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The East India Company's merchants were called Adventurers because they ventured their money in the risky markets of the Spice Islands and the fabulously wealthy Mughal Empire. This title offers an account of the challenging and contested role of the chaplains in a merchant company turning into an imperial power.

Offers approaches to the understanding of the Roman family and its transformation in late antiquity. This book seeks to explain developments within the structure of the family in antiquity, in particular in the later Roman Empire and late antiquity.

For Gilles Deleuze, time is 'out of joint'. For Michel Serres, it is 'a crumpled handkerchief'. In both of these concepts, explicit references are made to the non-linear dynamics of Chaos and Complexity theory, as well as the New Sciences. This title presents a critical appraisal of Deleuze and Serre's 'joint' conception of time and history.

Providing a fresh angle on adaptation studies, this study looks at how avant-garde directors and filmmakers have treated literary works in distinct ways.

Offers an examination of the material culture outlined in Plato's "Laws", including demographic, economic, military and political structures, analysed using contemporary theories and historical contextualization.

Often described as the soul of Islam, Sufism is one of the most interesting yet least known facet of this global religion. Sufism is the softer more inclusive and mystical form of Islam. This is an ethnographical study of contemporary Sufi orders in Iran, Pakistan, India and Bangladesh, as well as in the UK and US.

Descartes' characterisation of the mind as a 'thinking thing' marks the beginning of modern philosophy of mind. It is also the point of departure for Descartes' own system in which the mind is the first object of knowledge for those who reason 'in an orderly way'. This book shows that the Cartesian mind has been widely misunderstood.

Examines the contribution of Jean-Luc Nancy's work to legal and political theory in conjunction with the interpretation and rationality of: the ontology of the event; the form of relationality; the effects of globalization; and, the importance of Christianity in contemporary legal and political theory.

Reveals the true nature of Conservative Party politics by examining the centrality of the myth of One Nation.

Magic is usually defined as a non-modern phenomenon, contrasted with modern rationalism and science. However, the idea of magic has remained persistent in scholarly discourse throughout history from the Middle Ages to the Enlightenment and beyond. This title explores how the notion of magic is articulated and theorised in the writing of history.

Presents a series of Godard films as interventions in contemporary debate about the language of difference. This book argues that Godard's conception and practice of cinematic language opens important possibilities for thinking about radical alterity.

This work discusses the activism in the 60s of progressive women who came of age during the Popular Front era of the 30s and 40s.

J B Priestley grew up in Bradford, and served on the front line in the First World War, before attending Cambridge and embarking on a career as a writer. This title follows the development of Priestley's thought from his engagement with social themes to his subsequent disillusion in the post-war period.

Grounded in film studies, philosophical inquiry, and the emerging field of scholarship that combines the two disciplines, this title discusses Terrence Malick's films as individual objects, as a corpus, within contemporary film studies, and within a wider cultural discussion.

Is time an illusion? Do past, present, and future co-exist in a timeless whole, or are our experiences of change and duration the reality of time? This title draws on Einstein's "Theory of Relativity" to examine of the workings of narrative time in the novels of Thomas Pynchon, including "Against the Day".

This study investigates the Dan/Danite tradition in the Hebrew Bible to determine what it tells us about Dan and also the degree to which traditions associated with one representation of Dan may have influenced the characterization of another.

An investigation of the research, development, policy and practice of teaching and learning in Higher Education. It examines the ways in which teaching-learning interactions are shaped by teaching-learning environments, student and academic identities, disciplinary knowledge practices and institutional cultures.

Offers an analysis of (post-)secularized and modernized societies to define the state of the sacred today and to decipher its different forms within the city. This book reflects on the way in which the city interacts with the sacred in all its many guises, with religion and with the human search for meaning in life.

An exploration of what a reading circle approach can offer adult emergent readers, and what adult literacy learners can tell us about novel reading. It explores adult reading development, novel reading and reading circles in the context of an examination of reading pedagogies and practices in the English-speaking world.

Derrida's work is controversial, it's interpretation hotly contested. This title offers a way of thinking about ethics from a Derridean perspective, linking the most abstract theoretical implications of his writing on deconstruction and on justice and responsibility to representations of the practice of ethical paradoxes in everyday life.

Explores the coverage of music in the journals edited by Dickens and how they reflect Dickens' own attitude to music and its social role. This title presents the full analysis of the articles on music published in the journals conducted by Charles Dickens.

Michel Henry (1922-2002) was a French philosopher and novelist, whose work spanned decades and genres while remaining united by a singular vision. This title offers an examination of Michel Henry's important contributions to phenomenology, theology, politics and aesthetics, featuring contributions from an international list of scholars.

Bombay, London, New York and Delhi, cities are central to Salman Rushdie's novels. Reading his urban representations, this study explains how Rushdie has contributed to our understanding of the postcolonial, the contemporary, the local and the global city.

Technological advancements have revolutionised the field of learning over the years and are continuing to push the boundaries of institutions towards different forms of knowledge construction, social interaction and meaning making. This book examines the debates that have shaped that technological journey, from ancient to modern times.

Social media such as microblogging services and social network sites are changing the way people interact online and search for information and opinions. This book investigates linguistic patterns in electronic discourse, looking at online evaluative language, internet slang, memes and ambient affiliation using a large Twitter corpus.

Erudite exploration of Republicanism as a political ideology and as an oppositional force to the emperors in Rome during the first century AD.

Demonstrates how an ethical component of Nancy's and Derrida's thought can be provocatively traced in the cultural considerations central to African-American and U.S. Latino Literature. >

Offers a theory of 'staggered time', based on the relation between simultaneity and delay. By investigating not only philosophical texts, but also ideas from aesthetics, political theory, and the sciences, this book builds a set of concepts for describing the time-structures of atonal music, political decision-making, neuronal delays, and more.