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  • Before Night Falls

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  • Decolonizing Europe

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    Inspired by the global resonance of the Black Lives Matter movement in 2020, this book adds to the current discussion on the idea of decolonizing Europe. Drawing inspiration from the study of colonialism, postcolonialism and the imperative to decolonize knowledge and practice, the editors bring together a group of scholars approaching these issues through ethnographic inquiry. The volume explores ... Read more

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  • Legal Resistance to Autocracy

    The Global Fight to Save Democracy

    Series series Comparative Constitutional Change
    This book focuses on resistance to autocratization, a less well-researched and understood topic than the rise of authoritarianism. As the editors and authors of this book have experienced both through their academic research and personal lives in autocratizing countries, autocratization does not march on unopposed. Moreover, resistance to autocratization has yielded results, if not managing to ... Read more

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  • Apolipoprotein E

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    This edited work is a constructive collaboration between experts and authorities worldwide on the biology, function, and translational medicine of the apolipoprotein E gene (APOE) polymorphisms and protein isoforms. It encompasses various aspects of innate and acquired immunology, and gastrointestinal and neurological functions, and presents the latest literature on the basic mechanisms, signaling ... Read more

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    12th Brazilian Conference, BRACIS 2023, Belo Horizonte, Brazil, September 25–29, 2023, Proceedings, Part I

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  • Global Legal History

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    This collection brings together a group of international legal historians to further scholarship in different areas of comparative and regional legal history. Authors are drawn from Europe, Asia, and the Americas to produce new insights into the relationship between law and society across time and space. The book is divided into three parts: legal history and legal culture across borders, ... Read more

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  • Ethnobotany of the Mountain Regions of Brazil

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    Research in recent years has increasingly shifted away from purely academic research, and into applied aspects of the discipline, including climate change research, conservation, and sustainable development. It has by now widely been recognized that “traditional” knowledge is always in flux and adapting to a quickly changing environment. Trends of globalization, especially the globalization of ... Read more

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