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By: Dr. Michael Marder

ISBN: 9780826420725
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Jan 2012
Publisher: Continuum Publishing Corporation
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Radical political thought of the 20th century was dominated by utopia, but the failure of communism in Eastern Europe and its disavowal in China has brought on the need for a new model of utopian thought. This book thus seeks to redefine the concept of utopia and bring it to bear on today's politics.


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By: Dr Duncan S. Ferguson

ISBN: 9781441146458
Readership/Audience: Professional and Scholarly
Publication Date: Jun 2010
Publisher: Continuum Publishing Corporation
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Presents an introduction to the spiritual pathways of the major world religions, exploring the core beliefs, values and practices of each tradition. Discussing contemporary issues such as post-modernism and the emergence of a 'new paradigm', this book explores the importance of religion in people's lives to provide direction in the society.


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By: Dr Duncan S. Ferguson

ISBN: 9781441187376
Readership/Audience: Professional and Scholarly
Publication Date: Jun 2010
Publisher: Continuum Publishing Corporation
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Presents an introduction to the spiritual pathways of the major world religions, exploring the core beliefs, values and practices of each tradition. Discussing contemporary issues such as post-modernism and the emergence of a 'new paradigm', this book explores the importance of religion in people's lives to provide direction in the society.


(Paperback)

By: Dr Daniel Raveh

ISBN: 9781441122124
Readership/Audience: Professional and Scholarly
Publication Date: Mar 2012
Publisher: Continuum Publishing Corporation
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Patanjali's "Yogasutra" is an ancient canonic Indian text composed in Sanskrit in the 3rd or 4th century. This title offers a philosophical exploration of the "Yogasutra", looking at themes of freedom, self-identity, time and transcendence, and translation - between languages, cultures and eras.


(Hardback)

By: Dr Daniel Raveh

ISBN: 9781441146229
Readership/Audience: Professional and Scholarly
Publication Date: Mar 2012
Publisher: Continuum Publishing Corporation
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Patanjali's "Yogasutra" is an ancient canonic Indian text composed in Sanskrit in the 3rd or 4th century. This title offers a philosophical exploration of the "Yogasutra", looking at themes of freedom, self-identity, time and transcendence, and translation - between languages, cultures and eras.


(Hardback)

By: Dr. A. J. Tebble

ISBN: 9780826435996
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Jul 2010
Publisher: Continuum Publishing Corporation
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Volume 13 in the Major Conservative and Libertarian thinkers series focuses on F.A. Hayek, the influential member of the Austrian School of Economics. >


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By: Professor Stephen R. Rock

ISBN: 9780826423207
Readership/Audience: Professional and Scholarly
Publication Date: Jun 2011
Publisher: Continuum Publishing Corporation
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Examines how the attitudes and preferences of various Christian groups in the United States can influence US foreign policy with specific examples. This book highlights how religious leaders, organizations, and believers can influence - and have influenced - the general direction of US foreign policy and specific policy decisions.


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By: Professor Stephen R. Rock

ISBN: 9780826420305
Readership/Audience: Professional and Scholarly
Publication Date: Jun 2011
Publisher: Continuum Publishing Corporation
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Examines how the attitudes and preferences of various Christian groups in the United States can influence US foreign policy with specific examples. This book highlights how religious leaders, organizations, and believers can influence - and have influenced - the general direction of US foreign policy and specific policy decisions.


(Paperback, NIPPOD)

By: Dr Jo Cairns

ISBN: 9781441197900
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Oct 2011
Publisher: Continuum Publishing Corporation
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Do faith schools have a place in a plural society Which types of school contribute most effectively to a plural society This title intends to answer these questions and more by exploring the fit between personal, spiritual and academic goals in contemporary educational experience and individual school cultures.


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By: Professor Ray Laurence

ISBN: 9781441139276
Readership/Audience: Professional and Scholarly
Publication Date: Dec 2011
Publisher: Continuum Publishing Corporation
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The family has been recognised in the ancient world as the key social institution on which both society and the state are based. This title offers approaches to the study of the family in antiquity. It also includes approaches to social institutions, depictions of women and children, the Seleucid dynasty as a negative model of family, and more.


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By: Professor Mary Harlow

ISBN: 9781441174680
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Dec 2011
Publisher: Continuum Publishing Corporation
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Offers approaches to the understanding of the Roman family and its transformation in late antiquity. This book seeks to explain developments within the structure of the family in antiquity, in particular in the later Roman Empire and late antiquity.


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By: Dr Kyle Scott

ISBN: 9781441177148
Readership/Audience: Professional and Scholarly
Publication Date: Jun 2011
Publisher: Continuum Publishing Corporation
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Drawing on thinkers such as Montesquieu, Plato, Aristotle, and Althusius, as well as on real world examples, this book offers a fresh approach and contribution to the study of federalism that may interest students in government and intergovernmental relations, federalism, political theory, American politics, and comparative politics.


