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Gorbachev's export of perestroika to eastern europe
This book looks at the liberalisation process in Central and Eastern Europe (CEE) during the period 1987-1989, focusing on Gorbachev’s initiative to encourage perestroika in all the fraternal regimes of CEE outside the Soviet Union.
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Deco dandy
This book productively contests the supposedly exclusive feminine aspect of the style moderne (Art Deco). Through a sustained focus on the figure of the dandy, the books claims an essential role and place of the male body and masculinity in the history of Art Deco.
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Victorian women's magazines
This anthology makes available to students and general readers the rich variety of Victorian magazines for women. The extracts range from fashion magazines to feminist journals, from serious works for Christian mothers to tales of romance and passion for ‘sweethearts’.
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Racism and social change in the republic of ireland
In the last decade Irish society has visibly changed with the emergence of new immigrant communities of black and ethnic minorities. Argues that Ireland was never immune from the racist ideologies that governed relationships between the 'west and the rest' despite a history of colonial anti-Irish...
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The evolving role of nation-building in us foreign policy
Weaving together International Relations theory and a rich history drawing mainly on declassified documents, interviews and other primary sources, this book contributes to theoretical discussions of nation-building while offering a critique of Realist and Critical Security School analyses of US p...
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The military leadership of matilda of canossa, 1046–1115
The first account in English of the entire, 40-year military career of one of the most powerful women of the Middle Ages. Surveying a vast range of contemporary sources, it explains how Countess Matilda rose to the defense of the reforming popes, defeated the Holy Roman Emperor in battle and turn...
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Subjects of modernity
Subjects of Modernity brings together the past and the present as well as theory and narrative, sowing the historical, the ethnographic, and the methodological deep into its critical procedures.
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The business of time
This book follows the emergence and transformation of the watch industry throughout the world from the beginning of the nineteenth century to the present day. In so doing, it sheds new light on the way the global economy became established.
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South asians and the shaping of britain, 1870–1950
The first anthology of primary material interdisciplinary study of the history of the South Asian presence in Britain over the period 1870-1950, it selects a wide range of official and non-official archival sources. and identifies four key areas of South Asian impact – minority rights, war, cultu...
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Love and authority in the work of paula rego
Rosengarten explores the narrative operations of Rego’s work by mobilising both psychoanalytic theory and social history. She confronts, as case studies, three complex figure paintings from different moments in Rego’s oeuvre: The Policeman’s Daughter (1987), The Interrogator’s Garden (2000), and ...
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Everyday humanitarianism in cambodia
Offers an accessible account of everyday humanitarianism in Cambodia, as well as wider insights into how people link local actions to global challenges.
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Flesh cinema
Explores the groundbreaking representation of the body in experimental films of the 1960s and 1970s. Focusing on sexually explicit films by Andy Warhol, Barbara Rubin, Stan Brakhage, Carolee Schneemann, Yoko Ono and Paul Sharits.
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Iain sinclair
A clearly written, comprehensive critical introduction to one of the most original contemporary British writers, providing an overview of all of Sinclair's major works and an analysis of his vision of modern London
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That devil's trick
The first study of nineteenth-century hypnotism based primarily on the popular – rather than medical – appreciation of the subject
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Science at the end of empire
One solution to West Indian problems after 1940 was to transform sugarcane into a raw material for making synthetics. Britain hoped to encourage new industry by providing scientific information that business might exploit. This plan was threatened by American promotion of a different model of dev...
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Global justice networks
Provides a critical investigation of the ‘global justice movement’. Drawing upon three case studies – a peasant farmers’ network, a trade union network, and the social forum process – the authors argue that the role of key geographical concepts of space, place and scale are crucial to an understa...
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British liberal internationalism, 1880–1930
This book provides a detailed analysis of the aims, character and trajectory of the ideology of liberal internationalism in late nineteenth and early twentieth-century Britain. The book has a genuinely interdisciplinary appeal and is relevant to students of International Relations, British histor...
