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A Cultural History of Chemistry in the Eighteenth Century

Sets the progress of science and technology in its cultural context during the period often described as a "chemical revolution" from 1700-1815.

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Messy Cities

Can messiness make our cities more liveable, lively, and inclusive?Crowded streets, sidewalk vendors, jumbled architecture, constant clamour, graffitied walls, parks gone wild: are these signs of a poorly…

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Alfredo E Cárdenas
Duval County Tejanos

Showcases Tejanos engaged in community life: they organized politically, cultivated land, and promoted agriculture, livestock raising, the local economy, churches, schools, patriotic celebrations, and soc…

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Zooarchaeology Beyond Human Subsistence

"Exploring new insights that zooarchaeological study can provide beyond mere matters of survival"-- Provided by publisher.

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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…

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Rahman
Honor and Political Imagination

In Honor and Political Imagination, Smita A. Rahman reckons with the enduring power of honor in contemporary political and popular culture and the desire for heroism that accompanies it, while attending t…

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Joseph Odùmósù,
Book of Healing

The first book-length study of YorÙbÁ therapeutics, encompassing thousands of remedies for more than 160 different ailments,ÌwÉ ÌwÒsÀn (Book of Healing ) was originally published in 1910 by Ìjẹ̀bÚ healer,…

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Eeva Kuikka
Human-Animal Relations in the Indigenous Literatures of the Soviet North

This open access book examines how Indigenous authors from the Soviet North reflect the impact of Soviet settler colonialism on Indigenous communities in the region through literary engagement with human-…

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Design and the Vernacular

Addresses the relevance and role of vernacular architecture to contemporary urban planning and architectural practice using case studies across Australasia and Oceania.

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Kate Smith
Keeping Hold

What did it mean to possess something - or someone - in eighteenth-century Britain? What was the relationship between owning things and a person's character and reputation, and even their sense of self? A…

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Kate Smith
Keeping Hold

What did it mean to possess something - or someone - in eighteenth-century Britain? What was the relationship between owning things and a person's character and reputation, and even their sense of self? A…

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Isabel Gutiérrez Sánchez
Infrastructures of Caring Citizenship

Infrastructures of Caring Citizenshipexamines instances of collective struggle and (re)organization of social reproduction against the backdrop of the crisis that followed the international banking crash …

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Marco Bernini, Ben Alderson-Day
Dreams, Narrative, and Liminal Cognition

Dreams have been fascinating multiple disciplines for centuries, from philosophy and literature to contemporary cognitive science. Why we dream remains an enduring mystery, but cognitive research on dream…

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Archaeology, Heritage, and Reactionary Populism

This volume explores how populist movements and politics present new challenges to public archaeologists, using global examples to propose practical forms of community engagement amid increasing polarizat…

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Frank Bruni
The Age of Grievance

From Frank Bruni, longtime columnist for the New York Times and four-time bestselling author, The Age of Grievanceis an examination of the way that grievance has come to define our popular culture and our…

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Nadine Shaanta Murshid
Intimacies of Violence

In Intimacies of Violence, Nadine Shaanta Murshid demonstrates how transnational middle-class Bangladeshi women personally embody structural violence to shed light on the ways in which violence is produce…

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Freak Inheritance

In Freak Inheritance , both leading authors and emerging voices use cutting-edge disability and cultural theories to expose the operations of eugenicist thought in historical and contemporary culture. It …

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David Omotoso Stovall
Engineered Conflict

A hard-hitting exploration of how state policy displaces and isolates Black communities and how collective resistance creates spaces for working-class people of color to identify the true cause of conflic…

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The Oxford Guide to the Atlantic Languages of West Africa

This volume is the first book-length overview of the Atlantic languages, a small family of languages spoken mainly on the Atlantic coast of West Africa. It is an essential tool for linguists interested in…

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Diletta de Cristofaro
Sleep and Its Meanings

A wide-ranging collection exploring the many meanings of sleep, within the context of the humanities and social sciences.Sleep has been an object of specialized medical research for more than a century no…

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