(Hardback)

By: Dr Kyle Scott

ISBN: 9781441197641
Readership/Audience: Professional and Scholarly
Publication Date: Jun 2011
Publisher: Continuum Publishing Corporation
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Drawing on thinkers such as Montesquieu, Plato, Aristotle, and Althusius, as well as on real world examples, this book offers a fresh approach and contribution to the study of federalism that may interest students in government and intergovernmental relations, federalism, political theory, American politics, and comparative politics.


(Hardback)

By: Tarja Laine

ISBN: 9781441168153
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Dec 2011
Publisher: Continuum Publishing Corporation
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A study of cinematic emotions, highlighting the relationship between spectator and film. Divided into chapters including Love, Hate, Shame and Fear, it proposes a methodology for interpreting affective encounters with films, not as objectively readable texts, but as emotionally salient events.


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By: Amy-Jill Levine

ISBN: 9780826463333
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jun 2002
Publisher: Continuum Publishing Corporation
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By: Amy-Jill Levine

ISBN: 9780826463364
Readership/Audience: Professional and Scholarly
Publication Date: Sep 2003
Publisher: Continuum Publishing Corporation
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The seventh volume of this companion series is devoted to the writings ascribed to Paul but widely thought not to be genuinely from the Apostle. These are of particular importance in showing how Paul's authority was exploited in the early Church.


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By: Dr Alexandra L. Shuford

ISBN: 9781441195869
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Oct 2011
Publisher: Continuum Publishing Corporation
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A monograph combining the innovation of American pragmatism with the vision of feminist epistemologies and exploring common ground between the two fields. It considers two equally formidable approaches theorized by Louise Antony and Lynn Hankinson Nelson.


(Hardback, 4th edition)

By: Professor Josephine Donovan

ISBN: 9781441163653
Readership/Audience: Professional and Scholarly
Publication Date: Jun 2012
Publisher: Continuum Publishing Corporation
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What is feminism What does it mean This title provides answers to the questions, outlining the various strands of feminist theory: liberal, cultural, Marxist-socialist, Freudian, and radical.


(Paperback, 4th edition)

By: Professor Josephine Donovan

ISBN: 9781441168306
Readership/Audience: Professional and Scholarly
Publication Date: Jun 2012
Publisher: Continuum Publishing Corporation
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What is feminism What does it mean This title provides answers to the questions, outlining the various strands of feminist theory: liberal, cultural, Marxist-socialist, Freudian, and radical.


(Paperback)

By: Aaron Kerner

ISBN: 9781441124180
Readership/Audience: Professional and Scholarly
Publication Date: Jul 2011
Publisher: Continuum Publishing Corporation
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When representing the Holocaust, the slightest hint of narrative embellishment strikes contemporary audiences as somehow a violation against those who suffered under the Nazis. This book surveys and discusses the ways in which the Holocaust has been represented in cinema, covering a deep cross-section of both national cinemas and genres.


(Hardback)

By: Aaron Kerner

ISBN: 9781441170927
Readership/Audience: Professional and Scholarly
Publication Date: Jul 2011
Publisher: Continuum Publishing Corporation
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When representing the Holocaust, the slightest hint of narrative embellishment strikes contemporary audiences as somehow a violation against those who suffered under the Nazis. This book surveys and discusses the ways in which the Holocaust has been represented in cinema, covering a deep cross-section of both national cinemas and genres.


(Paperback, NIPPOD)

By: Revd Dr Steve Nolan

ISBN: 9781441133151
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Oct 2011
Publisher: Continuum Publishing Corporation
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Proposes an interpretive strategy by which religious film-analysts can develop the kind of analysis that engages with and critiques both cultural and religious practice.


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By: Gilda Socarras

ISBN: 9781441134080
Readership/Audience: Professional and Scholarly
Publication Date: Apr 2011
Publisher: Continuum Publishing Corporation
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Provides insight on the acquisition of functional categories within the Minimalist Framework. This book examines the availability of Determiner Phrases in the grammar of young children acquiring Spanish as a first language. It addresses the language acquisition debate between the continuity and discontinuity hypothesis.


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By: Laurence Freeman

ISBN: 9781441161574
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jan 2011
Publisher: Continuum Publishing Corporation
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God for the author is not a funk hole or an oxygen tank. We cannot escape the realities of our lives by swallowing pills or lying on a psychiatrist's couch. The author believes that society can be transformed by the transformation of the hearts and minds of ordinary mortals, who do not have to be cloistered behind monastic walls.

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