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Top scholars in the field unite here with critical newcomers to offer fresh perspectives on the function of poetry on the…

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This book presents the first-ever close and up-to-date look at how American diplomats working at our embassies abroad…

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The is this the book-length work addressing the development of academic freedom and the procedures designed to protect it…

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The debate over extending full civil rights to British and Irish Catholics not only preoccupied British politics but also…

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An ambitious weave of ideological, literary, and commodity history, The Reenchantment of Nineteenth-Century Fiction shows…

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This book will complement the author's book on the future of Management Consultancy. While that book examined the structure…

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This book begins from the premise, which it seeks to elaborate, that the poorest human being shares with the richest, a…

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Postcolonial Witnessing argues that the suffering engendered by colonialism needs to be acknowledged more fully, on its own…

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Using case studies, this book explores the publishing of African literature, addressing the construction of literary value,…

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The last two and a half decades witnessed China's epoch-making economic growth and great social changes, which indicates the…

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Explaining how the price of aggression is low enough that governments do not avoid conflicts, this book uses examples drawn…

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Performing Ground explores camouflage as a performance practice, arguing that the act of blending into one's environment is…

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Exploring the ethical dimension of Wittgenstein's thought, Iczkovits challenges the view that Wittgenstein had a vision of…

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Why did the United States begin to torture detainees during the War on Terror? These ideas are tested using comparative…

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This book offers a bold, ground-breaking epistemological critique of the dominant discourses on African conflicts. Based on…

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This book explores the relevance of utopia in relation to contemporary criminology. The range of contributors explore the…

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Childhoods at the Intersection of the Local and the Global examines the imposition of the modern Western notion of…

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Contemporary British Theatre surveys the complex and dynamic theatre of the eighties and early nineties reflecting a country…

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Examining post-1990s Indie cinema alongside more mainstream films, Brereton explores the emergence of smart independent…

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This fascinating new study by Mark Asquith offers an original approach to Hardy's art as a novelist and entirely new…

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Al-Rodhan sheds new light on the debate about the geopolitics of outer space, going beyond applying traditional…

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How did Renaissance literature affect readers' minds, bodies and souls? In what ways did the history of literary experience…

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Through a close-reading of the work of five prominent American postmodernist writers, this book re-evaluates the role of the…

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Tennyson is the most important English poet of the Victorian age. He knew its key figures and was deeply involved in its…

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An investigation of the many ways that Shakespeare uses the defiant voice of the shrew. Kamaralli explores how modern…

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Focusing on male-on-male rape, this book looks at the common myths surrounding this taboo issue, including the idea that…

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Nominated for the TaPRA Early Career Research Prize 2018In this book, Jo Scott shares writing and documentation from her…

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Does scepticism threaten our common sense picture of the world? Does it really undermine our deep-rooted certainties?…

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Representing the New World argues for the importance of Spain in the New World as an example of France and England in their…

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The Complete Poems , edited by James Gibson, includes all of Hardy's prolific output of more than nine hundred poems,…

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This study points up the complex interplay of ethnic and national identities in the lives of Chinese in Britain, arguing…

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This is the first sustained study of Samuel Beckett and testimony. It offers new readings of the problem of unspeakability…

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The relationship between music and the nervous system is now the subject of intense interest for scientists and people in…

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Contemporary Peacemaking draws on recent experience to identify and explore the essential components of peace processes. The…

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In this book, Richard Amesbury brings recent developments in Anglo-American philosophy into engagement with dominant…

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This volume focuses on the literary connotations of the 'Channel Packet' and sets forth lively dialogues between French and…

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'There are no substantive rights for subjects in Hobbes's political theory, only bare freedoms without correlated duties to…

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Modernist Nowheres explores connections in the Anglo-American sphere between early literary modernist cultures, politics,…

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Outlining the controversies that have surrounded the academic discipline of English Literature since its…

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Some scientific categories seem to correspond to genuine features of the world and are indispensable for successful science…

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Democracy and Northern Ireland examines the influence of liberal theories of democracy on recent developments in the…

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This collection of essays systematically explores how a sample of political groupings not founded on suffrage reacted and…

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By employing new 'optics' and a comparative approach, this book helps us recognize the unexpected and unsettling connections…

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Encounters in Performance Philosophy is a collection of 14 essays by international researchers which demonstrates the…

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The humorous side of Dutch culture of the seventeenth century is obscured by a change that took place around 1670. Religious…

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The New Woman was the symbol of the shifting categories of gender and sexuality and epitomised the spirit of the fin de…

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Since the early years of telegraphy, modernity at large generated and has depended upon technologies of…

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Offers the first-ever historical descriptions of the foundation of the "Museo Profano" inside the Vatican in 1761. Using the…