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Shifting the Geography of Reason
Gender, Science and Religion
In a world offering few options, this courageous celebration of thinking asserts the value of intelligence and the urgent need to build new intellectual homes.
In a world offering few options, this courageous celebration of thinking asserts the value of intelligence and the urgent need to build new intellectual homes.
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This book explores the long-standing, multi-faceted relationship between Scotland and Europe. From a diversity of viewpoints, it illustrates the richness and complexity of the dialogue over the centuries, and underlines the open and dynamic character of Scottish identity.
This book explores the long-standing, multi-faceted relationship between Scotland and Europe. From a diversity of viewpoints, it illustrates the richness and complexity of the dialogue over the centuries, and underlines the open and dynamic character of Scottish identity.
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This collection of scholarly discussions explores the legacy of Tennessee Williams. Probing his drama, fiction, and unpublished work, it covers all aspects of his career, including his relationships with contemporaries, offering fresh perspectives for all readers.
This collection of scholarly discussions explores the legacy of Tennessee Williams. Probing his drama, fiction, and unpublished work, it covers all aspects of his career, including his relationships with contemporaries, offering fresh perspectives for all readers.
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The Hydropolitics of Africa
A Contemporary Challenge
Water is an essential resource and a source of disease and conflict in Africa, where global warming threatens survival. This volume traces the dynamics of contemporary hydropolitics through technical, institutional, and social policy analyses.
Water is an essential resource and a source of disease and conflict in Africa, where global warming threatens survival. This volume traces the dynamics of contemporary hydropolitics through technical, institutional, and social policy analyses.
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The Many Facets of Love
Philosophical Explorations
We might think philosophers have thoroughly analyzed love, but this is not the case. This book takes a step toward rectifying that neglect, bringing together fifteen philosophical perspectives to explore love’s facets, most with religious concerns.
We might think philosophers have thoroughly analyzed love, but this is not the case. This book takes a step toward rectifying that neglect, bringing together fifteen philosophical perspectives to explore love’s facets, most with religious concerns.
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Leading international scholars examine the uneasy relationship between the Muslim world and the West in the context of the 'war on terror'. This volume deals with Islamism, militancy, and the vicious cycle of mutual insecurity through theory and case studies.
Leading international scholars examine the uneasy relationship between the Muslim world and the West in the context of the ‘war on terror’. This volume deals with Islamism, militancy, and the vicious cycle of mutual insecurity through theory and case studies.
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This collection of papers examines circus history, life, the relationship of circus to society, and its impact on the arts. "This fascinating collection showcases the cultural depth of the circus in historical and contemporary settings." —Janet M. Davis
This collection of papers examines circus history, life, the relationship of circus to society, and its impact on the arts. “This fascinating collection showcases the cultural depth of the circus in historical and contemporary settings.” —Janet M. Davis
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Violent Depictions
Representing Violence Across Cultures
In a world that accepts violence as a just enterprise, what is violence? Is it justifiable? Violent Depictions addresses these questions, exploring the relationship between violence and representation in films, literature, and history.
In a world that accepts violence as a just enterprise, what is violence? Is it justifiable? Violent Depictions addresses these questions, exploring the relationship between violence and representation in films, literature, and history.
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A Self-divided Poet
Form and Texture in the Verse of Thomas Hood
Long regarded as a minor comic poet, this first book on Thomas Hood’s verse reveals his true range. It analyzes his serious poems, uncovering a debt to Elizabethan and Metaphysical poets, while also giving his comic genius its due in his light-hearted oeuvre.
Long regarded as a minor comic poet, this first book on Thomas Hood’s verse reveals his true range. It analyzes his serious poems, uncovering a debt to Elizabethan and Metaphysical poets, while also giving his comic genius its due in his light-hearted oeuvre.
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Assessing Social Capital
Concept, Policy and Practice
Social capital is a key concept in policymaking, but does it hide more than it illuminates? Is it even harmful? This collection assesses the theory and its policy drawbacks. Renowned researchers reveal its flaws and offer alternatives, while others adapt it.
Social capital is a key concept in policymaking, but does it hide more than it illuminates? Is it even harmful? This collection assesses the theory and its policy drawbacks. Renowned researchers reveal its flaws and offer alternatives, while others adapt it.