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Foreign policy as public policy?
This book explores how ‘domestic’ public policy approaches and concepts can enrich the study of foreign policy. It has chapters by leading experts on arguably the most important approaches in public policy.
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Politics and peace in northern ireland
Examines the Agreement and its implementation through the eyes of the four major parties – The Ulster Unionist Party, the SDLP, Sinn Fein and the DUP – and considers the role of smaller parties in the region. Each interpreted the Agreement in different ways and continued to use the situation to p...
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Women's leisure in england 1920–60
This insightful new book offers a timely assessment of the complex relationship between women and leisure in England, drawing upon recent feminist theory. Departing from approaches which focus on particular activities or institutions, it places everyday experiences at its centre, presenting a wid...
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Anthony burgess and america
This book is a critical biography and literary cultural analysis of Burgess’s interactions with the United States of America and American society, using newly discovered documents, archival research and Burgess’s entire canon to investigate the profound influence of America on Burgess’s life and ...
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A precarious equilibrium
Human rights and détente inextricably intertwined during Carter’s years. By promoting human rights in the USSR, Carter sought to build a domestic consensus for détente; through bipolar dialogue, he tried to advance human rights in the USSR. But, human rights contributed to the erosion of détente ...
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Knowledge resistance
Concerns about people's resistance to facts and knowledge are becoming increasingly serious. This book draws on the social, economic and evolutionary sciences to provide an integrated understanding of the phenomenon.
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Public issue television
Public issue television is a major contribution to understanding the relationship between television, politics and society. By tracing the history of the high-profile series World in Action across four decades it charts the interwoven processes of media practice and social change in a manner unri...
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Empire, migration and identity in the british world
This volume brings together established scholars with a new generation of migration and transnational historians. Their work weaves together the ‘new’ imperial and the ‘new’ migration histories, and explores the interplay of migration within and between the local, regional, imperial, and transnat...
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Summer. autumn. winter. spring. staging life and death
This illustrated collection documents Quarantine’s large scale performance work, Summer. Autumn. Winter. Spring., together with a collection of writings from many different disciplines and perspectives on its various themes, specifically regarding the human life cycle and human relationships to t...
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Managing europe from home
Offers a unique and fascinating insight into how two of Europe’s longest serving prime ministers, Tony Blair and Bertie Ahern, sought to radically reshape the EU policy making process in the UK and Ireland in order to further their strategic policy agendas
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Visions and ruins
This study works with texts in Old English, Middle English and Latin, as well as material and visual culture, to explore how representations of the past created in the British Middle Ages have been reimagined in modernity.
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The reign of richard ii
A source reader covering the first twenty years (1377–97) of Richard II’s reign. Includes well-known English chronicles, foreign chronicles, and legal, administrative and financial records with clear and lively commentary and notes to enable readers to make the fullest use of each document.
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Emile and isaac pereire
A fascinating biography that sheds light on Jewish history, economic history and nineteenth-century France
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Fight back
Fight back examines the different ways punk – as a youth/subculture – may provide space for political expression and action.
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The political ecology of colonial capitalism
The political ecology of colonial capitalism reveals how the co-production of race and nature is a fundamental dynamic of the capitalist world-system.
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Nonhuman voices in anglo-saxon literature and material culture
This book explores the voices of nonhuman things in Anglo-Saxon literature and material culture, making a valuable contribution to 'thing theory'.
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Running the family firm
The British royal family has experienced a resurgence in public interest at the same time as global inequalities have expanded between ‘the elites’ and ‘the rest’. Yet, the monarchy is absent from conversations about inequality. This is the only book arguing that we cannot talk about inequalities...
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Contemporary olson
Re-situating Olson’s work in relation both to his own moment and to current concerns, the essays assembled in Contemporary Olson provide a major re-assessment of his place in postwar poetry and culture.
