Subverting Consumerism: Reuse in an Accelerated World
Robert Crocker and Keri Chiveralls
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The dominant understanding of reuse for sustainability is a technical one, which assumes reuse's...
Resounding Transcendence: Transitions in Music, Religion, and Ritual
Jeffers Engelhardt and Philip Bohlman
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Resounding Transcendence is a pathbreaking set of ethnographic and historical essays by leading...
Sea of Storms: A History of Hurricanes in the Greater Caribbean from Columbus to Katrina
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The diverse cultures of the Caribbean have been shaped as much by hurricanes as they have by...
Success and Suppression: Arabic Sciences and Philosophy in the Renaissance
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The Renaissance marked a turning point in Europe's relationship to Arabic thought. On the one hand,...
The Astronomer and the Witch: Johannes Kepler's Fight for His Mother
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Johannes Kepler (1571-1630) was one of the most admired astronomers who ever lived and a key figure...
Trafficking in Human Beings: Modern Slavery
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In recent decades the international community has focused its attention on trafficking in persons,...
Uprooted: How Breslau Became Wroclaw During the Century of Expulsions
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With the stroke of a pen at the Potsdam Conference following the Allied victory in 1945, Breslau,...
Solid Wood: Case Studies in Mass Timber Architecture, Technology and Design
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Over the past 10-15 years a renaissance in wood architecture has occurred with the development of...
Antique Trader Bottles: Identification & Price Guide
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Antique Trader Bottles Identification and Price Guide is the only full-color bottle price guide on...
Defaced: The Visual Culture of Violence in the Late Middle Ages
Valentin Groebner and Pamela Selwyn
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Destroyed faces, dissolved human shapes, invisible enemies: violence and anonymity go hand in hand....