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Jewish History and Culture Beyond Borders

Exploring and challenging the academic lifework of Professor Joachim Schlör, this book provides a window into current developments and debates in Jewish cultural studies . Reflecting on Schlör's biographi…

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Modernism Revisited

"This book delves into modernism, addressing its intricate relationship with the socio-political, philosophical, and cultural upheavals of the late 19th and early 20th centuries"-- Provided by p…

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Mary Anne Hunting, Kevin D Murphy
Women Architects at Work

"The first comprehensive history of the role of women architects within the history of American modernism"--

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Jelena Subotic
The Art of Status

An illuminating exploration of the relationship between the restitution of looted art, global status, and the international construction of national cultural heritage.

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Hetta Howes
Poet, Mystic, Widow, Wife

"Brilliantly revealing history of medieval women . . . Howes's debut has just the right meld of insightful research, enjoyable storytelling and contemporary contexts."--The Guardian"A histo…

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Karen Bloom Gevirtz
The Apothecary's Wife

"A lively medical, scientific, and economic history."--Kirkus Reviews (Starred Review) Best Nonfiction Books of 2024, Kirkus Reviews"A timely reminder that the current greed-based healthcar…

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Curating Socialism

Curating Socialism takes a rare look into the world of international art exhibitions organized by socialist states between 1947-1989.The handbook examines the mechanisms, relationships, and international …

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Vin Nardizzi
Marvellous Vegetables in the English Renaissance

John Gerard's natural history of plants, The Herball (1597), is considered a failure in the history of science. Despite this reputation, it has endured as an aesthetic resource. Its illustrations were use…

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Printing the Event

Printing the Event explores the relationship between events and the printing press from its advent around 1450 to ca. 1515. Beginning with the fall of Constantinople in 1453, the most diverse events were …

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Martha Robinson Rhodes
Bisexuality and Beyond

Historians of sexuality agree that the binary divide between gay and straight is a relatively recent social invention, only becoming dominant around the mid-twentieth-century. But focus on this binary has…

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Sarah Valentine
Decoding the Devil

As groundbreaking as Code Girls and Hidden Figures, this is the shocking true story of two segregated codebreaking units racing to unlock Stalin's atomic secrets in the face of a rapidly expanding Soviet …

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Tobin Sprout

Empty Horses

Der Künstler, Illustrator, Autor und Lo-Fi-Innovator Tobin Sprout war der superproduktive Partner von Robert Pollard bei den legendären Guided By Voices. Der begnadete Songwriter kehrt mit seinem nachdenk…

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Richard Cavell
Mediatic Shakespeare

Shakespeare produced his works during a media shift that was unmatched -- until our own.Mediatic Shakespeare by media theorist Richard Cavell examines how Shakespeare's writing engaged with the cultural u…

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Benjamin Mangrum
The Comedy of Computation

"In this cultural history of the computer, Benjamin Mangrum shows that comedy has been central to how we've made sense of the technology's sweeping effects on public life and private experience. From…

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Benjamin Mangrum
The Comedy of Computation

"In this cultural history of the computer, Benjamin Mangrum shows that comedy has been central to how we've made sense of the technology's sweeping effects on public life and private experience. From…

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The China Questions 2

The China Questions 2 assembles top experts to explore key issues in US-China relations today, including conflict over Taiwan, economic and military competition, public health concerns, and areas of coope…

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Martha Schwendener
The Society of the Screen

How a lifelong engagement with experimental art informed the brilliant Czech-Brazilian philosopher Vilém Flusser's early vision of a world dominated by glowing screens.Predicting the importance of technol…

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Megan C Reynolds
Like

"A comprehensive and thought-provoking investigation into one of the most polarizing words in the English language"--

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Galen's Remedies in the Early Modern Period

Palgrave Studies in Medieval and Early Modern Medicine

Surviving the demise of his humoral pathology and anatomy, Galen's works on simple and compound remedies (the so-called 'galenicals') formed the backbone of Western pharmacology up until the Industrial Re…

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Ambient Stories in Practice and Research

From a range of academic and practice-led perspectives, this book explores how a combination of place-based writing and location-based technologies are producing new kinds of experimental ambient literary…

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