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These essays track travel narratives from the eighth to the eighteenth century. Their voyages, from the literal to the spiritual, show the enduring influence of the medieval geographical imagination upon post-medieval travel, discovery, and encounters between East and West.
These essays track travel narratives from the eighth to the eighteenth century. Their voyages, from the literal to the spiritual, show the enduring influence of the medieval geographical imagination upon post-medieval travel, discovery, and encounters between East and West.
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“What is to be Done?”
Cultural Leadership and Public Engagement in Art and Design Education
This book introduces the meanings and motivations behind public engagement in art and design education. It explores the challenges of measuring and articulating cultural impact for postgraduate students and professionals in Higher Education and the cultural industries.
This book introduces the meanings and motivations behind public engagement in art and design education. It explores the challenges of measuring and articulating cultural impact for postgraduate students and professionals in Higher Education and the cultural industries.
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West of Eden
Botanical Discourse, Contact Languages and Translation
West of Eden is a study of botanical discourse in colonial and post-colonial contexts. It explores the loss of roots and identity when plants were brought along the slave-route. The loss of a plant may also mean the loss of its name, putting a rich eco-literature at risk.
West of Eden is a study of botanical discourse in colonial and post-colonial contexts. It explores the loss of roots and identity when plants were brought along the slave-route. The loss of a plant may also mean the loss of its name, putting a rich eco-literature at risk.
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The Myth of Culture
Why We Need a Genuine Natural Science of Societies
Social scientists appeal to "culture" to explain human actions, an unscientific principle that makes progress impossible. This book is a critique of culture-centered social science and a manifesto for a new evolutionary approach to understanding society's problems.
Social scientists appeal to “culture” to explain human actions, an unscientific principle that makes progress impossible. This book is a critique of culture-centered social science and a manifesto for a new evolutionary approach to understanding society’s problems.
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Why Europe Will Not Run the 21st Century
Reflections on the Need for a New European Federation
What future awaits Europe? To halt its inexorable decline, the EU requires radical reform. This book argues only a federal Europe, with a common Constitution and central government, can overcome its inability to face internal and external threats.
What future awaits Europe? To halt its inexorable decline, the EU requires radical reform. This book argues only a federal Europe, with a common Constitution and central government, can overcome its inability to face internal and external threats.
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Is Charity a Choice?
Protestant Evangelicals, Charitable Choice and the Feeding of the Poor
The 1996 welfare reform thrust faith-based organizations into the center of America's poverty relief efforts. This book examines Protestant evangelicals' role, questioning whether charity is truly a choice and if faith can solve social welfare.
The 1996 welfare reform thrust faith-based organizations into the center of America’s poverty relief efforts. This book examines Protestant evangelicals’ role, questioning whether charity is truly a choice and if faith can solve social welfare.
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Popular Culture
A Reader
This volume breaks down disciplinary barriers to explore popular culture from an interdisciplinary perspective. It brings together a plethora of methodological and theoretical approaches, fostering dialogue between international scholars on the topic.
This volume breaks down disciplinary barriers to explore popular culture from an interdisciplinary perspective. It brings together a plethora of methodological and theoretical approaches, fostering dialogue between international scholars on the topic.
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This volume explores translation's role in political communication and news reporting, bringing to light the invisible link between politics, media, and translation. It offers a new disciplinary view from Translation Studies on political discourse.
This volume explores translation’s role in political communication and news reporting, bringing to light the invisible link between politics, media, and translation. It offers a new disciplinary view from Translation Studies on political discourse.
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The possibility of fakes and forgeries has haunted our cultural imagination for centuries. Despite critical pronouncements on authenticity, making a distinction between the genuine and the fake continues to play a major role in culture, law and politics.
The possibility of fakes and forgeries has haunted our cultural imagination for centuries. Despite critical pronouncements on authenticity, making a distinction between the genuine and the fake continues to play a major role in culture, law and politics.
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This collection of essays explores the connection between Nietzsche and Phenomenology. Leading international scholars uncover surprising new connections and profound differences, offering significant insights that broaden our understanding of both.
This collection of essays explores the connection between Nietzsche and Phenomenology. Leading international scholars uncover surprising new connections and profound differences, offering significant insights that broaden our understanding of both.
