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The Seven-String Guitar in Russia
Its Origins, Repertoire, and Performance Practice, 1800-1850
This definitive history of the seven-string guitar in Russia explores its cosmopolitan origins, diverse repertoire, and unique sound. It details the tradition's connections to the country's cultural and political context, including the role of the Russian Roma in its formation.
This definitive history of the seven-string guitar in Russia explores its cosmopolitan origins, diverse repertoire, and unique sound. It details the tradition’s connections to the country’s cultural and political context, including the role of the Russian Roma in its formation.
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The Seventh Age of Man
Issues, Challenges, and Paradoxes
The contributors to this text focused on old age are drawn from a wide range of fields of expertise, and utilise various methodological approaches, from sociological case studies to discourse analysis, to address questions centred around what it means to be old.
The contributors to this text focused on old age are drawn from a wide range of fields of expertise, and utilise various methodological approaches, from sociological case studies to discourse analysis, to address questions centred around what it means to be old.
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The Sexualized Body and the Medical Authority of Pornography
Performing Sexual Liberation
This collection examines pornography as a material practice that eroticises gender inequality and sexual violence towards women. It addresses the complex relationship between pornography and medicine, whereby medicine has afforded pornography great legitimacy and even authority.
This collection examines pornography as a material practice that eroticises gender inequality and sexual violence towards women. It addresses the complex relationship between pornography and medicine, whereby medicine has afforded pornography great legitimacy and even authority.
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For writers and artists, the shadows of precursors can be a welcome influence or a haunting presence. This book explores conscious and unconscious influences, from imitation to intertextuality, and asks how such references shape how we read.
For writers and artists, the shadows of precursors can be a welcome influence or a haunting presence. This book explores conscious and unconscious influences, from imitation to intertextuality, and asks how such references shape how we read.
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The Shakespeare Authorship Question and Philosophy
Knowledge, Rhetoric, Identity
The Shakespeare authorship debate is often dismissed by scholars, yet the documented facts are meager. This book sets out the debate’s profound philosophical dimensions concerning knowledge, truth, and academic freedom—implications that transcend the question itself.
The Shakespeare authorship debate is often dismissed by scholars, yet the documented facts are meager. This book sets out the debate’s profound philosophical dimensions concerning knowledge, truth, and academic freedom—implications that transcend the question itself.
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“The two most powerful films of Shakespeare plays were made not in Great Britain but in the Soviet Union.” This book reveals director Grigori Kozintsev’s vision as he takes a text from stage to film, offering new ways to view Shakespeare and understand the challenging King Lear.
“The two most powerful films of Shakespeare plays were made not in Great Britain but in the Soviet Union.” This book reveals director Grigori Kozintsev’s vision as he takes a text from stage to film, offering new ways to view Shakespeare and understand the challenging King Lear.
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See Shakespeare with fresh eyes. Through a “triple vision” method—as reality, poem, and play—this guide transforms Hamlet, Othello, and Macbeth into powerful tools for critical thinking in your everyday life.
See Shakespeare with fresh eyes. Through a “triple vision” method—as reality, poem, and play—this guide transforms Hamlet, Othello, and Macbeth into powerful tools for critical thinking in your everyday life.
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The Shakespearean Linkages in Unnayi Warrier’s Nala Charitham
A Literary Analysis
Unnayi Warrier’s ‘Nala Charitham’ is a popular Kathakali drama of romance, treachery, and banishment. Drawing from Hindu mythology, this book insightfully compares the story’s complex characters with Shakespeare’s plays, giving the captivating tale a new perspective.
Unnayi Warrier’s ‘Nala Charitham’ is a popular Kathakali drama of romance, treachery, and banishment. Drawing from Hindu mythology, this book insightfully compares the story’s complex characters with Shakespeare’s plays, giving the captivating tale a new perspective.
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The Shakespearean Search for Archetypes
The Mirror and the Signet
Shakespeare’s mythopoetic figures are not transcendental but are batteries of condensed cultural meaning. This book finds in these archetypes the explanation for why his work responds through time to perspectives as different as psychological, feminist, and postcolonial.
Shakespeare’s mythopoetic figures are not transcendental but are batteries of condensed cultural meaning. This book finds in these archetypes the explanation for why his work responds through time to perspectives as different as psychological, feminist, and postcolonial.
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Soviet repressions and a nationalist focus on Christian roots have made researching shamanism in Armenia no easy business. This study confronts this impasse, helping to set in motion the process of uncovering these ancient and suppressed practices.
Soviet repressions and a nationalist focus on Christian roots have made researching shamanism in Armenia no easy business. This study confronts this impasse, helping to set in motion the process of uncovering these ancient and suppressed practices.
