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Wide-ranging perspectives on education futures - from education in society to evolving schools and changes in classrooms.

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Every winter night the Harvard Square Homeless Shelter brings together society's most privileged and marginalized groups under one roof: Harvard students and the homeless. This title presents a study of the Harvard Square Homeless Shelter: the only student-run shelter in the United States.

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A study of the Harvard Square Homeless Shelter, the only student-run shelter in the United States. It demonstrates how the juxtaposition of privilege and poverty inside the Harvard Square Shelter proves transformative for the homeless men and women taking shelter there, and the Harvard students volunteering there.

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Offers a theory of 'staggered time', based on the relation between simultaneity and delay. By investigating not only philosophical texts, but also ideas from aesthetics, political theory, and the sciences, this book builds a set of concepts for describing the time-structures of atonal music, political decision-making, neuronal delays, and more.

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A fascinating study of Beckett's legacy for contemporary writers, which is part of the growing interest in Beckett studies in the question of Beckett's reception and influence.

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Deciphers sounds and silences buried within the ghostly horrors of Arthur Machen, Shirley Jackson, Charles Dickens, M R James and Edgar Allen Poe, Dutch genre painting from Rembrandt to Vermeer, artists as diverse as Francis Bacon and Juan Munoz, and the writing of many modernist authors including Virginia Woolf, Samuel Beckett, and James Joyce.

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Sir Walter Raleigh is a figure writ large in popular imagination. Yet how can we understand this man who was soldier, voyager, visionary, courtier, politician, poet, historian, patriot and 'traitor' This biography of one of the key figures in British history focuses on both his writing and legacy.

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Pragmatic and sociolinguistic analyses of im/politeness have usually been dependent on context and cultural frames of reference. This title presents a fresh approach to the pragmatic and sociolinguistic study of im/politeness, which explores the concept of 'situatedness'.

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Gives an account of how some citizens actively assist state surveillance by informing on others, such as during the Cold War and the campaign against terrorism. The author provides a study of human informers - people who secretly supply information to a domestic security agency (a spy provides information to a foreign intelligence service).

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Presents an account of how some citizens actively assist state surveillance by 'informing' on others, such as during the Cold War and the current campaign against terrorism. This title is suitable for those interested in security and intelligence as well as in issues surrounding the use of informers, especially in democratic societies.

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This key monograph is both timely and important in bringing together seminal papers in the emergence of an increasingly influential school of thought in the study of knowledge and education.

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Sociocultural intelligence (SOCINT) means observing and analyzing such elements as the land, the people, and their communities. This book offers an analysis and conceptualization of the intelligence discipline, SOCINT. It integrates customs, moral attitudes, and culture of foreign population.

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Sociocultural intelligence (SOCINT) means observing and analyzing such elements as the land, the people, and their communities. The book offers an analysis and conceptualization of the intelligence discipline, SOCINT. It integrates customs, moral attitudes, and culture of foreign population.

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Using data from an ethnographic case study of a low-achieving girls school, the author explores aspirations and argues that whilst class is very powerful in explaining educational attainment, understanding educational aspirations is somewhat more complex.

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Focuses on the profound impact that the author's Midwestern roots have had on his songs, politics, and prophetic character.

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Focuses on the profound impact that the author's Midwestern roots have had on his songs, politics, and prophetic character.

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Breaking new ground in the field of Sound Studies, this book provides an in-depth study of the culture and physicality of dancehall reggae music.

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A study of the culture and physicality of dancehall reggae music. It focuses on the skilled performance of the crewmembers responsible for this signature of Jamaican music: the audio engineers designing, building and fine-tuning the "set" of equipment; the selectors choosing the music tracks played; and, MCs (DJs) on the mic hyping up the crowd.

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Described as the Mona Lisa of literature and the world's first detective story, Sophocles' "Oedipus the King" is a major text from the ancient Greek world and an iconic work of world literature. This book covers the afterlife of the play in depth and provides a comprehensive guide to further reading for students.

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Fusing perspectives from politics, media studies and cultural studies, and focusing on Iraq, offers detailed insights into the impact of different media forms.

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Fusing perspectives from politics, media studies and cultural studies, and focusing on Iraq, offers detailed insights into the impact of different media forms.

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Offers a way of conceiving the history of Britain by excavating and exploring the numerous ways in which South Asians in Britain engaged in radical discourse and political activism from 1870 to 1950, before their more permanent migration and settlement.

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An alternative view of imperial history, exploring the pioneering ways in which South Asians within Britain engaged in radical discourse and political activism.

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Often described as the soul of Islam, Sufism is one of the most interesting yet least known facet of this global religion. Sufism is the softer more inclusive and mystical form of Islam. This is an ethnographical study of contemporary Sufi orders in Iran, Pakistan, India and Bangladesh, as well as in the UK and US.