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From Utah Beach to Okinawa, they braved live bombs and enemy rockets. Nine from Aberdeen is the first history of the US Army’s Bomb Disposal Branch in WWII, the courageous forerunners of today’s Explosive Ordnance Disposal (EOD) specialists.
From Utah Beach to Okinawa, they braved live bombs and enemy rockets. Nine from Aberdeen is the first history of the US Army’s Bomb Disposal Branch in WWII, the courageous forerunners of today’s Explosive Ordnance Disposal (EOD) specialists.
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Birth and Death in British Culture
Liminality, Power, and Performance
Why look at birth and death together? These 13 interdisciplinary articles prove that looking at the two in tandem throws their distinct patterns and shared socio-political issues into sharp relief, probing their medialisation and commodification.
Why look at birth and death together? These 13 interdisciplinary articles prove that looking at the two in tandem throws their distinct patterns and shared socio-political issues into sharp relief, probing their medialisation and commodification.
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Byron’s dubious status as an icon disguises that he is one of the greatest English poets. This book ignores his iconography and concentrates on his poems. Written by leading authorities, it puts his real achievement as a creative writer back into focus.
Byron’s dubious status as an icon disguises that he is one of the greatest English poets. This book ignores his iconography and concentrates on his poems. Written by leading authorities, it puts his real achievement as a creative writer back into focus.
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Name and Naming
Synchronic and Diachronic Perspectives
This book analyses names and the act of naming from an intercultural, synchronic, and diachronic perspective. Its originality lies in a multi-disciplinary approach, merging onomastics with sociolinguistics, history, literature, pragmatics, and more.
This book analyses names and the act of naming from an intercultural, synchronic, and diachronic perspective. Its originality lies in a multi-disciplinary approach, merging onomastics with sociolinguistics, history, literature, pragmatics, and more.
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This study traces the picaresque from its Spanish roots to contemporary novels, arguing it has never left the British literary scene. Postcolonial authors also favour this genre for their own stories of displaced characters and modern-day rogues.
This study traces the picaresque from its Spanish roots to contemporary novels, arguing it has never left the British literary scene. Postcolonial authors also favour this genre for their own stories of displaced characters and modern-day rogues.
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Pope Gregory’s Letter-Bearers
A Study of the Men and Women who carried letters for Pope Gregory the Great
The first-ever study of Pope Gregory’s letter-bearers. From 590-604, in an age of invasions and peril, a surprising number of men and women—clerics, farmers, widows—made dangerous journeys to carry his 850+ surviving letters across the world.
The first-ever study of Pope Gregory’s letter-bearers. From 590-604, in an age of invasions and peril, a surprising number of men and women—clerics, farmers, widows—made dangerous journeys to carry his 850+ surviving letters across the world.
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The Future of Post-Human Migration
A Preface to a New Theory of Sameness, Otherness, and Identity
The "melting pot" and "salad bowl" are opposing noble lies. This book offers a new theory—the cyclical progression of migration—to change how we think about Sameness, Otherness, and identity, with enormous implications for the human future.
The “melting pot” and “salad bowl” are opposing noble lies. This book offers a new theory—the cyclical progression of migration—to change how we think about Sameness, Otherness, and identity, with enormous implications for the human future.
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The Belligerent Prelate
An Alliance between Archbishop Daniel Mannix and Eamon de Valera
This book is an examination of the pivotal alliance between Taoiseach Eamon de Valera and Archbishop Daniel Mannix. It explores how their bond aided Ireland’s push for independence and why Mannix, once revered, became an isolated figure after 1925.
This book is an examination of the pivotal alliance between Taoiseach Eamon de Valera and Archbishop Daniel Mannix. It explores how their bond aided Ireland’s push for independence and why Mannix, once revered, became an isolated figure after 1925.
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Literature and Politics
Pushing the World in Certain Directions
George Orwell argued writers want to change the world. This collection of new work by scholars explores political literature over the last century, from The Communist Manifesto to Oryx and Crake, showing its continuing ability to inform, enrage and engage.
George Orwell argued writers want to change the world. This collection of new work by scholars explores political literature over the last century, from The Communist Manifesto to Oryx and Crake, showing its continuing ability to inform, enrage and engage.
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Challenging Change
Literary and Linguistic Responses
Challenging Change: Literary and Linguistic Responses is a collection of articles examining change as the need to redefine theories, histories, and language. Authors from around the world respond to this challenge from the perspectives of literary studies and linguistics.
Challenging Change: Literary and Linguistic Responses is a collection of articles examining change as the need to redefine theories, histories, and language. Authors from around the world respond to this challenge from the perspectives of literary studies and linguistics.
