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The Archangel Michael Beyond Orthodoxy

This open access book explores the various manifestations of the archangel Michael in history, politics, and popular culture. One of the most venerated intermediate beings of the belief systems of all Chr…

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Timothy G Roufs
Cannibalism Around the World

From a necessary act of survival to some of the most disturbing crimes in history to its often sensationalized and misunderstood role in certain cultures, cannibalism remains a fascinating yet taboo topic…

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Jinsoo Park
Korean Moon Jars

The first English-language book to explore the history of the Korean moon jar and how leading potters now pay homage to its principles.

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Maria Rita Corticelli
The Kakais of Iraq

The Kakais are a Kurdish-speaking indigenous population belonging to the Yarsan religion, originating from the Zagros Mountains in present-day Northern Iraq. There are currently around 200,000 Kakais in I…

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Mark F Sohn
Appalachian Home Cooking

Mark F. Sohn's classic book, Mountain Country Cooking, was a James Beard Award nominee in 1997. In Appalachian Home Cooking, Sohn expands and improves upon his earlier work by using his extensive knowledg…

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Roy Christopher
The Grand Allusion

By tracing allusion use from its religious roots to internet memes, The Grand Allusion presents a new way to understand pop culture.The use of allusions represents an important way we employ our cultural …

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New Perspectives on the Hellenistic Peloponnese

This volume fills a gap in current research on the Hellenistic Peloponnese, complementing and challenging traditional interpretations by adopting new perspectives on its complex social and political histo…

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Fatimid Cosmopolitanism

This book examines the diverse achievements of the Fatimid dynasty across religion, statecraft and art.

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Fatimid Cosmopolitanism

I.B. Tauris in association with the Institute of Ismaili Studies has published the following work as open access. The Fatimid caliphs (297-567/909-1171), who were also the Ismaili Imams, reigned over a va…

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Globalising Welsh Studies

A collection of multidisciplinary essays that place Wales in a global context.Globalising Welsh Studies is the first offering in the University of Wales Press?s new series Race, Ethnicity, Wales and the W…

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A Companion to Ancient Agriculture

A COMPANION TO ANCIENT AGRICULTUREAn authoritative overview of agricultural development in the ancient worldA Companion to Ancient Agriculture investigates the history and development of agriculture in th…

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Kate Brown
Tiny Gardens Everywhere

This manifesto for the next food revolution by acclaimed environmental historian Kate Brown speaks to nature lovers, food activists, social-justice warriors, urban planners, WOOFers, and the climate-conce…

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Frank Krutnik
Thrillers, Chillers, and Killers

Thrillers, Chillers, and Killers is the first book to explore in detail noir storytelling in cinema and on radio. Arguing that radio's noir dramas were a counterpart to, influence on, or a spin-off from t…

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Frank Krutnik
Thrillers, Chillers, and Killers

Thrillers, Chillers, and Killers is the first book to explore in detail noir storytelling in cinema and on radio. Arguing that radio's noir dramas were a counterpart to, influence on, or a spin-off from t…

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Colm McAuliffe
Film, in Theory

"Film, in Theory tells the story of Paddy Whannel and Peter Wollen's revolutionary work at the BFI's Education Department and how this led to the establishment of film studies, theory and education i…

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Branko Milanovic
The World Under Capitalism

Branko Milanovic is best known as one of the world's leading experts on global inequality. But he is also an unusually wide-ranging and penetrating commentator on subjects across economics and beyond, in …

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David King Dunaway
A Four-Eyed World

A fun and informative cultural history of glasses that explores their origins, stigmas, future in technology, and more.Eyeglasses have become so commonplace we hardly think about them-unless we can't find…

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Daniel Rood
In the Shadow of the Great House

We imagine the plantation-the big house, the slave quarters, the vast cotton fields-as situated firmly in the American past. Yet as historian Daniel Rood shows, the plantation is still very much with us. …

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Olivia Levin
The Story of Us

We've had the time of our lives as Swifties, and now that story---full of joy, friendship, connection, clowning, and singing at the top of our lungs---is documented in this tribute to the fandom and the r…

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Julia Tischler
Cultivating Race

Cultivating Race explores the rise of scientific knowledge in farming in South Africa and ways in which it informed - or was informed by - questions of race in the first half of the twentieth century.

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