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Mother of Frankenstein

by Mary Wollstonecraft ...

The seminal, unfinished work by the mother of modern feminism. And a memoir written by her grief-stricken husband. Do you know whose shoulders you stand on? Mary Wollstonecraft lived for 38 years… and changed the world. She died in agony 11 days after giving birth to Mary Shelley, who would become the author of Frankenstein. Her heartbroken husband, William Godwin, vowed to compile her memoirs and ... Read more

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The seminal, unfinished work by the mother of modern feminism. And a memoir written by her grief-stricken husband. Do you know whose shoulders you stand on? Mary Wollstonecraft lived for 38 years… and changed the world. She died in agony 11 days after giving birth to Mary Shelley, who would become the author of Frankenstein. Her heartbroken husband, William Godwin, vowed to compile her memoirs and
... Read more
Unmasked: Tales of Risk and Revelation

by Kevin J. Anderson, Seanan McGuire, Andi Christopher, Keltie Zubko, James Romag, Liam Hogan, John M. Olsen, Edward J. Knight, Ed Burkley, Tom Howard, Alicia Cay, JL Curtis, Eric James Stone, Travis Heermann, Rebecca M. Senese, Gama Ray Martinez, Rebecca E. Treasure, Russell Davis, Brennen Hankins, Michael Scott Bricker, Michael Nethercott, Eugie Foster, Kelly Adams, Erekson Holt, Deborah Kevin, Melissa Dalton Martinez, Constanza Ontaneda, Dale Sprague, Amanda Montandon, Matt Wright ...

When the mask comes off, can you handle what's underneath?When your secret identity is revealed …When the monster is unleashed …When the superhero's child has no power …When Death himself is caught unawares …Pull back the mask to reveal 21 tales from seasoned and award-winning authors, of magical masks, gas masks, death masks, superheroes, secret identities, disguised robots, alien symbionts, a ... Read more

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When the mask comes off, can you handle what's underneath?When your secret identity is revealed …When the monster is unleashed …When the superhero's child has no power …When Death himself is caught unawares …Pull back the mask to reveal 21 tales from seasoned and award-winning authors, of magical masks, gas masks, death masks, superheroes, secret identities, disguised robots, alien symbionts, a
... Read more
Animal Advocacy Documentaries in the Twenty-first Century

by Claudia Alonso Recarte ...

Series series Routledge Advances in Film Studies
Animal Advocacy Documentaries in the Twenty-first Century is the first monograph dedicated exclusively to the study of this subgenre.The book explores how the plasticity of nonfiction film engages with nonhuman otherness and with the rhetorical discourses of advocates and activists, while simultaneously reaffirming its claims to truth. It examines how documentary mechanisms associated with form ... Read more

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Animal Advocacy Documentaries in the Twenty-first Century is the first monograph dedicated exclusively to the study of this subgenre.The book explores how the plasticity of nonfiction film engages with nonhuman otherness and with the rhetorical discourses of advocates and activists, while simultaneously reaffirming its claims to truth. It examines how documentary mechanisms associated with form
... Read more
Thyroid Hormones

Methods and Protocols

Edited by Constanza Contreras-Jurado ...

Series series Springer Protocols
This volume focuses on thyroid hormones and their transporters and receptors. Chapters focus on a wide range of methods and protocols that are important for advancing the elucidation of the role of thyroid hormones in our body. Written in the highly successful Methods in Molecular Biology series format, chapters include introductions to their respective topics, lists of the necessary materials and ... Read more

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This volume focuses on thyroid hormones and their transporters and receptors. Chapters focus on a wide range of methods and protocols that are important for advancing the elucidation of the role of thyroid hormones in our body. Written in the highly successful Methods in Molecular Biology series format, chapters include introductions to their respective topics, lists of the necessary materials and
... Read more
Civil Society Organizations in Latin American Education

Case Studies and Perspectives on Advocacy

Edited by Regina Cortina, Constanza Lafuente ...

Series series Routledge Research in International and Comparative Education
Examining the roles, impacts and challenges of civil society organizations (CSOs) in Latin America, this volume provides a broad perspective on the range of strategies these organizations employ and the obstacles they face in advocating for and delivering educational reform. Building on previous research on international and comparative education, development studies, research on social movements ... Read more

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Examining the roles, impacts and challenges of civil society organizations (CSOs) in Latin America, this volume provides a broad perspective on the range of strategies these organizations employ and the obstacles they face in advocating for and delivering educational reform. Building on previous research on international and comparative education, development studies, research on social movements
... Read more
Mapping Spaces of Translation in Twentieth-Century Latin American Print Culture

by María Constanza Guzmán ...

