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David Le Breton,

Faces

The face: our most distinguishing feature, but one which remains alien to us and which hides as much as it reveals. The slightest variation in characateristics, their volume, lines and intensity, is enoug…

Leisure and Human Development

This edited volume analyses emerging trends in the world of leisure and human development from the perspectives of subjective well-being and policy development. It brings together a diverse group of autho…

Aihe Wang

Painting Into Being

Amid the political turmoil of China's Cultural Revolution, a small group of painters in Beijing defied state control, creating art in secrecy that challenged the ideological constraints of their time. Pai…

The Cultural Foundations of Early South American Societies

The Cultural Foundations of Early South American Societies examines the remarkable transformation of the Central Andes and the tropical Amazon beginning around 7000 BCE, when the Indigenous inhabitants be…

Culture Shock

Attention Span

Cultural Legacies of Slavery in Modern Spain

The first book-length study to address the impact of the legacies of slavery on Spanish cultural representations and institutions.

Catherine Grant

Sounding Good

Like biological species and languages, many musical and other cultural practices around the world are at risk. In some cases, the threat to their future is due to social inequalities or injustices that im…

The Social Life of Things

The contributors to this volume examine how things are sold and traded in a variety of social and cultural settings, both present and past. Bridging the disciplines of social history, cultural anthropolog…

Cultural Heritage-Based Sustainable Tourism Approaches

This book leads us into the crossing of cultural heritage, sustainability, and tourism. As global challenges surrounding environmental degradation and cultural decay intensify, this book carries together …

Diogo Monzo

Distributed Free Improvisation

This book presents a new model to visualize and understand the creative process in free improvisation: the Interactive Dimensions of the Creative Flow (IDCF). Drawing on theoretical work on distributed cr…

Anna Fishzon, Ian Beilin

Fin de Siècle Europe

An examination of the most significant social, artistic, intellectual, and political developments in Europe at the turn of the 20th century (1870 to 1914), Fin de Siècle Europe provides a comprehensive ap…

An Unlikely Trajectory

Examines various case studies to provide a multifaceted understanding of Taiwan's literary and cultural leftism, emphasizing its transnational, diverse, and highly malleable nature.An Unlikely Trajectory …

Connecting Science Education with Cultural Heritage

This edited volume presents groundbreaking research in science education, focusing on the intersection of science and cultural heritage. Showcasing 23 high-quality studies, it draws from presentations at …

A Cultural History of Ideas in the Renaissance

PRAISE FOR A CULTURAL HISTORY OF IDEAS: VOLUMES 1-6 A 2024 CHOICE OUTSTANDING ACADEMIC TITLE 2023 AAP PROSE AWARDS WINNER: BEST HUMANITIES REFERENCE WORKThe Renaissance is famous as a period of intellectu…

Shakespeare and Comics

From their inception, 'low culture' comics have intersected with the 'high culture' of Shakespeare. This is the first book-length collection dedicated entirely to the exploration of this collision.Its cha…

A Cultural History of Insects in the Renaissance

A Cultural History of Insects in the Renaissance covers the period from 1300 to 1600, examining the profound impact of insects on the flowering of culture. In the early part of this period, the unpreceden…

Anna Fishzon, Ian Beilin

Fin de Siècle Europe

An examination of the most significant social, artistic, intellectual, and political developments in Europe at the turn of the 20th century (1870 to 1914), Fin de Siècle Europe provides a comprehensive ap…

Katrin Nahidi

The Cultural Politics of Art in Iran

"In a key contribution to postcolonial art history, Katrin Nahidi offers a comprehensive study of Iranian modernist art since the 1950s. Using extensive fieldwork, interviews, and archival research, …

Christian Kjellvander

About Love And Loving Again

Das neue Album des schwedischen Singer-Songwriters überzeugt durch seine tiefe Ruhe, komplexes Songwriting und Intimität und feiert seine wunderbar verwundbare Wahrhaftigkeit. Christian Kjellvander hat »A…