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A team of leading international scholars examine Middle Ages and Renaissance philosophy from the perspective of themes and lines of thought that cut across authors, disciplines and national boundaries, opening up new ways to conceptualise the history of this period within philosophy, politics, religious studies and literature.

Drawing on archival sources, this is the first book to explore Thalberg's insights into casting, editing, story composition and the importance of the mass audience from a theoretical perspective.

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This volume brings together three short novels that reveal the diversity of Galt's creative abilities.

C'est l'histoire des «séances de traitement magnétique» mises au point par le médecin autrichien Franz Mesmer (1734-1815) ainsi que sa théorie du «magnétisme animal» que Louis Figuier rapporte ici dans le détail. Et l'histoire des démêlés de Mesmer et de ses disciples avec l'Académie de médecine.Le «magnétisme animal», qui fut si bêtement nié par elle, aurait d'autant mérité d'être sérieusement étudié qu'il allait permettre non seulement de co...

Parmi les grands aventuriers dont la célébrité occupa l'Europe au XVIIIe siècle, Cagliostro fut, sans contredit, un type tout à fait à part et qui mérite d'être étudié avec une sérieuse attention. Arrivant au milieu de l'époque la plus sceptique qui fut jamais, ce charlatan eut ses triomphes, ses sectaires, ses admirateurs et ses dupes comme s'il eût vécu à la cour de Catherine de Médicis, aux beaux jours de la sorcellerie, de l'astrologie et ...

If one wants to understand the present and predict the future, one needs to have a deep understanding of the causal effects of the past that have brought us to where we presently are.Just a few decades ago, China's phenomenal rise was not only unpredictable but unfathomable. Instead of writing a complex political analysis of China's impact on our current global crisis, I decided to reflect on my personal observations spanning four decades that...

This illuminating evaluation of the turn to affect examines particular methods of reading. Barnwell reanimates possibilities for doing sociology by showing that both suspicion and creative generation are necessary in understanding the world. She is generous towards the theorists examined, beautifully modelling how to think critically without destroying.' Mary Holmes, University of Edinburgh A clear-sighted intervention into debates about affe...

A woman's birthday party takes a dark turn in a poignant, heart-stopping new novel from the reigning queen of suspense, New York Times and USA Today bestselling author of Behind Closed Doors, The Breakdown, and Bring Me Back."A heartbreaking page-turner that will have you up at night reading just one more chapter." -Catherine Steadman, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Something in the Water"The phenomenal B.A. Paris has done it again! I...

iOS Programming: The Big Nerd Ranch Guide leads readers through the essential concepts, tools, and techniques for developing iOS applications. After completing this book, they will have the know-how and the confidence needed to tackle iOS projects of their own. Based on Big Nerd Ranch's popular iOS training and its well-tested materials and methodology, this bestselling guide teaches iOS concepts and coding in tandem. The result is instruction...

This major new study of the publishing history of the Irish novelist Charles Lever gives in microcosm the history of a significant number of Victorian novelists, and of publishing itself in fast changing decades. The work illustrates the rise to prominence of the new railway libraries, the changes in taste and reading habits, and in marketing strategies as the century progressed. It shows the intimate relationships which often existed between ...

Including Mawdudi's commentary on Surah 66: At-Tahrim to Surah 77: Al-Mursalat, this volume offers an immense understanding of the Qur'an with deep insight and a valuable exposition of some social, political, economic, and legal teachings of the Qur'an. Includes notes, an Introduction, and comprehensive index.

As an in-depth analysis of US Pres. debates, focusing on the past four decades, this volume offers insight into the practice & policies of political debate in a public forum. Of interest to scholars and researchers in pol. comm., journalism, & poli. sci.

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First Published in 1997. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

The story of the lunar landing and the events that led up to it, told in text and visually stunning 3-D images.

An investigation of rhythm from the perspective of critical theory, philosophy and art Rhythm and Critique presents twelve new essays from a range of specialists to define, contextualise and challenge the concepts of rhythm and rhythmanalysis, and includes newly translated materials from Rudolf Laban and Henri Meschonnic. The book begins with a genealogy of rhythm as it occurs through critical theory literatures of the twentieth century, enab...

Roberto Ciulli macht transkulturelles Theater in Deutschland, lange bevor sich das postmigrantische Theater etabliert. 1980 gru¿ndet er in Mu¿lheim gemeinsam mit dem Dramaturgen Helmut Schäfer und dem Bu¿hnenbildner Gralf-Edzard Habben das Theater an der Ruhr - ein anderes Stadttheater, vergleichbar mit Ariane Mnouchkines Pariser Théâtre du Soleil, in dem das Reisen und der Kulturaustausch im Zentrum stehen. In u¿ber 35 Jahren besucht das Thea...

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Kenneth Norrie traces the assumptions that underlay child protection law at particular periods of time and identifies the pressures for change - giving a clearer understanding of how and why the contemporary law is designed and operates as it does.