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Afua Hirsch

Decolonising My Body

'Celebrates women how they are, as they are' GILLIAN ANDERSON 'There's something on every page of this book that you didn't know before' SATHNAM SANGHERA 'Brave and honest' ELIF SHAFAK A global exploratio…

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…

Cultural Heritage Preservation for Vulnerable Territories

This book frames the many-sided fragilities of the Ghoufi Canyon (Aurès region, Algeria)'s heritage. It originates from a long international cooperation between Politecnico di Milano (Italy), dealing with…

Colonial Cyprus

An original, innovative, and timely study on the cultural history of Cyprus under British rule, offering a new interpretative framework for studying the island's colonial past. The book focuses on the oft…

A Cultural History of Mathematics in Antiquity

A Cultural History of Mathematics in Antiquity covers the period from 3000 BCE to 500 CE, exploring the great richness and diversity of mathematical thought and activity across the ancient world. Our mode…

Klaus Mundt

Teaching the Translation of Cultural Items

This book provides concrete pedagogical suggestions for teaching the translation of cultural items, including so-called 'untranslatables'. It is underpinned by sound educational theory and empirical data,…

Culture Club

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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…

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…

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…

Wolfgang Müller-Funk,

Cruelty

In a humane world, cruelty should not exist, and yet it has been a feature of our societies since time immemorial. From individual acts of cruelty to systematic torture and mass murder, cruelty has been h…

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.

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 …

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…

Trauma y memoria cultural

Hispanic cultures are profoundly shaped by traumas caused by conquest, slavery, wars, dictatorship, guerilla rebellions, revolutions, migration, and exile. The contributions in this volume shed light on t…

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…

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…

Culture

Two Sevens Clash

2023 wieder erhältlich: Das berühmteste Album der Band von 1977 wird jetzt offiziell als LP im Original-Coverartwork wiederveröffentlicht! Hier handelt es sich um einen echten Klassiker der in keiner Viny…

Cultural Memory in Republican and Augustan Rome

Cultural memory theory explains why, how, and with what results we remember. This book explores these questions in relation to late Republican and Augustan Rome and provides an excellent and accessible st…