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This book presents a theory of spacepower and considers the implications of space technology on strategy and international relations.

Explores Gothic and horror film from early cinema to the present This anthology explores the resilience and ubiquity of the Gothic in cinema from its earliest days to its most contemporary iterations. Fifteen newly commissioned chapters by prominent scholars in the field of Gothic and cinema studies examine the myriad ways that filmmakers mobilise Gothic conceits across multiple film genres and in conjunction with several significant film styl...

Substance and Shadow - An Exposition of the Tabernacle Types is an unchanged, high-quality reprint of the original edition of 1896.Hansebooks is editor of the literature on different topic areas such as research and science, travel and expeditions, cooking and nutrition, medicine, and other genres. As a publisher we focus on the preservation of historical literature. Many works of historical writers and scientists are available today as antiqu...

A history of 'hidden' nationalism in Scottish party politics This book reassesses the relationship between 'nationalism' and 'unionism' in Scottish politics, challenging a binary reading of the two ideologies with the concept of 'nationalist unionism'. Scottish nationalism did not begin with the SNP in 1934, nor was it confined to political parties which desired independent statehood. Rather it was more dispersed, with the Liberal, Conservativ...

A study of the wealth of meanings that 'Persia' - real or imagined - held for Victorian poetry The Persian Presence in Victorian Poetry surveys the variety of ways in which Persia, and the multitude of ideological, historical, cultural and political notions that it embodied, were received, circulated and appropriated. Providing the first systematic index of nineteenth-century poems that were in any way involved with Persia, the book explores i...

Explores how borrowing and word formation are used together and in competition for naming new concepts in language contact situations Drawing on detailed case studies across a range of languages, including English, German, Dutch, Italian, Portuguese, Polish, Czech, Russian, Lithuanian and Greek, this book examines the different factors that determine the outcome of the interaction between borrowing and word formation. Historically, borrowing h...

A rigorous historical investigation of the relationship between religion and psychotherapy in twentieth-century Scotland Although a tide of secularization swept over the post-war United Kingdom, Christianity in Scotland found one way to survive by drawing on alliances that it had built earlier in the century with psychoanalysis and psychotherapy. Psychoanalysis was seen as a way to purify Christianity, and to propel it in a scientifically rati...

Explores how binary gender and behaviours of gender were actively challenged in classical antiquity Gender identity and expression in ancient cultures are questioned in these 15 essays in light of our new understandings of sex and gender. Using contemporary theory and methodologies this book opens up a new history of gender diversity from the ancient world to our own, encouraging us to reconsider those very understandings of sex and gender ide...

An easy programme of one-a-day exercises to assess your brain health, improve your memory, protect your brain from cognitive decline and slow the effects of dementia

Uncovers the link between Ruskin and the tradition of the aesthetics of space Charting an 'aesthetic', post-realist tradition of writing, this book considers the significant role played by John Ruskin's art criticism in later writing which dealt with the new kinds of spaces encountered in the nineteenth century. With chapters devoted to the ways in which aesthetic and decadent writers such as Walter Pater and Oscar Wilde built upon and challen...

Explores the Deleuzian idea of becoming animal The animality of human beings is completely unknown. Being human means to be something other than an animal, to not be an animal. Felice Cimatti, with reference to the work of Gilles Deleuze, explores what human animality looks like. He shows that becoming animal means to stop thinking of humanity as the reference point of nature and the world. It means that our value as humans has the very same v...

Cross-Channel Modernisms invites us to think anew about the history of connections between Britain and France - a timely and urgent project - in its transdisciplinary voyages across and between the literary, visual and musical arts. Starting from the stories of the people, objects, words and imaginaries that moved back and forth across The Channel/La Manche, the book reconfigures our understanding of transnationalism and translation in the mod...

Demonstrates how polemical literature can shed light on the theological and philosophical debates and draws attention to the exchange of ideas in a wider connected intellectual history of the period. A valuable contribution.' Sajjad H. Rizvi, University of Exeter 'A welcome addition which makes a particularly valuable contribution to the question of conversion and religious disputation at the time, with an eye to the question of whether the or...

A rich exploration of the meaning and consequences of Jacques Rancière's work in relation to music and the aesthetic The place of music in Rancière's thought has long been underestimated or unrecognised. Rancière and Music responds to this absence with a collection of 15 essays by scholars from a variety of music- and sound-related fields including an original Afterword by Rancière on the role of music in his thought and writing. Contributions...

A definitive collection of Matheron's essays on Spinoza available in English for the first time Alexandre Matheron has worked and written substantially on Spinoza since the publication of his influential 1969 masterpiece Individu et communauté chez Spinoza (Éditions de Minuit) and he is considered one of the most important interpreters of Spinoza's philosophy in the twentieth century. The 20 essays gathered here focus on the themes of ontology...

In this important book, Fischel brings us a compelling new perspective on the politics and culture of early modern India. Combining a broad sweep with careful attention to local circumstance, he brings central India's Deccan states centre-stage. He demonstrates how their history reveals plural and flexible forms of the state, and a language of vernacular politics, differing significantly from the imperial models that have long dominated our un...

Berger and Whistler provide a ground-breaking account of Schelling's first controversy with his critic A. C. A. Eschenmayer in 1801, which focused on the philosophy of nature. They argue that key Schellingian concepts, such as identity, potency and abstraction, were first forged in his early debate with Eschenmayer.

Bringing Modernity Home offers a retrospective view of the development of popular taste and the beginnings of a new phase in the rise of the consumer society in the post Second World War period.

Film and Domestic Space: Architectures, Representations, Dispositif Edited by Stefano Baschiera and Miriam De Rosa Although film and media studies have widely engaged with the different aspects of social space, domestic space in film has rarely been studied in its multiple dimensions. Drawing on a broad range of theoretical disciplines - and with case studies of directors such as Chantal Akerman, Agnès Varda, Claire Denis, Todd Haynes, Amos Gi...

An illuminating documentary history of America's most renowned intelligence agency Since its creation in 1947, the CIA has been at the heart of America's security apparatus. It has also been the subject of major national and international controversies, and been subject to accusations of poor performance and failure, most notably over the 9/11 attacks and Iraq's weapons of mass destruction. Written by intelligence scholars and experts, this bo...