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A timely and important collection of essays examining Merleau-Ponty's interrogation of the limits of philosophy.

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Continuum's Guides for the Perplexed are clear, concise and accessible introductions to thinkers, writers and subjects that students and readers can find especially challenging. Concentrating specifically on what it is that makes the subject difficult to fathom, these books explain and explore key themes and ideas, guiding the reader towards a thorough understanding of demanding material.

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Demonstrates how Ondaatje's multisensory, fluid and historically inflected writing can forge an intimately embodied, ethically responsible and politically enabling relationship between audience, author and text. This title investigates the political potential of the Canadian author's aesthetics.

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Michel Henry (1922-2002) was a French philosopher and novelist, whose work spanned decades and genres while remaining united by a singular vision. This title offers an examination of Michel Henry's important contributions to phenomenology, theology, politics and aesthetics, featuring contributions from an international list of scholars.

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Explores the comparative histories and geographies of militarized landscapes. Ranging from the Korean DMZ to nuclear testing sites in the American West, and from Gettysburg to Salisbury Plain, this title focuses on these often secretive, hidden, dangerous and invariably controversial sites that occupy huge swathes of national territories.

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The American Milton Friedman (1912-2006) was the leader of the Chicago School of monetary economics. An unofficial advisor to Ronald Reagan, he promoted a free market economy with little intervention from the government. This title is part of the "Major Conservative and Libertarian Thinkers" series.

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Using the work of John Milton and his conflict between good and evil, this title shows how we read literary history according to quite specific images of growth, development, progression, flourishing and succession.

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Looks beyond the stereotypes to the hard logic of the 1990s, and asks a range of provocative questions about the disintegration of the old Soviet empire and the extraordinary riches that have caused so much opportunity and turmoil over the years.

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Offers a constructive appraisal of the relationship between secular development and Christian mission, demonstrating the opportunities and problems associated with the work of faith-based organisations. This book considers the implications, consequences, opportunities and constraints faced when mission and development endeavours coincide.

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While most treatments of biblical metaphor examine individual metaphors in isolation, Sarah J. Dille presents a model for interpretation based on their interaction with one another.

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A new approach to discourse analysis that is both grammar-based and oriented towards text as process.

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Christianity and cultural aspirations are inevitably in tension: the combination invites a suspicion that temporal pursuits have slackened a quest for divine approbation. This text explores this tension in the context of modern Britain and America, in 15 original essays.

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Presents an original theoretical system to explain and contrast modernism and postmodernism.

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Presents an original theoretical system to explain and contrast modernism and postmodernism.

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A historical overview that explains what modernist literature was by taking the reader through the major figures, ideas and movements, focusing particularly on the core years of 1890-1930 but also looking before to Modernism's influences and precursors and beyond to its continuation and legacy.

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A historical overview explains what modernist literature was by taking the reader through the major figures, ideas and movements, focusing particularly on the core years of 1890-1930 but also looking before to Modernism's influences and precursors and beyond to its continuation and legacy.

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Establishes a two-way interpretive methodology between theory, history, and geography and the novel that serves as the groundwork for interdisciplinary readings of monumental space.

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Explores the intersection of philosophy of religion and moral philosophy. This book suggests ways of thinking about moral philosophy in its under-explored but potentially very fruitful encounter with philosophy of religion.

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Presents an introduction to philosophical ethics for film lovers. This book uses a series of popular films, including "Hotel Rwanda", "Casablanca", "Citizen Kane", "A Clockwork Orange", "Dead Man Walking" and "Full Metal Jacket", to illustrate major ethical theories and key contemporary moral issues.

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Argues the practical benefits for public policy of a rigorous experimentalist approach to applying moral theory. This book surveys the uses of practical philosophy and answers criticisms of the approach, presenting a number of areas in which philosophers' intellectual efforts can prove valuable for resolving public conflicts.

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Covers derivational and compound word formation in English morphology in depth, using a cognitive linguistics semantic framework.

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Covers derivational and compound word formation in English morphology in depth, using a cognitive linguistics semantic framework.

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The first full-length scholarly study of Morrissey's career - as a writer, performer, and troublemaker.

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Did 1st century Mediterranean readers of the fourth Gospel have comparable literary examples to inform their comprehension of Moses as a character This study analyses the character of Moses as used in the text of the fourth Gospel, and examines other Hellenistic narrative texts.