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Molière on stage
Robert w. goldsby‘Molière on Stage’ takes the reader onstage, backstage and into the audience of Molière’s plays, and analyzes the performance of his works in both his own time and ours.
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Modern european tragedy
Annamaria cascettaThe idea of the tragic has permeated Western culture for millennia, and has been expressed theatrically since the time of the ancient Greeks. However, it was in the Europe of the twentieth century – one of the most violent periods of human history – that the tragic form significantly developed. ‘...
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The sicilian puppet theater of agrippino manteo (1884-1947)
Jo ann cavalloThis study reconstructs the history of the Manteo family marionette theater in New York City, provides translations of eight selected plays and 270 extant summaries, and offers comparative analyses uncovering how Agrippino Manteo’s scripts creatively adapt Italian Renaissance chivalric poems and ...
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The legacy of pierre bourdieu
Simon susen , Bryan s. turnerThis volume explores the sociological legacy of the late Pierre Bourdieu through an examination of the intellectual division between his reception in the world of French social sciences and his reception in the Anglophone world.
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Dreams and dialogues in dylan’s "time out of mind"
Graley herrenThis book studies Bob Dylan’s album Time Out of Mind as a series of dreams. These dreams work on three distinct levels: as murder ballads about a killer awaiting execution, as religious allegory about a protagonist torn between salvation and damnation, and as meditation on race and music in America.
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Renu recipes
Renu soodIn preparing this cookbook, I have received wonderful encouragement and support from many quarters. I thank my sons—Fauji, Teji, and Inu—and their wives for helping me decide on the specific dishes to include. The infectious enthusiasm of my grandchildren for my cooking has propelled me onward, t...
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How to get into medical school in australia
Timothy shiraev‘How to Get into Medical School in Australia’ is the definitive guide on how to succeed in your application to medical school – and how to excel once there.
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The films of john schlesinger
Julia prewitt brown‘The Films of John Schlesinger’ is the first comprehensive interpretation of the films of the distinguished eponymous director. It is the first book to do full justice to the director's literary roots, film artistry and capacious understanding of modern life.
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The significant hamlin garland
Donald pizerThis book collects the best of Donald Pizer’s essays dealing with Hamlin Garland’s early work and activities in to re-establish the importance of this formative stage in his career.
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Becoming – an anthropological approach to understandings of the person in java
Konstantinos retsikasThe volume is an ethnographic monograph centring on the island of Java that also makes a singular contribution to the anthropological theorising of the person.
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A first course in functional analysis
Rabindranath senA comprehensive introduction to functional analysis, starting from the fundamentals and extending into theory and applications across multiple disciplines.
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The next right move
J. mark munoz , Stephen kremplThe book is a fictional story about three characters who go on a road trip and experience technology, organizations, and work life in 2030, charting a developmental journey and pathway towards a happy, healthy, and productive life ahead.
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Gothic travel through haunted landscapes
Lucie armitt , Scott brewsterThis book argues that travel in Gothic literature offers a unique and transformative perspective on recurring cultural preoccupations with fear, unknown landscapes, environmental change, surveillance, and the foreign.
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Principles of global supply chain management
Yui-yip lau , Adolf k.y. ng , Jorge acevedo‘Managing Global Supply Chains’ addresses the challenges and trends that the global supply chain industry has encountered in recent decades. The book’s emphasis is on emerging and developed economies in Asia, North America and Latin America.
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Kutze, stepp'n on wheat
Shinji ishii , David karashimaAlone on a midsummer night, Cat wakes to find a stranger dressed in yellow ‘rat-a-tap, tapping’ his feet. Captivated by the music of Kutze’s steps, Cat resolves to tread wheat like the stranger when he grows up: in the big city where he studies music or, eventually, further afield, across the sea.
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More meditations of a militant moderate
Peter h. schuckThe book collects thirty-two opinion pieces, essays, and two poems published by the author in leading media on a wide variety of public policy topics as recently as 2022. The articles and poems range over six broad areas: the moderation ideal, as illustrated by the abortion issue; American except...
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Decisionmaking in an enlarged european union
Dr. axel huelsemeyerThis book discusses EU member state institutions that vote either by unanimity or by two-thirds majority
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Changes in the higher education sector
Khalid khan , Dawne gurbutt , Rachel craggThis book considers the essential attributes of excellence in teaching as well as the main current factors both internally and externally that are driving higher educational institutes to raise their quality of teaching. It looks at the latest teaching methodologies that promotes deep learning an...
