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No truth without beauty : god, the Quran, and women's rights
In this comprehensive open access book, written for readers from any or no religious background, Leena El-Ali does something remarkable. Never before has anyone taken on every last claim relating to Islam and women and countered it not just with Qur’anic evidence to the contrary, but with easy-to-use tools available to all. How can a woman’s testimony be worth half of a man’s? How can men…
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- 4
- ISBN/ISSN
- 9783030835828
- Collation
- xxxii, 306 p.
- Series Title
- -
- Call Number
- 297.082 ELA n
The International Turn in American Studies
The volume is a contribution to the ongoing debate on the internationalization of American Studies. The essays by European, American and Latin American scholars provide critical evaluations of a wide range of concepts, including trans-national and post-national, international, trans-atlantic, trans-pacific, as well as hemispheric, inter-American and comparative American studies. Combining theor…
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- -
- ISBN/ISSN
- 9783653036572
- Collation
- 372 p. : ill
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- -
- Call Number
- 973.071 MES t
Ageing with smartphones in Ireland : when life becomes craft
There are not many books about how people get younger. It doesn’t happen very often. But Ageing with Smartphones in Ireland documents a radical change in the experience of ageing. Based on two ethnographies, one within Dublin and the other from the Dublin region, the book shows that people, rather than seeing themselves as old, focus on crafting a new life in retirement. Our research particip…
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- -
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- 9781787359666
- Collation
- xiii, 232 p. : color, ill.
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- -
- Call Number
- 303.4834084609415 GAR a
Zombies in western culture: a twenty-first century crisis
Why has the zombie become such a pervasive figure in twenty-first-century popular culture? John Vervaeke, Christopher Mastropietro and Filip Miscevic seek to answer this question by arguing that particular aspects of the zombie, common to a variety of media forms, reflect a crisis in modern Western culture. The authors examine the essential features of the zombie, including mindlessness, ugl…
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- -
- ISBN/ISSN
- 9781783743308
- Collation
- viii, 93 p. : ill. : ind. ; 24 cm
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- -
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- 398.21 VER z
Cultural perspectives on aging : a different approach to old age and aging
The societal significance of old age and ageing are increasing due to demographic developments. Age(ing) is not only a biological and social fact, but also a cultural one. This book reveals the importance of cultural factors in order to build a framework for analyzing and understanding cultural constructions of ageing, bringing together scholarly discourses from the arts and humanities as well …
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- 3
- ISBN/ISSN
- 9783110683042
- Collation
- 172 p. : ill.
- Series Title
- -
- Call Number
- 900 HUL c
Touch in the time of corona : Reflections on love, care, and vulnerability in…
The COVID-19 pandemic has hooked us all into digital networks as our access to cities, work and social gatherings is restricted and reconfigured. Weaving together cultural history, aesthetics, and urban and digital studies, this short volume reflects on how the possibilities for touch, touching and being touched, both physically and affectively, are reconfigured by the pandemic.
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- -
- ISBN/ISSN
- 9783110744767
- Collation
- 131 p. : ill.
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- -
- Call Number
- 362.1962414 STE t
Regional and Local Development in Times of Polarisation: Re-thinking Spatial …
Despite the emphasis of the European Regional Policy on territorial cohesion, regional disparities have been increasing within Europe in the past years. The metropolitan areas in almost all countries are considerably growing while regions outside of agglomerations are stagnating or even declining. Against this background this book aims to provide an understanding of the underlying processes of …
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- 1st ed. 2019.
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- 9789811311901
- Collation
- XXIV, 382 p
- Series Title
- -
- Call Number
- 304.2 REG r
The wealthy, the brilliant, the few : elite education in contemporary America…
How do the US make sense of their own elite educational system, given that it seems to be at odds with core American values, such as equality of opportunity or upward mobility? Sophie Spieler explores scholarly and journalistic investigations, self-representational texts, and fictional narratives revolving around the Ivy League and its peers in order to understand elite education and its peculi…
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- -
- ISBN/ISSN
- 9783839457290
- Collation
- 273 p.
- Series Title
- Volume 33 in the series American Culture Studies
- Call Number
- 370.73 SPI t
Microorganisms in the deterioration and preservation of cultural heritage
This open access book offers a comprehensive overview of the role and potential of microorganisms in the degradation and preservation of cultural materials (e.g. stone, metals, graphic documents, textiles, paintings, glass, etc.). Microorganisms are a major cause of deterioration in cultural artefacts, both in the case of outdoor monuments and archaeological finds. This book covers the microorg…
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- -
- ISBN/ISSN
- 9783030694111
- Collation
- XII, 367 p.
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- -
- Call Number
- 561.9 MIC m
First blood: a cultural study of menarche
Sally Dammery.
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- -
- ISBN/ISSN
- 9781876924836
- Collation
- xii, 207 pages ; 24 cm.
- Series Title
- Cultural studies
- Call Number
- 305.4 DAM f
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