New Social Movements, Class, and the Environment
A Case Study of Greenpeace Canada
This history of Greenpeace Canada explores its troubled relationship with the working class. Through its actions against sealing, forestry, and its own workers, it illustrates the historic obstacles to a common labour and environmental agenda.
This history of Greenpeace Canada explores its troubled relationship with the working class. Through its actions against sealing, forestry, and its own workers, it illustrates the historic obstacles to a common labour and environmental agenda.
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For Arguments’ Sake
Speaker Evaluation in Modern Political Discourse
How can human beings be persuaded by language? This book explores persuasive rhetoric, suggesting that evaluative language plays a crucial role. It analyzes speeches by celebrated rhetors like Malcolm X, Martin Luther King, Barack Obama, and Winston Churchill.
How can human beings be persuaded by language? This book explores persuasive rhetoric, suggesting that evaluative language plays a crucial role. It analyzes speeches by celebrated rhetors like Malcolm X, Martin Luther King, Barack Obama, and Winston Churchill.
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Irish Childhoods
Children’s Fiction and Irish History
This book explores how contemporary Irish children’s fiction engages with the past. It reveals how constructions of childhood in novels and films are used to explore complex questions of Irish history, culture, and identity.
This book explores how contemporary Irish children’s fiction engages with the past. It reveals how constructions of childhood in novels and films are used to explore complex questions of Irish history, culture, and identity.
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Islam in its International Context
Comparative Perspectives
Changing attitudes to Islam influence political cultures and national identities. This volume offers in-depth, multi-nation perspectives from Europe, the USA and the Middle East, addressing issues from Muslim radicalism to Islamophobia and Islamic art.
Changing attitudes to Islam influence political cultures and national identities. This volume offers in-depth, multi-nation perspectives from Europe, the USA and the Middle East, addressing issues from Muslim radicalism to Islamophobia and Islamic art.
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Bonds and Borders
Identity, Imagination and Transformation in Literature
This collection of essays explores bonds and borders in literature, from colonial times to post-9/11 narratives. Trespassing boundaries to create new ideas, these essays dissect, subvert, and challenge our understandings of identity in an international society.
This collection of essays explores bonds and borders in literature, from colonial times to post-9/11 narratives. Trespassing boundaries to create new ideas, these essays dissect, subvert, and challenge our understandings of identity in an international society.
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Historical Representation and the Postcolonial Imaginary
Constructing Travellers and Aborigines
This work provides an overview of oral history's role in empowering marginalized social groups, like the Irish Travellers and Australian Aborigines. It explores how oral history enables such groups to document pasts that were previously ignored.
This work provides an overview of oral history’s role in empowering marginalized social groups, like the Irish Travellers and Australian Aborigines. It explores how oral history enables such groups to document pasts that were previously ignored.
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A Glasgow Voice
James Kelman’s Literary Language
This book examines how leading Scottish author James Kelman presents a spoken Glasgow working-class voice in his literature. It analyzes his key textual strategies, showing how he breaks the traditional distinction between speech and writing.
This book examines how leading Scottish author James Kelman presents a spoken Glasgow working-class voice in his literature. It analyzes his key textual strategies, showing how he breaks the traditional distinction between speech and writing.
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T. S. Eliot greatly enhanced Dante's profound influence on European literature. The essays in this volume explore what Eliot made of Dante, assessing modernism's legacy by engaging its roots and covering topics from Eliot's poetics to European unity.
T. S. Eliot greatly enhanced Dante’s profound influence on European literature. The essays in this volume explore what Eliot made of Dante, assessing modernism’s legacy by engaging its roots and covering topics from Eliot’s poetics to European unity.
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Undisciplined Animals
Invitations to Animal Studies
Undisciplined Animals is not a textbook, but a collection of invitations to animal studies. Addressed to emerging scholars, these confessions reveal how unruly animals can vitalize work, transgressing borders between the academic and the personal.
Undisciplined Animals is not a textbook, but a collection of invitations to animal studies. Addressed to emerging scholars, these confessions reveal how unruly animals can vitalize work, transgressing borders between the academic and the personal.
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This book analyzes land tenure in Papua New Guinea, arguing for replacing the customary system with private individual ownership. It demonstrates the economic advantages of this change and provides answers to cultural, social, and philosophical objections.
This book analyzes land tenure in Papua New Guinea, arguing for replacing the customary system with private individual ownership. It demonstrates the economic advantages of this change and provides answers to cultural, social, and philosophical objections.
