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  • - Rene Girard and Charles Taylor on the Crisis of Modernity
    av Andrew O'Shea
    665 - 2 215,-

    Offers an original exploration of the ideas of two major contemporary thinkers. This book offers a novel interpretation of Girard's work that opens up his discourse on violence and the sacred into a fruitful engagement with both Taylor's philosophical anthropology and his philosophical history.

  • - Issues and Challenges Facing ESL/EFL Academic Writers in Higher Education Contexts
    av Ramona Tang
    2 519,-

  • av Michael Mack
    619 - 2 065,-

    Both humanists and scientists have tended to think of the arts as a means to represent the world via imagination. The author maintains that the arts do not merely describe our world but that they also have the unique and under appreciated power to make us aware of how we can change accustomed forms of perception and action.

  • - The Heraka Movement in Northeast India
    av Dr Arkotong Longkumer
    665,-

    Focuses on the Heraka, a religious reform movement, and its impact on the Zeme, a Naga tribe, in the North Cachar Hills of Assam, India. This book initiates grounds for understanding the emergence of a Heraka religion, drawing upon critical studies of religion, cultural/ethnic identity, and nationalism.

  • av James F. Lee & Professor Alessandro G. (The University of Hong Kong Benati
    665,-

    Processing Instruction is an approach to grammar instruction for second language learning. This book compares student assessment after traditional grammar instruction and after Processing Instruction to assess the positive benefits of this method of second language teaching.

  • - Essays in Memory of David A. Kerr Volume 1
     
    665,-

    A collection of essays that provides a platform for examining contemporary Christian-Muslim relations and critical issues facing twenty-first century Christianity. It offers insights into various trends in Local Theology and Missions from the contexts of Asia, Africa, Latin America and Europe.

  • - The Afterlife of Dante's Beatrice in Nineteenth-Century Literature
    av Dr Julia Straub
    735

    The figure of Dante's Beatrice can be seen as a cultural phenomenon or myth during the nineteenth century, inspiring a wide variety of representations in literature and the visual arts. This book looks at the cultural afterlife of Beatrice in the Victorian period in remarkably different contexts.

  • av Sr. Hope & Dr. Kempe Ronald
    665 - 2 215,-

  • av Dr Nick Turner
    665,-

    A monograph that analyzes a number of modern British women writers and the way in which the canon of post-war British writing has been formed. It focuses on four novelists, literary and popular, and interrogates the canon over the years. It unfolds to demonstrate that academic trends increasingly control canonicity, as do the demands of genre.

  • - A Strange Encounter
     
    665,-

    A collection of essays exploring the implicit dispute between Gilles Deleuze's transcendental empiricism and Kant's transcendental idealism, a key philosophical concern. It addresses the varied and various connections between these two great European philosophers.

  • - An investment-based approach
    av Stephen Gough
    665,-

    Vocational education is central to the plans of policy makers around the world; it underpins the development of the poorest economies, and the continued competitiveness of the richest. This title debates the key issues surrounding vocational education.

  • - The Nazi Image in Low-Brow Cinema and Culture
     
    619,-

    Examines the implications of the portrayals of Nazis in low-brow culture and that culture's re-emergence today. This title also examines when and why the Nazisploitation genre emerged as it did, how it establishes and violates taboos, and why this iconography resonates with contemporary audiences.

  • - 1772 to the Present
    av Dr Keith Gregor
    665,-

    A monograph on Shakespeare's reception in Spain. It offers an account of Shakespeare's presence on the Spanish stage, from a production of the first Spanish rendering of Jean-Francois Ducis' "Hamlet" in 1772 to the creative and controversial work of directors like Calixto Bieito and Alex Rigola in the early 21st century.

  • - The Rise and Impact of Human Rights Education in India
    av Professor Monisha (University of San Francisco Bajaj
    2 065,-

    Examines human rights education in India and offers key insights into larger international educational policy discussions. This title provides an in-depth study of the origins and effects of the Institute of Human Rights Education, a non-governmental program that operates in over 4,000 schools in India.

  • av Darren Hudson Hick
    539,-

    Specifically engaging with contemporary art examples, this title offers a comprehensive introduction designed to help students studying aesthetics for the first time to master the subject. It covers such topics as definitions and the ontology of art, interpretation and intention, aesthetic properties and evaluation, emotion and the arts, and more.

