Re-doing Rapunzel’s Hair
Viewing Subjective Cognition in Fancifold
This volume explores embodied cognition and our imaginative experience of hair, using Rapunzel's symbolic hair as a touchstone. It introduces “fancifold,” a quality of imagination that produces both enchantment and disenchantment.
This volume explores embodied cognition and our imaginative experience of hair, using Rapunzel’s symbolic hair as a touchstone. It introduces “fancifold,” a quality of imagination that produces both enchantment and disenchantment.
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Emerald Green
An Ecocritical Study of Irish Literature
Emerald Green is an ecocritical study of Irish literature's reverence for the natural world. It examines writers from ancient hermit poets to modern naturalists, exploring how Ireland’s landscape—shaped by famine, loss, and rebirth—defines its literature.
Emerald Green is an ecocritical study of Irish literature’s reverence for the natural world. It examines writers from ancient hermit poets to modern naturalists, exploring how Ireland’s landscape—shaped by famine, loss, and rebirth—defines its literature.
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Arthur W. Upfield
Life and Times of Bony's Man
Immigrant, soldier, and Bushman, Arthur W. Upfield matured with Australia. He created the famous bi-racial Detective "Bony," rivaling Sherlock Holmes, and described the Outback to the world. This biography relies on unexplored letters to tell his story.
Immigrant, soldier, and Bushman, Arthur W. Upfield matured with Australia. He created the famous bi-racial Detective “Bony,” rivaling Sherlock Holmes, and described the Outback to the world. This biography relies on unexplored letters to tell his story.
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Equalities and Education in Europe
Explanations and Excuses for Inequality
This timely book analyzes educational inequities in Europe. Rejecting the idea that education simply reproduces social patterns, the authors argue that educational policies have the potential to challenge inequality and transform the lives of disadvantaged groups.
This timely book analyzes educational inequities in Europe. Rejecting the idea that education simply reproduces social patterns, the authors argue that educational policies have the potential to challenge inequality and transform the lives of disadvantaged groups.
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Classical drama on the modern stage is a major cultural and political phenomenon. Intertwined with the politics of locale, language, and culture, its performance is a feature in all types of theatre. These essays provide case studies for everyone in the field.
Classical drama on the modern stage is a major cultural and political phenomenon. Intertwined with the politics of locale, language, and culture, its performance is a feature in all types of theatre. These essays provide case studies for everyone in the field.
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Skepticism, Causality and Skepticism about Causality (Volume 10
Proceedings of the Society for Medieval Logic and Metaphysics)
This volume studies causality and skepticism from medieval to modern philosophy. Essays contrast Aquinas’s idea of a first mover with Hume’s account of successive events, re-evaluating the Aristotelian paradigm against modern science and Cartesian skepticism.
This volume studies causality and skepticism from medieval to modern philosophy. Essays contrast Aquinas’s idea of a first mover with Hume’s account of successive events, re-evaluating the Aristotelian paradigm against modern science and Cartesian skepticism.
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Women Willing to Fight
The Fighting Woman in Film
This collection of essays explores the fighting woman in Hollywood cinema. Authors examine her changing role and the emergence of the physically empowered woman whose body is a weapon. It considers how and why mortal women fight and what they are fighting for.
This collection of essays explores the fighting woman in Hollywood cinema. Authors examine her changing role and the emergence of the physically empowered woman whose body is a weapon. It considers how and why mortal women fight and what they are fighting for.
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Objects, Audiences, and Literatures
Alternative Narratives in the History of Design
Five historians use unexpected literary sources to reveal the dynamic relationship between intention and reception in architecture, costume, and the decorative arts. The essays explore how class and gender shaped the meanings of designed objects.
Five historians use unexpected literary sources to reveal the dynamic relationship between intention and reception in architecture, costume, and the decorative arts. The essays explore how class and gender shaped the meanings of designed objects.
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Challenging the 'Swedish model', these essays present new research on forgotten 19th and 20th-century political movements. By examining political outsiders, the authors contribute to a timely rethinking of the roots of contemporary Sweden.
Challenging the ‘Swedish model’, these essays present new research on forgotten 19th and 20th-century political movements. By examining political outsiders, the authors contribute to a timely rethinking of the roots of contemporary Sweden.
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Music and Literary Modernism
Critical Essays and Comparative Studies
Scholars examine the intersections of music, literature, and language in modernism. Essays explore the place of music in the writing of Joyce, Woolf, and Pound, and the importance of literary art for composers from Messiaen to The Beatles.
