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Zombies in Western Culture

John Vervaeke, Christopher Mastropietro, Filip Miscevic

• Paperback | Engels
• Why has the zombie become such a pervasive figure in twenty-first-century popular culture? John Vervaeke, Christopher Mastropietro and Filip Miscevic ... Lees meer

Text Genetics in Literary Modernism and other Essays

Hans Walter Gabler

• Paperback | Engels
• This collection of essays from world-renowned scholar Hans Walter Gabler contains writings from a decade and a half of retirement spent exploring text... Lees meer

History of International Relations

Erik Ringmar

• Paperback | Engels
• Existing textbooks on international relations treat history in a cursory fashion and perpetuate a Euro-centric perspective. This textbook pioneers a n... Lees meer

Neo-Aramaic and Kurdish Folklore from Northern Iraq

• Hardcover | Engels | Cambridge Semitic Languages and Cultures | nr. 12
• This comparative anthology showcases the rich and mutually intertwined folklore of three ethno-religious communities from northern Iraq: Aramaic-speak... Lees meer

The Anglo-Scottish Ballad and Its Imaginary Contexts

David Atkinson

• Hardcover | Engels
• This is the first book to combine contemporary debates in ballad studies with the insights of modern textual scholarship. Just like canonical literatu... Lees meer

Love and Intrigue

Friedrich Schiller

• Paperback | Engels | Open Book Classics | nr. 11
• Schiller's play Kabale und Liebe , usually translated into English as Love and Intrigue , represents the disastrous consequences that follow when soci... Lees meer

Oral Literature in the Digital Age

• Paperback | Engels
• Thanks to ever-greater digital connectivity, interest in oral traditions has grown beyond that of researcher and research subject to include a widenin... Lees meer

Annunciations

• Hardcover | Engels
• Our contemporary culture is communicating ever-increasingly through the visual, through film, and through music. This makes it ever more urgent for th... Lees meer

Warlike and Peaceful Societies

Agner Fog

• Hardcover | Engels
• Are humans violent or peaceful by nature? We are both. In this ambitious and wide-ranging book, Agner Fog presents a ground-breaking new argument that... Lees meer

An Introduction to Andalusi Hebrew Metrics

José Martínez Delgado

• Hardcover | Engels | Semitic Languages and Cultures | nr. 18
• Throughout the last two centuries, Hebrew metrics was studied by leading linguists and specialists in medieval Hebrew poetry. Nowadays, it has disappe... Lees meer

Prose Fiction

Ignasi Ribó

• Hardcover | Engels
• This concise and highly accessible textbook outlines the principles and techniques of storytelling. It is intended as a high-school and college-level ... Lees meer

Documentary Making for Digital Humanists

Darren R Reid, Brett Sanders

• Hardcover | Engels | Open Field Guides | nr. 2
• This fluent and comprehensive field guide responds to increased interest, across the humanities, in the ways in which digital technologies can disrupt... Lees meer

Long Narrative Songs from the Mongghul of Northeast Tibet

• Paperback | Engels | World Oral Literature | nr. 8
• Containing ballads of martial heroism, tales of tragic lovers and visions of the nature of the world, Long Narrative Songs from the Mongghul of Northe... Lees meer

ANZUS and the Early Cold War

Andrew Kelly

• Hardcover | Engels
• The ANZUS Alliance was a defence arrangement between Australia, New Zealand and the United States that shaped international policy in the aftermath of... Lees meer

Searching for Sharing

• Hardcover | Engels | World Oral Literature | nr. 7
• In a world where new technologies are being developed at a dizzying pace, how can we best approach oral genres that represent heritage? Taking an inno... Lees meer

The Voice of the Century

Massimo Zicari

• Hardcover | Engels
• The fields of performance studies, empirical musicology, and the musicology of recordings have seen a tremendous development in recent years, shedding... Lees meer

Life, Re-Scaled

• Paperback | Engels
• This edited volume explores new engagements with the life sciences in contemporary fiction, poetry, comics and performance. The gathered case studies ... Lees meer

Models in Microeconomic Theory

Martin J Osborne, Ariel Rubinstein

• Hardcover | Engels
• Models in Microeconomic Theory covers basic models in current microeconomic theory. Part I (Chapters 1-7) presents models of an economic agent, discus... Lees meer

A Victorian Curate

David Yeandle

• Hardcover | Engels
• The Rev. Dr John Hunt (1827-1907) was not a typical clergyman in the Victorian Church of England. He was Scottish, of lowly birth, and lacking both so... Lees meer

A People Passing Rude

• Hardcover | Engels
• Described by the sixteenth-century English poet George Turbervile as "a people passing rude, to vices vile inclin'd", the Russians waited some three c... Lees meer

Thomas Annan of Glasgow

Lionel Gossman

• Paperback | Engels
• In the wake of Glasgow's transformation in the nineteenth-century into an industrial powerhouse, the "Second City of the Empire," a substantial part o... Lees meer

Making up Numbers

Ekkehard Kopp

• Paperback | Engels
• Making up Numbers: A History of Invention in Mathematics offers a detailed but accessible account of a wide range of mathematical ideas. Starting with... Lees meer

August Wilhelm Schlegel, Cosmopolitan of Art and Poetry

Roger Paulin

• Hardcover | Engels
• This is the first full-scale biography, in any language, of a towering figure in German and European Romanticism: August Wilhelm Schlegel whose life, ... Lees meer

For Palestine

• Hardcover | Engels
• "I am not afraid to look." - Tom Hurndall, 2003. On the eve of the invasion of Iraq in February 2003, Tom Hurndall, a photography student at Mancheste... Lees meer