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Examines the issues of translating humour within a range of different literary traditions and across various languages.

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Examines the issues of translating humour within a range of different literary traditions and across various languages. This title analyses humour and translation in every day life, including jokes and cross-cultural humour, and looks at humour and translation in literature through the ages.

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Examines the intersection of humour and translation studies as found in the media on television, in film and in print.

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Covers key ideas in debates on the complex relationship between theory and practice in the field of translation studies. This book explores the relevance of translation theory to practice.

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Covers key ideas in debates on the complex relationship between theory and practice in the field of translation studies. This book explores the relevance of translation theory to practice.

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This book argues that the idea and institution of European citizenship is a transnational border-crossing status rather than a postnational 'transformation' of modern citizenship.

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Through biographical sketches concerning several significant traumatic events, this title helps students and working reporters gain insights into the critical components of contemporary journalism practices affecting news judgment, news gathering techniques, as well as legal and ethical issues.

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Through biographical sketches concerning several significant traumatic events, this title helps students and working reporters gain insights into the critical components of contemporary journalism practices affecting news judgment, news gathering techniques, as well as legal and ethical issues.

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Informed by the work of Jacques Derrida, this literary and theoretical study tackles modernism and fascism in the case of the influential novelist Knut Hamsun.

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Predating the wheel, the ski has played an important role in our history. This book features a history that begins 20,000 years ago in the last ice age on the icy tundra of an unformed earth.

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From the Catholic theologian, priest, and author of "Knowing Jesus" comes this collection of thoughts on lesbian and gay issues, reconciliation, the Eucharist, psychology and evil, and worship in a violent world.

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This study investigates the Dan/Danite tradition in the Hebrew Bible to determine what it tells us about Dan and also the degree to which traditions associated with one representation of Dan may have influenced the characterization of another.

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A textbook covering the issues, methods and relations between religion and science throughout history and up to the modern day. It also reviews relevant historical and philosophical background, showing, for example, that some ancient Christians speculated on how God might give order to history without having to intervene.

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Providing a complex and challenging education in research, the PhD is unlike other degrees and at its heart is the key educational role of supervisor. This book explores the experience of supervision and the PhD, drawing on a range of key viewpoints to further understanding of this complex educational experience.

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This book provides practical strategies and activities for using digital games in teaching and learning with students aged 11+.

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David Turner examines commonly held beliefs about learning, knowledge and intelligence, and critically assesses claims that certain drugs can improve learning and memory.

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Exploring the life, work and ideas of the great 19th Century utilitarian philosopher Jeremy Bentham, this study takes a look at his intellectual project from the point of view of the development of his political thought and later reassessment of his own ideas.

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Presents a survey of contemporary phenomenological research into the problem of truth. Starting with an historical introduction chronicling the variations on truth at play in the Phenomenological tradition, this book explores how Husserl's methodology equips us with the tools to thoroughly explore notions of truth, reality and knowledge.

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Provides a study of the religious philosophy of Vasilii Rozanov, one of the most influential and controversial thinkers of Russia's Silver Age. This title examines his subversion of traditional Russian Orthodoxy, including his reverence for the Creation, his focus on the family, and his worship of sex.

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Critically examines philosophical, ethical and religious arguments for and against vegetarianism.

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Presents a critical study of the reinscription of biblical parables in Victorian realist fiction. The author shows that authors such as Charles Dickens, Margaret Oliphant, and Charlotte Yonge appreciated the power of parables to deliver an ethical charge that was as unexpected as it was disruptive to conventional moral complacency.

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Offers a critical study of the reinscription of biblical parables in Victorian realist fiction. The author shows that authors such as Charles Dickens, Margaret Oliphant, and Charlotte Yonge appreciated the power of parables to deliver an ethical charge that was as unexpected as it was disruptive to conventional moral complacency.

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Addresses the questions of poverty, charity, and public welfare, focusing on the nineteenth-century London Foundling Hospital. This title moves methodically from the broad social and geographical context of London and the Foundling Hospital itself, to the micro-historical case data of individual mothers and infants.