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  | | A Historical Companion to Postcolonial Thought in English(9th Edition) by David Johnson, Prem Poddar, Edinburgh University Press, Professor Prem Poddar Paperback, 544 Pages, Published 2007 by Columbia University Press ISBN-13: 978-0-231-13507-8, ISBN: 0-231-13507-6 "From the triumphs of nationalism and political and cultural independence to the continuing problems of internal strife and poverty, postcolonial nations have grappled with a range of political, intellectual, and economic issues. This comprehensive volume introduces the major events, figures, and movements that have shaped the postcolonial history of the Anglophone world. With entries from more than fifty leading scholars arranged alphab ..." |
 | | Dream I Tell You(1st Edition) (European Perspectives: A Series in Social Thought and Cultural Criticism) by Hélène Cixous, Beverley Bie Brahic, Edinburgh University Press, HãLãNe Cixous, Hacla"Ne Cixous, Húlþne Cixous Hardcover, 160 Pages, Published 2006 by Columbia University Press ISBN-13: 978-0-231-13882-6, ISBN: 0-231-13882-2 ""I used to feel guilty at night. I live in, I always used to live in two countries, the diurnal one and the continuous very tempestuous nocturnal one.... What a delight to head off with high hopes to night's court, without any knowledge of what may happen! Where shall I be taken tonight! Into which country? Into which country of countries?"―Hélène Cixous, from Dream I Tell YouFor years, Hélène Cixous has been writing down fragments of h ..." |
 | | Descartes' Meditations on First Philosophy by . by Kurt Brandhorst, Edinburgh University Press Hardcover, 224 Pages, Published 2010 by Indiana University Press ISBN-13: 978-0-253-35615-4, ISBN: 0-253-35615-6 |
 | | A Historical Companion to Postcolonial Thought in English by Prem Poddar, David Johnson, Edinburgh University Press Hardcover, 544 Pages, Published 2005 by Columbia University Press ISBN-13: 978-0-231-13506-1, ISBN: 0-231-13506-8 "From the triumphs of nationalism and political and cultural independence to the continuing problems of internal strife and poverty, postcolonial nations have grappled with a range of political, intellectual, and economic issues. This comprehensive volume introduces the major events, figures, and movements that have shaped the postcolonial history of the Anglophone world. With entries from more than fifty leading scholars arranged alphab ..." |
 | | Women's Writing of the Early Modern Period, 1588-1688(1st Edition) An Anthology (Women's Writing Anthologies): An Anthology (Women's Writing Anthologies) by Stephanie Hodgson-Wright Paperback, 352 Pages, Published 2002 by Edinburgh University Press ISBN-13: 978-0-7486-1097-6, ISBN: 0-7486-1097-9 |
 | | Force Short of War in Modern Conflict(1st Edition) Jus Ad Vim by Jai Galliott, Edinburgh University Press Paperback, 296 Pages, Published 2019 by Edinburgh University Press ISBN-13: 978-1-4744-4422-4, ISBN: 1-4744-4422-9 "This book explores the overarching phenomenon of how force short of war is being used in modern conflict, and how it impacts just war theory. It shows that we need to bring the rules of war into alignment with increasingly digital means of conducting kinetic warfare through the force short of war paradigm.The use of force short of war is now commonplace, in large part owing to casualty averseness and the explosion of emerging technologi ..." |
 | | Morphological Perspectives Papers in Honour of Greville G. Corbett by Matthew Baerman, Oliver Bond, Andrew Hippisley, Edinburgh University Press Hardcover, 474 Pages, Published 2019 by Edinburgh University Press ISBN-13: 978-1-4744-4600-6, ISBN: 1-4744-4600-0 "In a field dominated by syntactic perspectives, it is easy to overlook the words that are the irreducible building blocks of language. Morphological Perspectives takes words as the starting point for any questions about linguistic structure: their form, their internal structure, their paradigmatic extensions, and their role in expressing and manipulating syntactic configurations. With a team of authors that run the typological gamut of ..." |