Scholars examine the intersections of music, literature, and language in modernism. Essays explore the place of music in the writing of Joyce, Woolf, and Pound, and the importance of literary art for composers from Messiaen to The Beatles.
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In these thought-provoking essays, Irish Catholic writers from diverse backgrounds examine a wide range of issues: liturgy, politics, culture, and bioethics. This collection explores the Catholic tradition as lived in Ireland, offering an encouragement to fidelity.
In these thought-provoking essays, Irish Catholic writers from diverse backgrounds examine a wide range of issues: liturgy, politics, culture, and bioethics. This collection explores the Catholic tradition as lived in Ireland, offering an encouragement to fidelity.
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This history of New Mexico covers early Pueblo societies, Spanish incursions, and the fortitude of indigenous people as they faced conquistadors and American “Frontier” soldiers.
This history of New Mexico covers early Pueblo societies, Spanish incursions, and the fortitude of indigenous people as they faced conquistadors and American “Frontier” soldiers.
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Globalization and posthumanism, through the interface of humans and machines, may undermine our innate consciousness. This book argues that combining biotechnology with globalization will diminish our capacity to experience the self, leading to global crime and sickness.
Globalization and posthumanism, through the interface of humans and machines, may undermine our innate consciousness. This book argues that combining biotechnology with globalization will diminish our capacity to experience the self, leading to global crime and sickness.
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This collection of scholarship offers an eclectic overview of youth culture. Essays explore unusual minds that question human existence, the evolution of board and video games, magic in fantasy fiction, and consumerism in popular teen book series.
This collection of scholarship offers an eclectic overview of youth culture. Essays explore unusual minds that question human existence, the evolution of board and video games, magic in fantasy fiction, and consumerism in popular teen book series.
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This collection explores the Berlin Wall in language, literature, and visual media. Essays discuss its portrayal as a dividing and uniting boundary, its continued existence in the minds of Germans, and how controversial the division of Germany remains.
This collection explores the Berlin Wall in language, literature, and visual media. Essays discuss its portrayal as a dividing and uniting boundary, its continued existence in the minds of Germans, and how controversial the division of Germany remains.
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Information and Communication Technology and Small and Medium Sized Enterprises
From Theory to Practice
ICT can be a source of competitive advantage for SMEs. This book provides a synthesis of the advantages of ICT, illustrating the technologies used with theoretical and practical views. It is an indispensable reference for both academics and practitioners.
ICT can be a source of competitive advantage for SMEs. This book provides a synthesis of the advantages of ICT, illustrating the technologies used with theoretical and practical views. It is an indispensable reference for both academics and practitioners.
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A Creative Passion
Anarchism and Culture
Anarchism—the idea that people can live free from rulers—remains a misunderstood philosophy. This book offers insights into anarchist cultural practices, exploring how, as Bakunin proclaimed, the passion for destruction is also a creative passion.
Anarchism—the idea that people can live free from rulers—remains a misunderstood philosophy. This book offers insights into anarchist cultural practices, exploring how, as Bakunin proclaimed, the passion for destruction is also a creative passion.
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Irish Studies
Geographies and Genders
This collection of essays explores the intersection of gender, sexuality, and geography in Irish studies. From Magdalen laundries and prisons to the domestic garden, it examines the local and human contexts of identity formation and performance.
This collection of essays explores the intersection of gender, sexuality, and geography in Irish studies. From Magdalen laundries and prisons to the domestic garden, it examines the local and human contexts of identity formation and performance.
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In an age of terror, this essay collection explores trauma's renewed relevance, examining 9/11, the Shoah, and tyranny through the thought of Derrida, Zizek, Lacan, and Freud.
In an age of terror, this essay collection explores trauma’s renewed relevance, examining 9/11, the Shoah, and tyranny through the thought of Derrida, Zizek, Lacan, and Freud.
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Searching for America
Essays on Art and Architecture
These essays explore American paintings, prints, sculpture, and architecture from diverse, multidisciplinary points of view. From traditional analysis to post-modernist deconstruction, these critical works represent the multicultural identities of America.
These essays explore American paintings, prints, sculpture, and architecture from diverse, multidisciplinary points of view. From traditional analysis to post-modernist deconstruction, these critical works represent the multicultural identities of America.
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