Machiavellis Revivus
Slashing a Sword on the Western Classical Tradition
This book reframes Machiavelli not as a "teacher of evil," but as a virtuous humanist. It offers a subversive interpretation of his works as an educational cure for our time—a battle-cry to repel the ignorance and misfortunes in our human condition.
This book reframes Machiavelli not as a “teacher of evil,” but as a virtuous humanist. It offers a subversive interpretation of his works as an educational cure for our time—a battle-cry to repel the ignorance and misfortunes in our human condition.
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Michael Foot’s leadership is often seen as a cataclysmic failure. This book argues that far from being a disaster, it contributed to the survival of the Labour Party as he emerged as a unity candidate against the divisive potential of radicals.
Michael Foot’s leadership is often seen as a cataclysmic failure. This book argues that far from being a disaster, it contributed to the survival of the Labour Party as he emerged as a unity candidate against the divisive potential of radicals.
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From Antiquity to the Postmodern World
Contemporary Jewish Studies in Canada
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?”
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?”
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Dislocating Anthropology?
Bases of Longing and Belonging in the Analysis of Contemporary Societies
Dislocating Anthropology? explores how fieldwork in bounded places is no longer tenable. This collection of essays sheds light on methodological dislocations relating to locality, identity, and fieldwork, examining relationships that are spatially dynamic.
Dislocating Anthropology? explores how fieldwork in bounded places is no longer tenable. This collection of essays sheds light on methodological dislocations relating to locality, identity, and fieldwork, examining relationships that are spatially dynamic.
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Positioning Daniel Defoe’s Non-Fiction
Form, Function, Genre
This volume analyses Daniel Defoe's non-fictional works. Moving away from his much studied novels, these essays explore the rhetorical strategies and generic inventiveness on display, revealing an author of outstanding skill and energy.
This volume analyses Daniel Defoe’s non-fictional works. Moving away from his much studied novels, these essays explore the rhetorical strategies and generic inventiveness on display, revealing an author of outstanding skill and energy.
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This volume explores the interface between ecological integrity as a scientific concept and key issues in ethics, international law, and public health. Leading scholars re-examine these dimensions from the viewpoint of global governance.
This volume explores the interface between ecological integrity as a scientific concept and key issues in ethics, international law, and public health. Leading scholars re-examine these dimensions from the viewpoint of global governance.
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Travelling In and Out of Italy
19th and 20th-Century Notebooks, Letters and Essays
This study considers late 19th and 20th-century Italian writers like D’Annunzio, Pirandello, and Svevo through their notebooks and travel diaries, focusing on the journey to America—an Eden viewed with ambivalence as a land of freedom and oppression.
This study considers late 19th and 20th-century Italian writers like D’Annunzio, Pirandello, and Svevo through their notebooks and travel diaries, focusing on the journey to America—an Eden viewed with ambivalence as a land of freedom and oppression.
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Berkeley’s Lasting Legacy
300 Years Later
Known for his denial of matter, George Berkeley was a far more wide-ranging thinker. This collection by international experts reveals his contributions to metaphysics, science, and economics, showing him as he was: a courageous philosophical innovator.
Known for his denial of matter, George Berkeley was a far more wide-ranging thinker. This collection by international experts reveals his contributions to metaphysics, science, and economics, showing him as he was: a courageous philosophical innovator.
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Media Space and Gender Construction
A Comparative Study of State Owned and Private Channels in the Post Liberalisation Period
This innovative book explores the relationship between geography and gender from an Indian perspective. It examines how Media Space—a virtual place for ideas and images—is used to construct gender stereotypes through visual media like soap operas.
This innovative book explores the relationship between geography and gender from an Indian perspective. It examines how Media Space—a virtual place for ideas and images—is used to construct gender stereotypes through visual media like soap operas.
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“A Zoo of Lusts…A Harem of Fondled Hatreds”
An Historical Interrogation of Sexual Violence against Women in Film
Why does on-screen sexual violence escalate when the victim isn’t white, straight, or middle class? This historical interrogation of rape in film reveals what its changing portrayal says about our culture.
Why does on-screen sexual violence escalate when the victim isn’t white, straight, or middle class? This historical interrogation of rape in film reveals what its changing portrayal says about our culture.
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“The EU is Not Them, But Us!”
The First Person Plural and the Articulation of Collective Identities in European Political Discourse
This corpus-driven analysis of political speeches on EU integration from Finland, Hungary, and the UK reveals how language reflects power positions. It offers insights into articulations of collective identity and shared European patterns of identification.