  • - Limamou Laye and the Layennes of Senegal
    av Dr Douglas H. Thomas
    2 215,-

    Limamou Laye, an Islamic leader from present-day Senegal, has proclaimed himself the reincarnation of Muhammad, with his son later proclaiming himself to be a reincarnation of Jesus Christ. This study analyzes Limamou Laye's goals for his community, his theology; as well as the various elements that created him to emerge as a religious leader.

  • av Associate Professor John W. Woell
    2 215,-

    Shows how an understanding of the intentionality underlining the pragmatism of Peirce and James can herald fresh interpretations of the interplay between philosophy and religion. This book also shows us how readings of "American Pragmatism" founded on mistakenly used categories of the Analytic tradition have led to misreadings of Peirce and James.

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    575,-

    A guide to the key figures in the Philosophy of Science from Plato and Aristotle through to Popper, Puttnam and Cartwright. It offers a comprehensive historical overview of this field. It introduces and explores the contributions of those philosophers who have shaped the subject and the central issues and arguments therein.

  •  
    1 909,-

    A guide to the key figures in the Philosophy of Science from Plato and Aristotle through to Popper, Puttnam and Cartwright. It offers a comprehensive historical overview of this field. It introduces and explores the contributions of those philosophers who have shaped the subject and the central issues and arguments therein.

  • - Reshaping the Modern University
     
    2 215,-

    Explores how the contested relationships between policy, curriculum and pedagogy are reshaping the modern university and examines the impact of conceptualisations of teaching in public on this debate in this age of academic capitalism. This book traces the emergence of strategies for open access.

  • - Exercises in Critical Reading, Writing and Thinking
    av Stephen J. Finn
    405,-

    Built around practical exercises, this book helps students to practice and master core reading and writing skills crucial to the successful study of philosophy. It helps you master the core skills you need to succeed in your study of Philosophy.

  •  
    2 215,-

    Drawing on insights from Continental, Feminist and Religious thought, this title explores alternative approaches to medical ethics. It considers such important subjects as attitudes to the body, informed consent, paternalism and the role of the law in medicine.

  • - An Interdisciplinary Study
    av Rita Sakr
    665 - 2 065,-

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    3 065,-

    Immanuel Kant is widely considered to be one of the most important and influential thinker of modern Europe and the late Enlightenment. This title presents a comprehensive overview of historical and philosophical context in which Kant wrote and the various features, themes and topics apparent in his thought.

  • - What Difference Did the Vote Make?
     
    659

    The continuing under-representation of women in political and public life remains a matter of concern across a wide range of countries, including the UK and Ireland. This book explores key questions in the development of women's rights in Britain and Ireland.

  • av Gary D. Rhodes
    665 - 1 915,-

    During the first fifty years of the American cinema, the act of going to the movies was a risky process, fraught with a number of possible physical and moral dangers. This title recaptures the lost history of the physical and moral perils that faced audiences at American movie theatres during the first fifty years of the cinema.

  • - Inflictions
    av Assistant Professor Jason Bahbak (Babson College Mohaghegh
    2 215,-

    From the domains of contemporary Middle Eastern literature, this book stages a conversation on questions of cruelty, evil, rage, vengeance, madness, and deception. It forms a record of voices, movements, and thought - experiments drawn from the inner circles of the Middle Eastern region.

  • - The New Institutionalism
    av Professor B. Guy (University of Pittsburgh Peters
    529

    Offers an in-depth analysis of contemporary institutional theory, an essential tool to understand the world of politics and government. Through a series of questions, the author assesses the possibility of a unified theory within institutionalism and its potential as a paradigm for political science.

  • - A Deconstructive Perspective
    av Dr Miriam Bankovsky
    2 335

    Deconstructing influential theories of justice by John Rawls, Jurgen Habermas and Axel Honneth, this title explores and critiques the early and later work of these three important liberal theorists.

  • av Fernando Mendez-Moratalla
    2 825,-

    Conversion is a main theological theme in the Lukan corpus. Since much attention has been paid to the issue in Acts, this work shows how the evangelist also conveys his theological emphasis on conversion in his gospel through material either unique to it or that Luke has edited to this purpose.

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