Lights! Camera! Action and the Brain
The Use of Film in Education
This book details an innovative pedagogy using film in education. It bridges neurological theory with practical applications from worldwide scholars, showing how film can be a powerful pedagogical tool for all learners, including those with special needs.
This book details an innovative pedagogy using film in education. It bridges neurological theory with practical applications from worldwide scholars, showing how film can be a powerful pedagogical tool for all learners, including those with special needs.
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The Middle East and the Cold War
Between Security and Development
This volume integrates historical debate with fresh insights on the Cold War's impact on the Middle East. Superpowers proved constrained in their interventions, while Middle Eastern rulers enjoyed remarkable autonomy, exploiting global rivalry to achieve their goals.
This volume integrates historical debate with fresh insights on the Cold War’s impact on the Middle East. Superpowers proved constrained in their interventions, while Middle Eastern rulers enjoyed remarkable autonomy, exploiting global rivalry to achieve their goals.
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Current methods of teaching language are failing because we lack a holistic understanding of how language shapes human interaction. Orthodox science sees language as a tool, but there is no humanness without languaging. This volume forges a new path.
Current methods of teaching language are failing because we lack a holistic understanding of how language shapes human interaction. Orthodox science sees language as a tool, but there is no humanness without languaging. This volume forges a new path.
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Catholic Education
Universal Principles, Locally Applied
This collection of essays explores the Catholic Church’s understanding of human flourishing and education. It provides insights and case studies into how Catholic education policy is implemented in a variety of national and international contexts.
This collection of essays explores the Catholic Church’s understanding of human flourishing and education. It provides insights and case studies into how Catholic education policy is implemented in a variety of national and international contexts.
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In an age of media convergence, many have proclaimed the death of cinema. But as moving images enter art galleries, the internet, and our daily lives, what happens to film? This volume explores not the disappearance of cinema, but its blooming post-media life.
In an age of media convergence, many have proclaimed the death of cinema. But as moving images enter art galleries, the internet, and our daily lives, what happens to film? This volume explores not the disappearance of cinema, but its blooming post-media life.
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Re-Shaping Education for Citizenship
Democratic National Citizenship in Hong Kong
This book explores school processes in Hong Kong, where education must now manage diversity. It investigates how a liberal and democratic national identity, distinct from that of mainland China, develops under the “one country two systems” policy.
This book explores school processes in Hong Kong, where education must now manage diversity. It investigates how a liberal and democratic national identity, distinct from that of mainland China, develops under the “one country two systems” policy.
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Bodies and Culture
Discourses, Communities, Representations, Performances
This interdisciplinary collection examines the role of culture in shaping bodies. Essays interrogate how the body articulates social differences under hegemonic ideologies, forms identities, and is modified through physical and artistic performance.
This interdisciplinary collection examines the role of culture in shaping bodies. Essays interrogate how the body articulates social differences under hegemonic ideologies, forms identities, and is modified through physical and artistic performance.
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The public does not desire horror, yet enjoys it in art. In the monstrous marriage of the abject and the sublime, this thrill transforms the spectator into voyeur or victim. Representing horror means rendering it enjoyable—a game of limits that are no longer limits.
The public does not desire horror, yet enjoys it in art. In the monstrous marriage of the abject and the sublime, this thrill transforms the spectator into voyeur or victim. Representing horror means rendering it enjoyable—a game of limits that are no longer limits.
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Challenging the perception of collecting as a male activity, this volume shows how women from the 16th to 19th centuries built important collections. They used them to make powerful statements about their lineage, cultural heritage, and power.
Challenging the perception of collecting as a male activity, this volume shows how women from the 16th to 19th centuries built important collections. They used them to make powerful statements about their lineage, cultural heritage, and power.
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Romance
The History of a Genre
This book proposes a fascinating journey into the history and geography of the popular and controversial romance genre. From its origins to its latest developments, from print to film and Facebook, explore its many shapes from North America to India.
This book proposes a fascinating journey into the history and geography of the popular and controversial romance genre. From its origins to its latest developments, from print to film and Facebook, explore its many shapes from North America to India.