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Romanesque Art and Craftsmanship in Central Europe, 900-1300
Artistic Aspects of the Style
This book reviews the embellishing cloister arts of the Romanesque period, discussing work in textiles, ivory, wood, metals, and manuscripts. Illustrations stress common themes, placing these objects of art in their historical and spiritual contexts.
This book reviews the embellishing cloister arts of the Romanesque period, discussing work in textiles, ivory, wood, metals, and manuscripts. Illustrations stress common themes, placing these objects of art in their historical and spiritual contexts.
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The first comprehensive overview of humor in post-unification Germany. This anthology features original analyses of literature, film, and cartoons, exploring how irony, satire, and the grotesque respond to identity reconstruction and historical memory.
The first comprehensive overview of humor in post-unification Germany. This anthology features original analyses of literature, film, and cartoons, exploring how irony, satire, and the grotesque respond to identity reconstruction and historical memory.
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In the West, philosophy is confined to the intellect and music to emotion. This book shows how African musical aesthetics makes either domain the location for the other, affirming a unified sense of being human and registering us as members of nature.
In the West, philosophy is confined to the intellect and music to emotion. This book shows how African musical aesthetics makes either domain the location for the other, affirming a unified sense of being human and registering us as members of nature.
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Cherchez la femme
Women and Values in the Francophone World
Challenging centuries of male-defined values, these essays explore how women of the Francophone world created new aesthetic, cultural, and social standards, from antiquity to today.
Challenging centuries of male-defined values, these essays explore how women of the Francophone world created new aesthetic, cultural, and social standards, from antiquity to today.
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What is Steampunk? It is a juxtaposition of science fiction, fantasy, and Victorian alternate history, drawing on the works of H.G. Wells and Jules Verne. This publication is the culmination of presentations from the first academic conference on the genre.
What is Steampunk? It is a juxtaposition of science fiction, fantasy, and Victorian alternate history, drawing on the works of H.G. Wells and Jules Verne. This publication is the culmination of presentations from the first academic conference on the genre.
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Jean-Paul Sartre
Mind and Body, Word and Deed
This book celebrates Sartre’s polyvalence with an examination of his philosophy, literature, and politics. Twelve scholars explore his thought on the body, time, and ideology, and narrate a neglected visit to Japan, making a strong case for his relevance today.
This book celebrates Sartre’s polyvalence with an examination of his philosophy, literature, and politics. Twelve scholars explore his thought on the body, time, and ideology, and narrate a neglected visit to Japan, making a strong case for his relevance today.
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Learning from Memory
Body, Memory and Technology in a Globalizing World
This book, with contributions from international social scientists, explores the link between body, memory, and digital technologies. It outlines a sociology of memory, throwing light on human behavior and the neurobiological factors that underpin it.
This book, with contributions from international social scientists, explores the link between body, memory, and digital technologies. It outlines a sociology of memory, throwing light on human behavior and the neurobiological factors that underpin it.
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Antipodean Childhoods
Growing Up in Australia and New Zealand
These essays explore childhood, otherness, and the postcolonial in Australia and New Zealand. They examine how adults configure children’s spaces through art, literature, and history, focusing on the cultural specificity of Antipodean childhoods.
These essays explore childhood, otherness, and the postcolonial in Australia and New Zealand. They examine how adults configure children’s spaces through art, literature, and history, focusing on the cultural specificity of Antipodean childhoods.
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‘Just’ a Fisherman’s Wife
A Post Structural Feminist Exposé of Australian Commercial Fishing Women’s Contributions and Knowledge, ‘Sustainability’ and ‘Crisis’
This book is a unique exposé of women in Australia’s commercial fishing industry. It explores their contributions, barriers, and knowledge in a sector facing crisis, aiming to reduce their marginalisation and enhance industry sustainability.
This book is a unique exposé of women in Australia’s commercial fishing industry. It explores their contributions, barriers, and knowledge in a sector facing crisis, aiming to reduce their marginalisation and enhance industry sustainability.
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Knowledge, Differences and Identity in the Time of Globalization
Institutional Discourse and Practices
The discourse of globalization in higher education reform is troubling. It fails to name a human subject—the student—and its very language antagonizes and marginalizes them. This book explores how this discourse constructs and deconstructs identities.
The discourse of globalization in higher education reform is troubling. It fails to name a human subject—the student—and its very language antagonizes and marginalizes them. This book explores how this discourse constructs and deconstructs identities.
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