Modern South Asia: History, Culture, Political Economy
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Drawing on the newest historical research and scholarship in the field, Modern South Asia provides...

Negotiating Religion: Cross-Disciplinary Perspectives
Francois Guesnet, Cecile Laborde and Lois Lee
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Negotiating religious diversity, as well as negotiating different forms and degrees of commitment to...

Portuguese Intervention in the Manila Galleon Trade: The Structure and Networks of Trade Between Asia and America in the 16th and 17th Centuries as Revealed by Chinese Ceramics and Spanish Archives
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In this study of the Portuguese intervention in the Manila Galleon Trade, Etsuko Miyata explores its...

Skunk
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Although the skunk generally waddles through life in a peaceful and solitary way, the animal is...
Improvisation and Social Aesthetics
Georgina Born, Eric Lewis and Will Straw
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Addressing a wide range of improvised art and music forms-from jazz and cinema to dance and...

Rethinking Mahler
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As one of the most popular classical composers in the performance repertoire of professional and...

The Dawn of Music Semiology: Essays in Honor of Jean-Jacques Nattiez
Jonathan Goldman and Jonathan Dunsby
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The Dawn of Music Semiology showcases the work of nine leading musicologists, inspired by the work...

The Tango Machine: Musical Culture in the Age of Expediency
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In Argentina, tango isn't just the national music it's a national brand. But ask any contemporary...

An Anthology of Decorated Papers: A Sourcebook for Designers
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This remarkable and beautiful book brings together a collection of decorated papers dating from the...

Design for Life: Creating Meaning in a Distracted World
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Stuart Walker's design work has been described as life-changing, inspiring, disturbing and...