Investigates the environmental policies of transnational and militant Islamist groups
Offers a new way of reading Stein's key publications: as responses to the politics of authorship and aesthetic participation
Studies Arabic literary production from the point of view of continuity and interference and the interactions between them
Studies Arabic literary production from the point of view of commitment and hybridization and the interactions between them
Studies the capacity of Shakespeare's plays to touch and think about touch
Examining the Romantic literary theme of suicide, this book positions slavery and abolition as central to the Romantic era.
Shows how late-Victorian writers develop new understandings of the relationship between cognition and embodiment.
Explores the haptic relations that connect the mothers and wives of the fallen soldiers of the Iran-Iraq war (1980-88) to their sons and husbands as martyrs
This is the first comprehensive history of the Scottish economy to be published in a generation. It provides the essential background on current debates on the condition and future of Scotland under devolution.
In this edition of Boswell's "Life of Johnson", Marshall Waingrow offers a fresh reading of Boswell's work. He charts the changes made during composition and at the proof stage, and corrects and explains the printer's misreadings and author's errors which crept into the final edition.
The text for this volume of poetry reproduces the first edition of 1917, allowing Hardy's poems to be read as he first gathered them and as the publishers first produced them. This edition also contains an introduction and a bibliography.
The biography of a leader of the campaign for moral education which had been conducted for several decades in Britain and in the USA.
A vital reference for everyone interested in Islamic inscriptions on buildings, objects and works of art.
A book on the emergence of modern humans
A look at the British Government's policy towards China between 1945 and 1950.
Edmund Gosse: Father and Son
Gertrude Stein frequently proclaimed herself to be a genius. But, what did the term really mean to her? This work explores the centrality and secificity of the idea of "genius" to Stein's work and the aesthetic ideals and contradictory intellectual affiliations of modernism in general.
This book explores the major philosophical issues in the historic interplay of Islamic and Jewish philosophy.
This is the first source-book for the cross-disciplinary area of post-marxism. It takes students through a wide range of readings from philosophy, politics, and sociology, to human geography, international relations, and feminist studies.
Katherin A. Rogers defends the traditional approach, considering contemporary criticisms but concluding that the most adequate account of the nature of God should build upon the foundation laid by the Medieval philosophers.
This book is a first-stop introduction to corpus-based language research. It introduces the practical problems and benefits including the points to be reviewed before using computers, obtaining corpus material, the main analytical tools and the most important applications of computerised natural language processing.
A study of the relationship between narrative and history from the late-19th century to the present day. The book reconsiders the terms of modernist narrative and modernist attitudes to history, and offers a theoretical engagement with the problems of the historiography as they affected writers.
In this sympathetic restatement of C B Macpherson's ideas, Townshend provides an overview of Macpherson's theory of possessive individualism and critique of liberal democracy
This is a history of the environment of England, Wales and Scotland, and of the interactions of people, place and nature since the last ice sheet withdrew some ten thousand years ago.
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