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This book examines the post Cold War security environment and how the U.S. has learned to wage war in this complex assymetrical world of conflict.

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This reference work focuses on contemporary anarchism and covers a broad range of themes using a multidisciplinary approach.

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The definitive guide to historical linguistics, covering all the most important issues in the field. >

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Suitable for advanced students and academics in phonology, this title covers the important issues, concepts, movements and approaches in the field. It presents a survey of the research and also offers practical guidance on advanced study and research in the area.

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Analyzes a variety of contemporary films replete with psychoanalytic subject matter and styles. This title examines films that present elaborate fantasies and, through them, prompt the viewer to cut across a crippling fundamental fantasy - by enabling a mapping of his or her private fantasy onto the one being played out on the screen.

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Analyzes a variety of contemporary films replete with psychoanalytic subject matter and styles. This title examines films that present elaborate fantasies and, through them, prompt the viewer to cut across a crippling fundamental fantasy - by enabling a mapping of his or her private fantasy onto the one being played out on the screen.

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A celebration of the 350th anniversary of the publication of the 1662 Book of Common Prayer, underlining its current and continuing relevance.

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Ever since the end of the Cold War the Balkans have preoccupied European public opinion much more than any other region of the old Eastern bloc. This title is a study of the history of the public image of the Balkans in Britain from 1900-1945.

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Reveals the true nature of Conservative Party politics by examining the centrality of the myth of One Nation.

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Readers are given a complete picture of the way Britain fought the Cold War, moving the focus away from the now familiar crises of Suez and Cuba and onto the themes that underpinned the British war strategy.

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Offering a comprehensive overview and introduction to the concept of relativism and relativistic arguments, this book investigates the reasons that contribute to the 'evergreen' status of relativism and asks: why does relativism remain a constant occurrence in the writings of the humanities and what accounts for its popular appeal

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The East India Company's merchants were called Adventurers because they ventured their money in the risky markets of the Spice Islands and the fabulously wealthy Mughal Empire. This title offers an account of the challenging and contested role of the chaplains in a merchant company turning into an imperial power.

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Traces the history of alchemy from its earliest roots through to its influence in modern-day science.

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Draws on historical, ethnographical and anthropological studies to create a fresh understanding of Christianization in medieval Europe.

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Discusses the depiction of various issues facing the church of their times in programs such as "The Flying Nun (1967-1970)", "The Father Dowling Mysteries (1989-1990)", and "7th Heaven (1996-2007)". This title addresses the role of women in the church, clerics reconsidering their call, the sexuality of clerics, and the ecumenical movement.

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Using decisions by the US Supreme Court as a framework, this book explores the relationship between church and state in the United States since 1945. It shows how the constitutional underpinnings of church-state debates shaped the political, economic, and social debate on the issue, and also explores debates about religion and American society.

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Presents in chronological order the themes and ideas of his twenty-three feature films, and the complexity of their cinematic style.

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Presents in chronological order the themes and ideas of his twenty-three feature films, and the complexity of their cinematic style.

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An introductory guide to comedy in English literature that systematically applies comic theory to a wide range of texts from Chaucer to "Bridget Jones' Diary". It examines such texts as: Shakespeare's "A Midsummer Night's Dream"; Pope's "The Rape of the Lock"; Austen's "Emma"; Dickens' "The Pickwick Papers"; and, Amis' "Lucky Jim".

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An introductory guide to comedy in English literature that systematically applies comic theory to a wide range of texts from Chaucer to "Bridget Jones' Diary". It examines such texts as: Shakespeare's "A Midsummer Night's Dream"; Pope's "The Rape of the Lock"; Austen's "Emma"; Dickens' "The Pickwick Papers"; and, Amis' "Lucky Jim".

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Arguing that our notions of justice have been made incoherent by the radical incompatibility between instinctive notions of ordinary justice and theoretical conceptions of social justice, this book goes on to explore the historical roots of these ideas of social justice.