This corpus-driven analysis of political speeches on EU integration from Finland, Hungary, and the UK reveals how language reflects power positions. It offers insights into articulations of collective identity and shared European patterns of identification.
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Trade and Security
The United States and East Asia, 1961-1969
The US achieved its true goal in Vietnam: not saving a nation, but buying time for a region. This book reveals how America sacrificed its economy to build prosperous Asian allies as a firewall against Communism.
The US achieved its true goal in Vietnam: not saving a nation, but buying time for a region. This book reveals how America sacrificed its economy to build prosperous Asian allies as a firewall against Communism.
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Fantasy, Art and Life
Essays on George MacDonald, Robert Louis Stevenson and Other Fantasy Writers
William Gray’s Fantasy, Art and Life examines how life is affirmed and enhanced through fantasy literature. Focusing on George MacDonald and Robert Louis Stevenson, it explores how their Scottish backgrounds shaped their engagement with "The Fantastic Imagination."
William Gray’s Fantasy, Art and Life examines how life is affirmed and enhanced through fantasy literature. Focusing on George MacDonald and Robert Louis Stevenson, it explores how their Scottish backgrounds shaped their engagement with “The Fantastic Imagination.”
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Multiple Voices in Academic and Professional Discourse
Current Issues in Specialised Language Research, Teaching and New Technologies
This book provides a global view of interdisciplinary research and innovative proposals in teaching specialized languages for the sciences and other professions. Chapters cover discourse analysis, specialized translation, terminology, and ICT.
This book provides a global view of interdisciplinary research and innovative proposals in teaching specialized languages for the sciences and other professions. Chapters cover discourse analysis, specialized translation, terminology, and ICT.
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The Conformists
Creativity and Decadence in the Bulgarian Cinema 1945-89
Explore the paradoxes of Bulgarian cinema under Communist rule. This work reveals why intellectuals chose loyalty to the state-controlled film industry over rebellion, challenging the view of Eastern Bloc art as propaganda by showing its parallels with the West.
Explore the paradoxes of Bulgarian cinema under Communist rule. This work reveals why intellectuals chose loyalty to the state-controlled film industry over rebellion, challenging the view of Eastern Bloc art as propaganda by showing its parallels with the West.
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Intermingled Fascinations
Migration, Displacement and Translation in World Cinema
This collection of essays analyzes Sinophone and Franco-Japanese transnational cinema, exploring films about migration, exile, and imprisonment. United by themes of displacement and liminality, this anthology reveals how cinema represents diasporic communities.
This collection of essays analyzes Sinophone and Franco-Japanese transnational cinema, exploring films about migration, exile, and imprisonment. United by themes of displacement and liminality, this anthology reveals how cinema represents diasporic communities.
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Academic Mobility and Migration are a reality for most in higher education. This unique volume explores their impact on institutions and people, considering underexplored aspects like virtual mobility, North-South mobility, and questions of identity.
Academic Mobility and Migration are a reality for most in higher education. This unique volume explores their impact on institutions and people, considering underexplored aspects like virtual mobility, North-South mobility, and questions of identity.
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Moving beyond traditional themes of struggle and oppression, this book centres on playfulness, light and air in Irish literature and culture. Essays offer fresh readings of seminal authors like Yeats and Heaney, alongside lesser-known figures.
Moving beyond traditional themes of struggle and oppression, this book centres on playfulness, light and air in Irish literature and culture. Essays offer fresh readings of seminal authors like Yeats and Heaney, alongside lesser-known figures.
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It takes a virtual village to raise a child. Millions of mothers worldwide are creating online communities to construct modern motherhood together. Motherhood Online explores the multifaceted lives they live online and the new space they create to maintain sanity.
It takes a virtual village to raise a child. Millions of mothers worldwide are creating online communities to construct modern motherhood together. Motherhood Online explores the multifaceted lives they live online and the new space they create to maintain sanity.
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Xue-guanhua 學官話
A Ryūkyūan Source of Language Education
The historical Chinese educational manuscript Xue-guanhua reveals cross-cultural interactions between Okinawans and locals in China. A rare source on Chinese communication and social customs, this volume provides a detailed introduction and annotated translation.
The historical Chinese educational manuscript Xue-guanhua reveals cross-cultural interactions between Okinawans and locals in China. A rare source on Chinese communication and social customs, this volume provides a detailed introduction and annotated translation.
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