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Squid Squad: A Novel (2020)
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In Squid Squad: A Novel we join Natalie Chatterley, Angus Mingus, Nerys Harris and friends as they make recordings of the doorbell, uncrumple their cash and fling their walnuts from the window. They contemplate the spaces between the spaces between t... Read More about Squid Squad: A Novel.
Authorship as Promotional Discourse in the Screen Industries: Selling Genius (2020)
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This book discusses the use of authorship discourses and author figures in the promotion and marketing of media content, dealing with the U.S. mainstream media, including franchise film, network television, and triple-A video games. The research t... Read More about Authorship as Promotional Discourse in the Screen Industries: Selling Genius.
Keeping time (2020)
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Deconstructing the Enlightenment in Spanish America: Margins of Modernity (2020)
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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.
Fictional Discourse: A Radical Fictionalist Semantics (2020)
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Predelli, S. (2020). Fictional Discourse: A Radical Fictionalist Semantics. Oxford University Press. https://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198854128.001.0001This book defends a Radical Fictionalist Semantics for fictional discourse. Focusing on proper names as prototypical devices of reference, it argues that fictional names are only fictionally proper names, and that, as a result, fictional sentences do... Read More about Fictional Discourse: A Radical Fictionalist Semantics.
Casting Down the Host of Heaven: The Rhetoric of Ritual Failure in the Polemic Against the Host of Heaven (2020)
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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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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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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.
Innovations and challenges in language learning motivation (2020)
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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.
"L'Apocalypse déçoit", Blanchot, Derrida, Levinas, Penser le désastre à l'ère atomique (2020)
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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.
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 PublishingReflective 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.
Public opinion and twentieth-century diplomacy: a global perspective (2020)
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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.
Ancient Relativity: Plato, Aristotle, Stoics, and Sceptics (2020)
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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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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 II: Theological and Ethical Issues (2020)
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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.
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.
Buddhist Responses to Christianity in Postwar Taiwan: Awakening the World (2020)
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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.
Butrint 5: Life and Death at a Mediterranean Port: the non-ceramic finds from the Triconch Palace (2019)
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Bowden, W., Beatrice, J., Fenton, T., Foran, D., Giorgi, J., Isaac, C., …Westoby, J. (2019). Butrint 5: Life and Death at a Mediterranean Port: the non-ceramic finds from the Triconch Palace. Oxford: Oxbow BooksThis is the second volume arising from the 1994-2003 excavations of the Triconch Palace at Butrint (Albania), which charted the history of a major Mediterranean waterfront site from the 2nd to the 15th centuries AD. The sequence (published as Butrint... Read More about Butrint 5: Life and Death at a Mediterranean Port: the non-ceramic finds from the Triconch Palace.
Death in Mycenaean Laconia: A Silent Place (2019)
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A Silent Place: Death in Mycenaean Lakonia is the first book-length systematic study of the Late Bronze Age (LBA) burial tradition in south-eastern Peloponnese, Greece, and the first to comprehensively present and discuss all Mycenaean tombs and fune... Read More about Death in Mycenaean Laconia: A Silent Place.