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This edition of Shakespeare's The Merchant of Venice reprints the Bevington edition of the play accompanied by four sets of thematically arranged primary documents and illustrations designed to facilitate different approaches to Shakespeare's play and the early modern culture out of which the play emerges.

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The book provides a synthesis of the development of the genre of national history writing in Europe, in particular it seeks to illuminate the relationship between history writing and the construction of national identities in modern Europe.

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The principle of content-neutrality is the cornerstone of freedom of expression jurisprudence, protecting the core values of freedom of speech set out in the first amendment, whilst also enabling the government to place reasonable restrictions on protected speech.

(Hardback, 1st ed. 2015)

Simon Susen examines the impact of the 'postmodern turn' on the contemporary social sciences. On the basis of an innovative five-dimensional approach, this study provides a systematic, comprehensive, and critical account of the legacy of the 'postmodern turn', notably in terms of its continuing relevance in the twenty-first century.

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How is religion, particularly non-Christianness, conceptualised and represented in English law

(Paperback, 1st ed. 2013)

How is religion, particularly non-Christianness, conceptualised and represented in English law

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This edition reprints the 1798 and 1817 texts along with critical essays that read "The Rime" from five contemporary critical perspectives: reader response; Marxist; psychoanalytic; deconstructionist; and new historical. An additional essay demonstrates how these various approaches can be combined.

(Hardback, 150th Revised edition)

Now in its 150th edition, The Statesman's Yearbook continues to be the reference work of choice for accurate and reliable information on every country in the world. Covering political, economic, social and cultural aspects, the Yearbook is also available online for subscribing institutions: www.statesmansyearbook.com.

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This edition of Chaucer's classic tale includes a lengthy introduction to the biographical and historical context as well as five critical essays representing a variety of contemporary critical approaches and a glossary of theoretical and critical terms.

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Transformative learning is a process in which we question all the assumptions about the world and ourselves that make up our worldview, visualize alternative assumptions, and then test them in practice. The author describes the process, offering a critique of contemporary assumptions, and suggests alternatives to illustrate the process.

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This edition of Shakespeare's Twelfth Night reprints the Bevington edition of the play along with seven sets of thematically arranged primary documents and illustrations designed to facilitate many different approaches to Shakespeare's play and the early modern culture out of which the play emerges.

(Hardback, 1st ed. 2016)

An interdisciplinary, comparative study of the work of lawyers for civil liberties and basic freedoms, integrating socio-legal theoretical frameworks with insights from political lawyering and social movement literature, in order to trace the professionalization of human rights work and analyse the possibilities and limitations of the rule of law.

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Victoria's Madmen is the story of those who were outcasts by temperament and choice; the non-conformists of the Victorian Age. Clive Bloom's readable account of the dark underbelly of Victoria's Britain captures the unrest bubbling under the surface of strait-laced Victorian society.

(Paperback, 1st ed. 2009)

Based on the highly acclaimed A History of Western Society, this brief edition presents a succinct overview of the historical development of the West while preserving the hallmark focus on social history and everyday life of the original work.

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The book proposes a critique of Nietzsche's works 'from within'. In doing so, it answers the continuing question asked by any reader of Nietzsche: Why did he decide not to write the major work he said he would write

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Yiddish and Power surveys the social, linguistic and intellectual history of the Yiddish language within the traditional civilisation of Jewish Ashkenaz in central, and then in eastern Europe, and its interaction with the surrounding non-Jewish culture. It explores the various ways in which Yiddish has empowered masses and served political agendas.

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This volume reprints the Bevington edition of A Midsummer Night's Dream with four sections of primary documents and illustrations.

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This second volume of A History of Marxian Economics, covers the period from 1929 to the present. The main debates and themes of this period are the Great Depression and Stalinism, the Long Boom and its Demise, New Theories of Imperialism, Value and Exploitation, and Current Controversies.

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For a long time the human sciences have debated the relationship between social structures with issues centring round areas such as identity, discourse and therapy. This book provides a contribution to theory on the relationships between psychology, psychotherapy and social theory.

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The diverse ways in which old age is seen across Europe are compared and different forms of care for the needs of older people are examined. The question of inter-generational relations is seen as an element in the future of old age. It is argued that much is to be learned from cross-national comparisons in developing social responses to old age.

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This book provides an historical analysis of postwar economic development in the United States. Samuel Rosenberg investigates three postwar phases: the creation of an institutional framework setting the stage for prosperity in the U.S. after World War II.