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Presents a comprehensive examination of the philosophical questions facing activists, policy makers and educators fighting the causes of climate change. This book is suitable for students of environmental ethics in multiple disciplines.

The purpose of this book is to promote a thoughtful engagement with key issues and theories that inform our understanding of childhood. Readers will enjoy, and be provoked by, a sophisticated analysis of the role and function of childhood in twenty-first century Britain, which can be used as a springboard for further enquiry and exploration.Two intertwined themes permeate the text: - Children''s sense of self and adults'' temporal and cultural fabrications of childhood, and the articulation of these with policy and provision for young children. - Young children and representation: how they are represented, the sense they make of such representations and their own representational activity. Whose Childhood Is It? intends to turn readers away from our collective tendency to simplify the experiences of young children and replace this with a fuller, more complex, and more realistic understanding of the social dynamic that constitutes childhood today. This book takes a user-friendly approach, with key questions and reflection boxes throughout as well as chapter summaries and suggested further reading. It will provide a rich resource for students of Early Childhood Studies, and for Early Years professionals and those training to be Early Years practitioners.

Addressing the fervor with which the public has come to view comics as an art form and Americans' fraught but passionate relationship with religion, this title explores the roles of religion in comic books and graphic novels.

Considers the nature, aims and purposes of education. This book introduces the student of Education Studies, and related courses, to the perspectives and contexts of education to prepare them for study in the field. It provides boxed examples and case studies where appropriate to enable the student learner to contextualise the introductory theory.

Deals with the challenges and opportunities faced by Muslims and the wider society in Europe following the Madrid train bombings of 2003 and the London Transport attacks of 2007. This title offers an assessment of the influence and impact of the Islamic scholar and activist Fethullah Gulen, and those who are inspired by him, on contemporary Islam.

A critical exploration of the pedagogical and practical issues that are raised when Arts academics engage in primary and secondary schools outreach. It addresses the numerous issues raised when Arts academics become involved with schools, bringing together practitioners from a range of fields within the Arts to share experiences and insights.

We have developed into a culture that is over-reliant upon pharmaceutical and recreational drugs; where drugs are incessantly advertised and promoted to us via our mass media. This book examines this parallel, promoting a critical awareness of the significant impact of drugs and media on individuals, society and our wider human culture.

Using case studies and analytical overviews, this title explores the relationship between broadcasting and the intimate domestic sphere into which it is broadcast. It focuses on the period from the 1920s, when broadcasting was established in the UK, when both domesticity and broadcasting have become areas of anxiety and contestation.

A work in comparative literature and philosophy that offers a fresh and important way of thinking the ethical capacity of human subjectivity. It posits a universal ethics based neither on rational mental structures nor on moral principles, but on the extra-rational powers of the imagination.

Examines the deep roots of the American model of schooling to highlight the problems that stem from the clash of government and education.

The language of science fiction, and of fantasy, has a steep challenge: that of the creation of other worlds, societies and characters that are alien to us in diverse and fundamental ways, but still compelling and knowable. This book steps away from the issues of race, gender and politics that have saturated sci-fi and fantasy criticism.

Exploration of the global spread of Eastern Orthodox practices from local settings and the resulting divergence of interpretations as a struggle over larger issues.

A book-length exploration of the role of online chat in supporting the teaching and learning of foreign languages. It takes a Conversation Analysis approach, which is new to online Second Language Acquisition. It provides insights into how native speakers and learners pursue the learning of foreign language and culture during online text chat.

Using their tried-and-tested English Method training, the authors unpack the core learning issues, such as differentiation and the development of thinking skills, suitable for initial teacher training programmes. They link theory and practice, with direct links to key theorists and ideas about learning.

This is volume 16 in the Major Conservative and Libertarian Thinkers series.

Diary of a Seducer records Johannes''s discovery of a girl with the Shakespearean name Cordelia, whom he sets out to control. Intricately, meticulously, cunningly, the seduction proceeds. No detail is too small to escape Johannes. "She sits on the sofa by the tea table and I sit on a chair at her side. This position has an intimate quality and at the same time a detaching dignity." Less erotic than an intellectual depiction of seduction, Diary of a Seducer shows the casuist Kierkegaard in what he characterized as the aesthetic mode. A new introduction by Michael Dirda puts this influential novella into high relief.

A rich selection of Greek and Roman original sources in translation.

Provides a historical survey of Greek cinema from its very beginning (1905) until today (2010). This title focuses on the attempts to establish a national cinema useful to social cohesion and national identity. It analyses the problems and the dilemmas that many Greek directors faced in order to establish a distinct Greek cinema language.

Offers an introduction to the main branches of ethics: meta-ethics, normative ethics and applied ethics. This book provides students with a comprehensive and philosophically introduction to the major thinkers, issues and debates. It includes coverage of key aspects of value-theory and key issues concerning agency and moral responsibility.

A collection of essays, demonstrating how comic books can be used as primary sources in the teaching and understanding of American history. It examines the ways in which comic books can be used to understand the history of the United States. It also demonstrates the different ways in which comic books can be used as resources.

Provides an introduction to Deleuze in the field of politics by putting his thought directly into dialogue with contemporary debates in political theory. This book focuses on Deleuze's contribution to the debates in political theory.

A study of the phenomenon of vibration and its history and reception through culture. It explores a range of sensory experience and makes a contribution to this field by focusing not simply on the senses as such, but on the material experience - vibration - that underpins them.

As a philosophical approach, phenomenology is concerned with structure in how phenomena are experienced. This title uses phenomenological insights to explain the significance of style in modern art, most notably in Impressionism, Expressionism, Cezanne and Cubism, Duchampian conceptualism and abstract art.

Organized around five key themes, this title offers a survey of the affective turn in contemporary political science. It reflects the affective turn in the analysis of political world. It intends to advance the debate on the relation between politics and the emotions.

Explains how to read, interpret and write about the world around us in a critical and informed way. This book answers the needs of students of composition, rhetoric, creative writing, stylistics or literature. It teaches the reader how to perform semiotic analysis, and formulates a logical set of instructions on how to write it up.

During wartime, embassies assume different roles and face various situations. An embassy might represent a belligerent state while being situated in an enemy, an allied, or a neutral state. This book offers an examination of how embassies work and cope during wartime, with a focus on the experiences of the British, American, and Indian embassies.

Intertwines a dual emphasis on evolving institutional priorities and major shifts in artistic production.