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James Goodman, Gareth Bryant, Linda Connor
Decarbonising Electricity

The current shift to renewable energy is dominated by globalised energy companies building large-scale wind and solar plants. This book discusses the consequences and possibilities of this shift in India,…

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Francesca Modini
Aelius Aristides and the Poetics of Lyric in Imperial Greek Culture

This book is the first study of the persistence and significance of ancient lyric in imperial Greek culture. Redefining lyric reception as a phenomenon ranging from textual engagement with ancient poems t…

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Christin Geall
Flora Culture

Groundbreaking, unique, and beautiful, Flora Culture: How Flowers Shape Our World features over 250 images from over 40 countries, taking readers on a journey across cultures and continents in search of a…

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Augustine's 'Confessions'

Augustine's Confessions, written between AD 394 and 400, is an autobiographical work which outlines his youth and his conversion to Christianity. It is one of the great texts of Late Antiquity, the first …

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Radka Nokkala Miltová
Towards the Olympian Gods

Brill Österreich Ges.m.b.H.

This book draws on extensive research into Baroque ceiling painting in Bohemia and Moravia. Three case studies of residential decoration present different representational strategies used by 17th century …

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Cynthia Gutiérrez: Inhabiting Collapse

A leading Mexican artist counters fixed cultural histories with handmade and artisanal objectsMexican artist Cynthia Gutiérrez (born 1978) is one of the leading figures of contemporary art in Mexico. Thro…

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Reba Maybury, Lucy McKenzie
Pervert or Detective?

A provocative conversation on the erotic, appropriation, power, and sex.In Pervert or Detective? , artists Reba Maybury and Lucy McKenzie dissect power, desire, and subversion in a provocative conversatio…

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Women Philosophers on Economics, Technology, Environment, and Gender History

In times of current crisis, the voices of women are needed more than ever. The accumulation of war and environmental catastrophes teaches us that exploitation of people and nature through violent appropri…

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Haun Saussy
The Making of Barbarians

A groundbreaking account of translation and identity in the Chinese literary tradition before 1850—with important ramifications for today Debates on the canon, multiculturalism, and world literature ofte…

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João Romeiro Hermeto
The Privatisation of Knowledge

This book argues that the private appropriation of human knowledge through intellectual property gives rise to power relations, which colonise the collective mind as well as individual minds. In so doing …

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Mythologizing in South Asian Traditions

This book deals with the issue of mythologizing in South Asian traditions. It brings together a number of essays dealing with the interface between mythology, gender, politics, and nationalism. The common…

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Playful Classics

This is the first book to deal exclusively with ludic interactions with classical antiquity - an understudied research area within classical reception studies - that can shed light on current processes of…

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Estelle Haan,
The Latin Poetry of Thomas Gray

In the first full-scale edition of Thomas Gray's Latin poetry, the Latin text and facing English translation are complemented by a detailed introduction and comprehensive commentary that situate Gray's La…

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Japonica Brown-Saracino
The Death and Life of Gentrification

A provocative account of what is gained and what is lost when a word that once narrowly referred to neighborhood change takes on a life all its ownSociologist Ruth Glass coined the term gentrification in …

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Pamela Krayenbuhl
White Screens, Black Dance

White Screens, Black Dance shows how several types of American masculinity were built through Black dance on mid-twentieth century film and television. It does so by analyzing case studies of major period…

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Azza El Hassan
The Afterlife of Palestinian Images

The Afterlife of Palestinian Images is a groundbreaking study of how colonial violence alters and changes visual objects - which in turn affects how a society and culture relates to its own images. Based …

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Jo Hamya
The Hypocrite

A BOOK OF THE YEAR IN TIME , THE DAILY MAIL , THE INDEPENDENT , GOOD HOUSEKEEPING AND THE ATLANTIC 'Like Edward St Aubyn and Anne Enright, Hamya is so good on generational conflict, the friction of family…

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Carmelo Esterrich
Café Tacvba's Re

33 1/3

This book is about unveiling and exploring the many layered gestures of Re.Re , the 1994 album by the Mexican group Café Tacvba, is a spectacularly unique musical object that adopts and adapts myriad musi…

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Emily Wilson
Crossing the Wine-Dark Sea

How do we give old words new voices? What must a translator lose - and might she gain - when she moves between languages, bringing ancient stories to modern life?Reflecting on the inspiration, interpretat…

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D¿gen's texts

This book addresses the question of how to properly handle D¿gen's texts, a core issue that became critical during the Meiji period in which the philosophical appropriation of D¿gen became apparent inside…

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