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View book details for Selling Europe to the World
The Rise of the Luxury Fashion Industry, 1980-2020
Chanel suits, Louis Vuitton bags and Omega watches are now objects that embody a globalized material culture. Over the past 30 years, the luxury goods industry has undergone a tremendous expansion around the world. However, it remains largely dominated by …
View book details for Visual Evidence and the Gaza Flotilla Raid
Extraterritoriality and the Image
This book engages with pivotal examples of extraterritoriality-from Antiquity and into the twenty first century-in order to broaden the original judicial and geographical definition and thereby include physical and digitized information, and visual data in particular. By focusing on a …
"I can't believe we're arguing over a Blue Riband""I can't believe we're stuck down a mine.""Yet here we are"3rd May 1979, South Wales. Thatcher is counting her votes, Sid Vicious is spinning in his grave, and six Welsh miners are …
Providing theoretical and applied analyses of Michel Henry's practical philosophy in light of his guiding idea of Life, this is the first sustained exploration of Henry's practical thought in anglophone literature, reaffirming his centrality to contemporary continental thought. This book …
View book details for Tim Price Plays: 1
For Once; Salt, Root and Roe; The Radicalisation of Bradley Manning; I'm With the Band; Protest Song; Under the Sofa
Introduced by the author, this is the first collection of Tim Price's plays. The winner of the 2013 James Tait Black Prize for Drama, Tim Price's work includes For Once; Salt, Root and Roe; The Radicalisation of Bradley Manning; I'm …
No, Alice, I don't want to become a man, I just want to stop trying to be a woman.It's New Year in Rotterdam, and Alice has finally plucked up the courage to email her parents and tell them she's gay. …
View book details for Mixed Forms of Visual Culture
From the Cabinet of Curiosities to Digital Diversity
This book celebrates and seeks to understand the overlooked appearances of hybrid forms in visual culture; artefacts and practices that meld or interweave incongruous elements in innovative ways. And with an emphasis on the material aspects of such entities, the …
View book details for Philosophical Enactment and Bodily Cultivation in Early Daoism
In the Matrix of the Daodejing
In Philosophical Enactment and Bodily Cultivation in Early Daoism, Thomas Michael illuminates the formative early history of the Daodejing and the social, political, religious, and philosophical trends that indelibly marked it. This book centers on the matrix of the Daodejing …
After a sell-out run earlier this year, this topical and powerful play returns to Soho Theatre.A programme text edition published in conjunction with The SynergyTheatre Project in association with The Forgiveness Project and SohoTheatre, The Long Road runs from 10 …
'Get, I'm getting outta here, man, I'm getting outta here, the lines getting blurred - it's blurred - that line between normality and madness is muffled... and rah, I'm getting urges, brov.' Welcome to the world's most unusual talent contest. …
I think it's sad. A sad place. Full of sad people with fucked-up lives. And I thinks, how? How did they get there? How did they get to this? What was it? What happened that got them there? Cos you're …
View book details for Edgar Plays: 3
Teendreams; Our Own People; That Summer and Maydays
"David Edgar, like Balzac, seems to be the secretary for our times." - The GuardianThis third collection of plays by David Edgar includes Our Own People, Teendreams, Maydays and That Summer, encompassing some of his best work from the late …
View book details for Churchill Plays: 1
Owners; Traps; Vinegar Tom; Light Shining in Buckinghamshire; Cloud Nine
In Traps, a set of characters meet themselves and their pasts to create "plenty of sinewy lines and joyous juxtapostions" (Plays and Players); Vinegar Tom "is set in the world of seventeenth-century witchcraft, but it speaks, through its striking images …
And that's the moment when I leave.The moment when the jokes fail us. When I fail. I fail.This precise moment here, look, see with your ears.The Fool leaves King Lear before the blinding. Before the killing starts. Before the ice-creams …
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A Brief History
Stonehenge is one of the world's most famous monuments. Who built it, how and why are questions that have endured for at least 900 years, but modern methods of investigation are now able to offer up a completely new understanding …
Helge, the patriarch of a chain of restaurants, is celebrating his sixtieth birthday and everyone is coming home from the party including Helge's sons, Christian, Michael and his daughter Helene. Missing from the roster of invitees is Christian's twin sister, …
View book details for Sa'di in Love
The Lyrical Verses of Persia's Master Poet
'In the breath that I die, for you I'll be longing/ Wishing to turn into the dust of your belonging' - Sa'di, Expressions of Love. With poetry which speaks across the ages, Sa'di (1210-1281) is a vital classical poet and …
View book details for The Linguistic Condition
Kant's Critique of Judgment and the Poetics of Action
Providing a unique interpretation of Kant's theory of judgement as integral to his overall project, Claudia Brodsky explores his continued relevance to contemporary theoretical concerns. The Linguistic Condition traces how Kant combined sensus communis, or common sense with the communicative …
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The Elements of His Philosophy
This book is intended for the use of the candid student, devised as a monitory preparation for deeper study of the philosophy of Spinoza. By its means it is hoped that the student may avoid the chief pitfalls of Spinoza-interpretation, …
View book details for Inspired English Teaching
A Practical Guide for Teachers
What messages are you sending to your class? 55% of communication occurs through our body language, 38% from the tone, speed and inflection of our voice and a mere 7% from what we're actually saying! Inspired English Teaching will help …
Really, we don't have to keep worrying about the time, Gordon. Let's just sit here together. Okay? For a little while.London is sinking, there's constant rain, and everyone is trying to escape. Gordon, an American writer, finds himself holed up …
This comprehensive handbook combines up-to-date research - including Ofsted reports and pupil surveys - with road-tested classroom techniques to suggest how you can make your classroom a dynamic and productive learning environment. Advice is given on all aspects of history …
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Asbestos and Health in Twentieth Century America
Beyond the Factory Gates examines the issue of asbestos and health in the USA between the early 1900's to the mid-1970s. Areas covered include the emergence of medical concern about the three fatal diseases related to asbestos (asbestosis, lung cancer …
View book details for Globalisation and Interdependence in the International Political Economy
Rhetoric and Reality
Globalisation and Interdependence in the International Political Economy addresses central developments within the contemporary international system.The notions of interdependence and globalisation that have accompanied the political discourse of 'a new world disorder' are replete with definitional ambiguities, theoretical difficulties and …
View book details for Neanderthals in the Levant
Behavioural Organization and the Beginnings of Human Modernity
The volume traces the controversy that revolves around the bio-cultural relationships of Archaic (Neanderthal) and Modern humans at global and regional, Levantine scales. The focus of the book is on understanding the degree to which the behavioral organization of Archaic …
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