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In Germany, privately run boulevard comedy theatres attract larger audiences than state theatres. This book analyzes this unique phenomenon, exploring everything from its specialized plays and actors to its artistic management, production, and reception.
In Germany, privately run boulevard comedy theatres attract larger audiences than state theatres. This book analyzes this unique phenomenon, exploring everything from its specialized plays and actors to its artistic management, production, and reception.
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These twelve essays provide a basis for reassessing European traditions of beauty in the arts, literature, and film, as a constructive means of realising the potential of the arts for the 21st century.
These twelve essays provide a basis for reassessing European traditions of beauty in the arts, literature, and film, as a constructive means of realising the potential of the arts for the 21st century.
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Considering Leadership Anew
A Handbook on Alternative Leadership Theory
Traditional leadership recipes are not enough to cope with a chaotic world. This book compiles essays on alternative leadership theory from leading authors who defend unorthodox approaches, exploring leadership from novel lenses from the arts, humanities, and sciences.
Traditional leadership recipes are not enough to cope with a chaotic world. This book compiles essays on alternative leadership theory from leading authors who defend unorthodox approaches, exploring leadership from novel lenses from the arts, humanities, and sciences.
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Eric Ball
His Life and Music, 1903-1989
This book traces the life and work of renowned twentieth-century Brass Band composer Eric Ball, a great figure in the Brass Band Movement. It surveys his music and researches his involvement with the Salvation Army.
This book traces the life and work of renowned twentieth-century Brass Band composer Eric Ball, a great figure in the Brass Band Movement. It surveys his music and researches his involvement with the Salvation Army.
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This book analyzes major ethical and bioethical issues like euthanasia, suicide, organ commerce, sexual objectification, and abortion from the perspective of Kant’s moral theory. It tackles questions of autonomy, human dignity, and free choice.
This book analyzes major ethical and bioethical issues like euthanasia, suicide, organ commerce, sexual objectification, and abortion from the perspective of Kant’s moral theory. It tackles questions of autonomy, human dignity, and free choice.
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Astrobiology and Humanism
Conversations on Science, Philosophy and Theology
This book reviews the frontiers of humanism as they interact with astrobiology. The existence of life raises deep questions meaningful to both, but disagreements in this dialogue are shown to be due to the delusion that the frontiers of science can be ignored.
This book reviews the frontiers of humanism as they interact with astrobiology. The existence of life raises deep questions meaningful to both, but disagreements in this dialogue are shown to be due to the delusion that the frontiers of science can be ignored.
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This volume explores the descendants of Iberian Jews forcibly converted to Catholicism. Focusing on the 18th-century exodus from Portugal to Brazil, it examines the contemporary search for Jewish roots. After centuries, how authentic is their lost Sefardi heritage?
This volume explores the descendants of Iberian Jews forcibly converted to Catholicism. Focusing on the 18th-century exodus from Portugal to Brazil, it examines the contemporary search for Jewish roots. After centuries, how authentic is their lost Sefardi heritage?
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A valuable and timely collection by specialists tackling terrorism, human rights, Islamic radicalism, and identity in Malaysia, Singapore, and Indonesia. Highly recommended.
A valuable and timely collection by specialists tackling terrorism, human rights, Islamic radicalism, and identity in Malaysia, Singapore, and Indonesia. Highly recommended.
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Current Myanmar Studies
Aung San Suu Kyi, Muslims in Arakan, and Economic Insecurity
This book contains articles concerned with the major issues facing development in Myanmar. Topics explored include Muslims in Arakan (Rohingya), economic perspectives, the challenges facing Aung San Suu Kyi, and an ethnographic note on textile production in Shan State.
This book contains articles concerned with the major issues facing development in Myanmar. Topics explored include Muslims in Arakan (Rohingya), economic perspectives, the challenges facing Aung San Suu Kyi, and an ethnographic note on textile production in Shan State.
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Literature’s Contributions to Scientific Knowledge
How Novels Explored New Ideas about Human Nature
Interdisciplinary scholarship holds the promise of the unification of all knowledge. Through its wide-ranging analysis, this volume demonstrates, ¬in a careful and original manner, how literary fiction has contributed to the scientific understanding of human nature.
Interdisciplinary scholarship holds the promise of the unification of all knowledge. Through its wide-ranging analysis, this volume demonstrates, ¬in a careful and original manner, how literary fiction has contributed to the scientific understanding of human nature.
