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  • av BROOKSHAW
    321 - 911

  • - An Introduction to the Mathematical Theory of Meaning in Natural Language
    av Yoad Winter
    391 - 1 311

    Designed as a quick yet thorough introduction to one of the most vibrant areas of research in modern linguistics today this volume reveals the beauty and elegance of the mathematical study of meaning. It introduces the essential principles and techniques of formal semantics.

  • av Gordon
    411 - 1 251

  • - 9/11 Frames Per Second
    av Terence McSweeney
    401 - 1 217

    Offers an exploration of the impact of 9/11 and the 'War on Terror' on American cinema. This book charts the evolution of the impact of 9/11 on Hollywood film: draws on a range of contemporary films including Black Hawk Down (2001), Batman Begins (2005), United 93 (2006) and Olympus Has Fallen (2013).

  • - The US, The UK and German Unification, 1945-1990
    av Luca Ratti
    1 457

    Luca Ratti examines the effect of German reunification and the ending of the Quadripartite Agreement in 1990 on the Anglo-American special relationship. And he shows how UK and U.S. attitudes, reactions and developments interfaced with the views and initiatives of the West German government.

  • - Rebel with a Pen
    av Paul Starkey
    1 251

    This book provides an introduction not only to the works of Sun'Allah Ibrahim, but also, more generally, to the modern literature of Egypt (and elsewhere in the Arab world) over a 40-year period, in its social, historical and political setting.

  • av Matthew Grenby
    321

    Unlike the rigidly chronological approach of many introductions to children's literature, this title presents a genre-based approach which ensures that all the principal genres are covered in detail such as: fables, fantasy, adventure stories, moral tales, family stories, school stories and children's poetry.

  • av Andreas (University of Edinburgh) Gorke
    351 - 1 047

  • av Joseph Gafaranga
    337 - 1 251

    Joseph Gafaranga argues that the notion of bilingualism itself must be redefined so that bilingualism can be seen as consisting of diverse interactional practices and investigated as such. This book details the rehabilitation effort which has been undertaken to get us where we are today.

  • av Robert E. Hall
    271 - 777

  • - Documentary Landscapes of the Holocaust
    av Maurizio Cinquegrani
    337 - 1 251

    Journey to Poland' addresses crucial issues of memory and history in relation to the Holocaust as it unfolded in the territories of the Second Polish Republic.

  • av Michael Brett
    431 - 1 797

    From the 10th century to the end of the 12th century, the Fatimid Empire played a central, yet controversial, role in the history of Islam. By relating it to the wider history of Islam, the Crusades and its theocratic counterparts in Byzantium and Western Europe, this book shows the full historical significance of the empire.

  • - Religion in Modern Scotland 1900-2012
    av Steve Bruce
    337

    Explores Scotland's transformation from the largely devout Presbyterian country of 1900, with the church as a major social force, to the diverse, more secular society of today, when less than 10 per cent of Scots attend church. This book looks at the decline in the Protestant-Catholic divide.

  • - How Hollywood Created the Ancient World
    av Lloyd Llewellyn-Jones
    431 - 2 061

    Explore how history was brought to life on the silver screen and how the Hollywood's epic movies dictated our vision of the past. This lively study analyses how Hollywood producers, directors, designers, costumiers, publicity agents, movie stars, and, inevitably, 'a cast of thousands' literally designed the ancient world from scratch.

  • - An Introduction and Guide
    av Francis McManus
    461 - 1 311

    This pathfinding textbook concentrates the regulation of pollution in Scotland, including the common law controls and the impact of European environmental law. With sections on nuisance (incl. statutory nuisance), noise, air pollution (including climate change), waste, contaminated land, water pollution, planning and nature conservation.

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    av Professor Sheila S. Blair
    627

    Greater Iranian arts from the 10th to the 16th century are technically some of the finest produced anywhere. Focusing on objects found in the main media at the time, the author shows how artisans played with form, material and decoration to engage their audiences.

