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Darrow Schecter explores the most important theoretical and political debates about the relation between reason and legitimacy. >

A guide to the research and future directions in existentialism. It covers the fundamental questions asked by existentialism. It features a series of research tools, including an A to Z of key terms and concepts, a chronology, a detailed list of resources and a fully annotated bibliography.

Presents new critical approaches to the Bildungsroman by analyzing spiritual, feminist, historicist and modernist perspectives. >

Fusing perspectives from politics, media studies and cultural studies, and focusing on Iraq, offers detailed insights into the impact of different media forms.

Aidan McGarry looks at the political participation and representation of the Romani community, one of the most disadvantaged and excluded minority in Europe. >

"I Henry IV" has always been one of Shakespeare's most popular plays and this critical guide offers a comprehensive guide to the wide range of criticism on the play and its central figures, including Falstaff. This book introduces the play's critical and performance history, including stage productions alongside TV, film and radio versions.

Offers a detailed overview of research on discourse markers covering different areas of linguistics: from a discourse analysis point of view, to a Relevance Theory perspective going through a computational linguistics approach. This book is of interest to researchers in semantics, pragmatics, grammar and discourse analysis.

A study of Michael Haneke's entire body of work, broadening the scholarship on this highly controversial filmmaker. It explores how a political manifests itself in his work.

Takes a look at the nature of adult learning in the postgraduate context and at the implications of this for universities and their courses. This book examines concepts such as integration as ways of retaining the higher order skills of a university education over against narrower, and technicist approaches.

Explores the concept and practice of improvisation in literary modernism and the interconnections between American literature and music. >

A study of Kurt Vonnegut's novels, approaching them as literary experiments attempting to comprehend the American experience in the postmodern condition.

Tackles everyday real-life language-related problems in diverse social, professional and academic contexts. This title features chapters that use systemic functional linguistic theory to engage with issues of translation, education, language teaching/learning, multimodality, media, social policy and action and positive discourse analysis.

Discusses the depiction of various issues facing the church of their times in programs such as "The Flying Nun (1967-1970)", "The Father Dowling Mysteries (1989-1990)", and "7th Heaven (1996-2007)". This book addresses the role of women in the church, clerics reconsidering their call, the sexuality of clerics, and the ecumenical movement.

Applies Bernard Lonergan's thought to the various issues in philosophy and in moral and other areas of theology. This book focuses on the dialogue and critical comparison and contrast between Lonergan's thought and various key interlocutors in philosophy and theology. It presents a reassessment of the impact and application of Lonergan's thought.

Presents a study of the history of Poland and its political development during the eighteenth century. The author considers how the republican ideals and the political culture of its ruling class and nobility remain part of the historical legacy not only of what is today Poland, but also of the successor states: Lithuania, Ukraine and Belarus.

The history of Continental philosophy is often conceived as being represented by two major schools: German idealism and phenomenology/existentialism. This work aims to undermine this popular view of the radical break between idealism and existentialism by means of a series of detailed studies in specific episodes of European thought.

Chance, and its representation in literature, has a long and problematic history. This book examines the ways mid-twentieth century writers represent chance, arguing that their depictions of, and anxieties about, chance mark a new relationship between author and narrative.

Explores the comparative histories and geographies of militarized landscapes. Ranging from the Korean DMZ to nuclear testing sites in the American West, and from Gettysburg to Salisbury Plain, this title focuses on these often secretive, hidden, dangerous and invariably controversial sites that occupy huge swathes of national territories.

Includes the studies that examine quotidien acts of writing and their significance in a textually-mediated world. This book discusses examples including writing in areas such as farming, photo-sharing, childcare work and health care. It also brings together two important traditions of this type of study: the Anglophone and Francophone.

Exploring the research in Husserl Studies, this title presents fifteen essays on key topics in the field. It offers a representative sample of how Husserlian research should be conducted given the state of the corpus. It covers Husserlian epistemology, his views on intentionality, the archaeology of constitution, and ethics.

Presents a study of allusions to Alfred Tennyson's poetry in works of fiction from the Victorian period onwards. This title focuses on the poems of Tennyson and their reception history. It covers various novelists including Thomas Hardy, James Joyce, Evelyn Waugh, and Andrew O'Hagan, and looks at their approach to writing.

Drawing together eight original chapters written by scholars in the field of hermeneutics, this title takes variety of principles and themes from philosophical hermeneutics, drawing on insights from major figures such as Martin Heidegger, Hans-Georg Gadamer and Paul Ricoeur, and applies them to issues in education and the philosophy of education.

Presents an original theoretical system to explain and contrast modernism and postmodernism.

Studies the relationship between forms of spirituality, media and its effect on social reform. This book maps emergent global practices and discourses that interpellate media, social reform and spirituality.

A study of the Harvard Square Homeless Shelter, the only student-run shelter in the United States. It demonstrates how the juxtaposition of privilege and poverty inside the Harvard Square Shelter proves transformative for the homeless men and women taking shelter there, and the Harvard students volunteering there.

A guide to supporting personal, social and emotional development in the Early Years Foundation Stage (EYFS) that promotes a holistic approach and sharing good practice. It is suitable for trainee and qualified early years professionals.

A complete guide to supporting physical development in the Early Years Foundation Stage (EYFS), promoting a holistic approach and drawing on examples of good practice. It introduces this area of the Early Years Foundation Stage (EYFS) to trainee and qualified early years professionals.

Brings together research into the teaching and learning of Chinese as a foreign language to non-native speakers, as a second language to minority groups and as a heritage/community language in the diaspora. This book is of interest to researchers and practitioners working in applied linguistics and Chinese language education worldwide.