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Qi Ai
Feng Xiaogang's New Year Films

This book offers not only an in-depth study of Feng Xiaogang as a cinematic auteur but also a comprehensive and informative discussion of the industrial transformation of mainstream Chinese cinema under p…

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Danielle Alesi
Alesi, D: Eating Animals in the Early Modern Atlantic World

This book examines how the perceived edibility of animals evolved during the colonization of the Americas. Early European colonizers ate a variety of animals in the Americas, motivated by factors like cur…

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Undrah Baasanjav
Information Society and Media Development in Modern Mongolia

This book provides an account of Mongolian information society from the perspective of critical media studies. The converged media sphere in modern Mongolia mirrors and shapes political communication, eco…

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Hadi Baghaei-Abchooyeh
Beyond Orientalism

This volume examines the enduring legacy of Sir William Jones, a seminal figure in the intellectual exchange between East and West during the Enlightenment.

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Elisabeth Busse-Wilson,
St. Elisabeth of Thuringia

Only twelve years after German women had been granted voting rights, the German medievalist Elisabeth Busse-Wilson, a first-wave feminist activist and scholar, challenged centuries of silence about violen…

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Mathieu Caesar
The Uncertain World of Renaissance Geneva and Savoy

Uncertainty and instability affected Geneva and the Duchy of Savoy since the mid-fifteenth century. French and Swiss expansionism had turned Savoy into part of a long geopolitical fault line, running from…

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Esther Captain, Onno Sinke
Resonance of Violence

Views the terrifying Bersiap period against the backdrop of the violent first phase of the Indonesian National Revolution.

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Fabio Carminati, Andrea Mariani
Weapon Manufacture and Authority on the Frontier of Late and Post-Roman Italy

This monograph presents a microstudy of a crucially important and profoundly revealing location: the territory around the modern city of Lecco, which lies on the eastern branch of Lake Como, in Lombardy (…

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Hong Chen
Chinese Labour Migration in the Digital Media Context

What does it mean to a family when parents go abroad for economic gains while leaving their children behind? How do they maintain a family when living in different areas, separated for years? How do emerg…

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Chien-Peng Chung
Competing Nationalisms in China's Borderlands

This book endeavors to provide a balanced analytical treatment of ethnic nationalists, state leaders, and foreign intervenors in China's frontier politics, explaining systematically the circumstances of t…

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Alin Ciupalã
Women in Romania's First World War

In August 1916, the Kingdom of Romania (Wallachia and Moldova) entered the First World War, leading in 1918 to a union with Transylvania and Bessarabia. Alin Ciupalã's book considers the contribution of w…

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Greg De Cuir
Yugoslav Black Wave

Yugoslav Black Wave was originally published in 2011 by Film Center Serbia. At that time it was the first comprehensive study of the Black Wave to appear in English and is still one of the rare monographs…

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Alexis Culotta
The Frescoed Façade in Renaissance Roman Visual Culture

This book examines Roman façades decorated with fresco and sgraffito between the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries that once enveloped the central rioni of Rome within a web of symbolic social, political,…

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Dominique Darmon
Have I Got Dirt for You

Even though office gossip is generally frowned upon, many studies show that gossip in organizations is not only inevitable, but can even be a positive communication tool. However, by gossiping in the wron…

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Olivia Dear, Sarah Dear
Behaviour in the Classroom

Behaviour in the Classroom, The Practical Guide is for any teacher who wants to make their classroom environment a better one for children to learn in. Olivia Dear and Sarah Dear, drawing on their diverse…

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Lucas van der Deijl
Translating the New Philosophy in the Dutch Early Enlightenment (1640-1720)

A small group of freethinkers from the Dutch Republic played a key role in the major intellectual changes of the Early Enlightenment (1640-1720). In the wake of Cartesianism, their rationalist ideas trans…

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Claudia Goldstein
Beuckelaer and the Art of Dining

Sixteenth-century Flemish painter Joachim Beuckelaer produced dozens of large-scale paintings of contemporary working women and men selling, presenting, and preparing a visually stunning array of foodstuf…

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Dag Nikolaus Hasse
What Is European?

It is common to define Europe by its democratic, scientific, religious, and cultural traditions. But in What is European?, Dag Nikolaus Hasse argues that the search for Europe's essence has taken a troubl…

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Prue Holstein
The German Experience of Japan's Treaty Port System

German merchants were attracted to the British Empire's spheres of influence in northeast Asia from the 1700s. Their numbers increased when Britain established a network of treaty ports in China from 1842…

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Edwin Hoogschagen
B-32 Dominator

The Consolidated B-32 Dominator was a powerful American bomber used by the U.S. Army Air Forces during World War II. Notably, it holds the distinction of being the last Allied aircraft to see combat in th…

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