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A collection of essays which debates the past, present and future of British television drama. Writers, producers and television executives reflect on the changing face of TV drama, and academics present case studies on critical approaches, general topics and specific programmes.

Why has Kabbalah become the ultimate wisdom in Jewish spirituality?How has it sustained the life and destiny of the Jewish people?Professor Shimon Shokek, through his new approach to Kabbalah, suggests that the central ingredient in the spiritual teachings of Jewish mysticism is to be found in the Kabbalistic theme of Creation. Professor Shokek argues that Kabbalah is not just a religious phenomenon or an esoteric theology, but a practical wis...

With the appearance of Victor Segalen's Complete Works in 1995, the dramatic scope and wide-ranging implications of his reflections on exoticism were at last fully apparent. This study asserts the originality of Segalen's notion of exoticism while offering the first comprehensive study of the genesis of his aesthetics.

Following her widely acclaimed Autobiography of Red ('a spellbinding achievement' - Susan Sontag): a new collection of poetry and prose that displays Anne Carson's intoxicating mixture of opposites - the classic and the modern, cinema and print, narrative and verse.

Russian Gypsy Soul ist weltweit die erste Anthologie, die Musik der russischen Zigeuner in all ihren unterschiedlichen Ausformungen versammelt. Es ist wie eine Reise in die russische Seele, denn in kaum einem anderen Land der Welt erreichte die Musik der Zigeuner eine derart breite Popularität. Das hochformatige Doppel-CD-Paket mit zweieinhalb Stunden Spielzeit und reich illustriertem Beiheft stellt in erster Linie Originalaufnahmen vor. "Eine...

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Akkadian, an ancient Semitic language spoken in Assyria and Babylonia, is one of the earliest known languages, with a surviving written history from 2500BC to 500BC. Guy Deutscher investigates its development over these two millennia. He shows that changes in the language can be linked to the emergence of complex patterns of communication required by an increasingly sophisticated civilization. His book will interest specialists and general lin...

Information and Communications Technology (ICT) is changing the face of education. In this timely and accessible book, Chris Abbott examines the process by which ICT, and in particular its role in relation to literacy, has become central to national educational policies.The author traces the history of computer use in schools and examines the concept of virtual learning communities using case studies involving learners, parents and educational...

This is an ambitious and controversial book. Internationally respected geologist Neville J. Price points out that the currently held mechanisms of the widely accepted plate tectonic theory, upon which geoscience has rested for the past 30 years, are not capable of generating the magnitude of stresses required to drive plates at their known speed, or to explain known sudden changes in the direction of plate motion. By considering the experiment...

This text provides a perspective on the relationship between culture and crime which introduces the idea of "cultural criminology", and examines how it can be applied to criminal and criminalized activity.

From childhood through to adulthood, retirement and finally death, this book explores the economic problems individuals have to solve across the course of their lives. It introduces the concept of economic behaviour and its study. It is suitable for researchers and students.

Provides an overview of scientific and technological issues in environmental applications of carbon materials. Emphasizes the versatility of carbon materials in both gas- and liquid-phase environmental applications, including a discussion of emerging technologies. Highlights the power and potential opportunities afforded by NMR spectroscopy for understanding the interaction of carbon materials with adsorbed molecules.

This book introduces the basic contours of current debate in a form accessible to both classroom teachers across the curriculum range, and to school managers.

This book focuses on the concept of state responsibility for international crimes which gained support following the First World War, but was pushed into the background by the development of the principle of individual criminal responsibility under international law after the Second World War. The concept became the topic of debate and controversy upon its inclusion in Part I of the United Nations International Law Commission's Draft Articles ...

Drinking alcohol can be immensely pleasurable and life-enhancing. On the other hand, it can be associated with danger and risk. This book explores some of the implications of this dichotomy, which creates many policy and practice dilemmas, by a detailed exploration of the place of drinking in women's lives. Interviews and case-studies show women's drinking practices to be constructive and autonomous responses to the social and material context...

Released to follow on from "Michael Frayn Plays: 2", this anthology contains three of Frayn's plays: "Here", "Now You Know", and "La Bele Vivette". The plays explore time and space, official and unofficial secrets, idle curiosity and investigative purpose.

Ranging from the Russian revolution of 1917 to the collapse of Eastern Europe in the 1980s this study examines Communist rule. By focusing primarily on the USSR and Eastern Europe Stephen White covers the major topics and issues affecting these countries, including: * communism as a doctrine* the evolution of Communist rule* the challenges to Soviet authority in Hungary and Yugoslavia* the emerging economic fragility of the 1960s* the complex ...

What is the American thriller? Has it developed over time? What was it like in the past? This is a book about thrillers and gaining knowledge of what American thrillers were like in a specific period - the 1970s. Analysing seventies texts about crime, police, detectives, corruption, paranoia and revenge, The American Thriller aims to open debates on genre in the light of audience theory, literary history and the place of popular fiction at the...

These companion volumes examine the highly topical issue of the adequacy of markets as an instrument of economic and social development. In this era of transition and experimentation in economic management by governments, a group of prominent international economists was brought together to distill their thinking on the changing role of government in the development process. The first volume discusses the broad questions, the second volume bre...