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Deals with the challenges and opportunities faced by Muslims and the wider society in Europe following the Madrid train bombings of 2003 and the London Transport attacks of 2007. This title offers an assessment of the influence and impact of the Islamic scholar and activist Fethullah Gulen, and those who are inspired by him, on contemporary Islam.

A critical exploration of the pedagogical and practical issues that are raised when Arts academics engage in primary and secondary schools outreach. It addresses the numerous issues raised when Arts academics become involved with schools, bringing together practitioners from a range of fields within the Arts to share experiences and insights.

We have developed into a culture that is over-reliant upon pharmaceutical and recreational drugs; where drugs are incessantly advertised and promoted to us via our mass media. This book examines this parallel, promoting a critical awareness of the significant impact of drugs and media on individuals, society and our wider human culture.

A work in comparative literature and philosophy that offers a fresh and important way of thinking the ethical capacity of human subjectivity. It posits a universal ethics based neither on rational mental structures nor on moral principles, but on the extra-rational powers of the imagination.

Examines the deep roots of the American model of schooling to highlight the problems that stem from the clash of government and education.

The language of science fiction, and of fantasy, has a steep challenge: that of the creation of other worlds, societies and characters that are alien to us in diverse and fundamental ways, but still compelling and knowable. This book steps away from the issues of race, gender and politics that have saturated sci-fi and fantasy criticism.

Exploration of the global spread of Eastern Orthodox practices from local settings and the resulting divergence of interpretations as a struggle over larger issues.

A book-length exploration of the role of online chat in supporting the teaching and learning of foreign languages. It takes a Conversation Analysis approach, which is new to online Second Language Acquisition. It provides insights into how native speakers and learners pursue the learning of foreign language and culture during online text chat.

Using their tried-and-tested English Method training, the authors unpack the core learning issues, such as differentiation and the development of thinking skills, suitable for initial teacher training programmes. They link theory and practice, with direct links to key theorists and ideas about learning.

This is volume 16 in the Major Conservative and Libertarian Thinkers series.

Diary of a Seducer records Johannes''s discovery of a girl with the Shakespearean name Cordelia, whom he sets out to control. Intricately, meticulously, cunningly, the seduction proceeds. No detail is too small to escape Johannes. "She sits on the sofa by the tea table and I sit on a chair at her side. This position has an intimate quality and at the same time a detaching dignity." Less erotic than an intellectual depiction of seduction, Diary of a Seducer shows the casuist Kierkegaard in what he characterized as the aesthetic mode. A new introduction by Michael Dirda puts this influential novella into high relief.

A rich selection of Greek and Roman original sources in translation.

Provides a historical survey of Greek cinema from its very beginning (1905) until today (2010). This title focuses on the attempts to establish a national cinema useful to social cohesion and national identity. It analyses the problems and the dilemmas that many Greek directors faced in order to establish a distinct Greek cinema language.

Offers an introduction to the main branches of ethics: meta-ethics, normative ethics and applied ethics. This book provides students with a comprehensive and philosophically introduction to the major thinkers, issues and debates. It includes coverage of key aspects of value-theory and key issues concerning agency and moral responsibility.

Explores the victimization of children as well as children who use violence towards others and presents an overview of key developments in research, policy and practice on children and violence in the context of the recent major shift in thinking from 'child protection' towards 'safeguarding' and evidencing better outcomes.

A collection of essays, demonstrating how comic books can be used as primary sources in the teaching and understanding of American history. It examines the ways in which comic books can be used to understand the history of the United States. It also demonstrates the different ways in which comic books can be used as resources.

Provides an introduction to Deleuze in the field of politics by putting his thought directly into dialogue with contemporary debates in political theory. This book focuses on Deleuze's contribution to the debates in political theory.

A study of the phenomenon of vibration and its history and reception through culture. It explores a range of sensory experience and makes a contribution to this field by focusing not simply on the senses as such, but on the material experience - vibration - that underpins them.

As a philosophical approach, phenomenology is concerned with structure in how phenomena are experienced. This title uses phenomenological insights to explain the significance of style in modern art, most notably in Impressionism, Expressionism, Cezanne and Cubism, Duchampian conceptualism and abstract art.

Organized around five key themes, this title offers a survey of the affective turn in contemporary political science. It reflects the affective turn in the analysis of political world. It intends to advance the debate on the relation between politics and the emotions.

Explains how to read, interpret and write about the world around us in a critical and informed way. This book answers the needs of students of composition, rhetoric, creative writing, stylistics or literature. It teaches the reader how to perform semiotic analysis, and formulates a logical set of instructions on how to write it up.

During wartime, embassies assume different roles and face various situations. An embassy might represent a belligerent state while being situated in an enemy, an allied, or a neutral state. This book offers an examination of how embassies work and cope during wartime, with a focus on the experiences of the British, American, and Indian embassies.

Intertwines a dual emphasis on evolving institutional priorities and major shifts in artistic production.

Gilles Deleuze's relationship with theology is a complex one. This book shows the ways in which Deleuze's thought can in fact advance issues in political and feminist theology in particular, exploring the important theological and spiritual aspirations contained in Deleuze's philosophy itself, as part of his lifelong quest for the Absolute.

Presents a critique of the increasing potential of science and technology to destroy the roots of culture and the value of the individual human being, from the perspective of Michel Henry's philosophy of life. This book develops a critique of capitalism, technology and education and provides insight into the political implications of Henry's work.

Highly original research into Iran's unofficial rock music scene in an ever-changing and notoriously unstable political climate.

Cutting edge introduction to news discourse, offering an authoritative guide to analyzing language and images and in print and online.