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Food and Health in Early Modern Europe

Diet, Medicine and Society, 1450-1800

by David Gentilcore
Language: English
Release Date: November 19, 2015

CHOICE Outstanding Academic Title 2016 Food and Health in Early Modern Europe is both a history of food practices and a history of the medical discourse about that food. It is also an exploration of the interaction between the two: the relationship between evolving foodways and shifting medical...

Geographers

Biobibliographical Studies, Volume 36

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Language: English
Release Date: December 14, 2017

Geographers: Biobibliographical Studies, Volume 36 focuses on 20th-century Britain and 19th- and 20th-century France. Six essays on individual geographers are complemented by a group article which describes the building of a French school of geography. From Britain, the life of Sir Peter Hall, one...
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Language: English
Release Date: May 3, 2018

This is the endorsed publication from OCR and Bloomsbury for the Latin AS and A-Level (Group 1) prescription of Cicero's Philippic IIsections 44–50 (… viri tui similis esses) and 78 (C. Caesari ex Hispania redeunti…)–92, and the A-Level (Group 2) prescription of sections 100–119, giving...
by Anne Murcott
Language: English
Release Date: February 7, 2019

This textbook equips students with the ability to analyze and think critically about contemporary food topics. A thorough introduction to the sociology of food and eating, the book also acts as a primer to the discipline of sociology more generally. Chapters start with a 'common sense' assumption...

Christianity and the University Experience

Understanding Student Faith

by Dr Mathew Guest, Dr Kristin Aune, Dr Sonya Sharma
Language: English
Release Date: September 12, 2013

What impact does the experience of university have on Christian students? Are universities a force for secularisation? Is student faith enduring, or a passing phase? Universities are often associated with a sceptical attitude towards religion. Many assume that academic study leads students away from...

Traces of Racial Exception

Racializing Israeli Settler Colonialism

by Ronit Lentin
Language: English
Release Date: August 9, 2018

Positioning race front and centre, this book theorizes that political violence, in the form of a socio-political process that differentiates between human and less-than-human populations, is used by the state of Israel in racializing and ruling the citizens of occupied Palestine. Lentin argues...
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Language: English
Release Date: January 16, 2014

Philosophical reflections on journeys and crossings, homes and habitats, have appeared in all major East Asian and Western philosophies. Landscape and travelling first emerged as a key issue in ancient Chinese philosophy, quickly becoming a core concern of Daoism and Confucianism. Yet despite the...

Practicing Art and Anthropology

A Transdisciplinary Journey

by Anna Laine
Language: English
Release Date: June 14, 2018

Practicing Art and Anthropology presents an in-depth exploration of transdisciplinary work in the expanding space between art and anthropology. Having trained and worked as an artist as well as an anthropologist, Anna Laine's decades-long engagement in art practice, artistic research and anthropology...

The Never-ending Feast

The Anthropology and Archaeology of Feasting

by Kaori O'Connor
Language: English
Release Date: February 26, 2015

Feast! Throughout human history, and in all parts of the world, feasts have been at the heart of life. The great museums of the world are full of the remains of countless ghostly feasts – dishes that once bore rich meats, pitchers used to pour choice wines, tall jars that held beer sipped through...
by John Peter Kenney
Language: English
Release Date: December 27, 2018

Reading Augustine is a new line of books offering personal readings of St. Augustine of Hippo from leading philosophers and religious scholars. The aim of the series is to make clear Augustine's importance to contemporary thought and to present Augustine not only or primarily as a pre-eminent Christian...

The Ethics of Nonviolence

Essays by Robert L. Holmes

by Professor Robert L. Holmes
Language: English
Release Date: June 20, 2013

Robert Holmes is one of the leading proponents of nonviolence in the United States, and his influence extends to the rest of the world. However, he has never presented his views on nonviolence in full-length book form. The Ethics of Nonviolence brings together his best essays on the topic, both classic...
by Dr Sarah Maitland
Language: English
Release Date: February 9, 2017

What Is Cultural Translation? In this book, Sarah Maitland uncovers processes of negotiation and adaptation closely associated with the translation of languages behind the cultural phenomena of everyday life. For globalized societies confronted increasingly with the presence of difference in all its...

Worlds of Written Discourse

A Genre-Based View

by Vijay Bhatia
Language: English
Release Date: September 11, 2014

Genre theory in the past few years has contributed immensely to our understanding of the way discourse is used in academic, professional and institutional contexts. However, its development has been constrained by the nature and design of its applications, which have invariably focused on language...

Searchable Talk

Hashtags and Social Media Metadiscourse

by Dr Michele Zappavigna
Language: English
Release Date: May 17, 2018

Metadata such as the hashtag is an important dimension of social media communication. Despite its important role in practices such as curating, tagging, and searching content, there has been little research into how meanings are made with social metadata. This book considers how hashtags have expanded...
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