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East Asian Film Noir (2015)
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M. Gallagher, & C. Shin (Eds.), (2015). East Asian Film Noir

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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Lehmann Imfeld, Z., Hampson, P., & Milbank, A. (Eds.). (2015). Theology and Literature after Postmodernity. London, England: Bloomsbury T & T Clark

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.

Biaxial testing for fabrics and foils: optimizing devices and procedures (2015)
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Beccarelli, P. (2015). Biaxial testing for fabrics and foils: optimizing devices and procedures. Springer International Publishing. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-02228-4

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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O'Loughlin, T. (2015). The Eucharist: Origins and Contemporary Understandings. London, England: T. & T. Clark / Bloomsbury

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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Bradley, M. (2015). M. Bradley (Ed.), Smell and the ancient senses. Routledge

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.

German through English eyes : a history of language teaching and learning in Britain 1500-2000 (2015)
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MCLELLAND, N. (2015). German through English eyes : a history of language teaching and learning in Britain 1500-2000. Harrassowitz

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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Ling, P. (2015). Martin Luther King. (Second edition). Routledge (Taylor and Francis)

Sharing with the Gods: Aparchai and Dekatai in Ancient Greece (2014)
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JIM, T. (2014). Sharing with the Gods: Aparchai and Dekatai in Ancient Greece. Oxford: Oxford University Press. https://doi.org/10.1093/acprof%3Aoso/9780198706823.001.0001

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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Ritter, D. (2014). The Iron Cage of Liberalism: International Politics and Unarmed Revolutions in the Middle East and North Africa. Oxford University Press. https://doi.org/10.1093/acprof%3Aoso/9780199658329.001.0001

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.

ChileGlobal Seminars UK 2013-2014 (2014)
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Devilat, B., Wagemann, E., Stuardo, M., Brablec, D., & Soza, C. (Eds.). ChileGlobal Seminars UK 2013-2014

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, . (2014). P. Finglass, & M. Davies (Eds.), Stesichorus: The Poems. Cambridge University Press (CUP)

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.