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This book offers a new study of Hobbess reception among seventeenth- and eighteenth- century deists and freethinkers, showing how influential Hobbes was for anticlerical thinking through a close analysis of the works of a large number of writers, including Charles Blount, John Toland, Antony Collins, Matthew Tindal, Thomas Morgan, and many others.

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This text offers a critical engagement with media and cultural theory to analyze how the antiheroine trope is employed to challenge the socio-political discourses scripted in contemporary narratives. Each chapter works to complicate our understandings of women characters and the intersections of identity, power, and culture that shape them.

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Eighteenth-century Britain saw an explosion of interest in its own past, a past now expanded to include more than classical history and high politics. "Antiquaries" is the definitive account of a great historical enterprise.

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A survey of the historical, political, and sociological contexts of antisemitism in more than 50 countries.

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Derrida's thoughts on the political as a way to understand difference and identity in education concludes the volume.

This work begins with an examination of Hegel's work on the relationship between the lord and the bondsman, which is implemented in the political discourse of Paulo Freire.

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Based on the interviews of prominent women, like: Anita Roddick, Senator Natasha Stott Despoja, Nacy Friday, Tara Moss, Maggie Alderson, and Miss Australia; this book includes their experiences. It also includes the author's experiences and theories on female competition.

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Is the world really coming to an end in 2012 The answer frighteningly is maybe, according to the Bible, the I Ching, the Mayans, meteorologists and vulcanologists. Apocalypse 2012 is cheerful sceptic Laurence E Josephs investigation into the 2012 Doomsday phenomenon.

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One of the greatest internal migrations in American history has been the movement of the people of Appalachia to a variety of rural and urban destinations all over the country - wherever economic opportunity beckoned, from the industrial Midwest to the timber empires of the Pacific Northwest.

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Approaches to Audiences offers a comprehensive survey of contemporary academic research along with a brief account of its history and development . The main themes include social influences, public opinion, individual impacts and uses, children and young people, cultures of class and nation, families and households.

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This volume investigates the role of communication and emotions in conflict contexts and draws from communication and media studies, public relations, philosophy, psychology and neuroscience, linguistics, business studies, political science, literature, and cultural studies.

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This volume illustrates and exemplifies the variety of ways in which the mass media have been researched over the past fifty or more years. It provides extracts from seminal works and relates them to developments in the field as a whole and to later works.

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The first systematic study of employment discrimination against Israeli Arabs.

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It looks at the critical and scholarly response to Arab folklore and the place of Arab folklore in contemporary culture. It surveys the critical and scholarly response to Arab folklore and discusses the importance of Arab folklore to popular culture.

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Covers the development of the Arab mass media in relation to the governments and peoples of the Arab and non-Arab world.

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Ever since the events of 9/11, great attention has been paid to Arab mass media by politicians, experts and journalists around the world. This book evaluates, revises, and stimulates the academic debate on Arab media.

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The Lebanese and, more generally, the Arab community in Australia is one of the oldest ethnic communities. The essays and works in this volume cover the most important aspects of Arab-Australian's lives: settlement history, attitudes to citizenship, women's activism and identity, among others.

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Recognising the Arabs' diversity, this title identifies the core themes which give the Arab world its distinctive personality and sense of community. These themes - family, religion, Arabism and power - track an experience very different to our own. They illuminate the Arabs values and aspirations, the dilemmas they face in a time of change.

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