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State of Exception
Cultural Responses to the Rhetoric of Fear
In the state of exception, the law is suspended to preserve order, justifying any abuse of power. This book examines the implications of this juridical no-man's land, focusing on Italy's history and its cultural and cinematic representations.
In the state of exception, the law is suspended to preserve order, justifying any abuse of power. This book examines the implications of this juridical no-man’s land, focusing on Italy’s history and its cultural and cinematic representations.
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Cultural Status, Genre and Critique
An incisive collection of essays exploring subversive texts, with readings of authors such as Kazuo Ishiguro, Neil Gaiman, and Philip Pullman, and filmmakers such as Terry Gilliam and Orson Welles.
An incisive collection of essays exploring subversive texts, with readings of authors such as Kazuo Ishiguro, Neil Gaiman, and Philip Pullman, and filmmakers such as Terry Gilliam and Orson Welles.
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Body Politic
Political Metaphor and Political Violence
For millennia, society has been imagined as a body. This engrossing book is more than a history of a metaphor: it is a history of how the idea is converted into action, taking us from ancient India to computer hackers, from assassination to aerial warfare.
For millennia, society has been imagined as a body. This engrossing book is more than a history of a metaphor: it is a history of how the idea is converted into action, taking us from ancient India to computer hackers, from assassination to aerial warfare.
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Crash Cinema
Representation in Film
Cinema does more than simply amuse or horrify; it communicates to us about ourselves. This book analyzes the politics of representation, asking whose ‘truth’ is being represented and why, and uncovering cinema's power to shock, surprise, and explore the taboo.
Cinema does more than simply amuse or horrify; it communicates to us about ourselves. This book analyzes the politics of representation, asking whose ‘truth’ is being represented and why, and uncovering cinema’s power to shock, surprise, and explore the taboo.
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This book explores how literature portrays riots not as chaos, but as popular politics. Spanning from Shakespeare to postcolonial uprisings, these essays analyze the charged language of power and resistance, revealing the tension between official culture and the crowd.
This book explores how literature portrays riots not as chaos, but as popular politics. Spanning from Shakespeare to postcolonial uprisings, these essays analyze the charged language of power and resistance, revealing the tension between official culture and the crowd.
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Corporate Fraud in Japan
Risk Management and Governance
Why did risk management systems at world-famous Japanese companies fail? This book investigates eight incidents of corporate fraud, based on third-party reports, to explore common problems in corporate governance and internal control that let these companies down.
Why did risk management systems at world-famous Japanese companies fail? This book investigates eight incidents of corporate fraud, based on third-party reports, to explore common problems in corporate governance and internal control that let these companies down.
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Empedocles of Acragas
His Theory and the Exact Sciences
Empedocles of Acragas is known as a philosopher, healer, excellent orator, miracle-maker, and engineer. Scholars, students and specialists will find in this book an analysis of his revolutionary writings, and confirmation that he was a multi-faceted and important thinker.
Empedocles of Acragas is known as a philosopher, healer, excellent orator, miracle-maker, and engineer. Scholars, students and specialists will find in this book an analysis of his revolutionary writings, and confirmation that he was a multi-faceted and important thinker.
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With Poetry and Philosophy
Four Dialogic Studies—Wordsworth, Browning, Hopkins and Hardy
This book explores the dialogue between poetry and philosophy, from Kant and Wordsworth to Adorno and Hardy. Outlining a new ‘dialogic’ approach, it produces considerations on language and thought that are unexpected, yet strangely fitting.
This book explores the dialogue between poetry and philosophy, from Kant and Wordsworth to Adorno and Hardy. Outlining a new ‘dialogic’ approach, it produces considerations on language and thought that are unexpected, yet strangely fitting.
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“Catch if you can your country’s moment”
Recovery and Regeneration in the Poetry of Adrienne Rich
These essays explore Adrienne Rich’s work, arguing for a shift from her personal feminist awakening to her later, public re-imagination of America. A transformative cartographer of words, Rich remaps our culture for the marginalized and the resistant.
These essays explore Adrienne Rich’s work, arguing for a shift from her personal feminist awakening to her later, public re-imagination of America. A transformative cartographer of words, Rich remaps our culture for the marginalized and the resistant.
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This collection of articles draws attention to the needs of 21st-century learners who require more than textbook information. It represents an important contribution to research on learners and reading, reading acquisition, and information literacy.
This collection of articles draws attention to the needs of 21st-century learners who require more than textbook information. It represents an important contribution to research on learners and reading, reading acquisition, and information literacy.
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