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Objects of the Day Cover
Format: Paperback
Pages: 210
ISBN: 9789080774483
Pub Date: 31 Dec 2024
Imprint: Blikvelduitgevers Publishers
Illustrations: full colour images
Description:
This pocket, written by Jolanda Bos, bundles a selection of objects from the Wearable Heritage Collection and features traditional jewellery items and dress from North Afrika and West Asia. The objects in the booklet are all illustrated with a personal account on how they became part of the collection, their function and use, illustrated with wonderfully detailed photographs. This pocket bundles a small selection of objects from the Wearable Heritage Collection and features traditional jewellery items, costume ornaments and dress from the North African and West Asian region.
Santa Isabel Cover
Format: Paperback
Pages: 300
ISBN: 9780861592432
Pub Date: 15 Dec 2024
Series: British Museum Research Publications
Illustrations: 600
Description:
This portrait of Santa Isabel in over 600 pictures shows an island transformed by its colonial history yet maintaining a confident and distinctive identity within Solomon Islands and the Pacific Island region.Santa Isabel is one of the largest islands that make up the island nation of Solomon Islands in the southwest Pacific. Politically it is now one of nine provinces, each with its own variation of a shared history.
Prognosis / Saudi Arabia Cover
Format: Hardback
Pages: 444
ISBN: 9781861543875
Pub Date: 31 Oct 2024
Illustrations: 800 colour illustrations including artwork and personal archive
Description:
This richly illustrated and superbly designed book explores its author’s life and work against the backdrop of 40 years of transformation and conflict across the Arabian Gulf and Islamic world. A doctor-turned-artist, Ahmed Mater has continually confronted his traditional context. Here he explores Arab and Islamic society in an era of globalization and social upheaval to uncover the unofficial histories that have shaped the present.

Swarms, Viral Writing, and the Local

Rhetoric and Social Dynamics across Networked Publics
Format: Hardback
Pages: 424
ISBN: 9780822947950
Pub Date: 22 Oct 2024
Description:
A new addition to the University of Pittsburgh Press Composition, Literacy, and Culture series.

