Social Sciences

The Lure of Olde Arizona

By: Robert D. Morritt

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This book affords an in-depth history of Arizona from the Paleographical era up until Statehood. The book examines the early roots of the indigenous people, together with contemporary accounts of early settlers.

Masculinities in Twentieth- and Twenty-first Century French and Francophone Literature

Edited By: Edith Biegler Vandervoort

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As men and women question gender roles, this book examines masculine expression across Europe, Africa, and the Americas. In this collection, authors write about men’s challenges, friendships, and outcasts to foster understanding and tolerance of all sexualities.

The Nation on Screen

Discourses of the National on Global Television

Edited By: Enric Castelló, Alexander Dhoest

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This book focuses on the complex discourses of the nation in the television of twelve countries. It examines how the nation is staged in news, fiction, and entertainment, revealing it as a site of struggle: everywhere and nowhere, endlessly discussed but never grasped.

Giacomo Meyerbeer

Reputation without Cause? A Composer and his Critics

By: Jennifer Jackson

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Giacomo Meyerbeer was the most successful composer of grand operas in nineteenth-century Paris, yet today his operas have become stage rarities. This is the first broad evaluation of Meyerbeer in English, a study of his reputation's vicissitudes.

Research in Second Language Acquisition

Empirical Evidence across Languages

Edited By: Dagmar Keatinge, Jörg-U. Keßler

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This volume provides an overview of current research within the Processability Theory framework. It combines theoretical approaches to extend the theory with studies investigating bilingual language acquisition across typologically different languages and contexts.

From Antiquity to the Postmodern World

Contemporary Jewish Studies in Canada

Edited By: Andrea Gondos, Daniel Maoz

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This volume brings together histories and literatures of the Jewish people. The articles investigate Jewish life and thought, from ancient sources and mysticism to contemporary themes, offering vibrant responses to the key questions: “Who is a Jew?” and “What is Judaism?”

Muslim Societies in the Age of Mass Consumption

Politics, Culture and Identity between the Local and the Global

Edited By: Johanna Pink

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Muslim consumers are not passive victims of globalization. They adapt global brands, reshaping their culture. This volume uses consumption as a prism to understand the enormous transformations that Muslim societies have undergone in the past few decades.

Ex-changes

Comparative Studies in British and American Cultures

Edited By: Edyta Lorek-Jezińska, Katarzyna Więckowska

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This collection of articles explores the transfer of ideas in British and American cultures. Analyzing cultural texts from fiction to film, these essays document shifting definitions of identity, gender, and nationality across various genres, media, and disciplines.

About The Boys

Stories from the Urban Community

By: Lynn Maddern

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To ease tensions in a Bristol school, seven Somali and African Caribbean boys are brought together. Five years later, the author finds them again, uncovering powerful stories of exclusion, ambition, and success as they approach their GCSEs.

The Dove and the Eagle

By: Roberto Fornasier

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This book explores politico-diplomatic relations between Italy and the US during Italy's turbulent 1960s-70s. It offers an innovative comparison between PM Mariano Rumor, the ‘dove’, and the ‘eagle’ of the Nixon and Ford administrations.

This book explores politico-diplomatic relations between Italy and the US during Italy’s turbulent 1960s-70s. It offers an innovative comparison between PM Mariano Rumor, the ‘dove’, and the ‘eagle’ of the Nixon and Ford administrations.

Press, Propaganda and Politics

Cultural Periodicals in Francoist Spain and Communist Romania

Edited By: Rubén Jarazo Álvarez, Andrada Fatu-Tutoveanu

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This study compares media in Francoist Spain and Communist Romania, revealing startling similarities in the propaganda of two opposing regimes. It challenges old paradigms and forges a new, unified framework for understanding totalitarian systems.

The Human Being in Contemporary Philosophical Conceptions

Edited By: Nikolai Omelchenko

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This book presents an integral philosophy of human being. Amidst a new anthropological renaissance, scholars from different countries explore how knowledge of what we are, what we can do, and what we must become can guide our political and educational programs.

Miracle Enough

Papers on the Works of Mervyn Peake

Edited By: William Gray, Peter Winnington

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This is the first comparable collection of essays on Mervyn Peake ever published. Selected from an international conference, these papers by scholars and artists take a wide variety of approaches to his work—from the Gormenghast trilogy to his poetry and art.

Literature and Sensation

Edited By: Anthony Uhlmann

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Literature has always treated the sensational, but it is also intricately connected with sensation in ways that are less understood. This book offers detailed readings of literature according to the sensations they represent, incite, or evoke in us.

On Nabokov, Ayn Rand and the Libertarian Mind

What the Russian-American Odd Pair Can Tell Us about Some Values, Myths and Manias Widely Held Most Dear

By: Gene H. Bell-Villada

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Uniting the divergent worlds of Nabokov and Ayn Rand, this meditation explores libertarianism through the author's own conflicted relationship to the odd pair. A unique and charged look at the intersection of art and politics.

Uniting the divergent worlds of Nabokov and Ayn Rand, this meditation explores libertarianism through the author’s own conflicted relationship to the odd pair. A unique and charged look at the intersection of art and politics.

Promotion, Popularisation and Pedagogy

An Analysis of the Verbal and Visual Strategies in the COE's Human Rights Campaigns

By: Sole Alba Zollo

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This study investigates the Council of Europe’s human rights campaigns, identifying the linguistic and visual means of persuasion used. The analysis highlights how Promotion, Popularisation, and Pedagogy overlap to raise awareness and promote the Institution itself.

Indigenous and Afro-Ecuadorians Facing the Twenty-First Century

Edited By: Marc Becker

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These interdisciplinary essays explore race and ethnicity in Ecuador, highlighting understudied Afro-Ecuadorian perspectives alongside Indigenous ones. Examining politics, culture, and gender, they reveal the richness, complexities, and promises facing the country.

Prohibition of Sexual Exploitation of Children Constituting Obligation Erga Omnes

By: Farhad Malekian, Kerstin Nordlöf

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Though the value of human integrity is increasingly consolidated in law, sexual exploitation of children remains widespread. This book analyzes the legal framework and the international responsibility of states to eliminate the crime, and to prosecute and punish offenders.

Re-examining the Holocaust through Literature

Edited By: Aukje Kluge, Benn E. Williams

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These essays reflect the international and pluridisciplinary nature of Holocaust scholarship, widening the definition of Holocaust literature to include comic books, fiction, and film. Contributors engage controversial issues of authenticity, morality, and representation.

Film Landscapes

Cinema, Environment and Visual Culture

Edited By: Graeme Harper, Jonathan Rayner

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This book brings together critical essays examining the connections between films and landscapes. Academics and practitioners probe the complex relationships between moving images and the filmed environment, offering new insights into the impact of place on screen.

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