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Louise Hollandine and the Art of Arachnean Critique
(Amsterdam University Press, 2019-07-22)
Louise Hollandine was an artist and student of internationally renowned Dutch painter Gerard van Honthorst. Though relatively few works now survive that can be authoritatively
ascribed to her, Louise Hollandine s artistic ...
From travel to mobility: Perspectives on journeys in the Russian, Central and East European past
(Routledge, 2019-03-28)
This chapter introduces the “new mobilities paradigm” and argues for its
application to the modern history of Russia, central and east Europe. It charts the emergence
of this approach in the context of the more established ...
Reducing residential carbon emissions in Ireland: Challenges and policy responses
(Palgrave Pivot, Cham, 2019-06-08)
Carbon emissions from the residential sector in Ireland are higher than the European average and are rising. This is a concern in a country already struggling to meet its agreed climate targets. In this chapter, the authors ...
An introduction to energy demand challenges in Europe
(Palgrave Pivot, Cham, 2019-06-08)
This opening chapter calls for greater attention to energy demand challenges in Europe. It argues that many obstacles and opportunities in achieving the so-called energy transition are social and cultural in nature and ...
Death and how to deal with it in the Harry Potter series
(Routledge, 2019-08-29)
It is obvious that death is one of the main issues in the Harry Potter world and the way it is underlined throughout the series opens up the ground for discussion of one of the most taboo topics in Western culture amongst ...
La resistenza dei tratti intonativi nell acquisizione dell italiano da parte di parlanti anglo celti
(Associazione Italiana di Linguistica Applicata (AItLA) and Officinaventuno, 2019)
Although research on intonational phonology plays a crucial role in second language acquisition, scientific contributions investigating prosodic features in a contrastive perspective are
scarce. This study aims at ...
Women’s rights as human rights: 25 years on
(Springer, 2019-05-22)
“Women’s Rights as Human Rights: Toward a Re-Vision of Human Rights,” by Charlotte Bunch (published in Human Rights Quarterly in 1990), is considered a classic text in the field of women’s human rights. In it, Bunch set ...
Rural emigration to international destinations and return: a perspective from Ireland
(Faculty of Letters, University of Porto, 2019)
This chapter aims to contribute to a better understanding of international emigration from and return to rural areas
using evidence from Ireland. The paper introduces key concepts relating to migration and return more ...
Nicole Gilles and literate society
(Peter Lang, 2019-02-05)
Nicole Gilles was active in the literate society of Paris in the last quarter of the fifteenth century in a number of ways: as a reader and patron of books, as a publisher and as a writer whose work may have circulated ...
Women, gender and international human rights: An overview
(Springer, 2019-06-26)
This chapter reviews the many achievements of the last 25 years − expressed in the proliferation of laws, norms, and mechanisms − to advance the human rights of women and LGBTQI people and considers in five subsections ...