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Teaching the Mexican Revolution

Essays on the Mexican Revolution and its literary and cultural legaciesThe Mexican Revolution lives on in literature, film, song, and popular culture. An enduring part of the cultural memory of Mexican an…

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Lara Hawthorne,
Ratty's Big Adventure

In this beautifully illustrated picture book from Lara Hawthorne, a mysterious creature from a secluded volcano crater explores the outside world for the very first time . . . but it is not what he expect…

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Teaching and Learning in Higher Education

This book addresses key spheres of teaching and learning in higher education from the dual vantage points of educators in the UK and China. It covers awide range of teaching topics, methods, and approache…

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Customary International Law and Its Interpretation by International Courts

It is notorious that international courts and tribunals have greatly contributed to the development of customary international law (CIL) by, for instance, articulating the constituent elements of custom a…

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St John Henry Newman
Newman on Lent

St. John Henry Newman, regarded as the most important English theologian of the nineteenth century, poignantly reflects on the thoughts that tormented Jesus as a result of His friends' betrayals and the a…

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Henry C Whitney,
Lincoln the Citizen, February 12, 1809 to March 4, 1861

"Written by a longtime friend and ally, Lincoln the Citizen offers a rare character study and insightful biography of Lincoln before he became president. Michael Burlingame restores material cut by e…

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Arturo Chang
A New World of Revolutions

The hemispheric politics that shaped popular revolutions against European colonial ruleIn A New World of Revolutions , Arturo Chang reconstructs the histories, politics, and legacies of the Age of Revolut…

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Sustainable Additive Technologies and Innovative Manufacturing Techniques

This book offers a unique vantage point on converting ideas into products using additive manufacturing. Intended for novice and beginner designers, the process of industrial design is explained in order t…

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Japanese Perspectives on Kazuo Ishiguro

This collection of essays offers new perspectives from Japan on Nobel Prize-winning author Kazuo Ishiguro. It analyses the Japanese-born British author from the vantage point of his birthplace, showing ho…

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Prodesse et delectare

The Horatian formula prodesse et delectare was extremely influential in the production of texts across various languages and genres. While indeed didactic elements can be attested to in almost any medieva…

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At the Frontiers of Everyday Life

The book provides a critical analysis of the geographies of everyday life, looking at how spatial practices craft w(r)iggle room to cope with the boundaries saturated by normativity, power relations, and …

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Sebastian Copeland
The Arctic

"With his unrivaled photography taken during multiple expeditions, Sebastian Copeland transports us to the Arctic to share the heart of the polar cap as never before seen. The Arctic is one of two of…

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Hundreds of Little Wars

From Texas to Virginia, towns, regions, counties, regiments, prisons, and even refugee camps played a significant role in shaping the contours of the Civil War. According to historian Daniel E. Sutherland…

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Gregory Smits
The Ryukyu Islands

The first comprehensive history of the Ryukyu Islands region in English.The Ryukyu Islands between Japan and Taiwan consist of around 160 islands and are home to about 1.5 million inhabitants. Across the …

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Raymond Patton
In-Between Empire

Exploring how Polish writers positioned themselves as neither colonized nor colonizers, In-Between Empire analyses their literary works on empire during the 19th and 20th centuries to explore how they neg…

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Steve Eichhorn, Leon Tikly, Madhu Krishnan
Can Higher Education be Decolonised

This open access book critically reflects on what it has meant to embark on a process of decolonising higher education at a Global North institution - namely the University of Bristol - and the real-world…

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Peter Berger
Subaltern Sovereigns

The vast and ancient topic of kingship in India has mostly been studied from the perspectives of rulers and other elites. But what constitutes sovereignty viewed from "below"? This book, ethnogr…

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Hao Wu
(Suffering) for the Family

From the vantage point of rural grandparents' mediated structure of feelings, this book explores changing family intimacy and dynamics in contemporary rural China in relation to media. Based on a 10-month…

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Steven Salaita
An Honest Living

An exiled professor's journey from inside and beyond academeIn the summer of 2014, Steven Salaita was fired from a tenured position in American Indian Studies at the University of Illinois for his unwaver…

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Yigal Levin
The Chronicles of David and Solomon

The book of Chronicles, the last book of the Hebrew Bible and a central historical book of the Christian Old Testament, has in recent decades gone from being "the Cinderella of biblical studies"…

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