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This book draws on the fields of media archaeology, performance studies, and sound studies to explore the various modes of communication that can be uncovered from the long American folk revival.

This book draws on art history, anthropology, and gender studies to explore the disciplinary and didactic role of the images, as well as their relationship to important papal projects at the Vatican.

This book draws new connections between twentieth-century German and French film theory and practice and vitalist conceptions of life from biology and philosophy.

These books aim to present a synthesis of the currently available syntactic knowledge of the Hungarian language.

The book analyses migrant experiences of illegality in Turkey and Morocco by taking into account how both countries responded to increasing pressure by the European Union to govern irregular migration within their territories.

These books aim to present a synthesis of the currently available syntactic knowledge of the Hungarian language.

By examining medieval female saints' lives in dialogue with modern film theories, a trans-historical spectrum of visual experience is revealed: medieval saint and modern moviegoer are connected in the visual act.

This book brings together a team of scholars representing a broad range of interests and new approaches in medieval studies to explore the interactions of secular power and sacral authority in central and southeastern Europe in the period.

This book is the first in English on the Yugoslav Black Wave, and it offers an analysis of the movement, its key players, its sociopolitical engagement, and its place in the larger story of European modernism.

This is the first book-length study of Morrison's work, covering the whole of his career.

This book brings together a stellar roster of contributors to present a close analysis of Metz's writings, their theoretical and epistemological positions, and their ongoing influence today.

This book builds on more than a decade of fieldwork, providing an unprecedented overview of urban and rural development in the late medieval period.

This book is one of the first to examine medieval Spanish canonical works for their portrayals of disability in relationship to theological teachings, legal precepts, and medical knowledge.

The first work to address the end of Roman Hispania and the emergence of Medieval Spain from a principally archaeological perspective

This book describes how accelerators, the 'schools of startup entrepreneurship', help startups to become successful companies in Silicon Valley, the world's most successful innovation region.

A historical analysis of manners of representation of Byzantine emperors and patriarchs in the Short History of Nikephoros of Constantinople in the context of late 8th century Byzantine iconodule ecclesiology.

This book integrates nationalism studies with iterary and linguistic history by highlighting scholarly study of the Dutch language as a factor in the creation of the national identity.

Rossella Catanese brings in avant-garde artists and their manifestos to show how painters and other artists turned to cinema as a model for overcoming the inherently static nature of painting in order to rethink it for a new era.

The landscape biography of the Carlsberg site contributes to a refined understanding that can take many aspects of an industrial site into account in future redevelopment processes.

This volume takes an interdisciplinary approach to distinguishing and analysing several different types of linguistic and foreign cultural policie pursued by European monarchies and states outside their own borders.

In this accessible, unique study of a forgotten but noteworthy figure, the author tells the story of the life of Kurt Baschwitz (1886-1968), a scholar who fled from the Nazis.

This book focuses on northeast Sino-Russian border economies and how trans-border economies function in practice, often across great distances, despite widespread mistrust.

This book examines radical media ecologies as guerrilla networks, emphasising the proximity and inseparability of radical media and political practices.

This books offers a new view of Eugenius III, an under-appreciated pope who came to power as a relative unknown during a time of crisis, and the place of the church in a rapidly changing European society.

The scholars in this book, from the fields of physics, psychology, and social sciences, discuss the direction and urgency of the changes in our current understanding of reality.

This author of this book argues that while generally ulamas, or religious teachers, had to support state ideologies, they sometimes succeeded in YcapturingOE the state by influencing policies in their favour.

This multidisciplinary book analyses the contradictory coexistence of consumerism and environmentalism in contemporary Japan.

These preeminent translations of ten canonical Dutch poems discuss each poem's historical context, revealing its political or ideological framing, religious elements, or the self-representational interests of the poet.

Exhaustive coverage of the emergence and development of political Islam and Islamic state

Analyses of the political and ideological transformation of Hizbullah