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Climate Change in Regional Perspective : European Union and Latin American In…
This Open Access book addresses climate change in Europe and Latin America from a comparative regionalism studies (CRS) perspective. Written by an international team of scholars and experts, chapters critically analyze proposals for mitigating climate change while contributing to the mutual understanding about the issues at stake across regions. The book is divided into three main sections. In …
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- 978-3-031-49329-4
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- XIV, 190
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- United Nations University Series on Regionalism (UNSR, volume 27)
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- 333 CLI
Samuel Johnson's Lives of the Poets
This open access book seeks to explain how the literary commentary of the Lives of the Poets speaks to us today because of its ethical goals. Edward Tomarken elucidates this element of Johnson’s literary criticism by using Ralph Cohen’s genre method, the topic of Chapter One, “Why Genre”. Chapters two to five address the most prevalent genres of the Lives: tragedy, metaphysical poetry, …
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- 978-3-031-61842-0
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- oer.unej.ac.id
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- Palgrave Studies in the Enlightenment, Romanticism and Cultures of Print
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- 370
Television Drama from Germany
This open access book examines how TV professionals in Germany have negotiated “quality TV drama” from 2015 to the present. As practitioners have adapted quality TV – a term most strongly associated with US series – to their own national context, they have simultaneously dealt with shifts in screenwriting and storytelling as well as with broader transformations of the local television i…
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- 978-3-031-60622-9
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- oer.unej.ac.id
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- Palgrave Studies in Screenwriting
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- 370
The Politics of Diversity in Music Education
This open access book examines the political structures and processes that frame and produce understandings of diversity in and through music education. Recent surges in nationalist, fundamentalist, protectionist and separatist tendencies highlight the imperative for music education to extend beyond nominal policy agendas or wholly celebratory diversity discourses. Bringing together high-level …
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- 9783030656171
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- X, 214
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Visions for Intercultural Music Teacher Education
This open access book highlights the importance of visions of alternative futures in music teacher education in a time of increasing societal complexity due to increased diversity. There are policies at every level to counter prejudice, increase opportunities, reduce inequalities, stimulate change in educational systems, and prevent and counter polarization. Foregrounding the intimate connectio…
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- 9783030210298
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- X, 219
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When Music Takes Over in Film
Audio-Visual Culture
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- 978-3-030-89155-8
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- oer.unej.ac.id
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- Palgrave Studies in Audio-Visual Culture
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Harnessing the Power of the Criminal Corpse
This open access book is the culmination of many years of research on what happened to the bodies of executed criminals in the past. Focusing on the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, it looks at the consequences of the 1752 Murder Act. These criminal bodies had a crucial role in the history of medicine, and the history of crime, and great symbolic resonance in literature and popular culture.…
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- 978-3-319-77908-9
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- Palgrave Historical Studies in the Criminal Corpse and its Afterlife
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The Golden and Ghoulish Age of the Gibbet in Britain
This book is open access under a CC BY 4.0 licence. This book is the first academic study of the post-mortem practice of gibbeting (‘hanging in chains’), since the nineteenth century. Gibbeting involved placing the executed body of a malefactor in an iron cage and suspending it from a tall post. A body might remain in the gibbet for many decades, while it gradually fell to pieces. H…
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- 978-1-137-60089-9
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- Palgrave Historical Studies in the Criminal Corpse and its Afterlife
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Capital Punishment and the Criminal Corpse in Scotland, 1740–1834
This book is open access under a CC BY 4.0 license. This book provides the most in-depth study of capital punishment in Scotland between the mid-eighteenth and early nineteenth century to date. Based upon an extensive gathering and analysis of previously untapped resources, it takes the reader on a journey from the courtrooms of Scotland to the theatre of the gallows. It introduces them …
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- 978-3-319-62018-3
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- Palgrave Historical Studies in the Criminal Corpse and its Afterlife
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Across the Sahara: Tracks, Trade and Cross-Cultural Exchange in Libya
This open access book provides a multi-perspective approach to the caravan trade in the Sahara during the 19th century. Based on travelogues from European travelers, recently found Arab sources, historical maps and results from several expeditions, the book gives an overview of the historical periods of the caravan trade as well as detailed information about the infrastructure which was necessa…
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- 1
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- 9783030001452
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- XVII, 260 hlm,: ill, lamp;
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