic rules to English, and presents teaching suggestions for surmounting them.

Shi‘ism in the Maghrib and al-Andalus, Volume Two

Traditions

By: John Andrew Morrow

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Uncovering the hidden history of Shi'ism in North Africa and al-Andalus, this book offers the first English translations of Morisco traditions. It reveals their original works, study of diverse Shi'ite sources, and a vibrant faith that rewrites the region's history.

Uncovering the hidden history of Shi’ism in North Africa and al-Andalus, this book offers the first English translations of Morisco traditions. It reveals their original works, study of diverse Shi’ite sources, and a vibrant faith that rewrites the region’s history.

Musical Waves

West Coast Perspectives of Pitch, Narrative, and Form

Edited By: Andrew Aziz, Jack Boss

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This volume comprises a wide range of cutting-edge analytical approaches for numerous musical styles. It includes studies inspired by Schoenberg, transformational theory, narrative, form, and—notably—several approaches to popular music.

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