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Explores the nature and possibility of revolution and civil strife in the context of international politics. This title analyzes the role of revolution and civil strife in the present day world. It looks into such key issues as the use of force by the state in the international system, challenges to states, wars of national liberation, and more.

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Looks at the role of media, terrorism and literature in Don DeLillo's fiction. Bringing together DeLillo scholars in Europe and in the US, this book focuses on DeLillo to position his work in a transatlantic context.

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Considers why summative assessment in English is difficult and explores viewing it as an arts subject rather than one which is quantifiable and assessable objectively. This title also considers some of the solutions that have been put in place to overcome the problem both in the UK and abroad.

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Brings St Thomas Aquinas and Martin Heidegger into dialogue and argues for the necessity of Christian philosophy. Through the confrontation of Heideggerian and Thomist thought, this title offers an original and comprehensive rethinking of the nature of temporality and the origins of metaphysical inquiry.

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Through the confrontation of Heideggerian and Thomist thought, this book offers an original rethinking of the nature of temporality and the origins of metaphysical inquiry. It offers a treatment of the inception and deterioration of the four-fold presuppositions of Thomistic metaphysics: intentionality, causality, finitude, and ananke stenai.

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Proposes an ethical framework for educators and school leaders who find their practice constrained by the demands of policies and structures created in response to accountability legislation.

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Proposes an ethical framework for educators and school leaders who find their practice constrained by the demands of policies and structures created in response to accountability legislation.

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Examines the aesthetic event of education. This title takes a broader view of aesthetics and argues that teaching and learning are themselves aesthetic performances. It focuses on several questions: What are the possibilities and limitations of building analogies between teachers and artists, education and specific aesthetic forms And, more.

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Uses studies for the empirical audience reception data, together with discussions of the different representations of violence to look at violence in the media as an art form in of itself. By looking at "The Simpsons", "Bowling for Columbine" and Norma Khouri's "Forbidden Love", just to name a few, it cross-analyzes violence in multiple media.

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Renowned scholars examine the core precepts that guided the American Founding, looking at the Founders' intellectual groundings from philosophy of law to architecture.

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Renowned scholars examine the core precepts that guided the American Founding, looking at the Founders' intellectual groundings from philosophy of law to architecture.

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Examines the deep roots of the American model of schooling to highlight the problems that stem from the clash of government and education.

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Examines the deep roots of the American model of schooling to highlight the problems that stem from the clash of government and education.

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Analyzes the rhetorical construction of the Iranian nuclear threat during the Bush presidency, and US/Iran relations more generally. This book offers a consideration of the rhetoric surrounding Iran's controversial nuclear programme. It points out the conditions that lent credibility to the Bush administration's position.

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Analyzes the rhetorical construction of the Iranian nuclear threat during the Bush presidency, and US/Iran relations more generally. This book offers an in-depth consideration of the rhetoric surrounding Iran's controversial nuclear programme. It points out the conditions that lent credibility to the Bush administration's position.

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This study of a Markan genre, represented in Mark 8.27-10.4, covers Greek, rabbinic and early Christian literature, with comparison to the anecdotes in Lucian's "Demonax" and the "Mishnah". It concludes that the Markan anecdotes follow the definition of, and typologies for, the Greek chreia.

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The studies included in the book examine quotidien acts of writing and their significance in a textually-mediated world.

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Includes the studies that examine quotidien acts of writing and their significance in a textually-mediated world. This book discusses examples including writing in areas such as farming, photo-sharing, childcare work and health care. It also brings together two important traditions of this type of study: the Anglophone and Francophone.

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Native Americans and Canadians are largely romanticised or sidelined figures in modern society. Their spirituality has been appropriated on a relatively large scale by Europeans and non-Native Americans. This title analyses Native American objections to appropriations of their spirituality.

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A guide that explains what the term Arab-Israeli Conflict refers to, providing a description of the situation, its origins, as well as the people involved and their motivations. It examines key questions such as the importance of Jerusalem, borders and the West Bank, settlements, terrorism, Palestinian and more.

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The Arctic region has undiscovered oil and natural gas reserves that would be profitable for any country that managed to secure control over them. Gold, platinum, copper and other precious metals have also been found along the coast. This book presents a study of the impact Arctic reserves have on the global political and environmental stages.