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This book provides students with an exploration of a variety of research methods used in the study of Law, enabling them to pursue research from multiple perspectives.

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Challenging beliefs about intellectual culture, Makdisi reaffirms the links between Western and Arabic thought and shows that although scholasticism and humanism have long been considered to be exclusive to the Western world, they have their roots in the medieval Islamic world.

Takes the student step-by-step through the intellectual problems of Medieval thought, explaining the principal lines of argument from Augustine of Hippos to the sixteenth century.

[headline]Advances our understanding of the literary legacy of contemporary ecological crises to investigate the interfaces of humanity and nature At this critical juncture in which the biodiversity of planet Earth appears to be shrinking fast and furiously, Louis Kirk McAuley invites us to consider the ways in which particular unruly natures, including animals, plants and minerals, actively intervene in literature to decentre the human. Drawi...

Despite the enormous cultural impact of Nosferatu (1922) on modern entertainment, the history of vampires in silent film is largely unknown. Vampires in Silent Cinema covers the subject from 1896-1931, reclaiming a large array of forgotten films from countries ranging from the United States and France to Hungary and Russia. Drawing on thousands of primary sources, Rhodes explores vampirism in all of its manifestations, from the supernatural un...

[headline]Contends that the twentieth century novel's approach to character fundamentally shifted in response to contemporaneous theories of psychic connection Criticism of the novel routinely starts with the assumption that characters must think, develop and strive for self-fulfilment as individuals. This book challenges the paradigm that individualism is innate to the novel as a medium. It describes how major writers throughout the twentieth...

Recent film theory has reframed genre as a discursive gesture, and pressures the idea of a national cinema by bringing to light local, regional, and transnational practices. In French Westerns: On the Frontier of Film Genre and National Cinema, Timothy Scheie explores the volatile arena where the acts of imagination to which 'French' and 'Western' owe their coherence fail repeatedly, productively, and at times spectacularly. Each chapter illum...

Only second to the Holocaust, the Rwandan genocide is the most audio-visually recreated genocide with approximately 200 films and documentaries produced in 39 countries between 1994 and 2021. Historical Media Memories of the Rwandan Genocide studies the construction, development, and recreation of the transnational historical media memory of the genocide against the Tutsi in Rwanda. This comprehensive work traces the international media image ...

Your guide to the Scots law of delict, fully updated with the latest statutes and case law From defamation to dangerous animals, and from negligence to nuisance, this concise guide gives you the key facts that you need, whether you're a busy law student, revising for those all-important exams or looking to brush up on your knowledge. It will also be useful for those studying comparative criminal law or tort across different jurisdictions. This...

In the third edition of this bestselling introductory textbook, Richard Ogden presents the concepts, terminology and representations needed for understanding how English is pronounced globally.

[headline]Rethinks the relationship between architecture, literature and (in)visibility in the nineteenth-century city Ben Moore presents a new approach to reading urban modernity in nineteenth-century literature, by bringing together hidden, mobile and transparent features of city space as part of a single system he calls 'invisible architecture'. Resisting narratives of the nineteenth-century as progressing from concealment to transparency, ...

This interdisciplinary reference work is a substantive contribution to the contemporary humanities and offers a navigational tool to reflect the value and relevance of the humanities to knowledge and society, with a special focus on the European region at large. The future-oriented approach of the contributors highlights the positive and multidimensional impact of the humanities on core areas of human experience. New ethical social imaginaries...

Focuses on paramilitary groups and the Turkish state relations during the armed conflict between the state and the Kurdistan Workers' Party (Partiya Karkerên Kurdistan, PKK) in the 1990s.

By engaging with the work of modern and contemporary philosophers and writers, in particular G. W. Leibniz, Alain Badiou, Gilles Deleuze, Jacques Rancière and Marcel Proust, Rok Benčin explores the idea that reality is structured as a multiplicity of divergent, yet coexisting worlds.

The contributors converge on the intersection of New Materialism, Media Studies and Cultural Theory and offer speculative approaches combining creative writing and visual interludes from artists and designers, all of which address the question: are we on the cusp of new ways of seeing?

Examining the contemporary press, memoirs, travelogues and photographs - as well as the visitors' book - it uses the Alhambra to build a history of the complex and entangled relations between East and West, North and South, Islam and Christianity, centre and periphery during the heyday of Orientalism and Western hegemony.

Analyses Christian literature as emerging from the common dynamics of ancient Mediterranean religion

This introductory text covers all the core aspects of Scots criminal law and is suitable for students on LL.B. and non-LL.B. degree courses who are new to this area. It presents the main aspects and principles of criminal law in a clear and comprehensive manner, inlcuding aspects of devolution and the impact of the European Convention on Human Rights. An Introduction to Scots Criminal Law is an invaluable text for students. Each chapter is str...

Legal Systems of Scottish Churches Solicitors and counsel in Scotland receive little training in the information systems of the Churches in Scotland, and it is a curious experience for them to advise on church law or appear in ecclesiastical courts, tribunals or commissions. Following well-received seminars on the Church of Scotland's legal system in 2007, this book was suggested to help further to meet that aim. Contributions were also invite...