 | | ReFocus The Films of Elaine May by Alexandra Heller-Nicholas, Dean Brandum, Edinburgh University Press Hardcover, 256 Pages, Published 2019 by Edinburgh University Press ISBN-13: 978-1-4744-4018-9, ISBN: 1-4744-4018-5 "Spanning from obscurity to notoriety, the films of director, screenwriter, actor and comic Elaine May have recently seen a long-overdue renaissance. Although she made only four films - A New Leaf (1971), The Heartbreak Kid (1972), Mikey and Nicky (1976) and Ishtar (1987) - and never reached the level of acclaim of her frequent collaborator Mike Nichols, May's work is as enigmatic, sophisticated and unceasingly fascinating as her own com ..." |
 | | Concise Scots Dictionary & Thesaurus PK Book The Fast by Edinburgh University Press Paperback, Published by Edinburgh University Press ISBN-13: 978-1-84579-714-0, ISBN: 1-84579-714-0 |
 | | Philosophy, Rights and Natural Law(1st Edition) Essays in Honour of Knud Haakonssen by Ian Hunter, Richard Whatmore, Edinburgh University Press Hardcover, 384 Pages, Published 2019 by Edinburgh University Press ISBN-13: 978-1-4744-4922-9, ISBN: 1-4744-4922-0 "A celebratory collection of essays on philosophy, rights and natural law, inspired by the work of Knud HaakonssenOver his long and illustrious career, Knud Haakonssen has explored the role of natural law in formulating doctrines of obligation and rights in accordance with the interests of early modern polities and churches. A hallmark of his approach has been to show how natural law in early modern Europe was not a unified doctrine, but ..." |
 | | Joe Brainard's Art by Yasmine Shamma, Edinburgh University Press Hardcover, 224 Pages, Published 2019 by Edinburgh University Press ISBN-13: 978-1-4744-3666-3, ISBN: 1-4744-3666-8 "Joe Brainard's work occupies the literal margins of New York school poetry, while also figuratively influencing its aesthetic margins, shaping the school from both within and without. Brainard was not only an important illustrator and friend to many New York school poets, he was also a respected collage artist, miniature artist, cartoonist, avid letter writer and serious poet. As the canon of avant-garde American poetry warmly embraces ..." |
 | | James Benning's Environments(1st Edition) Politics, Ecology, Duration by Daniele Rugo, Nikolaj Lübecker, Edinburgh University Press, Lã1/4Becker Nikolaj Hardcover, 224 Pages, Published 2018 by Edinburgh University Press ISBN-13: 978-1-4744-1794-5, ISBN: 1-4744-1794-9 "For more than forty years, the experimental filmmaker James Benning has been engaged in a systematic investigation of the relations between man, landscape, and the filmic medium, and during the last decade it has become increasingly clear how much these investigations have to offer to contemporary debates about ecology, the age of the anthropocene and the potentialities of new digital technologies. In James Benning's Environments a rang ..." |
 | | Refocus the Films of William Castle (Hardcover) by Leeder Murray, Edinburgh University Press Hardcover, Published 2018 by Edinburgh University Press, United Kingdom ISBN-13: 978-1-4744-2426-4, ISBN: 1-4744-2426-0 |
 | | A Thousand Plateaus and Philosophy(1st Edition) by Henry Somers-Hall, Jeffrey A. Bell, James Williams, Edinburgh University Press Paperback, 320 Pages, Published 2018 by Edinburgh University Press ISBN-13: 978-0-7486-9728-1, ISBN: 0-7486-9728-4 "A collaborative close reading of A Thousand Plateaus by some of the world's leading Deleuze and Guattari scholarsThis volume brings together a team of international specialists on Deleuze and Guattari to provide in-depth critical studies of each plateau of their major work, A Thousand Plateaus. It combines an overview of the text with deep scholarship and brings a renewed focus on the philosophical significance of their project.A Thousa ..." |
