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By Cecil Konijnendijk, Edgar Elgar Publishing Limited, 2024, ISBN: 9781803925486
Edited by Sofie Pelsmakers and James Benedict Brown. Routledge, 2025, ISBN: 9781032277486
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Edited by Robin Puttock. Routledge, 2025, ISBN: 9781032692517
By Adele Houghton and Carlos Castillo-Salgado. John Hopkins University Press, 2025, ISBN: 9781421450698
By Helen Pineo. Palgrave Macmillan, 2022, ISBN: 978-981-16-9646-6
Edited by: Tim Vorley, Syahirah Abdul Rahman, Lauren Tuckerman, Phil Wallace. Edward Elgar Publishing, 2022, ISBN: 978 1 80037 895 7
By Dean Hawkes. Routledge, 2022, ISBN: 9780367537166
By Andrew Witt. MIT Press, 2022, ISBN: 978-0-262-54300-2
Edited by: Vanesa Castán Broto, Enora Robin, Aidan While. Palgrave Macmillan, 2020, ISBN: 978-3-030-53386-1
By Felix Heisel and Dirk E Hebel, in collaboration with Ken Webster. Birkhäuser, 2022, ISBN: 9783035621099
By S. Pincetl, H. Gustafson, F. Federico, E.D. Fournier, R. Cudd & E. Porse. Palgrave Macmillan, 2020, ISBN: 9783030556013
By Kian Goh. MIT Press, 2021, ISBN: 9780262367066
By Sonja Oliviera, Bill Gething, Elena Marco. RIBA Publishing, 2020, ISBN 9781859469101
By Frank W. Geels and Bruno Turnheim. Cambridge University Press, 2022, ISBN: 9781009198240
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