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The Politics of Translation and Transmission
Basilikon Doron in Hungarian Political Thought
This book studies the beginnings of Hungarian political thought through two 17th-century texts derived from an unlikely source: King James I’s Basilikon Doron. It reveals how Scottish ideas were re-articulated in a Central European context.
This book studies the beginnings of Hungarian political thought through two 17th-century texts derived from an unlikely source: King James I’s Basilikon Doron. It reveals how Scottish ideas were re-articulated in a Central European context.
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Reconsidering a Lost Intellectual Project
Exiles’ Reflections on Cultural Differences
This book explores how transnational experiences shaped the views of intellectuals exiled between 1933–1945. Essays focus on German, Spanish, and East European cases, comparing how exiles reconsidered their past in light of their new homelands.
This book explores how transnational experiences shaped the views of intellectuals exiled between 1933–1945. Essays focus on German, Spanish, and East European cases, comparing how exiles reconsidered their past in light of their new homelands.
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Discourse Interpretation
Approaches and Applications
This volume provides new insights into discourse interpretation across many genres. Combining theoretical insights with empirical investigations, it explores how meaning is a dynamic construct, constantly reinterpreted in light of social and situational contexts.
This volume provides new insights into discourse interpretation across many genres. Combining theoretical insights with empirical investigations, it explores how meaning is a dynamic construct, constantly reinterpreted in light of social and situational contexts.
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Gothic Legacies
Four Centuries of Tradition and Innovation in Art and Architecture
Gothic art and architecture were reinterpreted in diverse ways from the sixteenth century onwards. These essays explore what “Gothic” meant across different periods and cultures, and how it was used to shape personal, national, and international identities.
Gothic art and architecture were reinterpreted in diverse ways from the sixteenth century onwards. These essays explore what “Gothic” meant across different periods and cultures, and how it was used to shape personal, national, and international identities.
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Citizenship is being reassessed and redefined. In a world of globalisation, migration, and social change, this book's contributions analyze the evolution of our understanding of citizenship and the individual’s relationship to the state.
Citizenship is being reassessed and redefined. In a world of globalisation, migration, and social change, this book’s contributions analyze the evolution of our understanding of citizenship and the individual’s relationship to the state.
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Re-reading / La relecture
Essays in honour of Graham Falconer
What happens when we re-read a familiar book? This volume of essays by eminent scholars explores how re-reading can affirm our identity or reveal our changing selves, and how this core literary practice shapes and reshapes the canon.
What happens when we re-read a familiar book? This volume of essays by eminent scholars explores how re-reading can affirm our identity or reveal our changing selves, and how this core literary practice shapes and reshapes the canon.
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Peter Cochran explores Byron’s relationship with Italy as a whole—its literature, women, and politics. He argues the poet’s sojourn was an attempt to forge a new identity, showing how Italian culture gave him a new sense of self and his poetry.
Peter Cochran explores Byron’s relationship with Italy as a whole—its literature, women, and politics. He argues the poet’s sojourn was an attempt to forge a new identity, showing how Italian culture gave him a new sense of self and his poetry.
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Civic Duty
Public Services in the Early Modern Low Countries
This study offers a new view on public services in the early modern Low Countries. It explores who provided services between 1500 and 1800, how they were rewarded, and how these responsibilities were shaped by conceptions of citizenship and collective interest.
This study offers a new view on public services in the early modern Low Countries. It explores who provided services between 1500 and 1800, how they were rewarded, and how these responsibilities were shaped by conceptions of citizenship and collective interest.
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In a postmodern world where grand narratives have collapsed, Michel Tournier's mission is to create a new mythology. He reworks established myths and legends, allowing the reader to take the place of the author and create their own individual mythology.
In a postmodern world where grand narratives have collapsed, Michel Tournier’s mission is to create a new mythology. He reworks established myths and legends, allowing the reader to take the place of the author and create their own individual mythology.
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This long-overdue study illuminates the work of Jōji Yuasa, a great Japanese composer. His captivating music is an encounter between a Western avant-garde aesthetic and the productive thought of Japanese Zen, linked to deep, native roots often opaque to Western ears.
This long-overdue study illuminates the work of Jōji Yuasa, a great Japanese composer. His captivating music is an encounter between a Western avant-garde aesthetic and the productive thought of Japanese Zen, linked to deep, native roots often opaque to Western ears.
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