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Media
In the tradition of Harold Innis and Marshall McLuhan, Professor Scott Gardiner approaches media as an extra somatic tool and engages in a bracingly different approach to the purpose and power of media via an investigation into its historical, psychological and technical underpinnings as well as ...
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The literary evolution of mary elizabeth braddon
This work is a comparative reading of Mary Elizabeth Braddon’s The Doctor’s Wife (1864) with its source text, Gustave Flaubert’s Madame Bovary (1857). The study argues that the geotheories prevalent in England and France at the time each of the respective novels was written offer compelling reaso...
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Imposing fictions
Imposing Fictions aims to ameliorate the growing problem of what Martin Heidegger refers to as psychological and cultural “homelessness” by diagnosing the nature of the latter’s current manifestations and offering readings of literature that seek to inspire the genuine, and genuinely subversive, ...
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Heart & soul
Higher education is undergoing profound change at an unprecedented pace in today’s academic marketplace. This accelerating and precipitating change has motivated these distinguished authors -- passionate observers of academe -- to read well-chosen publications about meeting demands and responding...
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The age of disinformation
We live in a time when disinformation is rampant across all media outlets, especially the new format of social media. This cynicism pervades advertising and marketing, government and politics, medicine and public health, as well as print, television, and radio journalism. Deliberate lies and expe...
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The david discovery
The year was 702 C.E., the place North Africa’s Aures Mountains. Al-Kahina, “the Sorceress” and princess of the Jewish Berber Jarawa tribe, prepared to lead her army in a last battle against invading Muslim forces. But not before sending her son, a descendant of the biblical King David, to safety...
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In the ‘wild countries’ of central asia
In this stimulating and timely book, Scott Bailey, an American teaching Russian and Eurasian history in Japan, traces the history of the dynamic Russian Geographical Society, which carried out major research expeditions to Central Eurasia during the second half of the nineteenth century. The imme...
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Reform for an enlightenment education
Drawing on a distinguished 40-year university career, Allen Thiher probes the subjects that serve as a basis for higher education in the twenty-first century. Addressing the general reader as well as the scholar, he argues that all the best about contemporary culture springs directly from the unf...
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Imaginative inquiry
Academic disciplines have remained largely committed to research methods and methodologies that hinge on simplistic binaries and problematic dichotomies. Despite this historical and contemporary trend in interdisciplinary research, there have been some notable advances in innovative approaches to...
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Human rights and the arab spring
By 2015, four years after the dawn of the Arab Spring, the prospects of a unifying political reform narrative in the Arab World were noticeably dwindling. The unprecedented opportunity for a regional workshop of reform and state building had stalled, with Islamist movements more anxious about que...
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Privacy
Top analyst Leslie Gruis’s timely new book argues that privacy is an individual right and democratic value worth preserving, even in a cyberized world. Since the time of the printing press, technology has played a key role in the evolution of individual rights and helped privacy emerge as a forma...
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Emperor whisperers
Emperor Whisperers charts a comparative history of the two largest strains of ancient philosophy, from the first millennium BC to around AD 500. The book examines how philosophy arose from atheism in both China and Greece but entered a cul de sac when atheism spread from the elites to the middle ...
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Shakespeare’s identities
No dramatist has treated identity in as many ways and in such depth as William Shakespeare. In Shakespeare’s Identities, James P. Driscoll shows how the Bard used history, comedy, tragedy, and romance to develop comprehensive treatments of personal identity. Driscoll’s innovative study examines ...
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An evolving racial identity
In this groundbreaking study, Ana Hernandez offers an in-depth analysis of the social and cultural influences in the Latino community and its effect on the development of Latino racial identity from clinical and therapeutic perspectives. Her book addresses what it means to be a “Latino” in the Un...
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Desolation's march
Dr.Foster(author of MELANCHOLY DUTY,Kluwer,1997)has undertaken a critique of American decadence and moral squalor. He argues that three basic cultural phenomena have conjoined to warp and degrade the moral and cultural landscape of the country. Treated together for purposes of critique these phen...
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Lessons in courage
Nick Buckley MBE came to international attention in June 2020 when he was fired by the board of The Mancunian Way, a charity he had founded, for criticizing the far-left policies of Black Lives Matter. He then mounted a successful fightback that resulted in his reinstatement and the resignation o...
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Essays on jonathan swift
New approaches to the Augustan concept of madness and Swift’s own as well as material on Gulliver’s Travels and other key Swiftian works. Madness and memory in Swift explored in hitherto unpublished material by the author. “…highly recommended. First rate discussion of crucial Swift themes.” Pro...
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The call of the road
Vachel Lindsay introduced a genuinely new rhythm into American poetry and was America’s first real folk poet—superior to Sandburg and articulating a sense of awe, loss and resentment at the passing of the older freedoms and dignities of pre industrial America. His topics (Negro revivals, Salvatio...
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Metacognitive regularities and work efficiency at universities
This book explores the effect of metacognitive regularities on the work efficiency of university teachers through a mixed-methods study. Grounded in models of metacognitive regularities and work efficiency, Khadija Marvi’s study addresses a gap in existing research, as previous studies on metacog...
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Subjugate or exterminate!
Foreword by Luke Harding Subjugate or Exterminate! is an authoritative first-hand account of the Russo-Chechen conflict by a Chechen leader who played a central role in all the main events. Akhmed Zakaev rose rapidly from an actor of Shakespearean roles to Commander of the Western Group for the ...