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The roots of Chechnya lie in shamanism. The rich stories of the Nokhchii people have survived for thousands of years through oral traditions, providing virtually the only remaining evidence of their ancestors. This book contains these tales and commentaries on them.
The roots of Chechnya lie in shamanism. The rich stories of the Nokhchii people have survived for thousands of years through oral traditions, providing virtually the only remaining evidence of their ancestors. This book contains these tales and commentaries on them.
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Soviet repressions against shamanism, a recent surge of interest in the Orthodox church, and a nationalist preoccupation with Christian roots makes research into Georgia's pagan practices no easy business. This study helps to set the process in motion.
Soviet repressions against shamanism, a recent surge of interest in the Orthodox church, and a nationalist preoccupation with Christian roots makes research into Georgia’s pagan practices no easy business. This study helps to set the process in motion.
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The Shape of the East Asian Economy to Come
Lonely Rhetoric or Global Reality
The Asian economic crisis challenged conventional wisdom, giving impetus to an "East Asian economic community." Will this new paradigm cultivate the fruits of past experience, or is it an effort to escape the free market? This volume sheds light on the arguments.
The Asian economic crisis challenged conventional wisdom, giving impetus to an “East Asian economic community.” Will this new paradigm cultivate the fruits of past experience, or is it an effort to escape the free market? This volume sheds light on the arguments.
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The Shaping of Persian Art
Collections and Interpretations of the Art of Islamic Iran and Central Asia
The image of Persian art was not a pure creation of its civilization. It was largely defined by Euro-American collectors, scholars, and dealers who shaped how it should be viewed and displayed. This volume offers novel insight into this process.
The image of Persian art was not a pure creation of its civilization. It was largely defined by Euro-American collectors, scholars, and dealers who shaped how it should be viewed and displayed. This volume offers novel insight into this process.
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The Sharing Economy
Legal Problems of a Permutations and Combinations Society
The sharing economy’s use of digital technology blurs traditional economic roles, but the legal framework is unable to cope. This book highlights where new regulations are required, with a focus on the Portuguese, Spanish, Italian, British and Brazilian contexts.
The sharing economy’s use of digital technology blurs traditional economic roles, but the legal framework is unable to cope. This book highlights where new regulations are required, with a focus on the Portuguese, Spanish, Italian, British and Brazilian contexts.
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The Shattered Mirror
Irish Literature and Film,1990-2005
This book is a response to changing representations of Irish identity during the 'Celtic Tiger' (1990-2005). Through literature and film, it interrogates widespread social change—from prosperity to multiculturalism—arguing that Irish identity changed radically.
This book is a response to changing representations of Irish identity during the ‘Celtic Tiger’ (1990-2005). Through literature and film, it interrogates widespread social change—from prosperity to multiculturalism—arguing that Irish identity changed radically.
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This book explores Sherpa culture, a distinct lifestyle preserved despite outside influence from tourism and modernisation. As the Sherpa language is oral, outside accounts often suffer from mistranslations. Written by a Sherpa, this unique work overcomes these barriers.
This book explores Sherpa culture, a distinct lifestyle preserved despite outside influence from tourism and modernisation. As the Sherpa language is oral, outside accounts often suffer from mistranslations. Written by a Sherpa, this unique work overcomes these barriers.
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The Sherwill Journals, 1840-1843
Voyages and Encounters in the Eastern Cape of Southern Africa
Newly discovered personal journals from the mid-19th century, with original illustrations. The adventurous Sherwill brothers record their travels: one explores the Eastern Cape, a land of contention between Bushman, Boer, and Briton; the other describes his eventful voyage home.
Newly discovered personal journals from the mid-19th century, with original illustrations. The adventurous Sherwill brothers record their travels: one explores the Eastern Cape, a land of contention between Bushman, Boer, and Briton; the other describes his eventful voyage home.
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The Shi’i Islamic Martyrdom Narratives of Imam al-Ḥusayn
An Introduction
Martyrdom narratives (maqtals) are a prominent Islamic literary genre, largely focused on the tragic Battle of Karbala. The first book-length treatment of this genre in English, this text explores its history from the dawn of Islam and requires little background knowledge.
Martyrdom narratives (maqtals) are a prominent Islamic literary genre, largely focused on the tragic Battle of Karbala. The first book-length treatment of this genre in English, this text explores its history from the dawn of Islam and requires little background knowledge.
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The Shifting Role of Women
From Chores to Cores
This book traces women’s journey from domestic confinement to a major public voice. It challenges the historical standards that judge women and reveals how social media has sparked the suffragette movement of the 21st century.
This book traces women’s journey from domestic confinement to a major public voice. It challenges the historical standards that judge women and reveals how social media has sparked the suffragette movement of the 21st century.
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