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Object matters
Produces an original empirical analysis of the discourse of safer sex, condom use and consent
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The contemporary law of armed conflict: third edition
Green’s The contemporary law of armed conflict has been acclaimed as one of the most significant works on the law of armed conflict to appear in recent years. The first edition was adopted as a basic text by military institutions and educational establishments throughout the world and is among th...
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“i am jugoslovenka!”
Coining the term “Jugoslovenka” to designate the unique history of Yugoslav women’s resistance to patriarchy during and after socialism, this book shows how Yugoslavia’s anti-fascist, transnational and feminist legacies manifest in performance, conceptual, video and activist works.
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Barbara comyns
This biography of Barbara Comyns presents a twentieth-century author whose life was as extraordinary as her novels. Hundreds of unpublished letters reveal an occasionally desperate but resourceful and witty woman whose complicated life ranged from enduring poverty when young to mixing with spivs,...
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Chris marker
Since the early 1950s, Chris Marker has embraced different filmmaking styles as readily as he has new technologies, and has broadened conceptions of the documentary in distinctly personal ways. He has travelled around the world, tracking political upheavals and historic events, as well as unearth...
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The global 1923 and the treaty of lausanne
This book explores the international dimensions of the peace settlement of the Eastern Mediterranean.
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Siete cuentos
One of the core authors of the '60s boom in Latin American fiction, Julio Cortázar made a contribution of international importance to the development of the short story as a literary form. This collection spans his writing career and includes La Noche Boca Arriba and Final del Juego (1956), Las B...
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Uncertain citizenship
This book investigates uncertainty as a governing practice from the unique vantage point of ‘citizenisation’ - twenty-first-century integration and naturalisation measures that make and unmake citizens and migrants, while indefinitely holding many applicants for citizenship in the waiting room of...
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Carbon colonialism
Carbon colonialism shows how the impact of climate change, including the slow-burn disasters of droughts and floods, is traded out by wealthier countries and imported by less wealthy ones as the price of economic growth.
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The politics today companion to the british constitution
This companion to the British Constitution was born out of the view that the tendency for modern political studies to concentrate on processes rather than structures, results in a failure to understand the basic political terminology. Teachers and writers assume a knowledge on the part of others ...
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Gender, migration and the global race for talent
This book analyses the gendered terrain of skilled immigration policies across twelve countries and thirty seven skilled immigration visas. It argues that while skilled immigration policies are often gendered, this outcome is not inevitable and that governments possess considerable scope in polic...
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Manliness in britain, 1760–1900
This book focuses on men’s bodies, emotions and material culture to offer a new understanding of masculinities in Britain in the long nineteenth century. Using objects as well as texts and images, it shows how idealised and ugly bodies, and the feelings they stimulated, helped convey ideas about ...
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Politics and painting at the venice biennale, 1948–64
Challenging the dominant view that American Abstract Expressionism triumphed in Western Europe in the immediate post-war period, this book considers the proliferation of gesture painting there from a European perspective.
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Understanding us/uk government and politics (2nd edn)
Written specifically for A2 students of government and politics, this book covers the comparative dimension of advanced level study, directly comparing the political systems and the social and cultural settings in the UK and USA.
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The cathars and the albigensian crusade
Clear introduction to a fascinating subject. Brings together new material on the social background of the 'heresy'. Lovely illustrations and maps.
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The great exhibition, 1851
An invaluable compendium of sources relating to the Great Exhibition
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The boxmaker's revenge
This book is based on a story. Its main protagonists are a London clergyman, Stephen Denison, and a lay sectmaster and prophet, John Etherington. The dispute between the two men blew up in the mid-1620s, but its reverberations can be traced back to the 1590s and continued to 1640.Through Denison ...
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1 angel square
This book charts the building of 1 Angel Square, the remarkable new head office for The Co-operative Group in Manchester’s new NOMA district.Combining text and photographs to illustrate the building from commissioning to completion, Len Grant has interviewed the whole project team – clients, arch...
