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Deconstructing the Enlightenment in Spanish America: Margins of Modernity (2020)
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Sharman, A. (2020). Deconstructing the Enlightenment in Spanish America: Margins of Modernity. Cham, Switzerland: Palgrave Macmillan. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-37019-0

This book is about Enlightenment culture in Spanish America before Independence—there where, according to Hegel, one would least expect to find it. It explores texts from five cultural fields (science, history, the periodical press, law, and literatu... Read More about Deconstructing the Enlightenment in Spanish America: Margins of Modernity.

Casting Down the Host of Heaven: The Rhetoric of Ritual Failure in the Polemic Against the Host of Heaven (2020)
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Quine, C. (2020). Casting Down the Host of Heaven: The Rhetoric of Ritual Failure in the Polemic Against the Host of Heaven. Brill Academic Publishers. https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004424395

In Casting Down the Host of Heaven Cat Quine analyses the ambiguous nature of the Host and explores the role of ritual in the polemic against their worship. Although commonly assumed to be YHWH’s divine army, the book reveals their non-military and f... Read More about Casting Down the Host of Heaven: The Rhetoric of Ritual Failure in the Polemic Against the Host of Heaven.

Engaging language learners in contemporary classrooms (2020)
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Mercer, S., & Dornyei, Z. (2020). Engaging language learners in contemporary classrooms. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press (CUP)

This accessible book offers a fresh perspective on engagement, with an emphasis on how teachers can create the conditions for active engagement and the role learners can play in shaping the way they learn. Drawing on extensive theoretical knowledge,... Read More about Engaging language learners in contemporary classrooms.

Peasant Perspectives on the Medieval Landscape: A study of three communities (2020)
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Kilby, S. (2020). Peasant Perspectives on the Medieval Landscape: A study of three communities. University of Hertfordshire Press

This compelling new study forms part of a new wave of scholarship on the medieval rural environment in which the focus moves beyond purely socio-economic concerns to incorporate the lived experience of peasants. For too long, the principal intellectu... Read More about Peasant Perspectives on the Medieval Landscape: A study of three communities.

"L'Apocalypse déçoit", Blanchot, Derrida, Levinas, Penser le désastre à l'ère atomique (2020)
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GILONNE, Y. (2020). "L'Apocalypse déçoit", Blanchot, Derrida, Levinas, Penser le désastre à l'ère atomique. Paris: L'Harmattan

Cet ouvrage questionne le concept de déception. Le nucléaire a en effet emporté jusqu'à l'idée de fondement, exposant la raison à l'effondrement de son principe et subvertissant le programme rationnel de la modernité. La raison semble alors incapable... Read More about "L'Apocalypse déçoit", Blanchot, Derrida, Levinas, Penser le désastre à l'ère atomique.

Innovations and challenges in language learning motivation (2020)
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Dornyei, Z. (2020). Innovations and challenges in language learning motivation. Routledge

Innovations and Challenges in Language Learning Motivation provides a cutting-edge perspective on the latest challenges and innovations in language learning motivation, incorporating numerous examples and cases in mainstream psychology and in the fie... Read More about Innovations and challenges in language learning motivation.

Public opinion and twentieth-century diplomacy: a global perspective (2020)
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Hucker, D. (2020). Public opinion and twentieth-century diplomacy: a global perspective. London: Bloomsbury Academic

Public Opinion and 20th-Century Diplomacy explores both the influence of public opinion on diplomatic decision making in international history, and its emergence as a legitimate field of study for international historians. The book uses five case... Read More about Public opinion and twentieth-century diplomacy: a global perspective.

Reflective teaching in higher education (2020)
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McLean, M., Ashwin, P., Boud, D., Coate, K., Hallet, F., Calkins, S., …Tooher, M. (2020). Reflective teaching in higher education. London: Bloomsbury Publishing

Reflective Teaching in Higher Education is the definitive textbook for those wanting to excel at teaching in the sector. Informed by the latest research in this area, the book offers extensive support for those at the start of an academic career and... Read More about Reflective teaching in higher education.

Ancient Relativity: Plato, Aristotle, Stoics, and Sceptics (2020)
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Duncombe, M. (2020). Ancient Relativity: Plato, Aristotle, Stoics, and Sceptics. Oxford University Press (OUP). https://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198846185.001.0001

In Ancient Relativity Matthew Duncombe explores how ancient philosophers, particularly Plato, Aristotle, the Stoics, and Sextus Empiricus, understood the phenomenon and how their theories of relativity affected, and were affected by, their broader ph... Read More about Ancient Relativity: Plato, Aristotle, Stoics, and Sceptics.

¿Agonía o transformación? El carlismo en la literatura española, 1876-1912 (2020)
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Roberts, S. ¿Agonía o transformación? El carlismo en la literatura española, 1876-1912. Pamplona: Gobierno de Navarra

This is the Catalogue that accompanied the exhibition of the same title that Stephen Roberts curated at the Museo del Carlismo in Estella (Navarra, Spain) between October 2019 and June 2020. Roberts wrote the introduction (44 pages) and the 30 panels... Read More about ¿Agonía o transformación? El carlismo en la literatura española, 1876-1912.

Theology of Wagner's Ring Cycle I: The Genesis and Development of the Tetralogy and the Appropriation of Sources, Artists, Philosophers, and Theologians (2020)
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Bell, R. (2020). Theology of Wagner's Ring Cycle I: The Genesis and Development of the Tetralogy and the Appropriation of Sources, Artists, Philosophers, and Theologians. Eugene, Oregon: Wipf & Stock

Considers how Wagner's Ring Cycle developed over its 26 year composition and how the composer appropriated his sources. The aim is to uncover the theology implicit in the artwork.

Theology of Wagner's Ring Cycle II: Theological and Ethical Issues (2020)
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Bell, R. H. (2020). Theology of Wagner's Ring Cycle II: Theological and Ethical Issues. Eugene, OR: Wipf & Stock

This considers thematically the theological and ethical issued raised in the Ring cycle. Central to the argument are the Jesus of Nazareth sketches the composer wrote as he embarked on his Ring cycle project.

Buddhist Responses to Christianity in Postwar Taiwan: Awakening the World (2020)
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Pacey, S. (2020). Buddhist Responses to Christianity in Postwar Taiwan: Awakening the World. Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press

After the Communist victory in China's civil war, Taiwan, then governed by the KMT (or Nationalist Party), became a focal point for both Buddhist and Christian activity in the Chinese world. Focusing on some of the most influential monastics of the t... Read More about Buddhist Responses to Christianity in Postwar Taiwan: Awakening the World.

Classroom talk: evidence-based teaching for enquiring teachers (2020)
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Knight, R. (2020). V. Poultney (Ed.), Classroom talk: evidence-based teaching for enquiring teachers. Critical Publishing

A concise summary of the theoretical principles behind talk in school and brief mapping of the research tradition in this field. It examines the evidence relating to a variety of forms of classroom talk, including; whole school culture and or... Read More about Classroom talk: evidence-based teaching for enquiring teachers.