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This illustrated book aims to provide a fresh insight into medieval Islamic art through the prism of Chinese elements in Iranian art under the Mongols.

This book describes a period which saw the rise of some of the most influential thinkers of the contemporary world, as the Scottish Enlightenment reached and perhaps passed its peak.

The second edition of this revolutionary book argues that British history has long sought to caricature Jacobitism rather than to understand it, and that the Jacobite Risings drew on extensive Lowland support and had a national quality within Scotland.

An overview of 20th and 21st-century film noir and fatalist film practice from 1945 onwards.

This book is the first introductory text on postfeminism. It provides an indispensable guide that both surveys and critically positions the main issues, theories and contemporary debates surrounding the term. The accessible, teaching-friendly format allows lecturers and students to examine the wide-ranging postfeminist landscape and simultaneously pinpoint specific versions of it.

A guide to the fascinating questions raised by the study of language and law.

Revised edition of this successful introduction to English syntax.

Introduces the major cultural and intellectual trends of the decade by introducing and assessing the development of the primary cultural forms: namely, Fiction, Poetry and Drama, Music and Performance, Film and Radio, and Visual Art and Design. A fifth chapter focuses on the unprecedented rise in the 1920s of Leisure and Consumption.

This new general introduction emphasises the importance of the short story to an understanding of modern fiction. In twenty succinct chapters, the study paints a complete portrait of the short story - its history, culture, aesthetics and economics.

This volume collects for the first time essays published in British, Irish, and American periodicals during Bowen's lifetime as well as essays which have never been published before. The essays include Bowen's observations on age, toys, disappointment, writers, and manners.

A student, business and professional course in spoken and written Arabic aimed at those with no prior knowledge of the language.

An innovative exploration of ways of thinking about and doing politics that presents a challenge to liberal assumptions. The author tackles four key areas in contemporary politics which work at 'the edges of liberalism': difference, populism, revolution and agitation.

A study of Palestinian cinema and its response to political and social transformations in the Middle East.

An authoritative critical introduction to the way the event of JFK's assassination has been represented in a range of discourses.

A lively and accessible study of media and discourse.

This study introduces readers to the eighteenth-century novel through a consideration of contemporary social issues.

Everything you need to know about Derrida's Of Grammatology in one volume.

This volume provides everything you need to know about Kant's Critique of Pure Reason.

An introduction to the subject of Arab journalism, drawing on Arabic as well as English language sources.

This book offers a unique comparative exploration of the role of tradition in Islam and Christianity. In comparing the role of tradition in Islam and Christianity, key themes are explored such as the roles of authority, fundamentalism, the use of reason, and ijtihad (independent thinking).

A description of regional varieties of British English, along with discussion of current research in dialectology/ variationist sociolinguistics.

This book explores the relationship of the public theatre to the question of what constituted the 'dead' in early modern English culture within a theoretical framework that makes use of history, psychoanalysis and anthropology.

Introduces and explores the varieties of democratic imaginations and visions, past and present

This book examines in depth for the first time the origins, development, and reception of the major dramatic screen representations of 'The Few' in the Battle of Britain produced over the past seventy years.

A wide-ranging introduction to the study of contemporary science fiction cinema.

A textbook introduction to the history of the American South, from slavery to the civil rights movement.

This book explores the development of contemporary theatre in the United States in its historical, political and theoretical dimensions. It focuses on representative plays and performance texts from the 1940s to the present that experiment with both form and content.

Focuses on Ranciere's central political idea that a democratic politics emerges from the presupposition of equality.

This book covers alphabetically both the major concepts in political theory and the key writers in the field. While ensuring accuracy and objectivity, the entries represent interpretations that are both challenging and interesting.

This Glossary explains the key concepts, institutions, personalities and events most commonly referred to in the teaching of US politics and government.