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Qi Ai
Feng Xiaogang's New Year Films

This book offers not only an in-depth study of Feng Xiaogang as a cinematic auteur but also a comprehensive and informative discussion of the industrial transformation of mainstream Chinese cinema under p…

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Danielle Alesi
Eating Animals in the Early Modern Atlantic World

Eating Animals in the Early Modern Atlantic World: Consuming Empire, 1492-1700 examines how the perceived edibility of animals evolved during the colonization of the Americas. Early European colonizers at…

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Hadi Baghaei-Abchooyeh
Beyond Orientalism

This volume examines the enduring legacy of Sir William Jones, a seminal figure in the intellectual exchange between East and West during the Enlightenment.

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Sara Burdorff
Maternity, Monstrosity, and Heroic (Im)mortality from Homer to Shakespeare

This work uses an adaptation of monster theory to rethink the foundations of epic-heroic immortality. Rather than focusing on a specific monster or monsters, the author identifies the "belly-monstrou…

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Mathieu Caesar
The Uncertain World of Renaissance Geneva and Savoy

Uncertainty and instability affected Geneva and the Duchy of Savoy since the mid-fifteenth century. French and Swiss expansionism had turned Savoy into part of a long geopolitical fault line, running from…

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Esther Captain, Onno Sinke
Resonance of Violence

Views the terrifying Bersiap period against the backdrop of the violent first phase of the Indonesian National Revolution.

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Alexis Culotta
The Frescoed Facade in Renaissance Roman Visual Culture

This book examines Roman façades decorated with fresco and sgraffito between the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries that once enveloped the central rioni of Rome within a web of symbolic social, political,…

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Dominique Darmon
Have I Got Dirt For You

Even though office gossip is generally frowned upon, many studies show that gossip in organizations is not only inevitable, but can even be a positive communication tool. However, by gossiping in the wron…

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Olivia Dear, Sarah Dear
Behaviour in the Classroom

Behaviour in the Classroom, The Practical Guide is for any teacher who wants to make their classroom environment a better one for children to learn in. Olivia Dear and Sarah Dear, drawing on their diverse…

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Dirk van Delft, Elisa Pesapane
What if...?

Antoni van Leeuwenhoek and Johannes Vermeer were roughly the same age, they were extremely curious and they grew up in the bustling city of Delft in the seventeenth century. Nowadays, they are world famou…

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Miguel Ibanez Aristondo
Ecological Imperialism in Early Modern Spanish Narratives

How are the environmental conflicts of our time intertwined with the legacies of Spanish imperialism and early modern globalization? In Ecological Imperialism in Early Modern Spanish Narratives: Excavatin…

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Frank Ijpma, Thomas van Gulik
Amsterdam Anatomy Lessons Dissected

In the 'Anatomy lessons' that were painted for the Surgeons' Guild in Amsterdam, the surgeons portrayed, their teachers, the corpse and the dissection are described and discussed.

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Jerome Jamin
L'Imaginaire du Complot

This book explores the importance of conspiracy rhetoric within populist and far right speeches in Europe and the United States. It shows how a "New World Order" plot give to populist and far ri…

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Bert Lamers
MS Rotterdam

Five weeks after the withdrawal of the legendary 'Rotterdam' (V), Holland America Line introduced the 'Rotterdam' (VI) in November 1997. With her gross tonnage of 59.652 she was and still is a remarkable …

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Remy Limpach,
Stumbling in the Dark

A thorough analysis of the Dutch-Indonesian battle for intelligence.

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Menno A. Mennes
Motivation - Mechanisms of the Mind and their Quest for Expression

This Volume presents a first introduction to a thought-provoking Model of Motivation developed by Menno Mennes over a period of almost thirty years. The Model of Motivation in its approach presents a radi…

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Ian Neary
Soeda and the Making of Modern Japan

Soeda's story provides insights into the last thousand years of Japanese history. It was the location of a strategically important castle, Ganjakujo, from the twelfth century until its destruction by Toyo…

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Hillary Nunn
Recipes on the Move in Early Modern England and British North America

Using feminist and ecocritical approaches alongside recent historical work on early modern trade and commerce, this volume focuses on early modern manuscripts whose travels can be traced from one location…

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Marco Papasidero
Thefts of Relics in Italy

With the birth of the cult of the saints, their relics became valuables whose possession would guarantee prestige, protection, and spiritual benefits to a town, church, or monastery. For this reason--at f…

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Herman Paul
Virtues and Vices in the Nineteenth-Century Humanities

What do scholars do when they talk about virtues (impartiality, accuracy) or vices (dogmatism, prejudice)? Against the common view that such high-minded talk is largely irrelevant to actual scholarly prac…

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