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Imperial cities
Imperial cities explores the influence of imperialism in the landscapes of modern European cities including London, Paris, Rome, Vienna, Marseilles, Glasgow and Seville. Examines large-scale architectural schemes and monuments, including the Queen Victoria Memorial in London and the Vittoriano in...
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From partition to brexit
From Partition to Brexit provides an authoritative and accessible analysis of how successive Irish governments have tried to overcome the challenges presented by the division of Ireland, including the decades-long conflict that claimed thousands of lives.
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The arts of angela carter
The arrangement of the material, indicated by the chapter headings, draws attention to a variety of areas not normally associated with dominant perceptions of Angela Carter. These encompass food, fashion, art, poetry, music, performance and translation, which will be discussed in a number of his...
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Tasso's art and afterlives
Traces the impact of the great Italian poet’s neglected masterpiece across a broad spectrum of arts from the sixteenth to the late nineteenth centuries, focusing on, among many others, the works of Spenser, Milton, Shakespeare, Daniel, Van Dyck, Poussin, Handel and Byron.
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Secret cinema and the immersive experience industry
A comprehensive history and analysis of Secret Cinema – the leading producer of large-scale immersive experiences in the UK. The book examines how they have evolved their format over twelve years from experimental and artisanal beginnings to becoming a global leader in large scale immersive enter...
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European film noir
European Film Noir is an innovative and original collection of essays that analyse specific noirs – France, Germany, Britain, Spain and Italy – framed by an inclusive overview of the ‘noir phenomenon’.
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Henry dresser and victorian ornithology
This book explores the life of Henry Dresser (1838–1915), one of the most productive British ornithologists of the mid-late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. The author examines how Dresser and his contemporaries discovered and documented birds across the globe.
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India in a globalized world
An explanation of how India has been affected by the different phases of globalization
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The maid's tragedy
Fully annotated edition of the most powerful of Beaumont and Fletcher’s plays
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Stalinist terror in eastern europe
This volume examines Stalinist terror in Eastern Europe in the period 1940 to 1956. It covers instances of elite purges from the party and state hierarchy, including the infamous show trials staged against leading communists and the impact such practices had on wartime and post-war societies in t...
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French crime fiction and the second world war
By investigating representations of the war years in a selection of French crime novels from the mid-1940s to the present day, this book argues for the importance of crime fiction, and popular culture more generally, as active agents of memory in the ongoing debates over the legacies of the war y...
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Marital violence in post-independence ireland, 1922–96
This groundbreaking study sheds light on both violence within marriage and the modern marital experience in Ireland.
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Roadworks
A groundbreaking, interdisciplinary study of roads and wayfinding in medieval England, Wales, and Scotland. It looks afresh at the relationship between the road as a material condition of daily life and the formation of local and national communities.
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The staple of news
Excellent Revels text now back in print at the new £9.99 price. Leading edition of this play by Ben Jonson - no other edition of this calibre at the moment. Professor Anthony Parr has a proven track record with the Three Jacobean Travel Plays (now in paperback at £14.99). The complete canon of Be...
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Recognition theory and contemporary french moral and political philosophy
Both pedagogical and critical, this collection outlines the current state of recognition theory, studies the influence of French theory upon its evolution, and uses French thought to identity aspects of the recognitive process which are often overlooked.
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Transforming ireland
As Ireland’s economic boom grounds to a sudden halt, Transforming Ireland offers a diverse range of critical analyses of its legacies across different areas of Irish life – the media, racism, consumerism, sports, education, state surveillance and the pharmaceutical industry. The book also maps ou...
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Shakespeare's book
This collection of essays offers a vital contribution to this critical debate, and examines its wider implications for how we conceive of Shakespeare and his works.
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Monastic experience in twelfth-century germany
This first English translation of the twelfth-century Chronicle of Petershausen offers an intimate and colourful view of traditional monastic life against the backdrop of contemporary interactions with bishops and lay patrons, the process of monastic reform, and the local and supra-regional disru...
