Resultaten gefilterd op "Bloomsbury Academic"

Nadia Comaneci and the Secret Police

Stejarel Olaru

• Paperback | Engels
• 2024 Independent Publisher Book Awards Winner - Silver Medal, World History Nadia Comaneci is the Romanian child prodigy and global gymnastics star wh... Lees meer

What Is Quantitative Longitudinal Data Analysis?

Vernon Gayle

• Hardcover | Engels | What Is?' Research Methods
• Across the social sciences, there is widespread agreement that quantitative longitudinal research designs offer analysts powerful scientific data reso... Lees meer

Technobiophilia

Sue Thomas

• Paperback | Engels
• Why are there so many nature metaphors - clouds, rivers, streams, viruses, and bugs - in the language of the internet? Why do we adorn our screens wit... Lees meer

The Ethics of Nonviolence

Robert L Holmes

• Paperback | Engels
• Robert Holmes is one of the leading proponents of nonviolence in the United States, and his influence extends to the rest of the world. However, he ha... Lees meer

Heraclitus

Martin Heidegger

• Hardcover | Engels
• Heraclitus is the first English translation of Volume 55 of Martin Heidegger's Gesamtausgabe . This important volume consists of two lecture courses g... Lees meer

Acting for the Silent Screen

Chris O'Rourke

• Paperback | Engels | Cinema and Society
• A shop girl wins a newspaper competition and is transformed overnight into a transatlantic celebrity. An aristocrat swaps high society for the film st... Lees meer

Rethinking Children's Rights

Phil Jones, Sue Welch

• Paperback | Engels | New Childhoods
• Rethinking Children's Rights explores attitudes towards and experiences of children's rights. Phil Jones and Sue Welch draw on a wide range of thought... Lees meer

Discourse in Context: Contemporary Applied Linguistics Volume 3

• Paperback | Engels | Contemporary Applied Linguistics | nr. 3
• Featuring internationally renowned academics, this volume provides a snapshot of the field of applied linguistics, and illustrates how linguistics is ... Lees meer

Warning Signs

Marcel Danesi

• Paperback | Engels | Bloomsbury Advances in Semiotics
• Warning signs are all around us. In ancient Egypt, tombs were lavishly adorned with signs and symbols warning of the dire consequences that would befa... Lees meer

Love, Mystery and Misery

Coral Ann Howells

• Hardcover | Engels | Bloomsbury Academic Collections: English Literary Criticism
• The current Gothic revival in literature and film encourages us to look again to the earliest Gothic novels written beween 1790 and 1820, when Gothic ... Lees meer

The Man Behind the Bridge

Peter E Davies

• Hardcover | Engels | Bloomsbury Academic Collections: Japan
• Lieutenant Colonel Philip Toosey was the senior British officer concerned with the building of the notorious "Bridge over the River Kwai". Toosey unde... Lees meer

Chaucer and Langland

George Kane

• Hardcover | Engels | Bloomsbury Academic Collections: English Literary Criticism
• Professor Kane is widely regarded as the leading middle English textual and literary scholar of our time and this collection of his essays will be wid... Lees meer

The Science of Right in Leibniz's Moral and Political Philosophy

Christopher Johns

• Hardcover | Engels | Bloomsbury Studies in Philosophy
• Studies of Gottfried Leibniz's moral and political philosophy typically focus on metaphysical perfection, happiness, or love. In this new reading of L... Lees meer

The Literary Criticism of T.S. Eliot

• Hardcover | Engels | Bloomsbury Academic Collections: English Literary Criticism
• In his time T.S. Eliot established a new critical orthodoxy by which no major modern critic in England or America remained unaffected, but a decade ha... Lees meer

The Origins and Rise of Dissident Irish Republicanism

John F Morrison

• Paperback | Engels | New Directions in Terrorism Studies
• Throughout its history the Irish Republican Movement has been beset by splits. The former paramilitary and author Brendan Behan famously quipped that,... Lees meer

Character

Jay R Elliott

• Paperback | Engels | Bloomsbury Ethics
• Why do people do evil? How can we learn to do better? Philosophers in the long-standing tradition of 'virtue ethics' argue that we act badly because o... Lees meer

On Time, Change, History, and Conversion

Sean Hannan

• Paperback | Engels | Reading Augustine
• Sean Hannan offers a new interpretation of Augustine of Hippo's approach to temporality by contrasting it with contemporary accounts of time drawn fro... Lees meer

Using and Conquering the Watery World in Greco-Roman Antiquity

Georgia L Irby

• Paperback | Engels
• This volume considers how Greco-Roman authorities manipulated water on the practical, technological, and political levels. Water was controlled and ha... Lees meer

Practicing Empathy

Mark Fagiano

• Paperback | Engels
• There is widespread disagreement over what constitutes an experience of empathy. In this study of its value and moral features, Mark Fagiano acknowled... Lees meer

The Screening of America

Tom O'Brien

• Hardcover | Engels | Film Studies: Bloomsbury Academic Collections
• This is an original investigation of how movies have reflected and helped to shape the values of a generation. From All the President's Men to Wall St... Lees meer

The New Aesthetics of Deculturation

Thorsten Botz-Bornstein

• Hardcover | Engels
• What are the predominant aesthetics of the twenty-first century? Thorsten Botz-Bornstein argues that deculturation, embodied by the conspicuous vulgar... Lees meer

Interrelatedness in Chinese Religious Traditions

Diana Arghirescu

• Hardcover | Engels | Bloomsbury Studies in World Philosophies
• The study of religions is essential for understanding other cultures, building a sense of belonging in a multicultural world and fostering a global in... Lees meer

The Highest Good in the Nicomachean Ethics and the Bhagavad Gita

Roopen Majithia

• Hardcover | Engels
• This open access book presents a comparative study of two classics of world literature, offering the first sustained consideration of what unites and ... Lees meer

Post-Millennial Gothic

Catherine Spooner

• Paperback | Engels
• Surveying the widespread appropriations of the Gothic in contemporary literature and culture, Post-Millennial Gothic shows contemporary Gothic is ofte... Lees meer