How did images and spectacles shape power in early modern Europe? This collection of interdisciplinary essays reveals how aesthetic choices in art, theatre, and literature were used to consolidate and subvert institutional power from the 12th to 17th centuries.
Sights Unseen
Many British films never make it to the screen. This book uses archival resources to reconstruct the stories behind these thwarted productions, providing an illuminating insight into the factors which have undermined the stability of the film industry in Britain.
This volume contains a selection of papers from the 2007 NooJ conference. NooJ is a linguistic development environment and corpus processor used to build libraries of linguistic resources and Natural Language Processing applications.
This volume presents highlighted papers from the Ethnographic and Qualitative Research Conference (EQRE). The articles address methodological approaches, ESL, and action research, providing examples of both methodological rigor and important practical applications.
Beyond Words
When interpretation no longer applies, the Othering Excursion begins. This book elaborates a new method for reading texts that use disruptive rhetoric and distortion to point beyond cultural norms, finding meaning in zones of literary obscurity.
Where Angels Fear to Tread
Where Angels Fear to Tread highlights the ethical and emotional challenges for counsellors when clients become suicidal. It explores the tension between protective professional guidelines and the needs of a client in overwhelming pain, told through narrative research.
The Grammatical Nature of Minimal Structures
This monograph presents a linguistic examination of an aphasic speaker, viewing grammar as elementary computations. It supports the hypothesis that linguistic deficit is an impoverishment of procedural capacities, manifesting in reduced syntactic structures.
In an age of multimedia communication, the need for advanced study in writing and critical thinking has never been greater. These essays explore how the classical art of rhetoric is still relevant and how it connects to modern technologies and teaching.
This collection examines women’s identities and bodies through literary and historical accounts. Using the colonial past to analyze contemporary issues, it explores the female body as a site of abuse and discrimination, but also of knowledge and cultural production.
European Culture in a Changing World
In an era of European Unification and Globalism, what will happen to the rich mosaic of National European Cultures? This volume brings together essays by leading scholars to shed light on these issues of national identity and cultural creativity.
Treating children as property can lead to abuse. This book exposes the possessive logic behind this danger, urging us to listen to children’s voices and redefine child protection by asking one crucial question: protection for whom?
The Quaker Condition
This book sociologically examines the ‘Quaker Condition’ in present-day Britain. A pioneering social science study of a single faith group, it analyses Quakerism as a hyper-liberal religion, prefiguring developments that may overtake conservative groups.
Developing big information systems is inefficient. This book presents Knowledge Based Automated Software Engineering (KBASE), a method to improve the process by automatically generating the final software product from a verified business model.
Urban Politics and Space in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries
This book addresses the regionalisation of urban governance, challenging generalisations about urban Britain. It shows how space was contested, local identity emerged, and towns sought to expand their services and image onto a regional level.
Jimmy Du’s Essential Chinese
Master Mandarin Chinese in the shortest time possible. With this audio course, you’ll pick it up naturally while relaxing or commuting. Forget classrooms, grammar, and exercises. Just listen, imitate, and put the language to use.
Postmodernism and After
This collection of essays reflects on developments in literature pointing beyond postmodernism. Diagnosing its exhaustion, these articles trace a return to traditional concepts and invite a reconsideration of truth and meaning in our new literary age.
Touching Art
This study follows the Tree of Life, a Mozambican sculpture made from decommissioned weapons. It explores how its meaning changed when exhibited in its original context versus the British Museum, challenging curatorial concepts of African art.
The Boycott at Fethard-on-Sea, 1957
When a Protestant woman in Fethard-on-Sea refused to educate her children as Catholics, local Catholics boycotted Protestant businesses. This dramatic, human tale highlights how a personal dispute became a national crisis that tested the Irish state.
These provocative essays explore the uneasy relationship between religion and film in the works of masters like Bergman, Tarkovsky, and del Toro. This spiritual and critical journey challenges us to think more forcefully about the values that shape our lives.
The Texture of Internet
Language transforms to meet the demands of our digital world. The Texture of Internet explores these linguistic changes in texting, email, blogs, and websites, becoming a key reference for anyone interested in language use in our technological environment.
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