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<i>the knight and the barrel</i> (<i>le chevalier au barisel</i>)
This is the first English translation of the canonical Old French text Le Chevalier au barisel. It includes the original text and a facing-page translation, as well as an extensive introduction and notes.
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Step-daughters of england
Jane Garrity shows how four British women modernist writers - Dorothy Richardson, Sylvia Townsend Warner, Mary Butts and Virginia Woolf - used experimental literary techniques in order to situate themselves as national subjects.
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Irish literature since 1990
This wide-ranging collection surveys the diversity and energy of Irish literature over the last two decades, a period marked by major cultural, social and political transformations. It examines the work of both well-established writers and emerging literary talents, and also considers creative w...
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Irish environmental politics after the communicative turn
Applies social and political theory to an in-depth study of environmental politics in Ireland.
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My voice: elena grosskopf
Elena's book is part of the My Voice Project, a collection of firsthand accounts of Holocaust survivors and refugees from Nazi persecution who settled in the UK. Elena Grosskopf grew up on the Austrian-Italian border and escaped to England with her brother during Mussolini's antisemitic regime.
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A moving rhetoricke
An investigation of a wide range of contemporary sources, from domestic conduct guides to emblem books, this study offers fresh perspectives on both culture and literature.
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Interpreting the labour party
Interpreting the Labour Party consists of twelve essays on the principal thinkers and schools of thought concerned with the political and historical development of the Labour Party and Labour movement.
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Psychoanalysis and the family in twentieth-century france
This book examines the life and career of popular French psychoanalyst Françoise Dolto (1908–88). It connects her rise to two broader histories: the dramatic growth of psychoanalysis in postwar France and the long-running debate over the family and the proper role of women in society.
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Richard marsh, popular fiction and literary culture, 1890–1915
This volume explores the novels and short stories of the popular author Richard Marsh through a range of critical lenses. An exemplary figure of the New Grub Street, Marsh was an important presence within fin-de-siècle literary culture, whose middlebrow genre fiction simultaneously reinforces and...
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Non-western responses to terrorism
This book surveys how non-Western states have responded to the threats of domestic and international terrorism in ways consistent with and reflective of their broad historical, political, cultural and religious traditions.
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Creating character
Through innovative readings of seven novels, Creating character demonstrates how the Victorian sensation authors Mary Elizabeth Braddon and Wilkie Collins employed, challenged and explored diverse, and sometimes contradictory, theories of character formation in their fiction
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Political marketing
The book shows how political marketing - the design of government by focus groups and polls - spearheaded by Blair in the UK and Clinton in the US has spread round the world to countries as diverse as Brazil as well as New Zealand and Germany.
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Luc besson
Widely taught on Film Studies courses and in French Cultural Studies programmesLuc Besson is a popular and respected filmmaker who has achieved international fameA welcome addition to the French Film Directors series.
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Robert bresson
This book provides a comprehensive introduction to the work of Robert Bresson, one of the most respected and acclaimed directors in the history of cinema.. The first monograph on his work to appear in English for many years dealing not only with his thirteen feature-length films but also his litt...
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The photobook world
This volume challenges the art-market definition of the photobook as a photographer’s book, proposing instead to show how books and photos come together as collective cultural productions. The chapters revisit canonical works and delve into institutional, digital and unrealised projects, illegal ...
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Why theory?
Edward Tomarken's previous book, Filmspeak, was a study of literary theory in relation to contemporary mainstream films. Some of the abstruse ideas of early literary theorists (1950–70) had in fact permeated our thinking to such an extent that both films and theories enriched and shed light upon ...
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Ethical and legal debates in irish healthcare
This is an in-depth study of the contentious issues in Irish healthcare and deals with issues such as assisted suicide, abortion, adolescent treatment refusal, end of life care, retention of biological samples, involuntary admission to care and the regulation of stem cell research.
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Critical theory and independent living
This book explores intersections between contemporary critical theory and the disabled people’s Independent Living movement. The book helps strengthen critiques of the state, the market, and the family by grounding them in the struggles of disabled people for self-determination.
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