OAPEN Library: Recent submissions
Now showing items 2921-2940 of 45709
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(2025)Offers new perspectives on freedom of conscience and religious liberty by tracing their origins to the Middle Ages, thereby challenging the common assumption that these core tenets of modernity were products of the ...
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(2024)We tend to feel that works of fiction give us special access to lived experience. But how do novels cultivate that feeling? Where exactly does experience reside?The Location of Experience argues that, paradoxically, novels ...
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(2018)In Fragile World: Ecology and the Church, scholars and activists from Christian communities as far-flung as Honduras, the Philippines, Colombia, and Kenya present a global angle on the global ecological crisis—in both its ...
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(2017)Honorable Mention, 2019 Michelle Z. Rosaldo Prize presented by the Association for Feminist AnthropologyWinner of the 2018 Gloria E. Anzaldúa Book Prize presented by the National Women's Studies AssociationWinner of the ...
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(2024)The time for denial is over. Across the Global North, the question of how we should respond to the climate crisis has been answered: with a shift to renewables, electric cars, carbon trading and hydrogen. Green New Deals ...
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(2024)Antiblackness and Global Health offers a major new account of the 2014-2016 West African Ebola crisis and a radical perspective on the racial politics of global health. Lioba Hirsch traces the legacies of colonialism across ...
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(2025)Officially, women in the Soviet Union enjoyed a degree of equality unknown elsewhere in Allied countries at the time. However, long-standing norms of gendered behavior and stereotypes that cast women as morally weak, ...
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(2024)Russia is a large, diverse, and complicated country whose far-flung regions maintain their own histories and cultures, even as President Vladimir Putin increases his political control. Powerful, autocratic regimes still ...
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(2025)This volume explores the long-held assumption that language change may proceed in a cyclical fashion. Cyclic change has recently attracted renewed interest, notably with respect to the evolution of negation (viz. the famous ...
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(2025)Why do North American Indigenous Peoples face such grave conditions in health, poverty, and mortality—including alarmingly high rates of suicide, alcoholism, and drug abuse? In this groundbreaking book, Mukesh Eswaran ...
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(2025)Characters are central to the creation and experience of films and other media. Their cultural significance is profound, but they also raise a wide range of questions. This book provides a comprehensive theory that guides ...
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(2025)The Birth and Death of Liberal Democracy in Hungary explores the transformation of Hungary’s political landscape in the post-communist era and demonstrates how political populism and polarisation became mainstream in the ...
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(2025)Dit boek beantwoordt de vraag of werk gelukkig maakt en aan welke aspecten van werk mensen het meeste geluk ontlenen. Dit is een belangrijke vraag omdat werk een groot deel van ons leven uitmaakt. We beargumenteren waarom ...
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(2025)Syntax of Hungarian aims to present a synthesis of the currently available syntactic knowledge of the Hungarian language, rooted in theory but providing highly detailed descriptions, and intended to be of use to researchers, ...
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(2025)The European maritime expansion of the fifteenth century reshaped global politics, economies, and perceptions of space. Central to this transformation was the mastery of long-distance sea routes and the development of ...
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(2025)This book charts the broad cultural impact of the medieval and early modern female performer: how she engages with her historical origins in classical drama, works within contemporary cultural and professional networks, ...
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(2025)Transgressive acts in architecture as responses to today’s ecological, political, economic, and social crises. In architecture, transgressive acts have always been a reality, in spite of rules and canons that have ...
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(2025)This book investigates why and how several contemporary populist radical right parties (PRRPs) in Western Europe adopt the supposedly outdated mass party organizational model. While the first half of the twentieth century ...
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(2025)It is assumed that the impact of natural and man-made hazards on society in terms of damage is constantly increasing. In order to reduce the levels of potential disaster and to assess which policies and measures can generate ...
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(2025)Multiphase Flows in Deformable Geomaterials proposes that multiscale coupling of multiphase flow and multicomponents within a deformable porous medium is complex and interdisciplinary and lacks a unified theory. To address ...
