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The Wealthy, the Brilliant, the Few
Elite Education in Contemporary American Discourse
Sophie Spieler explores elite education and its peculiar position in American cultural discourse, focusing particularly on the negotiation of merit.
Anna-Brigitte Schlittler
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Katharina Tietze
(eds.)
Bally - A History of Footwear in the Interwar Period
In the 1930s, shoes became fashionable objects with wide consequences for design and industrial production. The history of modern footwear can be traced through the lens of Bally's corporate evolution.
Marko Kölbl
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Fritz Trümpi
(eds.)
Music and Democracy
Participatory Approaches
This book explores how music relates to democratic participation - on- and offline, throughout cultures, in various times, social settings, and political systems.
Gabriel N. Gee
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Caroline Wiedmer
(eds.)
Maritime Poetics
From Coast to Hinterland
An alternate construction of the imaginaries and aspirations of our present societies at the crossroads of sea and land.
Narrative Mechanics
Strategies and Meanings in Games and Real Life
What do stories in games have in common with political narratives? The book identifies narrative strategies as mechanisms for meaning and manipulation in games and real life.
Strange Blood
The Rise and Fall of Lamb Blood Transfusion in 19th Century Medicine and Beyond
A unique story of 19th century medical knowledge, ambition, and controversy – of crossing boundaries and challenging taboos.
Transgressive Truths and Flattering Lies
The Poetics and Ethics of Anglophone Arab Representations
This study discusses Anglophone Arab works in which the notion of cross-cultural translation gets radically displaced by strategic relational dissonance.
Susanne Epple
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Getachew Assefa
(eds.)
Legal Pluralism in Ethiopia
Actors, Challenges and Solutions
Legal pluralism is a challenge, but one that has stimulated remarkably creative responses to handling the many legal systems in Ethiopia today.
Biopolitics and Historic Justice
Coming to Terms with the Injuries of Normality
»Biopolitics and Historic Justice« examines the challenges of coming to terms with human rights violations based on norms of health, fitness, and productivity.
Jessica Fischer
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Gesa Stedman
(eds.)
Imagined Economies – Real Fictions
New Perspectives on Economic Thinking in Great Britain
An urgently needed interdisciplinary view on the performative power of economic thought. And a new perspective on political changes in Great Britain.