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ECOLOGIES OF PHOTOGRAPHY IN THE AMERICAN WEST examines the medium's role in documenting, profiting from, and transforming ecosystems across its varied geographies. This book brings together a diverse range of scholars and artists to trace photography's roots in the earth and its entanglement with resource extraction and ecological rights.
#AmericanWest #PhotographyEcology #EcologicalRights
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MASTERING THE BODY offers an innovative exploration of the intimate, bodily routines that shaped—and were shaped by—Roman society. From kitchens to chamber pots, F. Mira Green uncovers how eating, digesting, and excreting were not just biological necessities but deeply embedded social practices that reinforced hierarchies and power structures in Roman households.
#AncientRome #RomanHistory #SocialPractices #RomanCulture
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SHARING IN THE ACTION revisits the plots enacted in tragedies to reveal how they are significantly conditioned by the wider phenomenon of the choral performance.
#TragedyPlots #TheatreStudies #DramaAnalysis
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TALES FROM THE NETHERWORLD explores the theme of #katabasis, the descent to the underworld, in #Russian literature from its earliest secular texts—folktales—until the end of the New Economic Policy (1921–1928), when official dictates affected the subjects that writers might safely explore.
#Folktales #RussianLiterature #LiteraryThemes
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PETRI THOMAE QUAESTIONES DE FORMIS. Among the first attempts to explicate a Scotist natural philosophy is the Quaestiones de formis by Petrus Thomae. Like other works in this series on Peter's work, the De formis is dedicated to a single philosophical topic. Following an introductory question about the metaphysical aspect of form, the focus shifts to form as it functions in the process of change
#MedievalPhilosophy #NaturalPhilosophy #DunsScotus
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FLYING BROTHERS drops you into cockpits and crisis rooms across the Cold War: supersonic F-5s herding rebel "Tora-Toras" over Manila in 1989, F-86 Sabres firing the first Sidewinder missiles against MiG-17s above the Taiwan Strait in 1958, and AT-6s striking a mutinous warship on a river in downtown Bangkok in 1951.
#ColdWarAviation #MilitaryFlightSim #FlyingBrothers
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THE HELL OF HOLY WAR reads Jean de Joinville's famous account of King Louis IX and his Seventh Crusade as a powerful and unique representation of #war, #memory, and #loss during the Middle Ages.
#HolyWar #KingLouisIX #SeventhCrusade
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NEW IN STOCK - This book reconsiders the Odyssey from Penelope's point of view, and reveals how the pervasive threat of gendered violence in homeric society – a rape culture – constrains what Penelope may say and do openly.
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NEGOTIATING THE FUTURE focuses on US labor and the just transition. Diane Sicotte provides a detailed understanding of the role of labor in environmental change, beyond the "jobs vs. environment" framing.
#LaborAndEnvironment #SustainableLabor
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1966. The year 1966 saw the start of a decade of social and political upheaval in China. In these eleven stories by poet Wang Xiaoni, the horrors, confusion, and utter disruption of the Cultural Revolution are just beginning.
#CulturalRevolution #ChineseHistory
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A CITY IN PRACTICE maps the Biennale's evolution and the collective gestures that inform it. The book's contributions reflect on what it means to create within a landscape marked by extraction and endurance.
#BiennaleEvolution #ArtAndLandscape
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ROSE KNOX is the fascinating story of the woman who ran the famous Knox Gelatine brand for decades. An impressive and captivating story of entrepreneurial excellence and resilience despite personal tragedy, Rachel Greenfield writes a must-read contribution to the history of women in business and a triumph of a woman's food and business savvy.
#WomenInBusiness #Entrepreneurship #BusinessHistory #WomenEntrepreneurs
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ORALITY AND SCRIBAL CULTURE IN THE HIGH MIDDLE AGES. This book highlights the interplay between vestigial orality and scribal culture in Scholastic texts of the High Middle Ages.
#HighMiddleAges #MedievalStudies #Orality
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How did Rose Knox become one of the most successful businesswomen of her era? In our latest Three Questions interview, author Rachel Greenfield discusses her new book, Rose Knox, and explains why this influential entrepreneur deserves a larger place in American business history. cornellpress.cornell.edu/thr… #BusinessHistory
A VIETNAMESE MUSICIAN IN A TURBULENT CENTURY tells the story of the triumphs, scandals, and adventures of Vietnam's most prolific songwriter. This four-volume memoir, translated into English by Eric Henry with clarity and care, spans a century of Vietnamese history as lived, sung, and questioned by an unrelenting truthteller dedicated to freedom of expression.
#VietnameseMusic #MusicMemoir #VietnamHistory
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FANTASTIC INTIMACY takes readers inside the vibrant world of Final Fantasy XIV to explore how Japanese gamers build meaningful social lives through fantasy. Challenging stereotypes of Japanese gamers as isolated or antisocial, Mattias van Ommen reveals a community that is diverse, expressive, and socially engaged
#FinalFantasyXIV #JapaneseGamers
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FEMINISTS RESISTING GENDERED VIOLENCE. An anthology of #feminist perspectives combining arts-based interventions with scholarship, #activism, testimony, and lived experience to address contemporary gendered violence. Through art, song, performance, archives, and digital practices, it renders legible forms of harm that are often marginalised or silenced in formal policy and legal discourse.
#GenderedViolence #ArtsBasedInterventions #FeministPerspectives #GenderJustice
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What does animation have to do with social relationships?
Authors Meghanne Barker and Molly Hales discuss animation as a framework for understanding separation, mediation, and intimacy, drawing on their books Throw Your Voice and Vital Ties.
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#1869Podcast #Anthropology #MediaStudies
THE ROMERO MEMORY aims to accomplish a polyphonic understanding of the archbishop's significance. On 24 March 1980, Salvadoran archbishop Óscar Romero was assassinated while celebrating mass in San Salvador. His assassination sparked global outrage and converged with a growing international awareness of the plight of Latin America. To this day, Romero continues to inspire resistance and liberation movements in Latin America and beyond, both inside and outside the Church.
#HistoricalLegacy #SocialJustice #LatinAmericanHistory
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EVERYONE ASKS WHAT WILL HAPPEN TO US traces how Jews trapped in the Warsaw Ghetto wrestled with questions that had troubled them since the occupation began: when will the war end, and what will become of us? Maria Ferenc reveals illusions, imagination, and the social reception of a constructed image of events taking place on the other side of the Ghetto walls.
#HolocaustRemembrance #JewishHistory #WorldWarII
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