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An introduction to Greece's most famous Prime Minister - the man, his politics and his broader role in twentieth-century history.

This single volume guides provides everything you need to know about Heidegger's Being and Time.

This book offers the first critical study of Gilles Deleuze's The Logic of Sense, his most important work on language and ethics.

This is a unique introductory guide to the rich, complex and diverse tradition of Islamic philosophy. It comprises over 100 concise entries, alphabetically ordered and cross-referenced for easy access. All the essential aspects of Islamic philosophy are covered here: key figures, schools, concepts, topics, and issues.

A thematic introduction to American ethnic history which provides an overview of key historiographical debates.

Ulrich Lehmann brings together methods and ideas from social sciences and material production to give us a new political reading of fashion in today's post-democracy. Accessing rare source material across a wide range of European languages and cultures, he gives us insight into new working structures in the manufacture of garments and textiles.

This book discussed the processes by which the Gaelic kingdom of Alba established its mastery over the lesser kingdoms of northern mainland Britain and transformed itself into a state recognisable as Scotland.

An introduction to some of the issues and concerns arising from the concept of film remaking.

Minds and Computers introduces readers to interdisciplinary philosophical consideration of Artificial Intelligence.

An introduction to the field of broadcast talk.

This book tells the remarkable stories of ten women whose inspirational lives and struggles exemplify the concerns and problems that other women have faced throughout the last two centuries.

Jean Flori's Richard Coeur de Lion was written to mark the eighth centenary of the death of the "knightly king". The book is a tour de force that provides the reader with a reappraisal of Richard's life as well as a study of the myth and reality of Richard's image as the personification of medieval chivalry.

The first Reader and Guide on the subject of slavery in America. It combines both an introduction to the field and a selection of core primary and secondary readings, covering the period from the early seventeenth century to the American Civil War.

This is an introduction to the history of the ancient Near East during the last millennium bc: Phoenicia, Palestine, the Neo-Assyrian and Neo-Babylonian empires, the Persian Achaemenid empire, the empire of Alexander, and the vast Persian Seleucid empire founded around 300 bc and defeated in 64 bc.

This book looks at three key theories which have implications for the role of ethics in war and armed conflict: cosmopolitanism; internationalism; and political realism.

A provocative and exemplary introduction to the field of postcolonial studies.

As a historical account of the way in which war and death intersect, this book describes the complex attitude societies have towards death.

This book examines the evolution of British propaganda practice during the course of the twentieth century.

Ian S. Wood uses his specialist knowledge as well as extensive interviews to recount the events of Ireland's Troubles and the ruthless war waged by the UDA on the nationalist community.

This alphabetic guide introduces the main positions, key figures, basic approaches, and central problems in ethical theory. Thorough and up-to-date it is a uniquely concise but comprehensive philosophical reference work to the subject.

This is a clearly-written introduction to the study of postcolonial cultures which broadens the reach of postcolonial theory and criticism.

The reader is invited to view Islamic art as no more and no less than ordinary art, neither better nor worse than anything else that counts as art. It follows that there are no special techniques required in Islamic aesthetics as compared with any other form of aesthetics.

In this authoritative introduction to her life and work, Maud Ellmann teases out Bowen's strangeness through close readings informed by historical, psychoanalytic, and deconstructive methods of interpretation.

This book aims to make accessible the sources and controversies concerning a key period in the history of the Roman Empire -- the reign of Diocletian and its immediate aftermath.

This comprehensive history of the Celts from origins to the present draws on archaeological, historical, literary and linguistic evidence.

This book is designed to provide undergraduate students of English historical linguistics with a concise description of the language during the period 1100-1500.

A simple guide to the process of conducting research in the humanities, with special reference to media and culture.

Iain Hutchison's book traces the major developments in a particularly turbulent phase ofScottish history.

The horror film analysed from a Deleuzian perspective

The ethical question is the question of our times. Within critical theory, it has focused on the act of reading. This original and courageous study reverses the terms of inquiry to analyse the ethical composition of the act of writing.