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  • - An Ontology of Motion
    av Thomas Nail
    319 - 1 925

    Thomas Nail argues convincingly and systematically that Lucretius was not an atomist, but a thinker of kinetic flux. In doing so, he completely overthrows the interpretive foundations of modern scientific materialism, whose philosophical origins lie in the atomic reading of Lucretius' immensely influential book 'De Rerum Natura'.

  • - A Workbook
    av Robert Blust
    405 - 1 309

    This workbook guides students through 12 problems on the establishment of genetic relationship among languages, 24 problems on sound change, 35 problems on phonological reconstruction, 10 problems on internal reconstruction, and 20 problems on subgrouping.

  • av CHARNOCK RUTH
    285 - 1 045

  • - Frederick Douglass and Family in the Walter O. Evans Collection
    av Andrew Taylor & Celeste-Marie Bernier
    349 - 1 455

    Marking the 200th anniversary of Frederick Douglass' birth, this first collective history and comprehensive collection of the Douglass family writings and portraits sheds new light not only on Douglass as a freedom-fighter and family man but on the lives and works of Lewis Henry, Frederick Jr., and Charles Remond.

  • - Prophecy, Exile and the Nation
    av Zeina Halabi
    349 - 1 249

    Based on close readings of texts, Zeina Halabi counters the prevalent reading of late 20th-century Arabic literature as a neoliberal, apolitical, fragmented discourse.

  • av TEJEDO HERRERO FERN
    409 - 1 385

  • - An Introduction
    av Beyza Bjorkman
    349 - 1 249

  • - An Intermediality Approach
    av Jorgen Bruhn
    309 - 1 725

    Offers new tools from intermediality studies for analysing contemporary cinema.

  • - Words and Their Structure (2nd Edition)
    av Andrew Carstairs-McCarthy
    295

    What exactly are words? Are they the things that get listed in dictionaries, or are they the basic units of sentence structure? Andrew Carstairs-McCarthy explores the implications of these different approaches to words in English.

  • av PARSONS JOANNE ELLA
    399 - 1 249

    The Victorian Male Body' examines some of the main expressions and practices of Victorian masculinity and its embodied physicality.

  • - A Critical Introduction and Guide
    av Jeffrey Church
    349 - 1 419

    A guide to the whole of Nietzsche's understudied early masterpiece

  • av BUNCH MADS
    349 - 1 045

  • av SHRIVER RICE MERYL
    369 - 1 319

    Featuring essays from both recognized and up-and-coming scholars in Scandinavian, transnational and feminist film and media studies, this book also includes an original interview with Bier, addressing some of the provocative readings of her films advanced by the volume's contributors.

  • av SCHVEY HENRY I
    975 - 1 045

  • - Selfhood, Stoicism and Civil War
    av Patrick Gray
    385 - 1 319

    Shakespeare and the Fall of the Roman Republic' introduces Shakespeare as a historian of ancient Rome alongside figures such as Sallust, Cicero, St Augustine, Machiavelli, Gibbon, Hegel and Nietzsche.

  • av E. Dawn Hall
    335 - 1 249

    In this close reading of her films and production methods, E. Dawn Hall defines Reichardt's auteur characteristics, arguing that she offers a contemporary and sustainable model for independent filmmakers in America.

  • - Politics and Poetics of the Staged Body
    av Brendan Prawdzik
    1 249

    This book changes the terms of scholarly discussion and discovers how the social structures of theatre afforded Milton resources for poetic and polemical representation and uncovers the precise contours of Milton's interest in theatre and drama.

  • - Second Edition
    av Lisa Colpaert, Vito Adriaensens & Yannis Tzioumakis
    1 525

    This introduction to American Independent Cinema offers both a comprehensive industrial and economic history of the sector from the early twentieth century to the present and a study of key individual films, filmmakers and film companies.

  • - An Analytical Survey
    av Robert McColl Millar
    359 - 1 925

    This textbook overview of Modern Scots provides a description and analysis of the language covering lexical, phonological and structural patterns. It presents evidence for the diversity of the language through illustrations from newly collected fieldwork material.

  • - Edinburgh'S Civic Development, 1660-1750
    av Murray Pittock
    335 - 1 659

    This is a study of Enlightenment in Edinburgh like no other. Using data and models provided by urban studies theory, it pinpoints the distinctive features that made Enlightenment in the Scottish capital possible.

  • - The Display of Moving Images in Exhibitions
    av Elisa Mandelli
    1 249

  • av Jane de Gay
    335 - 1 249

    A wide-ranging, comprehensive study, revealing Virginia Woolf's interest in Christianity, its ideas and cultural artefacts

  • - The Theatre of Our Good Will
    av Richard Wilson
    399 - 1 725

  • - The Politics of Invasion and Non-Recognition
    av Joseph O'Mahoney
    335 - 1 269

    Joseph O'Mahoney systematically analyses 21 case studies including the Manchurian Crisis, the Turkish invasion of Cyprus and Russia's annexation of Crimea to explore why so many states have adopted a policy of non-recognition of the spoils of war.

  • - An Anthology of Writings (1876-1914)
    av Nabil Matar
    335 - 1 455

    A vibrant collection of writings about America from its earliest Arab immigrants, as they reflected on and described the United States for the very first time.

  • av Sarah Dillon
    335 - 979

    This book probes the feminist faultlines in Derrida's thought and generates original feminist insight into key concerns of contemporary film studies, including spectatorship, realism vs artifice, narrative, adaptation, auto/biography and the still.

  • av Linden Bicket
    1 249

    This timely book places Brown s literary vision in a larger frame of reference beyond Scotland, while identifying the special place Brown occupies as a Scottish Catholic writer.

  • - Endings and Beginnings
    av Peter Marks
    309 - 1 249

    Placing literary creativity within a changing cultural and political context that saw the end of Margaret Thatcher and rise of New Labour, this book offers fresh interpretations of mainstream and marginal works from all parts of Britain.

  • - Difference and the Power of the Negative
    av Vernon W. Cisney
    419 - 1 455

    For the first time, Vernon W. Cisney brings you a scholarly analysis of Jacques Derrida and Gilles Deleuze's contrasting concepts of difference. He distinguishes their responses to Hegel and Nietzsche. He finds that Deleuze formulates an affirmative conception of difference, while Derrida's 'differance' amounts to an irresolvable negativity.

  • - American, French and German Philosophy
    av Oisin Keohane
    335 - 1 455

    Why do we assign nationalities to philosophies? Building on Jacques Derrida's unpublished seminars on philosophical nationalism, Oisin Keohane claims that national philosophies are a variant of some form of cosmo-nationalism: a strain of nationalism that uses, rather than opposes, ideas in cosmopolitanism to advance the aims of one nation.

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