Series series Routledge Advances in Translation and Interpreting Studies
This book reflects on translation praxis in 20th century Latin American print culture, tracing the trajectory of linguistic heterogeneity in the region and illuminating collective efforts to counteract the use of translation as a colonial tool and affirm cultural production in Latin America.In investigating the interplay of translation and the Americas as a geopolitical site, Guzmán Martínez ... Read more

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This book reflects on translation praxis in 20th century Latin American print culture, tracing the trajectory of linguistic heterogeneity in the region and illuminating collective efforts to counteract the use of translation as a colonial tool and affirm cultural production in Latin America.In investigating the interplay of translation and the Americas as a geopolitical site, Guzmán Martínez
... Read more
Negotiating Linguistic Plurality

Translation and Multilingualism in Canada and Beyond

Edited by María Constanza Guzmán, Şehnaz Tahir Gürçağlar ...

Cultural and linguistic diversity and plurality are seen as markers of our time, linked to discourses about citizenship and cosmopolitanism in the context of economic globalization in the late twentieth century. It is often monolingualism, however, that informs understanding and policies regulating the relationship between languages, nations, and communities.Grounded by the idea of language as ... Read more

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Cultural and linguistic diversity and plurality are seen as markers of our time, linked to discourses about citizenship and cosmopolitanism in the context of economic globalization in the late twentieth century. It is often monolingualism, however, that informs understanding and policies regulating the relationship between languages, nations, and communities.Grounded by the idea of language as
... Read more
Translation and Literary Studies

Homage to Marilyn Gaddis Rose

Edited by Marella Feltrin-Morris, Deborah Folaron, Maria Constanza Guzmán ...

By nature a transdisciplinary area of inquiry, translation lends itself to being investigated at its intersection with other fields of study. Translation and Literary Studies seeks to highlight the manifold connections between translation and notions of gender, dialectics, agency, philosophy and power. The volume also offers a timely homage to renowned translation theorist Marilyn Gaddis Rose, who ... Read more

$60.99 USD

By nature a transdisciplinary area of inquiry, translation lends itself to being investigated at its intersection with other fields of study. Translation and Literary Studies seeks to highlight the manifold connections between translation and notions of gender, dialectics, agency, philosophy and power. The volume also offers a timely homage to renowned translation theorist Marilyn Gaddis Rose, who
... Read more
Real Animals on the Stage

Edited by Teresa Grant, Ignacio Ramos-Gay, Claudia Alonso Recarte ...

Through a series of case studies, this book explores the role of live animals on the stage, from the early modern era to the present time. The contributors deal with visual and textual representations of performing animals; typologies of animals in the theatre; the hybridization of the drama with the circus, the zoo, and the cinema; as well as the semiotic transfer of animal roles from the text to ... Read more

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Through a series of case studies, this book explores the role of live animals on the stage, from the early modern era to the present time. The contributors deal with visual and textual representations of performing animals; typologies of animals in the theatre; the hybridization of the drama with the circus, the zoo, and the cinema; as well as the semiotic transfer of animal roles from the text to
... Read more
Cultural Sustainability and the Nature-Culture Interface

Livelihoods, Policies, and Methodologies

Edited by Inger Birkeland, Rob Burton, Constanza Parra, Katriina Siivonen ...

Series series Routledge Studies in Culture and Sustainable Development
As contemporary socio-ecological challenges such as climate change and biodiversity preservation have become more important, the three pillars concept has increasingly been used in planning and policy circles as a framework for analysis and action. However, the issue of how culture influences sustainability is still an underexplored theme. Understanding how culture can act as a resource to promote ... Read more

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As contemporary socio-ecological challenges such as climate change and biodiversity preservation have become more important, the three pillars concept has increasingly been used in planning and policy circles as a framework for analysis and action. However, the issue of how culture influences sustainability is still an underexplored theme. Understanding how culture can act as a resource to promote
... Read more
The Precarious in the Cinemas of the Americas

Edited by Constanza Burucúa, Carolina Sitnisky ...

Series series Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
Historically, cinema in the Americas has been signed by a state of precariousness. Notwithstanding the growing accessibility to video and digital technologies, access to the material means of film production is still limited, affecting the spheres of production, distribution, and reception. Equally, questions about the precarious can be traced in cultural and archival policies, film legislations, ... Read more

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Historically, cinema in the Americas has been signed by a state of precariousness. Notwithstanding the growing accessibility to video and digital technologies, access to the material means of film production is still limited, affecting the spheres of production, distribution, and reception. Equally, questions about the precarious can be traced in cultural and archival policies, film legislations,
... Read more
Traumatic Memory and the Ethical, Political and Transhistorical Functions of Literature

Edited by Susana Onega, Constanza del Río, Maite Escudero-Alías ...

Series series Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
This volume addresses the construction and artistic representation of traumatic memories in the contemporary Western world from a variety of inter- and trans-disciplinarity critical approaches and perspectives, ranging from the cultural, political, historical, and ideological to the ethical and aesthetic, and distinguishing between individual, collective, and cultural traumas. The chapters ... Read more

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This volume addresses the construction and artistic representation of traumatic memories in the contemporary Western world from a variety of inter- and trans-disciplinarity critical approaches and perspectives, ranging from the cultural, political, historical, and ideological to the ethical and aesthetic, and distinguishing between individual, collective, and cultural traumas. The chapters
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