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British foreign office documents on the macedonian question, 1919-1941
Ilko drenkov , Ivan metodiev petrov , Lynnette g. leonardA collection of original British Foreign Office documents on the Macedonian Question accompanied with a professional preface introducing the problem.
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Rethinking development economics
Ha-joon changThis title represents the most forward thinking and comprehensive review of development economics currently available.
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Culture and conflicts in sierra leone mining
Fenda akiwumiThis book argues that mining area conflicts of Sub-Saharan African countries, like Sierra Leone, and their impacts on mineral development and policy stem from cultural differences in land governance. Extractive industries operating under state laws, which have roots in colonial policies, clash wi...
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The world of wu zhao
N. harry rothschildThe World of Wu Zhao is an annotated translation of Zhang Zhuo’s collection of miscellany, Court and Country, that offers a lively, folksy and novel perspective of the empire of Wu Zhao, China’s first and only female emperor, that will amuse and shock readers, prompting them to recalibrate everyt...
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Defining hybrid heroes
Inge brokerhof , Stephan sonnenburg , Greg stoneDefining Hybrid Heroes: The Leadership Spectrum from Scoundrel to Saint defines the hero (and his or her journey) from a hybrid perspective, exploring the spectrum from scoundrel to saint. It utilizes a more dynamic and situational outlook, regarding heroism not only as a personal characteristic,...
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The non-geometric lenin
Carter elwoodThis book is a collection of eleven essays dealing with Lenin’s attempt to develop a Bolshevik Party between 1910 and 1914 as well as his curious relations with a tsarist police spy and a female Bolshevik during that period.
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Lusophone african short stories and poetry after independence
Daniel silva , Lamonte aidooThis book offers a translation and critical introduction to Lusophone African postcolonial poetry and short stories
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American paraliterature and other theories to hijack communication
Blake stricklinA critical account of the 1975 Schizo-Culture conference, which Michel Foucault called “the last countercultural event of the 1960s,” and its direct and indirect connection to American experimental literature.
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Wittgenstein’s critique of russell’s multiple relation theory of judgement
James r. connellyThis book sets out to adjudicate the scholarly controversy surrounding Wittgenstein’s May–June 1913 critique of Russell’s multiple-relation theory of judgement. It also aims to familiarize readers with the historical events, textual evidence, letters, working notes and diagrams which are crucial ...
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Challenging the narrative
Cahal mclaughlinFilmmaker McLaughlin addresses the need to create platforms for survivors of political violence to tell their stories in order to challenge marginalizing narratives and injustices and as a form of public acknowledgement and personal healing.
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Fashioning the dandy
Olga vainshtein , Sofia horujaya-cookThe book offers a unique view on dandyism as a cultural tradition, based not merely on fashionable attire, but also as a particular lifestyle with specific standards of behaviour, bodily practices and conceptual approaches to dress.
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Australian theatre, modernism and patrick white
Denise varney , Sandra d'urso‘Australian Theatre, Modernism and Patrick White’ details the rejection of two Patrick White plays – ‘The Ham Funeral’ and ‘Night on Bald Mountain’ – by the Adelaide Festival of Arts in Australia in the early 1960s.
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The complete guide to business school presenting
Stanley k. ridgleyReveals the secret expectations harbored by business school professors when viewing presented material. Designed to offer a competitive advantage to anyone interested in a career in business, this book offers a truly unique means of developing powerful presentation skills.
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Conspiracy and contingency
Thorsten botz-bornsteinWhat do conspiracy theories, algorithms and meritocracy have in common? All three avoid contingency and frantically look for necessities. ‘Contingency phobia’ is not only manifest in conspiratorial thinking. It is the cause of a variety of other phenomena that have become emblematic for liberal d...
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Collective complaints as a means for protecting social rights in europe
Giuseppe palmisanoThis monograph explores and clarifies the specific features of the collective complaints procedure, established by the treaty system of the European Social Charter as an instrument for the protection of social rights, in the light of its evolutive application by the European Committee of Social R...
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The end of ageing
Thomas ramgeCan biotech conquer death? And if so, what would it mean for us as individual human beings, for societies and for the planet? A brilliant, thoughtful book on how ending aging will change everything.
