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Positions dance studies in the realm of scientific modernity~Evolves definitions of dance to include dance-like gesture~Looks at movement and mania histories through a critical theoretical lens~Transforms language of movement disorders and disability studies

Positions dance studies in the realm of scientific modernity~Evolves definitions of dance to include dance-like gesture~Looks at movement and mania histories through a critical theoretical lens~Transforms language of movement disorders and disability studies

Greatly enriches our understanding of the religious dynamic of this period~Analyzes the Essenes and other contemporary groups as a secret society

Presents a selection of the best work in the subject~At the intersection of philosophy, political science, and jurisprudence~An essential resource for anyone working in this lively and compelling field~Stellar international line-up of contributors

Presents a selection of the best work in the subject~At the intersection of philosophy, political science, and jurisprudence~An essential resource for anyone working in this lively and compelling field~Stellar international line-up of contributors

Accurate translation of this work into English~Provides detailed and extensive commentary on the text~Includes editor's introduction to Hegel's work

Illuminates the experience of women prisoners in postwar communist Poland~Draws on the personal testimonies of former political prisoners~Explores interrogation protocols and cell spy reports

Clearly and systematically presents extensive empirical data from more than twenty Romance languages~Includes discussion of non-standard Romance varieties such as Italo-Romance dialects and Valencian Catalan~Provides a clear outline of both the empirical methodology and the theoretical approaches adopted

Offers a detailed formal description of the structure of Michif with extensive examples~Accessible to linguists from all theoretical and descriptive backgrounds~Explores the validity of 'mixed language' as a category~Proposes a new classification of Michif as an Algonquian language with French contact influence

The first book to describe Islam as an organically evolving faith that acquired an important political niche in Central Asia, despite Soviet pressure~Relies on recently declassified Central Asian archives

The first account of the longest ritual murder investigation in the modern world~A new explanation of ritual murder accusations, emphasizing the power of a shared belief in magic and the supernatural in the dissemination of the tale~Exploration of one of the most fundamental contradictions of Jewish life in the Russian Empire: that, no matter how widespread ritual murder beliefs may have been, the largest Jewish community in the world continue...

Advances the controversial argument that democracy sometimes comes through a military coup~Explains and analyzes the military coups that happen regularly around the globe~Expands on an article that, when first published, drew critical attention from Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan

Offers wealth of new archival sources of American Indian language texts~Provides new account of the impact of Euro-indigenous language encounters on philosophy, religion, and literature~Demonstrates centrality of the occluded figure of the Indian in American literary history~Argues that the knowledge exchanged between Europeans and indigenous populations transformed understandings of language

Features systematic scrutiny of the actual spontaneous speech behavior of hundreds of bilingual individuals in the context of their bilingual speech communities, including analysis of tens of thousands of tokens of spontaneously produced borrowed words~Showcases French-English mixing, and validates the results on a dozen other language pairs, ensuring their broad applicability~Demonstrates that integration, the major mechanism underlying borro...

Features systematic scrutiny of the actual spontaneous speech behavior of hundreds of bilingual individuals in the context of their bilingual speech communities, including analysis of tens of thousands of tokens of spontaneously produced borrowed words~Showcases French-English mixing, and validates the results on a dozen other language pairs, ensuring their broad applicability~Demonstrates that integration, the major mechanism underlying borro...

An original study of ideas of union within the Scottish literary tradition from the early modern period to the present~New readings of canonical Scottish and English literature~Features some of today's leading literary scholars and historians of Britain~Re-examines historic assumptions about national identity

Designed specifically as a first encounter to economics for readers with no prior knowledge of the subject~Technical content is kept to a minimum~Emphasises the universal principles underlying economics

Insightful study of a rarely researched organization - a hospice~Ethnographic approach, including participant observation, extended interviews, and group meetings~Focuses on 'care and compassion', an area considered of increasing importance

Brings to Anglophone audiences a text that is the crystallization of the Confucian classical studies in Korea, and one of the ground-breaking works in all Confucian legacies in East Asia~Provides commentary, extensive and detailed notes, and the original Chinese characters for the key terms in Confucian philosophy to which Dasan refers~Includes select passages in English of the Confucian works to which Dasan refers

An innovative account of autobiographies and memoirs written by novelists from 1900-1950 that presents new ways of thinking about literary Modernism~Offers fresh critical readings of autobiographies by seven canonical Modernist writers: Joseph Conrad, Ford Madox Ford, Henry James, Wyndham Lewis, Gertrude Stein, H.G. Wells, and Edith Wharton~Places the writing of these texts within the biographical contexts of these authors' own lives, opening ...