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  • - Contemporary Turkish Muslim Thought in Dialogue
    av Taraneh Wilkinson
    311 - 1 457

    Featuring the work of Recep Alpya??l and ?aban Ali Duzgun, this innovative study provides a concise survey of Turkish Muslim positions on religious pluralism and atheism as well as detailed treatments of both critical and appreciative Turkish Muslim perspectives on Western Christianity.

  • - Code Name 'Grin'
    av Clive Jones
    367 - 1 321

    Drawing on extensive interviews and archival research, this biography uncovers the motivations and ideals that informed Smiley's commitment to covert action and intelligence during the Second World War and early part of the Cold War, often among tribally based societies.

  • - A Process Philosophy
    av James Williams
    311 - 1 251

    Against the unjust legacies of the traditional sublime, James Williams defends an anarchist sublime: multiple, self-destructive and temporary; opposed to any idea of highest value to be shared by all, but always imposed on the powerless.

  • av Deanna Ferree Womack
    387 - 1 321

    The Ottoman Syrians residents of modern Syria and Lebanon formed the first Arabic-speaking Evangelical Church in the region. This book offers a fresh narrative of the encounters of this minority Arab Protestant community with American missionaries, Eastern churches and Muslims at the height of the Nahda, from 1860-1915

  • - Exploring Al-Azd Tribal Identity
    av Brian Ulrich
    407 - 1 457

    Examining a single broad tribal identity - al-Azd - from the immediate pre-Islamic period into the early Abbasid era, this book notes the ways it was continually refashioned over that time.

  • - Space, Motion and the Volition of Thought
    av Ben Woodard
    407 - 1 251

    Using Schelling's philosophy, Ben Woodard examines how an expanded form of naturalism changes how we conceive of the division between thought and world, mathematics and motion, sense and dynamics, experiment and materiality, as well as speculation and pragmatism.

  • - A Transatlantic Perspective
    av James Lockhart
    311 - 1 457

    James Lockhart reinterprets Chile and southern South America's Cold War experience from a transatlantic perspective. He argues that Chileans made their own history as highly engaged internationalists while reassessing American and other foreign-directed intelligence, surveillance and secret warfare operations in the region.

  • av Clara Bradbury-Rance
    321 - 1 251

    By offering close readings of key contemporary films such as Blue Is the Warmest Colour, Water Lilies and Carol alongside a broader filmography encompassing over 300 other films released between 1927 and 2018, the book provokes new ways of understanding a changing field of representation.

  • av Lode Lauwaert
    311 - 1 457

    Reads six interpretations of the Marquis de Sade in French post-war philosophy: Klossowski, Blanchot, Bataille, Lacan, Barthes, and Deleuze to show how he sits at a crossroads of surprisingly disparate branches of western culture, from Tom and Jerry to Kant's moral philosophy.

  • av Bill Angus
    311 - 1 251

    This study explores the disturbing intrinsic connections between authors, informers, and authorities found in a wide selection of early modern metadrama.

  • av Neema Parvini
    351 - 1 251

    This ground-breaking study fearlessly combines latest research in evolutionary psychology, historical scholarship and philosophy to answer a question that has eluded critics for centuries: what is Shakespeare's moral vision?

  • - Micro-Variation in Southern Levantine, Gulf and Standard Arabic
    av Ahmad Alqassas
    311

    This volume explores the micro-variation in the syntax of negation of three Arabic varieties: Southern Levantine, Gulf, and Standard Arabic.

  • - The Biographical Memoir of a Turkish Bath
    av Nina Macaraig
    407 - 1 457

    This original study, taking a biographical approach to tell the story of a Turkish bathhouse, contributes to the fields of Islamic, Ottoman and modern Turkish cultural, architectural, social and economic history.

  • - Digital Literature, 2005-2016
    av Teresa Pepe
    387

    Six years before the Egyptian revolution of January 2011, many young Egyptians had resorted to blogging as a means of self-expression and literary creativity. Such blogs are explored here as forms of digital literature, combining literary analysis and interviews with the authors.

  • - Revolution and the Avant-Garde
    av Emilia Borowska
    407 - 1 321

    Explores revolutionary politics in the work of one of America's most important avant-garde writers.

