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A Memoir
In this meditative and haunting memoir, renowned cultural critic Jonathan Dollimore recounts a life spent dedicated to understanding the delight and disorder of human desire. Through recollections of his struggles with depression, his discovery of love and literature and his …
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Conceptions, Justifications and Implications
This volume considers forms of information manipulation and restriction in contemporary society. It explores whether and when manipulation of the conditions of inquiry without the consent of those manipulated is morally or epistemically justified. The contributors provide a wealth of …
View book details for Shakespeares Auditory Worlds
Hearing and Staging Practices, Then and Now
Inspired by the verbal exuberance and richness of all that can be heard by audiences both on and off Shakespeares stages, Shakespeares Auditory Worlds examines such special listening situations as overhearing, eavesdropping, and asides. It breaks new ground by exploring …
View book details for Digital Media and the Dynamics of Civil Society
Retooling Citizenship in New EU Democracies
Based on an extended empirical research project, this book advances the theoretical, normative and practical understanding of civil society under the conditions of digital mediatization and in relation to a set of particular historical and geopolitical circumstances. Digital Media and …
View book details for Deindustrialisation and Popular Music
Punk and Post-Punk in Manchester, Dusseldorf, Torino and Tampere
The book is a comparative study of popular music cultures in 1980s Torino, Tampere, Manchester and Dusseldorf and their relation to the industrial city as imaginary, as heritage and as everyday reality.Popular music genres, such as hardcore punk, house, industrial, …
View book details for Deconstructing Peace
The Contested Politics of Post-Conflict Northern Ireland and Bosnia and Herzegovina
This book develops a novel approach to peace and conflict studies, through an original application of the philosophy of Jacques Derrida to the post-conflict politics of Northern Ireland and Bosnia and Herzegovina. Based on new readings of the peace agreements …
To what degree is technology in the form of products and processes capable of contributing human enhancement and wellbeing? In cases where the impact of a technology on society is not only very negligible but overall negative and harmful, what …
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Print Media Portrayals of the Public Sector During the Irish Financial Crisis
This monograph examines the ways in which discourses on the public sector were articulated in the print media during the 2011 financial crisis in the Irish, UK and European news media. It finds that coverage of the public sector was …
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A Serious Controversy
The concept of community is one of the most frequently used and abused of recent philosophical or socio-political concepts. In the 1980s, faced with the imminent collapse of communism and the unchecked supremacy of free-market capitalism, the philosopher Jean-Luc Nancy …
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A Cultural History
Since coming to an end at the pinnacle of its popularity, Seinfelds story continues. The shows enduring appeal has helped earn its creators billions of dollars and counting. Many of the most popular and acclaimed comedy series of the twenty-first …
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All That's Left to Know About the Rocket Man
This month, as Sir Elton John celebrates his seventieth birthday, Backbeat Books is thrilled to announce the release of Donald Gibson's Elton John FAQ: All That's Left to Know About the Rocket Man. An exploration of Sir Elton's accolades alone …
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All That's Left to Know About the Fabled Garden
Thomas Edward Harkin's Woodstock FAQ: All That's Left to Know About the Fabled Garden cuts through the lofty rhetoric and mythology surrounding the legendary festival. Rather than waxing philosophical about whether or not the Woodstock Music & Art Fair was …
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Male Bodies in Digital Culture
Work That Body: Male Bodies in Digital Culture explores the recent rise in different types of men using digital media to sexualise their bodies. It argues that the male body has become a key site in contemporary culture where neoliberalisms …
A Visible Witness presents a fresh, innovative perspective on a vital movement in twentieth-century theology. Protestant theology in Latin America emerged over fifty years ago, side by side with the initial development of Roman Catholic liberation theology. Both traditions have …
Earth is changing in ways it hasn't for hundreds of thousands of years. At the same time, Christianity is breaking away from its millennium-long geographical and cultural center in the Euro-West. Its growth is in Asia, Africa, and Latin America, …
The study of comparative religious ethics is at a critical juncture, given the growing awareness of non-Christian ethical beliefs and practices and their bearing on social change. Christine Gudorf is at the forefront of rendering comparativeand competingreligious beliefs meaningful for …
The profound ambivalence of the biblical portrayals of Hagar and Ishmaeldispossessed, yet protected; abandoned, yet given promises that rival those of the covenant with Abrahambelies easy characterizations of the Pentateuch's writers. In particular, John T. Noble argues, conventional characterizations of …
So much theology is confusing and intimidating. The concepts themselves are given weighty-sounding names, such as incarnation and justification, and the explanations of the concepts sometimes can be more confusing than the names.Captivating, entertaining, and highly informative, Crazy Talk helps …
Today's social and political climate often pits conservative or traditional Christianity against "progressive" Christianity. But what is progressive Christianity? What is a progressive Christian? What is a progressive church? Christianity in Blue answers these questions by drawing from biblical scholarship, …
Until recently, many scholars have read Pauls use of the word Christos as more of a proper name (Jesus Christ) than a title, Jesus the Messiah. One result, Joshua W. Jipp argues, is that important aspects of Pauls thinking about …
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Counter-Conduct and LGBTQ Evangelical Activism
Come Now, Let Us Argue It Out provides a look into a community that challenges common narratives about what it means to be LGBTQ and Christian in the contemporary United States. Based on his participant-observation fieldwork with a faith-based organization …
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La verdadera identidad de la humanidad es el amor
Dios, con gran amor y felicidad durante su nueva creaciA3n, incluyA3 el Arbol de la vida en el jardAn del EdAn. El plan de amor perfecto de Dios era que AdAn y Eva rechazaran la tentaciA3n de pecar y, asA, …
View book details for Ethnicity, Race and Inequality in the UK
State of the Nation
Available Open Access under CC-BY-NC licence. 50 years after the establishment of the Runnymede Trust and the Race Relations Act of 1968 which sought to end discrimination in public life, this accessible book provides commentary by some of the UKs …
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Guidelines for Teaching Civility and School Harmony
Preventing School Violence: Guidelines for Teaching Civility and School Harmony, is an amazing resource that reminds the reader of the importance of establishing and maintaining meaningful relationships among the school community: teachers, administrators, students, families, and the community at large. …
View book details for Beethoven's Orchestral Music
An Owner's Manual
Veteran music critic David Hurwitz provides an accessible, comprehensive, and fresh survey of Beethovens symphonies, overtures, concertos, theatrical music, his single ballet and other music for the dance, and several short pieces worth getting to know.Beethovens orchestral works include some …
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