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What was the First Bible Like?
The Emergence of Christian Texts, Scripture, and Canon
Häftad, 2028
429 kr
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This book explores the emergence of the first bible, with particular focus on second-century Scripture, the earliest New Testament, and the canon formation process. The fourth-century Codex Sinaiticus, which contains the earliest extant complete New Testament, is used as a template to detect …
Australian Theatre, Modernism and Patrick White
Governing Culture
Av Denise Varney, Sandra D'Urso
Inbunden, 2018
770 kr
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In the early 1960s the board of governors of the Adelaide Festival of Arts in Australia rejected two Patrick White plays, The Ham Funeral in 1962 and Night on Bald Mountain in 1964. Australian Theatre, Modernism and Patrick White documents the scandal that followed the board’s rejections of White’s …
Eisenhower and the Art of Collaborative Leadership
Inbunden, 2018
794 kr
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"Eisenhower and the Art of Collaborative Leadership" examines the theory and practice of collaboration, and collaborative leadership, in the life and career of Dwight Eisenhower. It relates his collaborative style to his ideas about friendship, his Kansas upbringing and his family, his military …
Notions of Otherness
Literary Essays from Abraham Cahan to Dacia Maraini
Häftad, 2019
673 kr
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One can approach the notion of otherness or alterity in various ways: politically, aesthetically, ethically, culturally, religiously and sexually. Writing in Saylor.org, Lilia Melani defined the other as an individual who is perceived by the group as not belonging, as being different in some …
Making of the Modern Chinese Navy
Special Historical Characteristics
Häftad, 2019
558 kr
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‘The Making of the Modern Chinese Navy’ includes 14 historical case studies that help to illuminate a number of special characteristics of the modern-day Chinese navy most Chinese naval officers perhaps take for granted, including a belief in the Mandate of Heaven, tributary system and the fear of …
Theatricality in the Horror Film
A Brief Study on the Dark Pleasures of Screen Artifice
Inbunden, 2019
794 kr
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The horror film generally presents a situation where normality is threatened by a monster. From this premise, Theatricality in the Horror Film argues that scary movies often create their terrifying effects stylistically and structurally through a radical break with the realism of normality in the …
Four Augustan Science Poets: Abraham Cowley, James Thomson, Henry Brooke, Erasmus Darwin
Häftad, 2020
673 kr
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Focusing on four poets who because of their distinctive profiles illustrate especially well the opportunities and pitfalls of writing science poetry during the long eighteenth century Four Augustan Science Poets: Abraham Cowley, James Thomson, Henry Brooke, Erasmus Darwin offers numerous close …
Bauman, Elias and Latour on Modernity and Its Alternatives
Three Contemporary Sociological Theorists on Modernity and Other Options
Av Sandro Segre
Inbunden, 2020
748 kr
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‘Bauman, Elias and Latour on Modernity and Its Alternatives’ provides a comparison between the conceptions of modernity and its alternatives in the works of Bauman, Elias and Latour. Their work and research are linked to their distinct views on modernity and its alternatives. For Bauman, the …
Dispossession and the Making of Jedda
Hollywood in Ngunnawal Country
Inbunden, 2020
770 kr
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'Dispossession and the Making of Jedda (1955)' newly locates the story of the genesis of the iconic 1955 film ‘Jedda’ (dir. Chauvel) and, in turn, ‘Jedda’ becomes a cultural context and point of reference for the history of race relations it tells. It spans the period 1930–1960 but is focused on …
Domains of Identity
A Framework for Understanding Identity Systems in Contemporary Society
Av Kaliya Young
Häftad, 2020
422 kr
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“The Domains of Identity” defines sixteen simple and comprehensive categories of interactions which cause personally identifiable information to be stored in databases. This research, which builds on the synthesis of over 900 academic articles, addresses the challenges of identity management that …
Assassination in Colonial Cyprus in 1934 and the Origins of EOKA
Reading the Archives against the Grain
Häftad, 2021
368 kr
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This book explores the assassination of Antonios Triantafyllides, a leading Cypriot lawyer and politician, in British colonial Cyprus in January 1934. This event has been the infamous subject of rumours since its occurrence and a taboo subject for Cypriot society and historians alike, as the event …
Tasos Leivaditis' Triptych
Battle at the Edge of the Night, This Star Is for All of Us, The Wind at the Crossroads of the World
Häftad, 2022
410 kr
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Collected here are the three poetry books with which one of Greece’s finest writers, Tasos Leivaditis, made his literary debut in 1952-53. Greece was at this time emerging out of the devastating destruction of World War II and the subsequent civil war (1946-49). Leivaditis, on the side of the …
Gothic Kernow: Cornwall as Strange Fiction
Cornwall as Strange Fiction
Av Ruth Heholt, Tanya Krzywinska
Häftad, 2022
410 kr
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Cornwall as Strange Fiction is focused on written and visual culture that is made in, or made about, Cornwall and where there is affinity with Gothic. Cornwall and the Scilly Isles (known as ‘Kernow’ in the Cornish language) have a special relationship with Gothic, one that has been overlooked in …
Origin and Development of Dougong and Zaojing in Early China
Av Jing Xie
Häftad, 2023
368 kr
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This book focuses on two significant architectural elements in traditional Chinese buildings, that is, Dougong and Zaojing. Dougong is a bracket set often sitting above columns and beams as a key component in the great buildings and tombs of imperial China. Zaojing is a special structure sunken …
Gulf Gothic
Mexico, the U.S. South and La Llorona’s Undead Voices
Av Dolores Flores-Silva, Keith Cartwright
Häftad, 2022
410 kr
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Gulf Gothic examines haunted, secret-laden narratives that emerge from the gulfs between peoples all along the Gulf of Mexico and on both sides of the Rio Grande. The Gulf is presented as a single transnational region and as dynamic ground zero of North American (and global) cross-culturality and …
Authoritarian Collectivism and ‘Real Socialism’
Twentieth Century Trajectory, Twenty-First Century Issues
Häftad, 2022
357 kr
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The book discusses so-called real socialism and offers an alternative conceptualization of it as authoritarian collectivism, making use of an analytical methodology, as well as dwelling on its genesis, development and demise. The political dimension stands out in the conceptual articulation, with …
Collective Complaints As a Means for Protecting Social Rights in Europe
Häftad, 2022
262 kr
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The collective complaints procedure was created in 1995 as an optional quasi-jurisdictional monitoring mechanism specific for the protection of social rights, within the framework of the Council of Europe treaty system of the European Social Charter. In recent years, the importance and use of this …
Changes in the Higher Education Sector
Contemporary Drivers and the Pursuit of Excellence
Av Khalid Khan, Dawne Gurbutt m. fl.