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From the “Academic Voices in Contrast” symposium, this book features research by distinguished scholars on the academic author's voice. It explores interlingual and interdisciplinary differences, constituting a clear advancement in academic discourse research.
From the “Academic Voices in Contrast” symposium, this book features research by distinguished scholars on the academic author’s voice. It explores interlingual and interdisciplinary differences, constituting a clear advancement in academic discourse research.
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Crossing Places
New Research in African Studies
A new generation of scholars offers fresh approaches to African history and culture. This collection explores themes of crossing through time and space, encounters across generations, and the renegotiation of identity, with a geographical range from Algeria to Zimbabwe.
A new generation of scholars offers fresh approaches to African history and culture. This collection explores themes of crossing through time and space, encounters across generations, and the renegotiation of identity, with a geographical range from Algeria to Zimbabwe.
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Open Book
Essays from the Vermont College Postgraduate Writers Conference
This book of essays is a meeting of minds passionate about tempting language from imagination onto the page. For writers at all levels, it will inspire your imagination and tune your craft as you make that leap from “What if?” to the page.
This book of essays is a meeting of minds passionate about tempting language from imagination onto the page. For writers at all levels, it will inspire your imagination and tune your craft as you make that leap from “What if?” to the page.
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Encounters | Materialities | Confrontations
Archaeologies of Social Space and Interaction
This collection provides a theoretical and methodological platform for studying social encounters in archaeology. A social encounter focuses on the confusion, tension, and social change that emerge when people and things interact, with often unpredictable effects.
This collection provides a theoretical and methodological platform for studying social encounters in archaeology. A social encounter focuses on the confusion, tension, and social change that emerge when people and things interact, with often unpredictable effects.
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Versions Of Ireland
Empire, Modernity And Resistance In Irish Culture
Versions of Ireland brings a postcolonial optic to Irish cultural studies, highlighting imperial modernity and resistance. More than just theory, it offers rich analyses of republican murals, poetry, gothic fiction, and nineteenth-century photography.
Versions of Ireland brings a postcolonial optic to Irish cultural studies, highlighting imperial modernity and resistance. More than just theory, it offers rich analyses of republican murals, poetry, gothic fiction, and nineteenth-century photography.
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This collection explores monarchy, family, suicide, and sodomy in eighteenth-century France. It argues that the private and public weakness of sovereigns and husbands undermined their legitimacy, challenging simplistic assumptions about absolutism and Revolution.
This collection explores monarchy, family, suicide, and sodomy in eighteenth-century France. It argues that the private and public weakness of sovereigns and husbands undermined their legitimacy, challenging simplistic assumptions about absolutism and Revolution.
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Narrating the Past
(Re)Constructing Memory, (Re)Negotiating
Narrative is an integral part of human existence, challenging the supremacy of empirical fact and our ability to know the past as it really was. Examining a wide range of texts, the essays in this volume reveal that all representations of the past are situated.
Narrative is an integral part of human existence, challenging the supremacy of empirical fact and our ability to know the past as it really was. Examining a wide range of texts, the essays in this volume reveal that all representations of the past are situated.
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This volume provides the latest pedagogical reflections from research to help language teachers update their teaching methodology. It covers key concepts, new directions like ICT, learner variables, the four skills, and a student-centred approach.
This volume provides the latest pedagogical reflections from research to help language teachers update their teaching methodology. It covers key concepts, new directions like ICT, learner variables, the four skills, and a student-centred approach.
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Interrogating the War on Terror
Interdisciplinary Perspectives
Is the so-called war on terror justified? This book presents a critique of contemporary war culture, bringing together international political, philosophical, legal, and artistic perspectives to explore the devastating effects of this global conflict.
Is the so-called war on terror justified? This book presents a critique of contemporary war culture, bringing together international political, philosophical, legal, and artistic perspectives to explore the devastating effects of this global conflict.
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Beyond Nature And Nurture
Conceiving a Better Way to Understand Genes and Memes
Why are some individuals and countries more successful than others? The nature-nurture debate is misleading. Dr. Baofu shows how the two are intertwined and reveals a tremendous future: a "post-human" world where human genes will no longer exist.
Why are some individuals and countries more successful than others? The nature-nurture debate is misleading. Dr. Baofu shows how the two are intertwined and reveals a tremendous future: a “post-human” world where human genes will no longer exist.
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