Ashgate Publishing

Challenging history in the museum

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Challenging History in the Museum explores work with difficult, contested and sensitive heritages in a range of museum contexts. It is based on the Challenging History project, which brings together a wide range of heritage professionals, practitioners and academics to explore h…

A discourse analysis of corruption. Instituting neoliberalism against corruption in Albania, 1998-2005

by Kajsiu, Blendi

fromSoutheast European Studies

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Why did Albania enjoy some of the most successful anti-corruption programs and institutions along with what appeared to be growing levels of corruption during the period 1998-2005? Looking at corruption through a post-structuralist discourse analysis perspective this book argues…

Price of Global Health: Drug Pricing Strategies to Balance Patient Access…

by Schoonveld, Ed, Mr

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Public debate on the rising cost of new biotechnology drug treatments has intensified over the last few years as healthcare budget pressures have mounted under a strained economy. Meanwhile, the demand for new, effective medical and drug treatments continues to rise as unhealthy…

Ethnicity, Nationalism and Conflict in the South Caucasus: Nagorno-Karabakh and the Legacy of Soviet Nationa…

by Geukjian, Ohannes, Dr

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This book examines the underlying factors of the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict in the South Caucasus from 1905 to 1994, and explores the ways in which issues of ethnicity and nationalism contributed to that conflict. The author examines the historiography and politics of the conflic…

Religion and Aids-treatment in Africa. Saving souls, prolonging lives

by Dijk, Rijk van

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This book critically interrogates emerging intertconnections between religion and biomedicine in Africa in the era of antiretroviral treatment for AIDS. Highlighting the complex relationships between religious ideologies, practices and organizations on the one hand, and biomedic…

Recovering the female voice in Islamic scripture. Women and silence

by Jardim, Georgina L.

fromAshgate new critical thinking in religion, theology, and bi…

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Protest is an activity not associated with the pious and collectively-minded, but more often seen as an activity of the liberal and rebellious. Judaism, Christianity and Islam are commonly understood as paragons of submission and obedience following Abraham's example. Yet, the s…

Michael Costa: England's first conductor. The revolution in musi…

by Goulden, John

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Among the major changes that swept through the music industry during the mid-nineteenth century, one that has received little attention is how musical performances were managed and directed. Yet this was arguably the most radical change of all: from a loose control shared betwee…

The Mystery of Chopin's Préludes

by Leikin, Anatole, Chopin, Frederic

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Chopin's Twenty-Four Preludes remain as mysterious today as when they were newly published. What prompted Franz Liszt and others to consider Chopin's Preludes to be compositions in their own right rather than introductions to other works? This book illuminates the music of one o…

Suzanne Noël: Cosmetic surgery, feminism and beauty in early tw…

by Martin, Paul J.

fromHistory of medicine in context

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Working at the forefront of cosmetic surgery at the turn of the twentieth century, Dr Suzanne Noel was both a pioneer in her medical field and a firm believer in the advancement of women. Today her views on the benefits of aesthetic surgery to women may seem at odds with her fem…

Postopera. Reinventing the voice-body

by Novak, Jelena

fromAshgate interdisciplinary studies in opera

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Both in opera studies and in most operatic works, the singing body is taken for granted. In Postopera: Reinventing the Voice-Body, Jelena Novak reintroduces an awareness of the physicality of the singing body to opera studies. Arguing that the body-voice relationship itself is a…

Singing the body electric. The human voice and recording technology

by Young, Miriama

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Singing the Body Electric explores the relationship between the human voice and technology, offering startling insights into the ways in which technological mediation affects our understanding of the voice, and more generally, the human body. From the phonautograph to magnetic t…

Global Islamophobia: Muslims and moral panic in the West

fromGlobal connections

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This book presents a series of case studies from Western Europe, Australia and North America demonstrating the transnational character of Islamophobia. Exploring various sites of conflict, Global Islamophobia considers the role played by 'moral entrepreneurs' in orchestrating po…

Collage in twentieth-century art, literature, and culture. Joseph Cornell, William Burroughs, Frank O'Hara an…

by Cran, Rona

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Emphasizing the diversity of twentieth-century collage practices, Rona Cran's book explores the role that it played in the work of Joseph Cornell, William Burroughs, Frank O'Hara and Bob Dylan. For all four, collage was an important creative catalyst, employed cathartically, agg…

Collage in twentieth-century art, literature, and culture: Joseph Cornell, William Burroughs, Frank O'Hara a…

by Cran, Rona

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Emphasizing the diversity of twentieth-century collage practices, Rona Cran's book explores the role that it played in the work of Joseph Cornell, William Burroughs, Frank O'Hara and Bob Dylan. For all four, collage was an important creative catalyst, employed cathartically, agg…

Iraqi federalism and the Kurds: learning to live together

by Danilovich, Alex, Owtram, Francis

fromFederalism studies

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Iraqi Federalism and the Kurds: Learning to Live Together focuses on the role of federalism as a viable solution to Iraq's many problems and the efforts the Kurdish government has deployed to adjust to new federal relations that entail not only gains, but also concessions and co…

Between cultural diversity and common heritage. Legal and religious perspectives on the sacred places of the …

by Ferrari, Silvio, Benzo, Andrea

fromCultural diversity and law

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Going beyond the more usual focus on Jerusalem as a sacred place, this book presents legal perspectives on the most important sacred places of the Mediterranean. The first part of the book discusses the notion of sacred places in anthropological, sociological and legal studies a…

Emerging landscapes: between production and representation

by EBSCO Publishing (Firme), Deriu, Davide, Kamvasinou, Krystallia, Shinkle, Eugénie

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"Emerging Landscapes brings together scholars and practitioners working in a wide range of disciplines within the fields of the built environment and visual arts to explore landscape as an idea, an image, and a material practice in an increasingly globalized world. Drawing on th…