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Aidan McGarry looks at the political participation and representation of the Romani community, one of the most disadvantaged and excluded minority in Europe. >

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An important textbook that promotes thoughtful engagement with key issues and theories that inform an understanding of childhood development.

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The Catholic Church has never been so deeply immersed in crisis - crisis of authority, priestly scandal, celibacy, hierarchy - stretching right up to the Vatican itself. In this book, the author argues that only when the sacramental life of the local parishes is revitalised that renewal in the Church can be achieved.

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Examines our society's struggle with the concept of belief. This book shows how the religious outlook connects with our human longings, how it links up with our moral and aesthetic experience, how it is integrally involved in the quest for self-understanding, and how it is not after all in conflict with a scientific understanding of the world.

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Offers a defense of the value of literature and suggests ways in which the problematic relationship between personal and academic reading may be overcome. This title offers a conception of the value of literary reading that demonstrates its importance for psychological and social wellbeing.

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The country of the ancient Mexicans or Aztecs, as they were known, formed but a very small part of the extensive territories which make up modern Mexico. This book contains an extract from William H Prescott's major work "A History of the Conquest of Mexico".

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William Wordsworth continues to be one of the most popular and widely studied poets from the nineteenth century. This guide introduces readers to the literary, philosophical, and political contexts crucial to understanding Wordsworth's poetry, offering fresh approaches for reading his important poems in light of developments in literary studies.

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William Wordsworth continues to be one of the most popular and widely studied poets from the nineteenth century. This guide introduces readers to the literary, philosophical, and political contexts crucial to understanding Wordsworth's poetry, offering fresh approaches for reading his important poems in light of developments in literary studies.

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Features translations of primary documents of a crucial period in the development of attitudes to witchcraft. This title contributes to our understanding of the witchcraft phenomenon in the Middle Ages.

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Suitable for drama specialists and non-specialists alike, this book brings together key findings from brain research and best practice to highlight the benefits that drama and imagined experience can have on learning, creativity, thinking skills, memory, motivation and self-esteem, and explains why and how drama supports learning.

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A work in comparative literature and philosophy that offers a fresh and important way of thinking the ethical capacity of human subjectivity. It posits a universal ethics based neither on rational mental structures nor on moral principles, but on the extra-rational powers of the imagination.

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A work in comparative literature and philosophy that offers a fresh and important way of thinking the ethical capacity of human subjectivity. It posits a universal ethics based neither on rational mental structures nor on moral principles, but on the extra-rational powers of the imagination.

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Analyses a host of issues in philosophy of mind and visual studies, including the concepts of visual meaning, visual qualia and the ineffability of visual experience. This work explores the relation between conceptual analysis and causal explanation in the theory of perception, and the relation between visual syntax and visual meaning.

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The first comprehensive study of Wittgenstein's philosophy of value to deal with ethics, aesthetics and religious value.

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This is the ideal companion to study of this most influential and challenging of texts.

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This is the ideal companion to study of this most influential and challenging of texts.

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A unique reading of the relationship between language and life in Wittgenstein's philosophy.

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The continuing under-representation of women in political and public life remains a matter of concern across a wide range of countries, including the UK and Ireland. This book explores key questions in the development of women's rights in Britain and Ireland.

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Looks at the rise and role of female activism in Iran since the 1979 Revolution. This study assesses this role as well as the impact of domestic and international policies on women's activism, highlighting the contradictions between politics and religion within the Islamic Republic.

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A collection of source material on women in the ancient Greek world including literary, rhetorical, philosophical and legal sources, and papyri and inscriptions. Beginning in the eighth century BCE, it covers archaic and Classical Athens, Etruscan Italy and the Roman Republic, concluding with the late Roman Empire and the advent of Christianity.

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Features essays that examine how women actively contribute not only to conflict, but also to peace and social change in diverse contexts around the world. This title includes chapters that cover issues of women waging war, women intervening in war, and women sustaining peace, all substantiated with case studies and first hand accounts.

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A collection of essays that explores the role of women as they participate in both conflict and peacemaking. It examines their behavior in conflict zones and their involvement in conflict - how it affects them, how they are active participants, and the initiatives they take in intervention, conflict resolution, and peace building.

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Verbal notation is commonly used in experimental music, as well as related areas of arts practice involving performance or object making. This book focuses on an approach to notation that uses the written word, as opposed to symbols, to convey information to whoever chooses to interpret the notation.

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Looks at the important role translation studies plays in exploring how words, sounds and images are translated and reinterpreted in various socio-cultural contexts. Using case studies drawn from a range of different countries and languages, this book presents a comprehensive examination of various areas of research within translation studies.