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The education of radical democracy (2015)
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Exploring examples of projects from the nineteenth century to the present day, the book sheds light on a wealth of critical tools, research studies, theoretical concepts and practical methods. It offers a critical reading of the ‘crisis of hope’ in n... Read More about The education of radical democracy.

Promotional screen industries (2015)
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East Asian Film Noir (2015)
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Film noir has been understood as a genre exclusive to Hollywood. But classical US noir's downbeat sensibility also finds expression in later films from Japan, South Korea and China (including Hong Kong) and Taiwan, that have both participated in and... Read More about East Asian Film Noir.

Theology and Literature after Postmodernity (2015)
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This volume deploys theology in a reconstructive approach to contemporary literary criticism, to validate and exemplify theological readings of literary texts as a creative exercise. It engages in a dialogue with interdisciplinary approaches to liter... Read More about Theology and Literature after Postmodernity.

The Cuban embargo under international law: El Bloqueo (2015)
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Biaxial testing for fabrics and foils: optimizing devices and procedures (2015)
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This book offers a well-structured, critical review of current design practice for tensioned membrane structures, including a detailed analysis of the experimental data required and critical issues relating to the lack of a set of design codes and te... Read More about Biaxial testing for fabrics and foils: optimizing devices and procedures.

The Eucharist: Origins and Contemporary Understandings (2015)
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Theological reflection upon the Eucharist is dominated by two paradigms: One approach interprets the Eucharist almost exclusively in theological terms, shaped by Scholasticism and the Reformation. Most discussions about the nature of the Eucharist, E... Read More about The Eucharist: Origins and Contemporary Understandings.

Smell and the ancient senses (2015)
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From flowers and perfumes to urban sanitation and personal hygiene, smell—a sense that is simultaneously sublime and animalistic—has played a pivotal role in western culture and thought. Greek and Roman writers and thinkers lost no opportunity to con... Read More about Smell and the ancient senses.

Europe's changing woods and forests (2015)
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German through English eyes : a history of language teaching and learning in Britain 1500-2000 (2015)
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McLelland's pioneering study charts the history of foreign language learning and teaching in the UK over five centuries (1500-2000), taking German as her case study. From the first grammar of German for English speakers, published in 1680, McLelland... Read More about German through English eyes : a history of language teaching and learning in Britain 1500-2000.

Martin Luther King (2015)
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The Transformation and Decline of the British Empire (2015)
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Adult education policy and the European Union: theoretical and methodological perspectives (2014)
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Sharing with the Gods: Aparchai and Dekatai in Ancient Greece (2014)
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This book provides a comprehensive account of the offering all over the Greek world of so-called ‘first-fruits’ (aparchai) and ‘tithes’ (dekatai) from the Archaic to the Hellenistic period (c. 700 to 31 B.C.). Existing studies of Greek religion tend... Read More about Sharing with the Gods: Aparchai and Dekatai in Ancient Greece.

The Iron Cage of Liberalism: International Politics and Unarmed Revolutions in the Middle East and North Africa (2014)
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Revolutions no longer stand to be recognized. In contrast to the processes of political and social change spearheaded—and romanticized—by revolutionaries like Lenin and Mao, contemporary revolutions no longer require violent struggle in order to secu... Read More about The Iron Cage of Liberalism: International Politics and Unarmed Revolutions in the Middle East and North Africa.

Rumour and Radiation: Sound in Video Art (2014)
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This is a book about video art, and about sound art. The thesis is that sound first entered the gallery via the video art of the 1960s and in so doing, created an unexpected noise. The early part of the book looks at this formative period and the... Read More about Rumour and Radiation: Sound in Video Art.

Routledge handbook of political corruption (2014)
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Since the early 1990s, a series of major scandals in both the financial and most especially the political world has resulted in close attention being paid to the issue of corruption and its links to political legitimacy and stability. Indeed, in many... Read More about Routledge handbook of political corruption.

ChileGlobal Seminars UK 2013-2014 (2014)
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This book gathers the presentations given at the ChileGlobal Seminars UK since its creation in 2013 until 2014 in London. ChileGlobal Seminars UK is a series of seminars organised by Chileans studying and/or working in the UK with the support of Chil... Read More about ChileGlobal Seminars UK 2013-2014.

Stesichorus: The Poems (2014)
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Stesichorus' lyric poetry vividly recreates the most dramatic episodes of Greek myth: the labours of Heracles, the sack of Troy, the vengeance of Orestes, and more besides. It can be appreciated today as never before, thanks to the recent discovery o... Read More about Stesichorus: The Poems.

Ireland, memory and performing the historical imagination (2014)
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