Häftad, 2022
336 kr
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This book considers the importance of teaching excellence in higher education and why it is important to recognize it for the goal of improving student learning. It considers the essential attributes of excellence in teaching as well as the main current factors both internally and externally that …
Peruvian Foreign Policy in the Modern Era
Häftad, 2023
360 kr
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Peruvian Foreign Policy in the Modern Era is a chronological treatment of Peruvian foreign policy from 1990 to the present. It focuses on the impact of domestic politics, economic interests, security concerns, and alliance diplomacy on contemporary Peruvian foreign policy.In common with other Latin …
Sounding Prose
Music in the 17th-Century Dutch Novel
Häftad, 2022
410 kr
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This book is about the presence of music in novels. More specifically, it is about music in the early modern novel, with an emphasis on seventeenth-century musical prose from The Netherlands. It is remarkable that up until now the presence of musical elements in prose works from earlier centuries …
Occupational Devotion: Finding Satisfaction and Fulfillment at Work
Häftad, 2022
379 kr
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The idea of occupational devotion, or devotee work, was conceptualized and incorporated in the serious leisure perspective as one of the two serious pursuits. The other pursuit is serious leisure itself, with both forms being anchored in activities that are immensely appealing and fulfilling. …
Doing Sociology Through Film and Literature
Imaginings of the Social World
Av John Goodwin, Laurie Parsons
Häftad, 2026
377 kr
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This book offers an exploration of key sociological themes and debates via film and literature. Film and literature (fiction, not fiction and poetry) capture and reflect long-term social processes, document social transformation and change and, as such, offer sociologists and researchers an …
Elegy for Literature
Häftad, 2022
402 kr
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The first chapter is an overview of the current “crisis” of literary study, brought about by downsizings following the crash of 2008 (from which literary studies never really recovered), compounded by the Covid pandemic, and rocked by the bedrock questions put to the academic study of literature by …
Uncertainty Bands: A Guide to Predicting and Regulating Economic Processes
Häftad, 2022
368 kr
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With the increasing role of economic uncertainty, improving the efficiency of forecasts is ever so important. This book makes suggestions on how to evaluate the key economic indicators under uncertainty. It presents the interval method to study economic indicators, which will allow us to understand …
Narrative of Cultural Encounter in Southern China
Wu Xing Fights the 'Jiao'
Häftad, 2022
368 kr
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Late in the 8th century, under the Tang dynasty, a local magnate led a land reclamation project on the Fujian coast that is emblematic of the encounter between the Sinitic culture of the Yellow River basin in northern China and the local cultures of the south. Later accounts say the drainage canals …
Human Rights, Security Politics and Embodiment
Häftad, 2023
346 kr
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Virtuous institutions, such as human rights ones, have been neglected by securitization theory’s focus on the national state apparatus as the key driver of security politics. This book challenges this assumption, showing the ways institutional human rights, deemed the most progressive of rights, …
Dao of Civilization
A Letter to China
Häftad, 2023
279 kr
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The book sets out a prospectus for a new form of civilization patterned at every level to serve and sustain the biosphere. Starting with the deep philosophical flaw at the core of modernity, namely that the cosmos is devoid of ends of its own, it posits, as an alternative axis for civilization, …
Shakespeare's "The Comedy of Errors"
A Psycho-Semiotic Analysis
Häftad, 2022
410 kr
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Shakespeare’s Comedy of Errors: A Psycho-Semiotic Analysis uses semiotics along psychoanalytic to offer a granular analysis of one of Shakespeare’s funniest and most interesting comedies. It is distinctive in that it offers a discussion of the basic techniques found incomic literature of all kinds …
Shots to the Heart: For the Love of Film Performance
Av Steven Rybin
Häftad, 2022
367 kr
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Shots to the Heart explores how the work of the film actor inspires, provokes, and refigures our feelings and thoughts about the cinema. The book closely considers the art of film performance, the combined effect of actors’ gestures, movements, and expressions, in relation to the viewer’s sensitive …
importance of sentiment in promoting reasonableness in children
Häftad, 2022
347 kr
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On Becoming Reasonable explores the contributions that 18th Century Scottish philosophers Thomas Reid, Adam Smith, and David Hume make to our understanding of important factors in the development of children as they gradually acquire central features of reasonableness. Smith and Reid explicitly …