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The scientific legacy of har gobind khorana
Sahotra sarkarThis book is the only scientific biography of the Nobel Prize–winning Indian American chemist, Har Gobind Khorana.
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Boundaries, dynamics and construction of traditions in south asia
Federico squarciniThis collection of essays features a significant selection of the specialized fields of knowledge that have shaped classical South Asian intellectual history, focusing on the different and complex processes employed during the ‘invention’, construction, preservation and renewal of a given tradition.
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Media and the myth of the pristine night
Dwayne averyThis book provides a critical and comprehensive account of the mediation of rural darkness. Analyzing a wide range of contemporary media, from astrophotography, tourist advertisements and social media to editing software, online databases and nature documentaries, the book focuses on two competin...
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Love if we can stand it
Bruce f. kawinThis powerful collection of poems by Bruce F. Kawin deals with the nature and demands of love, from the sexual and romantic to the metaphysical, in an engaging variety of forms and voices. The poems are clear, fresh and vivid, with good stories and characters, and they relate plainly to real life.
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The creation of modern china, 1894–2008
Iain robertson scottNo country has undergone a greater period of sustained and convulsive change than China in the twentieth century. This is its story, tracing the emergence of a modern China.
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Unfinished austen: interpreting "catharine", "lady susan", "the watsons" and "sanditon"
Joanne wilkesUnfinished Austen is the first detailed study of four texts that Jane Austen left incomplete and unpublished: Catharine, or the Bower (1792–3), Lady Susan (1795?), The Watsons (1803–4?) and Sanditon (1817).
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Apportionment of blame
Keith redfernWhen Joyce Hetherington loses her half-sister in a mysterious railway accident, she calls on her old school friend, Greg Mason, to investigate. As the two sink deeper and deeper into the case, they begin to realise that certain seemingly unrelated threads in her family story – some stretching as ...
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The bittersweet vine
Marissa de lunaFollowing her abduction, Maria Shroder wakes up in her own bed unharmed and suffering from hysterical amnesia. Strangely, the book club Maria has joined holds a clue to her disappearance, and she sets out on a journey to uncover the truth – a truth which is buried in her past.
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Betwixt and between
Brenda ayres‘Betwixt and Between the Biographies of Mary Wollstonecraft’ identifies the biases, contradictions, errors, ambiguities and gaps that have run rampant in biographies on Wollstonecraft, many of them incomprehensively left unchecked and perpetuated from publication to publication. It also analyzes ...
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The humanist critic
Daniel rosenberg nuttersThe Humanist Critic reexamines the careers of Lionel Trilling and Edward Said. It demonstrates how each critic turned to the modernist literary tradition to reinvent the role of the humanist intellectual during the rise of critical theory.
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London's underworld
Iain sinclairA thrilling exposé and a considered anthropological review of London's seedy underbelly.
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In the world of the outcasts
Pëtr filippovich iakubovich , Andrew a. gentes , Andrew a. gentesThis is the first English-language translation of P. F. Iakubovich’s popular roman à clef about his exile and experiences as a Siberian penal laborer during the late nineteenth century.
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Spinoza on ethics and understanding
Peter winch , Michael campbell , Sarah tropper , David cockburnThis volume collects together Peter Winch's previously unpublished lectures on the philosophy of Baruch Spinoza. Winch's original interpretation of Spinoza's Ethics sheds new light on the work of one history's most difficult and admired philosophers from a different perspective.
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A. n. whitehead and social theory
Michael halewoodThis book outlines A.N. Whitehead’s philosophy of process and uses it to re-orient a range of topics within social theory, namely: the relation of language and the body; sexual difference and conceptions of nature; the question of realism; the concept of the social; and capitalism as process.
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Natural law jurisprudence in u.s. supreme court cases since roe v. wade
Charles p. nemethA critical examination of U.S. Supreme Court cases since the Roe v. Wade decision in light of natural law reasoning and principles. The text incisively reviews textual opinions of the various justices and attempts to discern the influence of natural law jurisprudence on modern day decisions.
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The influence of josé da silva lisboa’s journalism on the independence of brazil (1821-1822)
Guilherme celestinoThis work analyses the influence of the publications from 1821–1822 written by José da Silva Lisboa, the future Viscount of Cairu, on the events that led to the independence of Brazil in 1822.
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Iron men
David waller , Lord norman fosterA nuts and bolts history of engineering enterprise in the first half of the nineteenth century, based on the life and work of Henry Maudslay and his followers
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