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Presents a historical analysis of Shakespeare and food that provides insights into early modern attitudes to the body and domestic life. This dictionary analyzes Shakespeare's language of food. It provides an historically accurate account of the role of food in early modern culture and the way this intersected with Shakespeare's writings.

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Offers an exploration of the ways in which Shakespearean texts engage in the social and cultural politics of sixteenth- and early seventeenth-century translation practices. This book takes "Venus and Adonis" as a starting point for the collection and offers perspectives on translation and the fashioning of religious, and gendered identities.

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A monograph on Shakespeare's reception in Spain. It offers an account of Shakespeare's presence on the Spanish stage, from a production of the first Spanish rendering of Jean-Francois Ducis' "Hamlet" in 1772 to the creative and controversial work of directors like Calixto Bieito and Alex Rigola in the early 21st century.

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A dictionary that includes ailments, general medical concepts and cures and therapies in Shakespeare, but also body parts, bodily functions, and entries on 'the pathological body' taking into account recent critical work on the early modern body.

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Focuses on Shakespeare's sexual language, some of which is notoriously difficult to unravel and whose roots go back into earlier literature. This is a comprehensive but concise reference guide to sexual language and imagery in Shakespeare.

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Often set in domestic environments and built around protagonists of more modest status than traditional tragic subjects, 'domestic tragedy' was a genre that flourished on the Renaissance stage from 1580-1620. This title explores the ways in which Shakespeare exploits the conventions of the genre of domestic tragedy in "Othello".

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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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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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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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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.

(Paperback, NIPPOD)

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.