 | | Replication in the Long Nineteenth Century Re-makings and Reproductions by Julie Codell, Linda K. Hughes, Edinburgh University Press Hardcover, 320 Pages, Published 2018 by Edinburgh University Press ISBN-13: 978-1-4744-2484-4, ISBN: 1-4744-2484-8 "This landmark study explores replication as a nineteenth-century phenomenon. Replication, defined by Victorian artists as subsequent versions of a first version, similar but changed, occurred in art, literature, the press, merchandising, and historical reproductions in architecture and museums. Replication also shaped scientific concepts in biology and geology and scientific practices in laboratories that repeated experiments as part of ..." |
 | | Persian Art(1st Edition) Image-making in Eurasia by Yuka Kadoi, Edinburgh University Press Hardcover, 288 Pages, Published 2018 by Edinburgh University Press ISBN-13: 978-1-4744-1115-8, ISBN: 1-4744-1115-0 "An immensely rich visual culture has always existed in modern-day Iran and the surrounding regions from late antiquity, often shaped by encounters with different zones of contact and patronised by ruling elites and dynasties with a myriad of artistic and cultural traditions, needs and agendas. This book explores these encounters and the art they produced. Covering the multifaceted aspects of art, architecture and material culture of the ..." |
 | | B-Movie Gothic International Perspectives (Traditions in World Cinema) by Justin D. Edwards, Johan Höglund, Edinburgh University Press Hardcover, 256 Pages, Published 2018 by Edinburgh University Press ISBN-13: 978-1-4744-2344-1, ISBN: 1-4744-2344-2 "Following the Second World War, low-budget B-movies that explored and exploited Gothic narratives and aesthetics became a significant cinematic expression of social and cultural anxieties. Influencing new trends in European, Asian and African filmmaking, these films carried on the tradition established by the Gothic novel, and yet they remain part of a largely neglected subject. B-Movie Gothic: International Perspectives examines the in ..." |
 | | Cicero's Law(Reprint) Rethinking Roman Law of the Late Republic by Edinburgh University Press Paperback, 256 Pages, Published 2018 by Edinburgh University Press ISBN-13: 978-1-4744-3253-5, ISBN: 1-4744-3253-0 "This volume brings together an international team of scholars to debate Cicero's role in the narrative of Roman law in the late Republic: a role that has been minimised or overlooked in previous scholarship. This reflects current research that opens a larger and more complex debate about the nature of law and of the legal profession in the last century of the Roman Republic." |
 | | STARZ Spartacus(Reprint) Reimagining an Icon on Screen (Screening Antiquity) by Professor Antony Augoustakis, Monica Cyrino, Edinburgh University Press Paperback, 268 Pages, Published 2018 by Edinburgh University Press ISBN-13: 978-1-4744-3256-6, ISBN: 1-4744-3256-5 "Gladiator, rebel slave leader, revolutionary: a collection of essays dissecting four seasons of STARZ Spartacus The figure of Spartacus often serves as an icon of resistance against oppression in modern political movements, while his legend has inspired numerous receptions over the centuries in many different popular media. This new essay collection brings together a wide range of scholarly perspectives on the four seasons of the acclai ..." |
 | | Hollywood and the Great Depression(Reprint) American Film, Politics and Society in the 1930s by Iwan Morgan, Philip John Davies, Edinburgh University Press Paperback, 296 Pages, Published 2018 by Edinburgh University Press ISBN-13: 978-1-4744-3192-7, ISBN: 1-4744-3192-5 "In the popular imagination, 1930s Hollywood was a dream factory producing escapist movies to distract the American people from the greatest economic crisis in their nation's history. But while many films of the period conform to this stereotype, there were a significant number that promoted a message, either explicitly or implicitly, in support of the political, social and economic change broadly associated with President Franklin D. Ro ..." |
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