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View book details for 'Economy' in European History
Words, Contexts and Change over Time
Prompted by the 'linguistic turn' of the late 20th century, intellectual and conceptual historians continue to devote a great deal of attention to the study of concepts in history. This innovative and interdisciplinary volume builds on such scholarship by providing …
Enmity between individuals was an ubiquitious phenomenon in the ancient world. Using the method of legal anthropology this book examines patterns of hate-driven feuding in kinship-based and segmentary societies and applies these insights to biblical law. It defines the fundamental …
View book details for Constructing Race on the Borders of Europe
Ethnography, Anthropology, and Visual Culture, 1850-1930
Constructing Race on the Borders of Europe investigates the visual imagery of race construction in Scandinavia, Austro Hungary, Germany, and Russia. It covers a period when historic disciplines of ethnography and anthropology were expanding and theorists of race were debating …
View book details for Images of War in Contemporary Art
Terror and Conflict in the Mass Media
In Images of War in Contemporary Art, Uros Cvoro and Kit Messham-Muir mount a challenge to the dominance of theoretical tropes of trauma, affect, and emotion that have determined how we think of images of war and terror for the …
View book details for Subjectivity and Social Change in Higher Education
A Collaborative Arts-Based Narrative
Informed by Deleuze and Guattari's concepts of the assemblage and the wound-event, this book examines the complexity of educator subjectivity and social change within the higher education context in South Africa. The authors use arts-based methods to explore educators' experiences …
View book details for 1 Corinthians
A Commentary
This volume presents, in published form, the detailed commentary work of E. Earle Ellis on Paul's first letter to the Corinthians. At the time of his death Ellis had been working for many years on a volume for the International …
This is the first study of anti-discrimination law as it applies to housing law in Europe. It offers an important perspective in a field dominated by employment law studies, while drawing on concepts significant in that field as well. Legislative …
View book details for Trish Arnold
The Legacy of Her Movement Training for Actors
'All you have is yourself, no words, no script in hand, no music to dance to, nothing to hide behind. It was just me the pure expression of my desire.'Trish Arnold (1918-2017) was a pioneer in the field of movement. …
View book details for Care-Based Methodologies
Reimagining Qualitative Research with Youth in US Schools
Care-Based Methodologies reimagines relationships between researchers and youth participants in school-based research. The book calls attention to care-based methodologies as essential to qualitative and ethnographic research in schools, particularly when participants are youth from nondominant communities. While researchers come to …
View book details for Plays by Paco Bezerra: Cutting-Edge Spanish Theatre
Grooming; Lord Ye Loves Dragons; Lulu; I Die for I Die Not
This vital anthology includes fresh translations of four of Paco Bezerra's plays in one edited collection for the first time in English. Winner of the National Literary Drama Award in 2009 and the Calderon de la Barca Theatre Drama Prize …
View book details for On Femininities in the Song of Songs and Beyond
The Most Beautiful Woman
Vita Daphna Arbel uses critical theories of gender to offer an alternative reading of the multilayered conceptualization of the Song of Song's feminine protagonist: the most beautiful woman. Arbel treats the most beautiful woman as a culturally constructed and performed …
View book details for Question of Truth
Christianity and Homosexuality
Many Christians accept that 'homosexual acts are wrong' on the authority of the Church. For many others such teaching contradicts what they know to be the obvious truth. In this book Gareth Moore closely and dispassionately examines the bases of …
How unfair', wrote one national newspaper in 1951, 'that accomplishments enough to satisfy the pride of six men should be united in Mr Day-Lewis.' Poet, translator of classical texts, novelist, detective writer (under the pen-name Nicholas Blake), performer and, at …
View book details for Secularisation
Compact edition
"Dr Norman thinks we are turning the Last Supper into a self-help group." "Do not read it if you are complacent, if you think the Church is not in a state of crisis or if you do not like to …
View book details for Prehistoric Pictures and American Modernism
Abstract Art at MoMA 1937-1939
In April 1937, the Museum of Modern Art in New York hosted an exhibition that served as a catalyst for the appropriation of prehistoric rock art in postwar abstract painting. With the title "Prehistoric Rock Pictures in Europe and Africa", …
View book details for Newman's Unquiet Grave
The Reluctant Saint
John Henry Newman was the most eminent English-speaking Christian thinker and writer of the past two hundred years. James Joyce hailed him the 'greatest' prose stylist of the Victorian age.A problematic campaign to canonise Newman started fifty years ago. After …
Finalist for the Susan Smith Blackburn Prize 2023I can imagine myself in the future looking back on this all.And looking back I can feel when the fire was lit.Fifteen-year-old Roxy is burning. Lost somewhere between the bonfire of girlhood and …
When a young child loses a tooth, it's time for the detective work to begin! Can he crack the case and find out where the tooth fairy comes from? It's a brand new day for one young hero as he …
Canada as a Settler Colony on the Question of Palestine explores Canada-Palestine relations through a settler colonial lens. The authors argue that there are direct parallels between Canadas settler colonial project and its support for the Israeli settler colonial dispossession …
View book details for Peanut Butter and Pandemonium
Book 2 in the Mythic Adventures of Samuel Templeton
"Fun, original, and unreservedly recommended" - Midwest Book Review On Goat Loops, in the realm of Niff, Sam learns a scary new truth about the Son of the Solstice prophecy, one his long-absent mother had neglected to tell him. Not …
View book details for Military Culture Shift
The Impact of War, Money, and Generational Perspective on Morale, Retention, and Leadership
A guide to understanding and leading today's US military force.Significant shifts in military culture have created a complex set of challenges, impacting morale and motivation, recruitment and retention, and program participation. Military Culture Shift presents the story of US military …
In this exciting addition to Bloomsbury's Short Histories series, Steven Leonard Jacobs critically yet concisely examines the history of Judaism and the Jewish people, drawing from maps, photographs and archives to illuminate the history of one of the world's oldest …
'Look - they're fading. Those liars. Dissolving . . . It's the end of their world . . . The birth of a new one . . . Our one . . . Our world.' It's Mother's Day and mother …
View book details for Armenians in the Byzantine Empire
Identity, Assimilation and Alienation from 867 to 1098
Armenians in the Byzantine Empire is a new study exploring the relationship between the Armenians and Byzantines from the ninth through eleventh centuries. Utilising primary sources from multiple traditions, the evidence is clear that until the eleventh century Armenian migrants …
View book details for Sex and Violence in 1920s Scotland
Incest, Rape, Lewd and Libidinous Practices, 1918-1930
Using case records of prosecutions at the Scottish High Court of Justiciary between 1918 and 1930, this book takes a quantitative and qualitative approach to understand sexual violence in Scotland at this time. Analysing legal records alongside victim and witness …
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