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Plutarch’s Cosmological Ethics
(2022)
Plutarch of Chaeronea (c. 45-120 CE) is the most prolific and influential moral philosopher in the Platonic tradition. This book is a fundamental reappraisal of Plutarch’s ethical thought. It shows how Plutarch based his ...
Europees burgerschap in de klas
(2022)
The impact of the EU on everyday life is huge, but not always visible. Educating young people to become informed and empowered EU citizens requires a strategy of active learning to prepare them for civic responsibility and ...
Handbook for Ethiopian Public Administration Program Accreditation
(2022)
Improving, assuring, and maintaining the quality and relevance of education and training in Public Administration has attracted increasing attention among PA scholars and practitioners worldwide.
The Handbook for Ethiopian ...
Black Matrilineage, Photography, and Representation
(2022)
Black Matrilineage, Photography, and Representation: Another Way of Knowing' questions how the Black female body, specifically the Black maternal body, navigates interlocking structures that place a false narrative on her ...
The Elemental Analysis of Glass Beads
(2022)
Ancient glass beads as a window to the ancient world
Glass beads, both beautiful and portable, have been produced and traded globally for thousands of years. Modern archaeologists study these artifacts through sophisticated ...
Absent Presences in the Colonial Archive
(2022)
The colonial past through objects of sound
The Berlin Sound Archive (Lautarchiv) consists of an extensive collection of sound recordings, compiled for scientific purposes in the first half of the 20th century. Recorded ...
The Hybrid Practitioner
(2022)
The practice of architecture manifests in myriad forms and engagements. Overcoming false divides, this volume frames the fertile relationship between the cultural and scholarly production of academia and the process of ...
The Motorcycle Diaries
(2023)
The first monograph to examine Walter Salles’ The Motorcycle Diaries, this book explains the significance of Salles’ film with respect to the specific category of ‘youth culture’ as a historically and culturally situated ...
Stilte in de klas
(2022)
Silence runs like a thread through the history of the school. In past centuries, countless teachers have urged children to be quiet. There have also been many publications in which educational authors have reflected on the ...
Japan’s Book Donation to the University of Louvain
(2022)
Companion to the exhibition “Japan’s Book Donation to the University of Louvain”, KU Leuven University Library, 28 October 2022 - 15 January 2023
With more than 3,000 titles in almost 14,000 volumes, the 1920s Japanese ...
Exploring the Transnational Neighbourhood
(2022)
Practices of community-building in a globalised context
Urban neighbourhoods have come to occupy the public imagination as a litmus test of migration, with some areas hailed as multicultural success stories while others ...
Unfinished Histories
(2022)
Colonial memory and interdisciplinary memorialization across Congo, Rwanda, Burundi and Belgium
Belgian colonialism was short-lived but left significant traces that are still felt in the twenty-first century. This book ...
Homo Mimeticus
(2022)
Genealogy of one of the most ancient and
influential concepts in western thought: Mimesis
Imitation is, perhaps more than ever, constitutive of human originality. Many things have changed since the emergence of an ...
Working Through Colonial Collections
(2022)
Reckoning with colonial legacies in Western museum collections
What are the possibilities and limits of engaging with colonialism in ethnological museums? This book addresses this question from within the Africa department ...
Chapter 47 Latin America
(2023)
Chapter 47: This chapter examines memory activism in Latin America, focusing on memory struggles on the cycle of political violence during the second half of the 20th century. First, the article describes the main features ...
Islamophobia as a Form of Radicalisation
(2023)
Foundations and mechanisms of Islamophobia in the West.
Islamophobia as a Form of Radicalisation discusses the scope and fragmented boundaries of Islamophobia as a concept and a sociopolitical reality. The fifteen ...
Sugar, Spice, and the Not So Nice
(2023)
Girls, gender and identity in comicsSugar, Spice, and the Not So Nice offers an innovative, wide-ranging and geographically diverse book-length treatment of girlhood in comics. The various contributing authors and artists ...
Aristotle and the Ontology of St. Bonaventure
(2023)
Bonaventure’s metaphysical thought and
his interpretation of Aristotle
Contemporary scholarship on Bonaventure has characterized him as the Neo-platonic foil to the Aristotelianism of his day. The present book, however, ...
Tot de bodem
(2023)
Mobs and Microbes
(2023)
Market halls at the intersection of civic order and public health.
Markets and market halls have always been more than about trade and nourishment. A detailed look at the histories of marketplaces provides evidence of the ...