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›On Avoiding Distress‹ and ›On My Own Opinions‹
This volume provides a new critical edition of Galen’s On Avoiding Distress and On My Own Opinions, which represents an improvement on earlier editions by offering more accurate readings of the main witness Vlatadon 14, supplementation of previously unrestored lacunae, and many sound emendations to thorny passages. The authoritative critical texts are accompanied by English translations, maki…
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African Luxury : Aesthetics and Politics
Moving far beyond predominant views of Africa as a place to be 'saved', and even more recent celebratory formulations of it as 'rising', African Luxury: Aesthetics and Politics highlights and critically interrogates the visual and material cultures of lavish and luxurious consumption already present on the continent. Methodologically, conceptually and analytically, the collection dismantles tak…
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African Literature in the Digital Age
The first book-length study on the relationship between African literature and new media. The digital space provides a new avenue to move literature beyond the restrictions of book publishing on the continent. Arguing that writers are putting their work on cyberspace because communities are emerging from this space, and because increasing numbers of Africans use the internet as part of their da…
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African Literature in African Languages
Interrogates and explores African literature in African languages today, and the continuing interfaces between works in indigenous languages and those written in European languages or languages of colonizers. Sixty years after the Conference of African Writers of English Expression at Makerere University, the dominance in the global canon of African literatures written in European languages ove…
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African linguistics on the prairie
African Linguistics on the Prairie features select revised peer-reviewed papers from the 45th Annual Conference on African Linguistics, held at the University of Kansas. The articles in this volume reflect the enormous diversity of African languages, as they focus on languages from all of the major African language phyla. The articles here also reflect the many different research perspectives t…
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(Re-)Inventio: Die Neuauflage als kreative Praxis in der nordalpinen Druckgra…
This volume examines the making of new edition prints in the early modern north Alpine region and argues that it was a complex aesthetic strategy of creative appropriation.
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“The Truth about the Desert”: Exile, Memory, and the Making of Communitie…
"The Truth about the Desert explores the living conditions under which Tuareg refugees from northern Mali rebuild their lives in the Nigerien diaspora and how these conditions affect their self-understandings and cultural practices, established status hierarchies, and religious identity formation. The book counterbalances an earlier scholarly preoccupation with Tuareg nobility by zoning in on t…
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Advances in Postharvest Process Systems
This Special Issue presents a range of recent technologies and innovations to help the agricultural and food industry to manage and minimize postharvest losses, enhance reliability and sustainability, and generate high-quality products that are both healthy and appealing to consumers. It focuses on three main topics of food storage and preservation technologies, food processing technologies, an…
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"One rotten apple spoils the whole barrel": The plant hormone ethylene, the s…
The gaseous molecule ethylene (C2H4), which is small in size and simple in structure, is a plant hormone most often associated with fruit ripening yet has a diversity of effects throughout the plant life cycle. While its agricultural effects were known even in ancient Egypt, the complexity of its mode of action and the broad spectrum of its effects and potential uses in plant physiology remain …
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Advances in Postharvest Pathology of Fruits and Vegetables
This eBook is a collection of articles from a Frontiers Research Topic. Frontiers Research Topics are very popular trademarks of the Frontiers Journals Series: they are collections of at least ten articles, all centered on a particular subject. With their unique mix of varied contributions from Original Research to Review Articles, Frontiers Research Topics unify the most influential researcher…
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