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An exploration of London and gothic representation in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries through a variety of media.

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Presents the analysis of the representation of London in post-war fiction from Iris Murdoch to Zadie Smith, exploring the literary re-imagining of the city in post-war fiction and arguing that the image, history, and narrative of the city has been transformed alongside the physical rebuilding and repositioning of the capital.

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From the early years of the nineteenth century, cultural pessimists imagined in fiction the political forces that might bring about the destruction of London. This title provides a reading of the popular fiction of London historicized in its political and cultural contexts.

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Thomas Babington Macaulay's "History of England from the Accession of James II" was his masterwork and one of the great enduring classics of English historical writing. This book presents an introduction to Maculey's major work.

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An account of the current difficulties in education and employment, offering positive strategies for future policy. It explains how what sometimes appears to be an almost terminal crisis in schools, colleges and universities is related to the relationship between young people, educational qualifications and employment in the early 21st century.

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Offers a critique of rationalism in contemporary American thought by recovering a lost tradition of intimacy in the writings of Thoreau, Bugbee, James, Arendt, Dickinson, Fuller, Wilshire and Cavell. This title focuses on a number of American philosophers whose work overlaps the religious and the literary.

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Explores three novels by Louise Erdrich, one of the important and popular Native American writers. This book illuminates Erdrich's multiperspectival representation of Native American culture and history. It focuses on such topics as humor, religion, ethnicity, gender, race, sexuality, trauma, history, and narrative form.

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Explores three novels by Louise Erdrich, one of the important and popular Native American writers. This book illuminates Erdrich's multiperspectival representation of Native American culture and history. It focuses on such topics as humor, religion, ethnicity, gender, race, sexuality, trauma, history, and narrative form.

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Traditionally, religious belief has in the philosophy of religion been understood along more or less epistemological lines. This title argues for an understanding of religious belief as love of a God of love, thereby over-turning traditional epistemologically based conceptions of religious belief.

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There is a seismic shift necessary from being religious to being a true disciple. It is an abiding sorrow to the author that many faithful religious people, even regular church goers, understand so little of the great truths they so sincerely profess to believe, especially among young people. This title presents the contemplative's perspective.

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How do religious groups deal with the failure of their prophecy This book presents an ethnographic study of the Lubavitcher movement, and a socio-psychological examination of Lubavitcher messianism.

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An innovative study of the thought and writings of Jean-Francois Lyotard in relation to contemporary art and in particular performance art.

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Focuses on Shakespeare's reception by figures in Victorian theatre. This book offers a systematic account of those figures who have had the greatest influence on the interpretation, understanding and cultural reception of Shakespeare, both nationally and internationally.

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A reconsideration of a major and popular genre influenced by the thought of the significant French philosopher Gilles Deleuze.

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Magic is usually defined as a non-modern phenomenon, contrasted with modern rationalism and science. However, the idea of magic has remained persistent in scholarly discourse throughout history from the Middle Ages to the Enlightenment and beyond. This title explores how the notion of magic is articulated and theorised in the writing of history.

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At a time of tea parties and rallies to restore sanity, the political debate in America has become nothing more than a shouting match of various soundbites. This book presents the conservative and liberal arguments related to the economic issues faced by the Obama administration, including market regulation and green economy.

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At a time of tea parties and rallies to restore sanity, the political debate in America has become nothing more than a shouting match of various soundbites. This book presents the conservative and liberal arguments related to the economic issues faced by the Obama administration, including market regulation and green economy.

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A study of the 19th century French poet and critic Stephane Mallarme. It presents Mallarme as neither an aesthete in need of rare essences and unheard-of words, nor the silent and nocturnal thinker of some poem too pure to be written.

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Offers a research based approach to understanding literacy as a process and a social practice, drawing on the philosophy of Gilles Dilleuze. This title brings together theory and research in the fields of literacy study and European philosophy through a synthesis of Multiple Literacies Theory (MLT) and the philosophical work of Gilles Deleuze.

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Discussing the work of Thomas Hardy, Richard Jefferies, John Cowper Powys and Mary Butts, this title maps various districts of the 'west country' to redefine the 'parochial'; while being keenly aware of their own status as natives locked into complex histories of self-exile and return, estrangement and ardent identification.

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Considers four regional writers and their complex relationship with concepts of space and place at a time of seismic social change.

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Explores the study of literature and literary history in light of global changes, looking at what defines world literature in the 21st century. Surveying ideas of literature from Goethe onwards, the author devises a compelling concept of literary constellations.

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Provides an introduction to the Roman Emperor Marcus Aurelius Antoninus. This is a guide for understanding this Stoic author - the only philosopher who was also an emperor.

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Provides an introduction to the Roman Emperor Marcus Aurelius Antoninus. This title presents an exploration of the life and philosophical reflections of this complex Stoic philosopher and Roman emperor.