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Nuclear agendas in japan and taiwan
Nuclear Agendas in Japan and Taiwan compares practical management cases regarding nuclear energy in regional neighbouring partners: Japan and Taiwan. An introductory overview of Japan’s nuclear policy leads to the specification of important factors tangible in everyday life. What we perceive as k...
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No prejudice here
No Prejudice Here chronicles a heretofore untold story of civil rights in modern America. In embracing the Western urban experience, it relates the struggle for civil rights and school desegregation in Denver, Colorado. It chronicles early legislative and political trends to promote Denver as a r...
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Our unfinished biological revolution
Seymour W. Itzkoff is one of the world’s leading intelligence researchers. His exciting new book Our Unfinished Biological Revolution offers a bold and highly original new study on the evolution of human intelligence from the origin of life to our times. With the help of evolutionary theory, Itzk...
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Jewish tradition in a western key
The period 1789-1939 was a time of dramatic, global social, political and economic transformation, with considerable ramifications for Jews and Judaism. From the dissolution of corporate status and new-found standing as individual citizens; from diverse, religious approaches to the interplay of J...
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The reception and reputation of jonathan swift in germany
This text discusses Swift's influence on German classicists and romantics as well as the reception theory behind Swift's success in 18th century Germany.
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Living anarchy
Anarchism stands as one of the the most vital social movements of the twentieth century. Yet this large( and growing) contemporary movement remain obscured by public and scholarly misconceptions as to its aim and purpose. Lost in recent accounts are the creative and constructive practices underta...
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Part-time exiles
Four months in America, six months in Ireland, two months, perhaps, on tour around the world: such are the dislocations of contemporary Irish poets. This monograph explores how images of America---its culture, myths, dialects and history—translate into and transform the work of key contemporary I...
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The future of leisure and retirement
In The Future of Leisure and Retirement, veteran anthropologist Niccolo Caldararo explores social support for the elderly in cross-cultural and historical contexts. Beginning with a comparison of various cultural traditions developed in complex societies from ancient times to modern, this vital n...
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The woman in me
Willem de Kooning’s six numbered Woman paintings have incited a maelstrom of critical controversy. At their debut in 1953, the critics were incensed by the ugliness of the images themselves and by the inclusion of vestiges of the figure in abstraction. Consequently, they questioned de Kooning’s a...
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Konspekt uchebnykh materialov po klirosnoi praktike
Now available in this Russian edition, Father Andrei Papkov’s unique textbook is the only book addressing the liturgical performance practices of religious singing in the Russian Orthodox Church. The topics it covers include various aspects of choral work in this tradition, including but not limi...
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A persistent prejudice
Antisemitism in the twenty-first century remains a major threat to Jewish communities around the world, and a potent challenge to the liberal international order. But it can so often be a more hidden form of racism, relying on codes, images, cues, and ciphers embedded in the cultural mythology of...
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The jewish community in new england
The purpose of The Jewish Community in New England is to inform readers about the Jewish community in each of the six New England States: Rhode Island, Connecticut, Maine, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, and Vermont. Factual, inspirational, and poetic, it serves as a scholarly guide to institutions...
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Shenoute of atripe and the rise of monastic education in egypt
Shenoute of Atripe and the Rise of Monastic Education in Egypt addresses the monastic teachings of Shenoute of Atripe, an Egyptian author and monastic leader of the fourth and fifth centuries CE, as well as the literary and cultural context of his teachings. The first chapter introduces Shenoute ...
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What the media won’t tell you
Here is a book that everyone should read, possibly the most important book of the century. Through it you will have a greater understanding of human consciousness, and the fundamental reason for mankind’s disunity and endless wars. F. Willard Brown’s wise mentoring deals with such topics as condi...
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Nuclear dialogues
Nuclear Dialogues examines the emergence of the nuclear nonproliferation norm as the product of a sustained discursive process. Zoë I. Levornik traces the evolution of this norm from the early nuclear age to the present, demonstrating how it was constructed and diffused through the practices of a...
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Conflict and human security threats in africa
In Conflict and Human Security Threats in Africa, South African scholar Victor Ojakorotu unravels the dynamics of conflicts and human security threats now affecting numerous African nations. While some of these conflicts are local, others are national and international. This current and highly en...
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The emergence of the french public intellectual
The Emergence of the French Public Intellectual provides a working definition of “public intellectuals” in order to clarify who they are and what they do. It then follows their varied itineraries from the Middle Ages through the Renaissance and the Enlightenment to the nineteenth century. Public ...
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Narrative medicine
Narrative Medicine: New and Selected Essays, by Arthur Lazarus, MD, MBA, contains the thoughtful curation of the author’s best work alongside new contributions. The book is divided into two sections: Section 1: New Essays In this section, 10 vibrant essays serve as a bridge between reflection and...
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Evolution by affirming the consequent
Foreword: Professor Steven Gimbel, Chair,D/Philosophy,Gettysburg College Was Darwin theoretically wrong in his world shattering conclusions and can his errors be proven on a straightforward scientific basis? Conventional criteria for a scientific theory include empiricism, logic and testability....
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The enchantress of words, sounds and images
This collection of original research essays celebrates in a scholarly focused fashion the 250th anniversary of Ann Radcliffe’s birthday. “The Great Enchantress” of the Gothic romance, as her contemporaries re-christened her, was then and has been ever since the publication of her fiction, an auth...
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Sports and foreign policy in taiwan
In this exciting new book, Taiwanese scholar Catherine Kai-Ping Lin examines Taiwan’s diplomatic history since the 1970s through the lens of sports in the development of nationalism in foreign relations. Since 1971, when Taiwan lost its United Nations seat to the communist People’s Republic of Ch...
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