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An analysis of the most important characteristics of television dialogue, with a focus on fictional television.

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Addresses the need for a systemic analysis of television discourse and characterization within linguistics and media studies. This title presents both corpus stylistics and 'manual' analysis of linguistic and multimodal features of fictional television.

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Looks at linguistic, cultural and economic aspects of hip-hop in parallel using various frameworks of analysis.

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Looks at linguistic, cultural and economic aspects of hip-hop in parallel using various frameworks of analysis.

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A rich series of geographically diverse case studies examining the historical and theoretical issues involved in the study of urban African languages.

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Explores the life and thought of Walter Benjamin, imaginatively examining its implications in the political context of a post-War London estate. This title explores the emergence of Benjamin's thinking from a politicised Jewish theology forced to confront the rise of Nazism.

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Explores the life and thought of Walter Benjamin, imaginatively examining its implications in the political context of a post-War London estate. This title explores the emergence of Benjamin's thinking from a politicised Jewish theology forced to confront the rise of Nazism.

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An examination of the strategic leadership and legitimacy of the RAF bombing offensive against Germany in the Second World War. It offers a fresh approach to the debate on the RAF's strategic bomber offensive by using modern strategic leadership theory as an analytical tool to examine the campaign.

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Essays by renowned scholars aim to contribute to the literature on Marxist and post-Marxist thought to stimulate debate among leftist political movements.

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Essays by renowned scholars aim to contribute to the literature on Marxist and post-Marxist thought to stimulate debate among leftist political movements.

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Focuses on British and Irish politics at the start of the eighteenth century. This book tells the story of a powerful and eccentric peer, Thomas Coningsby (1657-1729), who played a key role in Ireland as the king's 'saviour' at the Battle of the Boyne and as one of the top administrators of the Protestant ascendancy.

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Explores Hobbes' attempt to construct a political philosophy of enduring peace on the foundation of the rational individual. This book synthesizes the work on Hobbes' understanding of glory and political stability, challenging the view that Hobbes succeeds in incorporating glory-seekers into his political theory.

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Looks at the myriad ways that the civilizations of ancient Greece and Rome have fundamentally influenced and shaped our modern world. This title explores a selection of the innovations of ancient Greek and Roman civilization to trace how these have developed through history and still affect the world of the twenty-first century.

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Offers prospective graduate students an in-depth preview of low-residency creative writing MFA programs. This guide clarifies the application process and offers application tips from program directors and alumni. It also considers funding, program structures, and unique opportunities such as editorships and assistantships.

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Contains an account and reflection on each diverse stage of Philip Roth's fifty-year career. This book confronts his diversity by accounting for each stage of Rothian preoccupation, from the comedy and seriousness to the Judaism and psychoanalysis. It reveals the changing face of liberalism, and the rise of the New York Intellectuals.

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A dictionary of the key terms and concepts in Karl Marx's writings, his major works and influences, from a philosophical perspective. It also includes entries on Marx's major philosophical and political influences and contemporaries. It is suitable for those who are reading or studying Marx or Nineteenth-Century Political Thought more generally.

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What were the principal factors that influenced and shaped the behaviour of the gentry during the Wars of the Roses, from 1455 at the first battle of St Albans to the final encounter at Stoke in 1487 The book offers a definition of the gentry and assesses the relationship between gentry and the political and social world of the late middle ages.

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What were the principal factors that influenced and shaped the behaviour of the gentry during the Wars of the Roses, from 1455 at the first battle of St Albans to the final encounter at Stoke in 1487 This title offers research and new interpretations of the gentry's role in the political and military conflicts of late fifteenth-century England.

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Uses twentieth-century fiction to demonstrate that the modern state was founded primarily on a Christian supersessionist theology rather than a secular ideology.

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Uses twentieth-century fiction to demonstrate that the modern state was founded primarily on a Christian supersessionist theology rather than a secular ideology.

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Through feedback-oriented communication, this book explores advertising from the perspective of information flows, rather than the more common approach of symbolic representation. It explores the relatively recent phenomenon of online behavioural advertising (OBA).

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Includes the essays that offer an attempt to grasp Nietzsche's prescience through Heidegger's critique of it, and so by attempting to think through the philosophical consequences of the last century in reading the signs of our own condition. This book also provides a discussion of some of the lesser-known texts of the later Heidegger.

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Investigates the origin of the concept of the zero article and shows that it has roots both in structural linguistics of the 1940s and earlier historical linguistics. This book is suitable for academics and students interested in grammar and syntax.

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Berezowski investigates the origin of the concept of the zero article and clearly demonstrates why it is problematic.