Haint Country

Dark Folktales from the Hills and Hollers

Haint Country

Dark Folktales from the Hills and Hollers
Format: 
Pages: 224
ISBN: 9781985900967
Pub Date: 01 Oct 2024
Illustrations: 28 b&w illustrations
Pages: 224
ISBN: 9781985900974
Pub Date: 01 Oct 2024
Illustrations: 28 b&w illustrations
Description:
The hills of the Appalachia region hold secrets—dark, deep, varied, and mysterious. These secrets are often told in the form of eerie, thrilling, and creepy folk tales that reveal strange sightings, curious oddities, and commonly serve as cautionary tales for eager and curious ears. These spine-tingling stories have been told and retold by family members, neighbors, and "hillfolk" for generations.
Lessons from the Foothills Cover Lessons from the Foothills Cover
Format: 
Pages: 192
ISBN: 9781985900684
Pub Date: 24 Sep 2024
Illustrations: 13 b&w illustrations
Pages: 192
ISBN: 9781985900691
Pub Date: 24 Sep 2024
Illustrations: 13 b&w illustrations
Description:
On Christmas Eve in 1859, sixty-five prominent armed white men rode into the small Kentucky town of Berea and forced the townspeople to close its integrated one-room schoolhouse. The mob perceived the school as a threat to white supremacy and the racial order. Abolitionist John Gregg Fee established the school for the expressed purpose of providing education to anyone eager to learn, regardless of their race—a notion that horrified those convinced of the sanctity of white supremacy.
Kentucky, Y'all Cover Kentucky, Y'all Cover
Format: 
Pages: 208
ISBN: 9781985900721
Pub Date: 10 Sep 2024
Illustrations: 32 b&w illustrations
Pages: 208
ISBN: 9781985900738
Pub Date: 10 Sep 2024
Illustrations: 32 b&w illustrations
Description:
When people think of Kentucky, three things usually come to mind: bourbon, Colonel Sanders's secret chicken recipe, and the glamorous Kentucky Derby. Add college basketball to that list, and you have yourself a superfecta. Looking beyond these time-honored traditions, however, visitors will find in Kentucky a diverse patchwork of faces and places, each as unique as the state's geography.
Shaker Made Cover
Format: Hardback
Pages: 228
ISBN: 9780813198767
Pub Date: 30 Jun 2024
Illustrations: 182 b&w illustrations
Description:
Although there are currently only a handful of members of the Shaker faith and one active community in the world today, Shakerism at its peak comprised thousands of members living in communal villages across the eastern United States. Kentucky's iconic Shaker Village at Pleasant Hill was one of these communities, and it remains an enduring cultural touchstone. The history of the Shakers is often reduced to the handmade objects they produced and sold, but their lives were so much more than their material culture.
Islam in China and the Islamic world Cover
Format: Hardback
Pages: 257
ISBN: 9781463245870
Pub Date: 31 May 2024
Imprint: Gorgias Press
Description:
Over the past half century, China has accomplished a great deal in the study of Islam, and established a certain academic system for its study. This book offers a history of contemporary Islamic research in China, analyzing the interdisciplinary research emerging from this system, from its background to the people involved, mechanisms, and their publications, scientific conferences, reference works and historical materials, and the branches of research: history, religion, philosophy, politics, and culture.
Šalmūtā Šapīrtā Cover
Format: Hardback
Pages: 431
ISBN: 9781463245412
Pub Date: 31 May 2024
Imprint: Gorgias Press
Series: Gorgias Eastern Christian Studies
Description:
A Festschrift for Rifaat Ebied celebrating a lifetime of work in the field of Semitic Studies, in particular Syriac, Christian Arabic, and Mandaic.
The Outrider Cover
Format: Hardback
Pages: 200
ISBN: 9781463246211
Pub Date: 31 May 2024
Imprint: Gorgias Press
Description:
A biography of Abū al-Faḍl al-ʿAbbās, the half brother, diplomat, and negotiator of al-Ḥusayn. The author was named Distinguished Scholar of Shia Studies in the Islamic Republic of Iran's 28th World Book Awards in 2020. He is at present a resident faculty member of PISAI, lecturing in Shīʿī Islamic studies, Qurʾān and Islamic Ethics, and a visiting lecturer at the Pontifical Beda College in Rome.
What Price Hollywood? Cover
Format: Paperback
Pages: 224
ISBN: 9780813197029
Pub Date: 05 May 2024
Illustrations: 26 b&w halftones
Description:
During the early Hollywood sound era, studio director George Cukor produced nearly fifty films in as many years, famously winning the Best Director Oscar at the 1964 Academy Awards for My Fair Lady. His collaborations with so-called difficult actresses such as Katharine Hepburn, Judy Garland, and Marilyn Monroe unsettled producers even as his ticket sales lined their pockets. Fired from Gone with the Wind for giving Vivien Leigh more screen time than Clark Gable, Cukor quickly earned a double-sided reputation as a "woman's director.
Death and Display Cover Death and Display Cover
Format: 
Pages: 222
ISBN: 9789464262131
Pub Date: 30 Apr 2024
Imprint: Sidestone Press
Illustrations: 170fc / 40bw
Pages: 222
ISBN: 9789464262124
Pub Date: 30 Apr 2024
Imprint: Sidestone Press
Illustrations: 170fc / 40bw
Description:
During funerals of nobles in the Kuba kingdom (Democratic Republic of Congo), visitors used to theatrically offer so-called bongotols to the deceased and the mourning family. These highly appreciated valuables were either positioned under the corpse to support it or displayed on top of it.In addition to their religious meaning they displayed the status and wealth of both givers and takers.
Rhet Ops Cover
Format: Paperback
Pages: 272
ISBN: 9780822967149
Pub Date: 30 Apr 2024
Description:
In this edited volume, authors seek to document and analyze how state and non-state actors leverage digital rhetoric as a twenty-first-century weapon of war. Rhet Ops offer readers a chance to focus on the human dimension of rhetorical practice within mobile technologies and social networks: to reflect not only on the durable question of what it means to conduct oneself ethically as a speaker or writer, but also what it means to learn the art of rhetoric as a means to engage adversaries in war and conflict.
The Global Spatial Revolution Cover
Format: Paperback
Pages: 256
ISBN: 9788869774294
Pub Date: 10 Apr 2024
Series: Politics
Description:
The volume examines the process of globalization from a genealogical point of view. By doing so, it offers a contribution to the understanding of the deep and critical spatial transformation reshaping our world from both a political and a conceptual point of view, taking into consideration recent developments including Brexit and the politics of Donald Trump. Focusing his analysis on the natural element of “air”, Vegetti provides an original approach to globalization.