  • av Taef El-Azhari
    1 387

    Drawing on specific historical case studies and events, this book looks at the role of women, mothers, wives, eunuchs, concubines, qahramans and atabegs in the dynamics and manipulation of medieval Islamic politics.

  • - Succession and Independence
    av A A M Duncan
    337

    In a meticulous account of this period, Professor Duncan disentangles the power struggles during the 'Great Cause' between the Balliols and the Bruces, and of the actions, motives and decisive interventions of Edward I.

  • av Lisa Maurice
    321 - 1 321

    Engaging with recent scholarship on film, particularly film and theology as well as classical reception, Lisa Maurice considers the gods of Greek and Roman mythology alongside the biblical God of the Judeo-Christian tradition.

  • - Science Fiction and Law as Technology
    av Kieran Tranter
    337 - 1 457

    Through detailed readings of popular science fiction, including the novels of Frank Herbert and Octavia E. Butler and television's Battlestar Galactica and Doctor Who, this is the first sustained examination of legality in science fiction.

  • av Jamie Steele
    321 - 1 251

    Considers transnational, national and regional concepts within contemporary francophone Belgian cinema.

  • av Keith Corson
    321 - 1 321

    Using an auterist lens to challenge the notions of taste, genre and aesthetics that are commonly used to form the cinematic canon, this book explores the twelve films Veber directed between 1976 and 2008. These include Le Jouet (1976), Les fugitifs (1986) and L'emmerdeur (2008).

  • - Rashid Al-Din and the Jami? Al-Tawarikh
    av Stefan Kamola
    541 - 1 311

    This book examines the life and work of Rashid al-Din Tabib (d. 1318), the most powerful statesman working for the Mongol Ilkhans in the Middle East.

  • - Key Debates from Eighteenth-Century British Moral Philosophy
    av Christian Maurer
    321 - 1 251

    Do people only act out of self-interest? Or is there a less pessimistic explanation for human behaviour? Maurer delves into early-Enlightenment debates on self-love from both famous and lesser known authors, including Lord Shaftesbury, Bernard Mandeville, Francis Hutcheson, Joseph Butler, Archibald Campbell, David Hume and Adam Smith.

  • - Analysis at the Limits
    av Sjoerd van Tuinen
    337 - 1 457

    This collection brings together a series of creative responses to the recent speculative turn in Continental philosophy. The contributors include philosophers, art historians, architects and art practitioners. It takes a generous definition of art to include architecture, cinema, dance and new media.

  • - Architecture, Poetry, Textiles and Court Ceremonial
    av Olga Bush
    471

    This book investigates the neglected, interdisciplinary contexts of medieval poetics and optics and through comparative study of Islamic court ceremonials.

  • - The French New Wave and the Other Arts
    av Marion Schmid
    311 - 1 251

    Casting fresh light on one of the most important movements in film history, Intermedial Dialogues is the first comprehensive study of the New Wave's relationship with the older arts.

  • - Histories of Violence in Italian Crime Cinema
    av Austin Fisher
    321 - 1 251

    Blood in the Streets' investigates the various ways in which 1970s Italian crime films were embedded in their immediate cultural and political contexts.

  • - Sharing Keywords in a Global World
    av Mariarosaria Gianninoto
    387 - 1 487

    This book looks into the fundamental concepts with which we think, and which form the key concepts for discussing democracy in the Western world: 'the individual', 'the people', and 'the citizen'. But it is also about the emerging political context within which we live, Europe.

  • - Production Aesthetics and Representational Practices of a Film Industry in Transition
    av Sarah Atkinson
    371 - 1 217

    With an in-depth case study of Sally Potter's 2012 film 'Ginger & Rosa', and drawing upon interviews with international film industry practitioners, 'From Film Practice to Data Process' is a groundbreaking examination of film production in its totality, in a moment of profound change.

  • Spara 13%
    av James Robson
    1 061

    From courtship and marriage to adultery and prostitution, Sex and Sexuality in Classical Athens takes a broad look at the sex lives and sexual beliefs of ancient Athenians.

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