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Featuring contributions from anthropologists, historians and scholars of religion, this book explores the passionate, divided and evolving field of Islamic Studies in Europe and North America, past and present covering topics from secularism and gender to
Analyses the aesthetics and politics of contemporary Arabic literature of forced migration in the 21st century
The first edition of The Price of Football quickly established itself as the go-to guide to understanding football club finance for the serious fan. Kieran Maguire, one of the UKs top football finance analysts, shows how professional clubs operate as busi
The book examines how Danish and German film interacted with one another from 1910 through World War... Sideantal: 256. Genre: samfund og historie
Maps the radical cosmopolitan dimension of global protests and social movements from recent decades
In the third edition of this bestselling introductory textbook, Richard Ogden presents the concepts, terminology and representations needed for understanding how English is pronounced globally.
Iris Murdoch was not only one of post-war Britains most celebrated and prolific novelists she was also an influential philosopher, whose work was concerned with the question of the good and how we can see our moral worlds more clearly. Murdoch believed
Jeffrey Bell develops a critical existentialism and provides a new way of integrating the concerns of existentialist writers into contemporary political and social debates. Jeffrey Bell develops a critical existentialism and provides a new way of integrat
This is a comprehensive collection devoted to the work of Sir Walter Scott, drawing on the innovative research and scholarship which have revitalised the study of the whole range of his exceptionally diverse writing in recent years.
Overturns orthodox thinking about morality in Shakespeares plays by updating our understanding of the human mindThis ground-breaking study fearlessly combines latest research in evolutionary psychology, historical scholarship and philosophy to answer a qu
This wide-ranging collection places well-known auteurs such as Carl Th. Dreyer, Lars von Trier and Susanne Bier in their cultural context, and introduces a number of genres and themes that are less familiar to international audiences, including film stars
This textbook, now in its second edition, is designed to equip students with a basic 'conceptual toolkit' for the study of political thought: (i) a basic political vocabulary, (ii) a conceptual vocabulary and (iii) an historical vocabulary.
Explores how binary gender and behaviours of gender were actively challenged in classical antiquity Provides a focus on gender on its own terms and outside the context of sex and sexuality Offers an interdisciplinary approach, appealing to Classicists, An
In this rich, highly illustrated book, Mieke Bal takes us on a journey through the range of her work, using the concept of image-thinking as a point of connection between cultural analysis and artistic practice. Bal teaches us how to think with images, bu
Showcases how a range of migrant experiences are crucial to increasing interdependencies between differentially empowered groups across the world.
Examines traditional oral narratives to uncover function and meaning within the unique folkloric expressions of Scotland's Traveller communities
Considers how Joseph Conrad's works engage with silence
The need for collective action has never been greater, but geopolitics, structural changes and diverging preferences mean that existing global governance arrangements, devised at Bretton Woods in the 1940s, are either unravelling or outmoded. Reconciling
This engaging volume provides an authoritative assessment of the middle period in the career of the widely-read, Nobel Prize-winning short story writer Alice Munro
Recognised as one of the most significant contemporary directors, Pawel Pawlikowski achieved global acclaim with the Academy Award-winning Ida (2013). ReFocus: The Films of Pawel Pawlikowski is the first book-length study of the directors illustrious
A genealogy of the concept of the multitude and Spinoza's democratic political philosophy