  • av Jonathan M. Bloom
    531

    Illustrates the history of iconic element of Islamic architecture. This title reveals that the Minaret, long understood to have been invented in the early years of Islam as the place from which the muezzin gives the call to prayer, was actually invented some two centuries later to be a visible symbol of Islam.

  • - Scotland to 900 Ad
    av Gilbert Markus
    337

    Gilbert Markus brings a stimulating approach to studying this elusive period, analysing both its litter of physical evidence and literary sources, as a method of shedding light on the reality of the period. In doing so, he reforms our historical perceptions of what has often been dismissed as a `dark age .

  • - A story of some 500 years
    av David Clarke
    507

    Shows how Astronomy contributed to the educational enlightenment of Glasgow, to its society and to its commerce. This scientific history includes the story of Glasgow's 'Big Bang' of 1863, the controversy over 'Astronomer Royal for Scotland' and a historical survey of the eight observatories that once populated Glasgow.

  • av Rupert Rushbrooke
    371 - 997

    This book examines the ethical problems with using donated sperm, eggs and embryos, known collectively as "donor conception".

  • av Li Li
    421 - 1 927

    The first book to use a discursive psychological perspective to examine teacher cognitions. Informed by conversation analysis (CA), the book offers a close examination of cognition-in-interaction in three distinctive aspects: learning to teach, novice and expert teachers' cognition, and interactive decision making.

  • - Agamben and the Politics of Aesthetics
    av Arne De Boever
    331 - 1 457

    Through a sustained engagement with the work of Giorgio Agamben and Catherine Malabou, and against the background of contemporary political phenomena, Arne De Boever explores what positive political possibilities the notion of sovereignty might still hold.

  • av PEIRSE ALISON
    287 - 1 181

  • - Period Films and Contemporary Audiences in the UK
    av Dr. Claire Monk
    421 - 1 121

    A study of audiences for historical representation in film. By exploring the attitudes and habits of this audience, it breaks new ground both in scholarship of contemporary period films and in film-audience studies. It contrasts two opposite sections of late-1990s UK audiences, which has illuminating and unpredicted results.

  • - Lines of Connection
    av Linda Anderson
    401

    Elizabeth Bishop was Poet Laureate of the United States from 1949 to 1950, winner of the Pulitzer prize for poetry in 1956 and the author of numerous poetry collections. This book explores her poetic work, from early days at Vassar College to her last great poems in Geography III and the later uncollected poems.

  • - European Models of Diversity
    av Ray Taras
    371 - 1 457

    Have Europeans become hostile to multiculturalism? When people vote for anti-immigrant parties, do they also support their anti-multicultural policies? This book tackles the challenge of dismantling the multicultural model without destroying diversity in European society.

  • - An Edinburgh Philosophical Guide
    av Mark G. E. Kelly
    297 - 1 457

    In the first volume of his "History of Sexuality, The Will to Knowledge", Foucault weaves together the most influential theoretical account of sexuality since Freud. The author unpacks the intricacies of Foucault's dense and sometimes confusing exposition in a straightforward way, putting it in its historical and theoretical context.

  • av David Ayers
    1 321

    Modernism, Internationalism and the Russian Revolution' examines responses to the Russian Revolution and the formation of League of Nations in literature and journalism in the years following 1917.

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    - Touch and the Tactile in Modernist Writing
    av Dr. Abbie Garrington
    351 - 1 121

    This book contends that the haptic sense - combining touch, kinaesthesis and proprioception - was first fully conceptualised and explored in the modernist period, in response to radical new bodily experiences brought about by scientific, technological and psychological change.

  • - North African Emigre and Maghrebi-French Filmmaking in France since 2000
    av Will Higbee
    421 - 1 251

    An analysis of Maghrebi-French and North African emigre cinema in France. It explores the work of these filmmakers on both sides of the camera since the 1970s, offering original perspectives and fresh interpretations of key films, both mainstream and independent.

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