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This collection of essays connects science fiction to our increasingly science-fictional world, tackling major ethical and political issues. "Will find a market both among academics and... undergraduates." - Dr. Farah Mendelsohn, Middlesex University
This collection of essays connects science fiction to our increasingly science-fictional world, tackling major ethical and political issues. “Will find a market both among academics and… undergraduates.” – Dr. Farah Mendelsohn, Middlesex University
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This study examines how postcolonial literature depicts the body as a site of resistance. Focusing on diasporic authors from Africa and Southeast Asia in London, it reveals bodies performing queer space and time to redefine the postcolonial.
This study examines how postcolonial literature depicts the body as a site of resistance. Focusing on diasporic authors from Africa and Southeast Asia in London, it reveals bodies performing queer space and time to redefine the postcolonial.
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Ritual and Remembrance
the Memorialisation of the Great War in East Kent
This study explores local memorial construction after the Great War, revealing the tension between private tragedy and public remembrance. It uncovers how authorities transformed personal grief into a public narrative through the complex process of commemoration.
This study explores local memorial construction after the Great War, revealing the tension between private tragedy and public remembrance. It uncovers how authorities transformed personal grief into a public narrative through the complex process of commemoration.
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The Beggar’s ‘Children’
How John Gay Changed The Course Of England’s Musical Theatre
No author has looked beyond John Gay’s The Beggar’s Opera to analyze the works it spawned. This insightful study is the first to explore these descendants—the ballad operas, comic operas, and burlettas of the 18th century—with musical examples and plots.
No author has looked beyond John Gay’s The Beggar’s Opera to analyze the works it spawned. This insightful study is the first to explore these descendants—the ballad operas, comic operas, and burlettas of the 18th century—with musical examples and plots.
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Mediating Chicana/o Culture
Multicultural American Vernacular
This collection explores Chicana/o culture through topics from graffiti and food to literature and cinema. It interrogates the tensions between personal and public expression in negotiating identity, laying bare how we define ourselves as individuals and communities.
This collection explores Chicana/o culture through topics from graffiti and food to literature and cinema. It interrogates the tensions between personal and public expression in negotiating identity, laying bare how we define ourselves as individuals and communities.
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Speaking about racism is difficult, yet state racism is more acceptable than ever. Immigration detention and racial profiling impact our daily lives. Race and State breaks the taboo of discussing the links between “race” and state from multiple perspectives.
Speaking about racism is difficult, yet state racism is more acceptable than ever. Immigration detention and racial profiling impact our daily lives. Race and State breaks the taboo of discussing the links between “race” and state from multiple perspectives.
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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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Being Amongst Others
Phenomenological Reflections on the Life-world
Philosophical reflection helps us understand our world. This volume presents a variety of phenomenological views on everyday life, granting precedent to the first-person perspective to explore consciousness, friendship, and religious or political experiences.
Philosophical reflection helps us understand our world. This volume presents a variety of phenomenological views on everyday life, granting precedent to the first-person perspective to explore consciousness, friendship, and religious or political experiences.
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Byron is often thought of as the Romantic poet most familiar with the East. This book examines this thesis, looking at Byron’s knowledge of the East and its religions, his Turkish Tales, his influence on Pushkin, and his own disorientated existence.
Byron is often thought of as the Romantic poet most familiar with the East. This book examines this thesis, looking at Byron’s knowledge of the East and its religions, his Turkish Tales, his influence on Pushkin, and his own disorientated existence.
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This book analyzes family diversity across cultures and generations. It reveals the complex connections between individual lives and major social, economic, and demographic shifts, deconstructing myths and exploring changes in gender and generational roles.
This book analyzes family diversity across cultures and generations. It reveals the complex connections between individual lives and major social, economic, and demographic shifts, deconstructing myths and exploring changes in gender and generational roles.
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Meeting the Information Challenge
The Experience of Africa
Africa faces the serious challenge of information and communication technologies. Meeting this is vital for its social, economic and political goals. This volume provides both overview and detail on how this challenge can be and is being met.
Africa faces the serious challenge of information and communication technologies. Meeting this is vital for its social, economic and political goals. This volume provides both overview and detail on how this challenge can be and is being met.
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From Plato’s Cave to the Multiplex
Contemporary Philosophy and Film
This rich collection of articles explores the productive interaction between philosophy and film. The pieces offer philosophical analyses of specific films and the cinematic medium, revealing surprising connections and provoking philosophical reflection.
This rich collection of articles explores the productive interaction between philosophy and film. The pieces offer philosophical analyses of specific films and the cinematic medium, revealing surprising connections and provoking philosophical reflection.
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This collection of essays bridges European and US approaches to children’s literature studies. Two main themes surface: ideology in children’s literature and images of childhood, alongside globalisation and the tension between pedagogy and aesthetics.
This collection of essays bridges European and US approaches to children’s literature studies. Two main themes surface: ideology in children’s literature and images of childhood, alongside globalisation and the tension between pedagogy and aesthetics.
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Amid corporate scandals and environmental concerns, the relationship between organisations and society is under scrutiny. This book explores the vital topic of Corporate Social Responsibility, examining the social contract between a business and its stakeholders.
Amid corporate scandals and environmental concerns, the relationship between organisations and society is under scrutiny. This book explores the vital topic of Corporate Social Responsibility, examining the social contract between a business and its stakeholders.
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This book explores the thought of pragmatist and semiotics founder Charles Sanders Peirce. Contributions by leading scholars are divided into three areas: Semiotics and the Logic of Inquiry, Abduction and Mathematics, and Peirce and the Western Tradition.
This book explores the thought of pragmatist and semiotics founder Charles Sanders Peirce. Contributions by leading scholars are divided into three areas: Semiotics and the Logic of Inquiry, Abduction and Mathematics, and Peirce and the Western Tradition.
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This book uses the social sciences to discuss emergent educational processes in late modernity, providing an overview of schooling's contribution to its construction.
This book uses the social sciences to discuss emergent educational processes in late modernity, providing an overview of schooling’s contribution to its construction.
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This book explores borders as socio-political constructs and the formation of identity. A series of articles interrogates the border as a limitation where spatial borders become mental ones, and examines individualism as a paradoxical prison cell and fortress.
This book explores borders as socio-political constructs and the formation of identity. A series of articles interrogates the border as a limitation where spatial borders become mental ones, and examines individualism as a paradoxical prison cell and fortress.
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The Practice of Altruism
Caring and Religion in Global Perspective
Do people with religious commitment nurture altruistic action more than others? Social scientists present results of their empirical studies on Japanese, North American, European, Indian, and Thai societies to offer insightful reflections on this issue.
Do people with religious commitment nurture altruistic action more than others? Social scientists present results of their empirical studies on Japanese, North American, European, Indian, and Thai societies to offer insightful reflections on this issue.
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The World of South African Music
A Reader
This Reader is a selection of influential, rare, historic, and contemporary texts on South African music, chosen to provide a deep understanding of the music itself. Indispensable to scholars and enthusiasts, it is vital for those looking for a way into this world.
This Reader is a selection of influential, rare, historic, and contemporary texts on South African music, chosen to provide a deep understanding of the music itself. Indispensable to scholars and enthusiasts, it is vital for those looking for a way into this world.
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This book uses personal naming to challenge the narrative of cultural change in England after the Norman Conquest. It reveals that far from a single uniform culture, there existed complex, residual, and resistant regional cultures.
This book uses personal naming to challenge the narrative of cultural change in England after the Norman Conquest. It reveals that far from a single uniform culture, there existed complex, residual, and resistant regional cultures.
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