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This collection of accessible articles explores spirituality and faith in the works of masters of world cinema. It examines canonical directors like Godard and Kurosawa alongside contemporary auteurs, broadening the understanding of faith on film.
This collection of accessible articles explores spirituality and faith in the works of masters of world cinema. It examines canonical directors like Godard and Kurosawa alongside contemporary auteurs, broadening the understanding of faith on film.
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Merry Murderers
The Farcical (Re)Figuration of the Femme Fatale in Maurine Dallas Watkins’ Chicago (1927) and its Various Adaptations
This book explores the femme fatale in American culture through Maurine Dallas Watkins’s story, Chicago. It argues that Chicago’s revivals produce a unique figure: the farcical femme fatale, who combines tragedy with comedy to get away with her crimes.
This book explores the femme fatale in American culture through Maurine Dallas Watkins’s story, Chicago. It argues that Chicago’s revivals produce a unique figure: the farcical femme fatale, who combines tragedy with comedy to get away with her crimes.
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In a world of technology and efficiency, what has become of Happiness? Does it still feature in contemporary fiction? This volume explores the paradoxes and changing forms of Happiness in the novel, from the Holocaust to consumerism and postmodernism.
In a world of technology and efficiency, what has become of Happiness? Does it still feature in contemporary fiction? This volume explores the paradoxes and changing forms of Happiness in the novel, from the Holocaust to consumerism and postmodernism.
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Ranked Set Sampling has numerous advantages over classical sampling techniques. This volume of reviewed essays is a reference book for postgraduate students in economics, social, medical, biological sciences, and statistics. The subject is a hot topic for dissertations.
Ranked Set Sampling has numerous advantages over classical sampling techniques. This volume of reviewed essays is a reference book for postgraduate students in economics, social, medical, biological sciences, and statistics. The subject is a hot topic for dissertations.
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Culture Shock and Multiculturalism
Reclaiming a Useful Model from the Religious Realm
‘Culture shock’ is a useful model for human experience, but its most popular form promotes a replacement religion: Multiculturalism. This book shows how to divorce the concept from its religious dimensions and return both it and anthropology to the realm of science.
‘Culture shock’ is a useful model for human experience, but its most popular form promotes a replacement religion: Multiculturalism. This book shows how to divorce the concept from its religious dimensions and return both it and anthropology to the realm of science.
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New technologies and emerging human roles have become key resources in language learning. This book offers research from different authors assessing the potential of these resources for an optimum learning experience.
New technologies and emerging human roles have become key resources in language learning. This book offers research from different authors assessing the potential of these resources for an optimum learning experience.
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The Power of the Line
Metaphor, Number and Material Culture in European Prehistory
The development of material culture was a contribution to the mathematization of the human mind. This book distinguishes between two dichotomous development paths in Europe and the Near East: the measuring stick metaphor and the object collection metaphor.
The development of material culture was a contribution to the mathematization of the human mind. This book distinguishes between two dichotomous development paths in Europe and the Near East: the measuring stick metaphor and the object collection metaphor.
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The image of ‘the Turk’ was historically the negative of the European self-image. Assuming the role of the ‘defining other,’ this concept was a constitutive element of European cultural identity. This book explores this past to better understand it.
The image of ‘the Turk’ was historically the negative of the European self-image. Assuming the role of the ‘defining other,’ this concept was a constitutive element of European cultural identity. This book explores this past to better understand it.
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Scholars explore the relationship between authority and the self in writers like Shakespeare and Donne. In an era of momentous change, these essays offer new perspectives on how power was negotiated through sexuality, gender, and language in the English Renaissance.
Scholars explore the relationship between authority and the self in writers like Shakespeare and Donne. In an era of momentous change, these essays offer new perspectives on how power was negotiated through sexuality, gender, and language in the English Renaissance.
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This book analyses Turkey's economic policies from a dependency perspective, identifying the macroeconomic variables that lead to recurring crises. It proposes an alternative economic policy to develop an independent structure so Turkey can act in her own interests.
This book analyses Turkey’s economic policies from a dependency perspective, identifying the macroeconomic variables that lead to recurring crises. It proposes an alternative economic policy to develop an independent structure so Turkey can act in her own interests.
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