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View book details for No Questions Asked
News Coverage since 9/11
No Questions Asked takes an overarching view of media coverage from the day of the 9/11 attacks through the war in Iraq. It also compares and contrasts how the U.S. media vs. international media covered key events during this period. …
In 1958, an anonymous group of overworked and under-budgeted BBC employees set out to make some new sounds for radio and TV. They ended up changing the course of 20th-century music. For millions of people, the work of the BBC …
View book details for The Endless End of Cinema
A History of Crisis and Survival in Hollywood
Film is dead! Three little words that have been heard around the world many times over the life of the cinema. Yet, some 120 years on, the old dog's ability to come up with new tricks and live another day …
View book details for Psychology of Terrorism
Coping with the Continuing Threat
Easily the most thorough treatment of terrorism's complexities on the market today is how one reviewer described the set from which this single volume is drawn: the 4-volume Psychology of Terrorism. Here, Editor Chris E. Stout presents seven classic chapters …
As a fiscal document recording the spending, taxing, and borrowing policies for the coming year, the U.S. budget continues to be a model for other nations. This book focuses on the various phases of budget making, its historical background in …
Object Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things.Air conditioning aspires to be unnoticed. Yet, by manipulating the air around us, it quietly conditions the baseline conditions of our physical, mental, and …
On Ice-T's 1991 classic O.G. Original Gangster, he introduced his all-Black hardcore band Body Count with lead guitarist Ernie C, bringing them on the first-ever Lollapalooza tour that summer. The next year, Body Count's self-titled debut album, rounded out by …
Object Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things.Glitter reveals the complexity of an object often dismissed as frivolous. Nicole Seymour describes how glitter's consumption and status have shifted across centuries-from ancient …
Our ability to live an ethical life is profoundly affected by the ethics of the organisations with which we deal and within which we operate. The Ethical Organisation focuses on the extent to which it is possible for an organization …
Sociology of the European Union examines how core sociological theories, concepts and methods can be applied to the study of the EU. Carefully integrating theory and empirical research, the book: - Explores key concepts in European studies, such as Europeanization, …
This text provides comprehensive coverage of the core elements of economic policy, from both microeconomic and macroeconomic approaches. The authors have placed policy in its historical and political context so that readers can appreciate the theoretical roots. In particular, the …
View book details for The Workings of Language
From Prescriptions to Perspectives
The essays in this book help to make sense of the workings of language in our everyday worldon the personal, local, national, and international levels. The authors are all linguists, seeking to help readers free themselves of language prejudices, thus …
Well-selected and authoritative, Hart Core Statutes provide the key materials needed by students in a format that is clear, compact and very easy to use. They are ideal for use in exams.
View book details for The Philosophy of Imagination
Technology, Art and Ethics
Combining perspectives from both continental and analytic philosophy, this timely volume explores how imagination today both shapes and is shaped by technology, art and ethics. Imagination is one of the most significant and broadly examined concepts in contemporary philosophy and …
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Lectures at the College de France, 19041905
For 15 years, Henri Bergson, the most important French philosopher of the early 20th-century, taught at the College de France. Speaking without notes, most of his classes are now lost to history, but records of a handful of courses fortuitously …
View book details for Bonhoeffer and the Responsibility for a Coming Generation
Doing Theology in a Time Out of Joint
This volume draws together a selection of high-quality presentations at the 13th International Bonhoeffer Congress held in January 2020 in Stellenbosch, South Africa. The theme of the conference was How a coming generation is to go on living? Bonhoeffer and …
View book details for The Induction of Early Childhood Educators
Retention, Needs, and Aspirations
The Induction of Early Childhood Educators presents new strategies for reducing the number of educators who are leaving the field within the first five years of work. Based on new research carried out with beginning early childhood educators in British …
View book details for The Developmental Psychology of Personal Identity
A Philosophical Perspective
Massimo Marraffa and Cristina Meini re-connect the psychology of identity with its philosophical roots in this study. They trace the contemporary problem of the self to John Locke and William James' foundational theories on personal identity. By integrating the philosophy …
View book details for On Bernard Stiegler
Philosopher of Friendship
"What I love, and those whom I love, you, that is to say us in so far as we are capable of forming a we, all this I love, and I love them, and I love you infinitely" (Bernard Steigler …
View book details for Exploring Ecolinguistics
Ecological Principles and Narrative Practices
Contributing to the rapidly emerging field of ecolinguistics, this book explores the role of language in mediating and determining our relationship with nature and in shaping attitudes and social practices in environmental areas. In doing so, it maps out research …
View book details for Zizek's The Sublime Object of Ideology
A Readers Guide
First published in 1989, The Sublime Object of Ideology was Zizek's breakthrough work, and is still regarded by many as his masterpiece. It was an iconoclastic reinvention of ideology critique that introduced the English-speaking world to Zizek's scorching brand of …
How can the study of Shakespeare contribute to equipping young people for the challenges of an uncertain future? This book argues for the necessity of a Shakespeare education that: finds meaning in the texts through inviting in the prior knowledge, …
View book details for Simon of Samaria and the Simonians
Contours of an Early Christian Movement
Who were the Simonians? Beginning in the mid-second century CE, heresiologists depicted them as licentious followers of the first gnostic, a supposedly Samarian self-deifier called Simon, who was thought to practice magic and became known as the father of all …
Object Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things.We think we know the trench coat, but where does it come from and where will it take us? From its origins in the …
View book details for Breaking into TV Writing
How to Get Your First Job, Build Your Network, and Claw Your Way Inside the Writers Room
The old screenwriting motto is, Work on your script, and the jobs will come. This is false.A great script is only as good as the effort you put into your career, but there is little information for the aspiring screenwriter …
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