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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.

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Through an interdisciplinary approach that combines critical sociolinguistic ethnography, multi-modality, reflexivity, and discourse analysis, this book reveals the multiple (and sometimes simultaneous) ways in which individuals engage and invest in representations of languages and identities.

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Through an interdisciplinary approach that combines critical sociolinguistic ethnography, multi-modality, reflexivity, and discourse analysis, this book reveals the multiple (and sometimes simultaneous) ways in which individuals engage and invest in representations of languages and identities.

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Examines the dynamics of a multilingual planet, offering us a snapshot of a globalized society. This book examines lingua francas, pidgins, creoles and artificial languages on the way to developing a snapshot of the social life of language. It also asks: How far a role does translation play in helping multilingualism to thrive

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Multilingualism is everywhere in a globalized society. This book looks at its consequences, from the development of multilingual communities to language competition and variation. This title examines the dynamics of a multilingual planet, offering us a snapshot of a globalized society.

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An overview of the new developments and applications of social semiotic theory, pioneered by M.A.K Halliday.

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Taking as its starting point the fact that language is not a mirror of reality but lets us share what we know, believe and think about reality, this book focuses on language as a social phenomenon, and makes visible the attitudes and beliefs expressed by the members of a discourse community.

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Volume 15 in the Major Conservative and Libertarian Thinkers series focuses on the American Economist, Murray Rothbard. >

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How do children learn, or learn about, music How do national cultures and education systems affect children's musical learning This book combines information, analysis and evaluation from 15 countries to answer these questions, providing a global perspective on musical education and development.

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An exploration of powerful Muslim women covering issues of gender, culture and politics in Islam.

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An exploration of powerful Muslim women covering issues of gender, culture and politics in Islam.

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Offers an insight into key contemporary global issues relating to the lives and experiences of young Muslims. This book addresses many of the central issues facing young Muslims in both localized and globalized contexts through engaging with the work of academics, youth work practitioners and those working in non-governmental organizations.

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Offers an insight into key contemporary global issues relating to the lives and experiences of young Muslims. This book addresses many of the central issues facing young Muslims in both localized and globalized contexts through engaging with the work of academics, youth work practitioners and those working in non-governmental organizations.

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Features three crucial themes in German idealism: mythology, madness and laughter. This book shows how these themes impact on the problematic relations between being and appearance, reflection and the absolute, insight and ideology, contingency and necessity, subjectivity, truth, habit and freedom.

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Posits that the post 9/11 war on terrorism has had a profound effect on NATO's post Cold War structure and military missions. This book focuses on the decades from 1989 until 2009, during which NATO underwent two major transformations.

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Posits that the post 9/11 war on terrorism has had a profound effect on NATO's post Cold War structure and military missions. This book focuses on the decades from 1989 until 2009, during which NATO underwent two major transformations.

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From the 1990s the British developed an interest in natural burial, also known as woodland, green, or eco-logical burial. This book offers an exploration of traditional and emerging spiritualities of life and death in light of natural burial and other innovations in bodily disposal.

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Kazakhstan is colossal in size, complicated in its history, colourful in its culture and is a nation state that most outsiders know little of. This title analyses the country's achievements in its complexity to explain Kazakhstan and Nursultan Nazarbayev's emergence on the international stage.

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Examines the implications of the portrayals of Nazis in low-brow culture and that culture's re-emergence today. This title also examines when and why the Nazisploitation genre emerged as it did, how it establishes and violates taboos, and why this iconography resonates with contemporary audiences.

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Examines the implications of the portrayals of Nazis in low-brow culture and that culture's re-emergence. This title also examines past intersections of National Socialism and popular cinema and the reemergence of this imagery in contemporary visual culture.