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The Making of Liturgy in the Ottonian Church: Books, Music and Ritual in Mainz, 950–1050 (2015)
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Parkes, H. (2015). The Making of Liturgy in the Ottonian Church: Books, Music and Ritual in Mainz, 950–1050. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. https://doi.org/10.1017/cbo9781316014752

This highly original study examines the history and religious life of the Ottonian Church through its ritual books. With forensic attention to the writing and design of four important manuscripts from the city of Mainz - a musician's troper, a priest... Read More about The Making of Liturgy in the Ottonian Church: Books, Music and Ritual in Mainz, 950–1050.

Envy, Poison, and Death: Women on Trial in Classical Athens (2015)
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Eidinow, E. (2015). Envy, Poison, and Death: Women on Trial in Classical Athens. Oxford University Press. https://doi.org/10.1093/acprof%3Aoso/9780199562602.001.0001

At the heart of this book are some trials conducted in Athens in the fourth century BCE. In each case, the charges involved a combination of supernatural activities, including potion-brewing and cult activity; the defendants were all women. Because o... Read More about Envy, Poison, and Death: Women on Trial in Classical Athens.

Gendering the Settler State White Women, Race, Liberalism and Empire in Rhodesia, 1950-1980 (2015)
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LAW, K. (2015). Gendering the Settler State White Women, Race, Liberalism and Empire in Rhodesia, 1950-1980. New York: Taylor & Francis (Routledge)

White women cut an ambivalent figure in the transnational history of the British Empire. They tend to be remembered as malicious harridans personifying the worst excesses of colonialism, as vacuous fusspots, whose lives were punctuated by a series of... Read More about Gendering the Settler State White Women, Race, Liberalism and Empire in Rhodesia, 1950-1980.

The ancient Greek economy: markets, households, and city-states (2015)
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Lewis, D. (2015). D. Lewis, E. Harris, & M. Woolmer (Eds.), The ancient Greek economy: markets, households, and city-states. Cambridge University Press

This volume draws together contributions by historians, economists, and archaeologists on the question of the role of markets in the economy of the Greek city-states during the classical and hellenistic periods.

The language of inclusive education (2015)
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Walton, E. (2015). The language of inclusive education. Milton Park, Abingdon: Routledge

The Language of Inclusive Education is an insightful text which considers the writing, speaking, reading and hearing of inclusive education. Based on the premise that humans use language to construct their worlds and their realities, this book is con... Read More about The language of inclusive education.

The Language of Inclusive Education: Exploring speaking, listening, reading and writing (2015)
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Walton, E. (2015). The Language of Inclusive Education: Exploring speaking, listening, reading and writing. (1). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315759272

The Language of Inclusive Education is an insightful text which considers the writing, speaking, reading and hearing of inclusive education. Based on the premise that humans use language to construct their worlds and their realities, this book is con... Read More about The Language of Inclusive Education: Exploring speaking, listening, reading and writing.

"Honorary Protestants": The Jewish School Question in Montreal, 1867-1997 (2015)
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FRASER, D. (2015). "Honorary Protestants": The Jewish School Question in Montreal, 1867-1997. Toronto, Canada: University of Toronto Press

When the Constitution Act of 1867 was enacted, section 93 guaranteed certain educational rights to Catholics and Protestants in Quebec, but not to any others. Over the course of the next century, the Jewish community in Montreal carved out an often t... Read More about "Honorary Protestants": The Jewish School Question in Montreal, 1867-1997.

Victorian Christianity at the Fin de Siècle: The Culture of English Religion in a Decadent Age (2015)
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Knight, F. (2015). Victorian Christianity at the Fin de Siècle: The Culture of English Religion in a Decadent Age. London, UK: Bloomsbury Publishing

The period known as the fin de siecle - defined in this groundbreaking book as chiefly the period between1885 and 1901 - was a fluid and unsettling epoch of optimism and pessimism, endings and beginnings, aswell as of new forms of creativity and anxi... Read More about Victorian Christianity at the Fin de Siècle: The Culture of English Religion in a Decadent Age.

Picturing Frederick Douglass: An Illustrated Biography of the Nineteenth Century's Most Photographed American (2015)
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Stauffer, J., Trodd, Z., & Bernier, C. (2015). Picturing Frederick Douglass: An Illustrated Biography of the Nineteenth Century's Most Photographed American. Liveright Publishing Corporation

Commemorating the bicentennial of Frederick Douglass’s birthday and featuring images discovered since its original publication in 2015, this “tour de force” (Library Journal, starred review) reintroduced Frederick Douglass to a twenty-first-century a... Read More about Picturing Frederick Douglass: An Illustrated Biography of the Nineteenth Century's Most Photographed American.