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Hume’s Labyrinth
A Search for the Self
Hume’s Labyrinth explores his famous “bundle theory of the self” and his own critical reservations about it. It argues the theory was not a failed account, but a pragmatic tool intended to help further philosophical investigations into the mind.
Hume’s Labyrinth explores his famous “bundle theory of the self” and his own critical reservations about it. It argues the theory was not a failed account, but a pragmatic tool intended to help further philosophical investigations into the mind.
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Transgressing Women
Space and The Body in Contemporary Noir Thrillers
Transgressing Women focuses on the 'other' female characters of the noir world, beyond the femme fatale. The book traces these transgressive figures in contemporary novels and films, analyzing their dramatic evolution through feminist and postmodernist theory.
Transgressing Women focuses on the ‘other’ female characters of the noir world, beyond the femme fatale. The book traces these transgressive figures in contemporary novels and films, analyzing their dramatic evolution through feminist and postmodernist theory.
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Martyrdom and Ecstasy
Emotion Training in Iranian Culture
This interdisciplinary study explores shahadat (sacrifice and martyrdom), a key concept in Persian culture. The author discusses its origin, evolution, and modern interpretation, showing how it has shaped Iranian identity and social and political attitudes.
This interdisciplinary study explores shahadat (sacrifice and martyrdom), a key concept in Persian culture. The author discusses its origin, evolution, and modern interpretation, showing how it has shaped Iranian identity and social and political attitudes.
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Running with the Fairies
Towards a Transpersonal Anthropology of Religion
In the first scholarly account of the Fairy Faith in over a hundred years, a PhD anthropologist interviews educated people in Ireland who have had direct spiritual experiences with fairies, recognizing the reality of nature spirit beings in a Western context.
In the first scholarly account of the Fairy Faith in over a hundred years, a PhD anthropologist interviews educated people in Ireland who have had direct spiritual experiences with fairies, recognizing the reality of nature spirit beings in a Western context.
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Cinema is a bastard art, innovative through adulterous relationships and a blurred lineage. This book aims to rehabilitate the shadowy corners of cinematographic creation, providing a new way of using notions like reference, blending, and hybridity.
Cinema is a bastard art, innovative through adulterous relationships and a blurred lineage. This book aims to rehabilitate the shadowy corners of cinematographic creation, providing a new way of using notions like reference, blending, and hybridity.
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Future Prospects for Music Education
Corroborating Informal Learning Pedagogy
Inspired by Lucy Green's groundbreaking work, this anthology offers a critical examination of informal learning pedagogy in music education. An international community of scholars explores future prospects for music education with informal learning as its focal point.
Inspired by Lucy Green’s groundbreaking work, this anthology offers a critical examination of informal learning pedagogy in music education. An international community of scholars explores future prospects for music education with informal learning as its focal point.
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Mining the Meaning
Cultural Representations of the 1984-5 UK Miners’ Strike
This innovative study provides a critical introduction to cultural representations of the 1984–5 miners’ strike. Analysing writings, music, and film from strikers and artists, it explores the battle to ‘author’ the conflict and challenges our understanding of this period.
This innovative study provides a critical introduction to cultural representations of the 1984–5 miners’ strike. Analysing writings, music, and film from strikers and artists, it explores the battle to ‘author’ the conflict and challenges our understanding of this period.
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Outsourcing and Service Work in the New Economy
The Case of Call Centres in Mexico City
This book examines outsourcing's impact on workers in the new economy. Through a study of Mexico City's call centres, it identifies managerial practices that harm employment conditions, revealing how 'old economy' tactics persist in the 21st century.
This book examines outsourcing’s impact on workers in the new economy. Through a study of Mexico City’s call centres, it identifies managerial practices that harm employment conditions, revealing how ‘old economy’ tactics persist in the 21st century.
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New Hegelian Essays
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These essays show how Hegel’s philosophy overcomes religious dualisms, inserting Christian doctrine into the metaphysical tradition. To read Hegel is to participate in a divine “service,” a spiritual participation to which this text invites the reader.
These essays show how Hegel’s philosophy overcomes religious dualisms, inserting Christian doctrine into the metaphysical tradition. To read Hegel is to participate in a divine “service,” a spiritual participation to which this text invites the reader.
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To breach the limits of the acceptable is to define them. But does this understanding still apply today? This collection explores the complex relationship between artistic transgression and the law through essays on cinema, art, philosophy, music, and literature.
To breach the limits of the acceptable is to define them. But does this understanding still apply today? This collection explores the complex relationship between artistic transgression and the law through essays on cinema, art, philosophy, music, and literature.
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