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  • The Art Of Cultural Memory

    Edited by Bartłomiej Błaszkiewicz, Maria Błaszkiewicz, Paweł Rutkowski ...
    Series Book 39 - Transatlantic Studies in British and North American Culture
    The volume consists of fifteen papers discussing a vast array of issues and aspects relating to the concept of cultural memory. Taking as a standpoint the Halbwachs/Assman critical tradition, the individual contributions trace the relevance of the concept in the context of a wide range of areas, from medieval studies, through Victorian culture, up to multifold examples from the contemporary ... Read more

    $62.69 CAD

  • X-Ray Contrast Media

    Overview, Use and Pharmaceutical Aspects

    by B. Behrends-Steins, P. Blaszkiewicz, H.-E. Hempel, D. Herrmann, U. Hübner-Steiner, A. Lenzner, W. Mützel, E. Post, H. Steins, V. Taenzer ...
    Series series Medicine (R0)
    Short presentation of aspects important for the application of X-ray contrast media: Composition and properties of contrast media, handling with respect to stability, purity and sterility; applications, interaction, risks; drugs for prophylaxis and treatment of side effects. ... Read more

    $102.49 CAD

  • Across the Copperbelt

    Urban & Social Change in Central Africa's Borderland Communities

    by Miles Larmer, Hikabwa D. Chipande, Rita Kesselring, David M. Gordon, Christian Straube, Hélène Blaszkiewicz, Jennifer Chibamba Chansa, Amandine Lauro, Donatien DIBWE dia Mwembu, Stephanie Laemmert0, Enid Guene2, Benoît Henriet4, Iva Pesa5, Rachel Taylor6, Duncan Money7 ...
    The Central African Copperbelt, encompassing the mining communities of Katanga (DR Congo) and Zambia, has been central to the study of modernisation and rapid social and political change in urban Africa. This volume expands upon earlier studies of industrial mining, male-dominated formal labour organisation and political change by examining both sides of the border from pre-colonial history to the ... Read more

    $27.49 CAD

  • Fanfare for a City

    Music and the Urban Imagination in Haussmann's Paris

    by Jacek Blaszkiewicz ...
    Fanfare for a City invites us to listen to the sounds of Paris during the Second Empire (1852–1870), a regime that oversaw dramatic social change in the French capital. By exploring the sonic worlds of exhibitions, cafés, streets, and markets, Jacek Blaszkiewicz shows how the city's musical life shaped urban narratives about le nouveau Paris: a metropolis at a crossroads between its classical, ... Read more

    $71.49 CAD

  • Across the Copperbelt

    Urban & Social Change in Central Africa's Borderland Communities

    by Miles Larmer, Hikabwa D. Chipande, Rita Kesselring, David M. Gordon, Christian Straube, Hélène Blaszkiewicz, Jennifer Chibamba Chansa, Amandine Lauro, Donatien DIBWE dia Mwembu, Stephanie Laemmert0, Enid Guene2, Benoît Henriet4, Iva Pesa5, Rachel Taylor6, Duncan Money7 ...
    The first comparative historical analysis - local, national and transnational - of the cross-border Central African copperbelt; a key work in studies of labour, urbanisation and African studies. The Central African Copperbelt, encompassing the mining communities of Katanga (DR Congo) and Zambia, has been central to the study of modernisation and rapid social and political change in urban Africa. ... Read more

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  • Season of Rains

    Africa in the World

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  • The Golden Age of Liberalism

    A Portrait of Roméo LeBlanc

    by Naomi E. S. Griffiths ...
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  • A Certain Amount of Madness

    The Life, Politics and Legacies of Thomas Sankara

    by Horace G. Campbell, Aziz Fall ...
    Series series Black Critique
    Thomas Sankara was one of Africa's most important anti-imperialist leaders of the late 20th Century. His declaration that fundamental socio-political change would require a 'certain amount of madness' drove the Burkinabe Revolution and resurfaced in the country's popular uprising in 2014.This book looks at Sankara's political philosophies and legacies and their relevance today. Analyses of his ... Read more

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  • The Cambridge Companion to Fantasy Literature

    Edited by Edward James, Farah Mendlesohn ...
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