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Birth Figures

Whiteley, Rebecca
Birth Figures
The first full study of "birth figures, " a set of illustrations which were widely reproduced in early modern books on childbirth and midwifery. Birth figures are printed images of the pregnant uterus, always shown in series, that depict the variety of ways in which a fetus can present for birth. Historian Rebecca Whiteley coined the term and here offers the first systematic analysis of the images' creation, use, and impact. Whiteley reveals t...

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15 Years of the UNESCO Diversity of Cultural Expressions ...

Carril, Beatriz Barreiro / Jakubowski, Andrzej / Lixinski, Lucas
15 Years of the UNESCO Diversity of Cultural Expressions Convention
This book queries, through the prism of the Convention for the Protection and the Promotion of the Diversity of Cultural Expressions (the Convention), the ways in which the processes and substance of international law-making have shifted in response to new technologies and new actors. The essays, written by recognised experts in the field, engage deeply with the practice under the Convention. The 4 parts examine: the rise of new actors and the...

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Return of the Junta

Slow, Oliver
Return of the Junta
On the first day of February 2021, Myanmar's military grabbed power in a coup d'etat, ending a decade of reforms that were supposed to break the shackles of military rule in Myanmar. Protests across the country were met with a brutal crackdown that shocked the world but were a familiar response from an institution that has ruled the country with violence and terror for decades. Return of the Junta is a detailed account of the ways that Myanm...

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Return of the Junta

Slow, Oliver
Return of the Junta
On the first day of February 2021, Myanmar's military grabbed power in a coup d'etat, ending a decade of reforms that were supposed to break the shackles of military rule in Myanmar. Protests across the country were met with a brutal crackdown that shocked the world but were a familiar response from an institution that has ruled the country with violence and terror for decades. Return of the Junta is a detailed account of the ways that Myanm...

CHF 110.00

Hollywood Screwball Comedy 1934-1945

Halbout, Grégoire
Hollywood Screwball Comedy 1934-1945
Winner of the 2022 CHOICE Outstanding Academic Titles Love at first sight, whirlwind marriages, break-ups, divorces, remarriage. What accounts for the enduring success of the Hollywood madcap comedies of the 1930s? Directed by masters of comedy (Hawks, LaCava, Leisen, Ruggles...) and featuring the decade's most iconic stars (Colbert, Dunne, Grant, Hepburn...), these films set romantic comedy standards for decades to come. Screwball comedy ...

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