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A Cultural History of Translation

How has our relationship with translation changed for different cultures over the centuries? What effect has it had on politics, art and religion?In a work that spans 2,500 years these ambitious questions…

A Cultural History of Beauty

What do we mean when we talk about human beauty? How have shifting ideas about beauty related to the construction of social class, race, gender and other markers of difference? How have individuals sought…

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Christian Frost

Architecture and Cultural Continuity

"Bridging together architecture and festival, ritual and community, past and present, Architecture and Cultural Continuity provides an interdisciplinary philosophical framework for evaluating archite…

Josef Herget

Digitalization and Cultural Change

Digitalization and Cultural ChangeThis book illustrates the importance of cultural change in the digitalization of companies and organizations. This affects not only work processes and the design of new w…

John Stokes

The Cultural Lives of Greyhounds

This book aims to enhance our intellectual understanding of the relationship between human beings and domestic animals, with a focus on a specific breed of dog: the greyhound. It combines literary critici…

Esra Yaghi, Roger Barnard

Cultural Identities in Transition

This book explores the social, educational and linguistic acculturation of a group of Saudi wives and mothers sojourning in New Zealand while their husbands undertook full time study. The book explores th…

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791)

Symphonien Nr.35 & 36 ("Haffner" & "Linzer")

Daniel Barenboim (Klavier & Leitung), Radek Baborak, Berliner Philharmoniker

Music as Cultural Text

African music's most distinctive feature is the urbatextuality that transpires through its diversity and plural functions and the specific geographical, cultural, religious, linguistic, political, economi…

Cultural Studies in the Interregnum

Forthcoming Spring 2025

Yohtaro Takano

Cultural Stereotype and Its Hazards

Although it is widely believed that Japanese people are typical collectivists compared to individualistic Westerners, this view is not supported by empirical research. Employing 'Japanese collectivism' as…

Interactive Media for Cultural Heritage

The aim of this edited book is to provide a point of reference for the latest advancements in the different fields of interactive media applied in Digital Cultural Heritage research, ranging from visual d…

Christian Frost

Architecture and Cultural Continuity

"Bridging together architecture and festival, ritual and community, past and present, Architecture and Cultural Continuity provides an interdisciplinary philosophical framework for evaluating archite…

A Cultural History of Chemistry in Antiquity

Explores the chemical arts in the long period from 3000 BCE to 600 CE, when chemical artisans, recipes and ideas were exchanged between Mesopotamia, Egypt, Phoenicia, Greece, Rome and Byzantium. Also avai…

Joseph Conrad's Cultural Legacy

"In 2024 the literary community commemorates the 100th anniversary of the death of Joseph Conrad. This volume of collected essays by leading critics and scholars in the field of Conrad studies as wel…

Christoph W. Rosenthal, Andreas Poggel

Telotopia

Telotopia is a cultural-architectural model of a socially stable and just, ecologically sustainable, rich in culture, and desirable culture of the future.This design is based on findings in human evolutio…

Women and Transnational Cultural Exchange

Focusing on the international circulation of culture and ideas by women in the early modern period through the long eighteenth century, this book amplifies their presence in history, finding new ways to e…

Cultural History and the Anthropocene

This open access collection is a comprehensive analysis of the challenges and contributions of cultural history to contemporary and cross-disciplinary discussions of the Anthropocene.

Cultural Security in Contemporary China and Mongolia

Cultural Security in Contemporary China and Mongolia applies the term "cultural security" not exclusively to state- or institution-implemented processes, but also considers the indigenous, botto…