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This book offers an up-to-date and broad analysis of the contemporary state of Malaysian politics and society.

Opera is food for the soul. Patrick Pype's conviction in relation to this potential has offered him decisive insights into how to act in business. This book explores how opera helps him to empower us to become more empathic, lucid, fair and inspirational leaders.

The Handbook of Privacy Studies is the first book in the world that brings together several disciplinary perspectives on privacy, such as the legal, ethical, medical, informatics and anthropological perspective.

The book explores the multiple and changing ideas, concepts, and representations that shape contemporary cities in Asia in a historical perspective.

This book traces the history from the days of silent screen heroines to the sound era's daring adventure serials, unearthing a thriving film culture beyond the self-contained feature.

This volume brings together the insights of theories of management and marketing to give an original, alternative view of the organizational dynamics of globalizing Asian New Religious Movements (NRMs) and established religions.

This work explores the ways in which a range of women, as consorts, regents, mistresses, factional power players, attendants at court, or as objects of courtly patronage, wielded power in order to advance individual, familial and factional agendas at the early sixteenth-century French court.

This book is an original take on the history of communication theory and the cultural imaginary of communication understood through the notions of holy and the primitive.

This book questions the complex relationship between social movements and violence, and shows how and why violence occurs or does not, and what different meanings it can take.

Through a study of Chinese anti-incineration contention, this book investigates how the different contentious actors in China's green sphere link up and what this means for environmental contention.

For the first time this volume makes Jean-Pierre Meunier's influential thoughts on the film experience available for an English-speaking readership.

This book is an ethnographic analysis of the familial life worlds of fans of a movie star named Rajinikanth as well as his appropriation into networks of patronage, praise and social mobility via images.

This book is entirely devoted to the research performed over the years into Van Gogh's Sunflowers, an icon of Western European art.

This book explores one artist's transformation of alchemy and its materials into a reputation for virtuosity-and what his work can teach us about the experimental early modern world.

A richly illustrated and comprehensive discussion of all the explicit pictorial references in Nabokov's oeuvre and their bearing on the major themes in his novels

This collection of essays examines the vogue for games and game playing as expressed in art, architecture, and literature in sixteenth- and seventeenth-century Europe.

The lute's cultural impact throughout the Dutch Golden Age

Eisenstein's virtual map of the world of all cinema-related media.

An interdisciplinary team of linguists, psychologists, anthropologists and educationalists video-recorded and studied mathematics lessons in two Dutch secondary education schools with pupils of different ethnic and linguistic backgrounds. The study minutely analyses verbal and non-verbal communication in these classes to answer the overall question: ¿How do teachers¿ and pupils¿ ways of interaction in the multicultural classroom lead to inclusion or exclusion on a cognitive and social level?¿. The different chapters in this book reflect different methodological and theoretical perspectives such as Realistic Mathematics Education, Conversation Analysis, Second Language Acquisition and Pedagogy. Inclusion and exclusion appear as strongly multifaceted processes involving mastery of the language, social and ethnic backgrounds, cognitive abilities, peer relations, and yes, character, knowledge and dedication of the teacher.This book is of interest not only to researchers of classroom interaction and multilingual and multiethnic schools, but also gives more than a handful of advice for present-day and future teachers and policy-makers. This volume is part of the research project ¿Social Cohesion¿ [Sociale Cohesie] of the Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research (NWO). This project seeks attention for questions about social cohesion in Dutch society. The research results enable to gain perspectives that are relevant to government policy.

In the late 1960s, the cinema was pronounced dead. Television, like a Biblical Cain had slain his brother Abel. Some thirty years later, a remarkable reversal: rarely has the cinema been more popular. And yet, rarely has the cinema's future seemed more uncertain. Cinema Futures: Cain, Abel or Cable? presents a careful and forceful argument about predictions that tend to be made when new technologies appear. Examining the complex dynamics of convergence and divergence among the audio-visual media, the authors are realistic in their estimate of the future of the cinema's distinctive aesthetic identity, and robustly optimistic that the different social needs audiences bring to the public and domestic media will ensure their distinctiveness, as well as the necessary openness of cultural meaning and creative imput. The chief contributors include producers, historians, critics and journalists from several countries, creating a lively volume, rich in information and case studies, useful to media students and film scholars, as well as to anyone interested in better understanding the momentous changes transforming our worlds of sound and image.

The Celestine monks of France represent one of the most unheralded but influential monastic reform movements of the later Middle Ages. This book argues their importance as a mirror of the political, intellectual, and Christian reform culture of their age.

The Uncanny Child in Transnational Cinema illustrates how global horror film depictions of children re-conceptualised childhood at the beginning of the twenty-first century, and considers the cultural conditions surrounding their emergence.

A topical history of nationalism provides also a surprising perspective on Europe's contemporary identity politics

Based on comparisons of long-term developments and focusing on transnational connections, this book shows that historically there have been many varieties of trade unionism.

This book gives an overview of attitudes toward animals in the long eighteenth century from an interdisciplinary perspective combining intellectual history and art history, and presents a new interpretation of changing attitudes toward animals during this period.[-][-]

David Duindam examines how the Hollandsche Schouwburg, a former theatre in Amsterdam used for the registration and deportation of nearly 50,000 Jews, became a memorial museum, and how it will continue to be a meaningful site for future generations.

This book charts the history of Teylers Museum from its inception until Lorentz' tenure. From the vantage point of the Museum's scientific instrument collection, it gives an analysis of the changing public role of Teylers Museum over the course of the 19th century.