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Born in Vienna in 1881, Stefan Zweig was one of the most respected authors of his time. This book provides an analysis of the Zweigs' time together and presents personal letters, written by the couple in Argentina and Brazil, along with editorial commentary.

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Discusses how humans have described the Divine. This book looks at how humans have engaged the Divine across religions and centuries, through ritual, art, sacred places, language and song.

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Presents an examination of the early Stoic theory of virtue. This book emphasizes in particular the theological underpinning of Stoic ethics, which Jedan contends has been underestimated in various accounts of Stoic ethics. It argues that the theological motifs in Stoic ethics are in fact pivotal to a complete understanding of Stoic ethics.

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An important new monograph offering the first sustained examination of the early Stoic theory of virtue.

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In July 1888, fourteen hundred women and girls employed by the matchmakers Bryant and May walked out of their East End factory and into the history books. The author gives us a challenging new interpretation of events proving that the women themselves, not celebrity socialists like Annie Besant, began it.

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A collection of essays on Coetzee that examines how his novels create and unsettle literary authority. It shows how Coetzee provokes us into reconsidering certain basic formal and existential questions such as the nature of literary realism, the authority of the author and the constitution of the human self in a posthumanist setting.

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An innovative and accessible linguistic description of those features of the language that can be exploited to generate structural ambiguities.

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Examines the important role psychological factors play in fostering changes toward more democratic structures. This book presents an alternative to the theories of social and political changes that fail to test the causal assumption they make about human psychology.

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Provides an analysis of the process of regenring, the transformation of essay-based knowledge through the process of rewriting in another genre. This book analyzes the work of first year undergraduates from a range of disciplines who were given a task of reworking an essay using a different genre. It is suitable for researchers and postgraduates.

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Within the historical literary genre, stylistics is widely applicable but as yet under deployed. This book acts as a showcase for the range of analysis possible. It focuses on religious, political and ideological issues that animated and defined Reformation England. It provides student resources and research material in stylistics.

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This collection shows how Cormac McCarthy's The Road reacts aesthetically to many of the ethical, ontological, and political concerns that define our times.

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This collection shows how Cormac McCarthy's The Road reacts aesthetically to many of the ethical, ontological, and political concerns that define our times.

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Moving across Shakespeare studies, language studies and linguistics, this book develops a coherent analysis of the stylistics of Shakespeare's language. It testifies the interest in Shakespeare's language and style and opens up captivating vistas of investigation. It includes an array of theoretical approaches and findings.

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Moving across Shakespeare studies, language studies and linguistics, this book develops a coherent analysis of the stylistics of Shakespeare's language. It testifies the interest in Shakespeare's language and style and opens up captivating vistas of investigation. It includes array of theoretical approaches and new findings.

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Explores Wittgenstein's contribution to continental philosophical debates about the 'death of man' and constructs and defends a positive Wittgensteinian account of human being. This title constructs a positive Wittgensteinian account of subjectivity and human nature. It includes later writings on philosophy of psychology and religion.

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Limamou Laye, an Islamic leader from present-day Senegal, has proclaimed himself the reincarnation of Muhammad, with his son later proclaiming himself to be a reincarnation of Jesus Christ. This study analyzes Limamou Laye's goals for his community, his theology; as well as the various elements that created him to emerge as a religious leader.

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A practical handbook packed with tips, techniques and suggestions for all those working and living with learning disabled children aged 3-19.

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The majority of deaf children are taught in the mainstream system, but are much more likely to under-achieve at school than their hearing counterparts. This is a guide to working with deaf students in a variety of educational settings.

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This systemic-functional account of Spanish, analyses how Spanish grammatical forms compare and contrast with those of English.

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This collection of papers, with their focus on social change in different settings and through a wide range of voices, offers a fresh view of both Systemic Functional Linguistics (SFL) and Critical Discourse Analysis (CDA), and, ultimately, the relationship between the two.

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A prominent philosopher's investigation into the questions of responsibility and personal identity that explores the proliferation of identities and the need to "take charge."

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A prominent philosopher's investigation into the questions of responsibility and personal identity that explores the proliferation of identities and the need to "take charge."

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Offers a fresh approach to the traditional mythology and literature of the afterlife, focusing on tensions and polarities in the afterlife concepts. This title depicts the many rich mythologies of the afterlife from the ancient Mesopotamians, Japanese, Greeks of the Homeric era, to Christian views of heaven or the Buddhist western paradise.