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When Johnny Cash signed to Rick Rubin's record label in 1993, he was a country music legend who, like his fellow Highwaymen Willie, Waylon and Kris, remained a fondly regarded yet completely marginalized Nashville figure. This title offers an investigation of what is arguably Johnny Cash's greatest album, focusing on his enduring mythology.

Provides an insight into Heidegger's Phenomenology. This book reveals Heidegger's deep commitment to Wilhelm Dilthey and Count Yorck von Wartenburg.

A study of the 19th century French poet and critic Stephane Mallarme. It presents Mallarme as neither an aesthete in need of rare essences and unheard-of words, nor the silent and nocturnal thinker of some poem too pure to be written.

Adventurous, engaging and politically urgent, contemporary American novels have come to enjoy a particular prestige and, through university courses, film adaptations and cultural controversies, a global circulation. This book provides an introduction to the contemporary American novel focusing on contexts, key texts and criticism.

An in-depth study of the visceral slacker classic from 1987, an album that influenced enormously the nascent alternative scene.

Introduces students to the key issues in American education. This book focuses on the major problems facing American education. It offers a scholarly treatment of these problems from historical, philosophical, and sociological perspectives, bringing together relevant findings from those disciplines to analyze and illuminate a wide range of issues.

A practical handbook packed with tips, techniques and suggestions for all those working and living with learning disabled children aged 3-19.

A collection of critical essays on the American novelist Bret Easton Ellis, examining the novels of his mature period: "American Psycho" (1991), "Glamorama" (1999), and "Lunar Park" (2005). It also examines the alchemy of acclaim and disdain that accrues to Ellis, and reviews the literary and artistic significance of his work.

Explores the dynamics of television, identity, and cultural communication, providing a lens for encountering, interpreting, and judging American culture and the American identity.

Jacques Ranciere's work has defined itself through a remarkable set of philosophical differences in relation to other key figures working in the fields of politics, philosophy and aesthetics. This book offers a critically balanced response to the work of this major contemporary theorist.

An analysis of passion, moderation and virtue in Shakespearean drama from the perspective of ethical criticism.

Exploring the politics of female celebrity across a range of contemporary, historical, media and national contexts, this collection seeks to interrogate such phenomena by forging a greater conceptual, theoretical and historical dialogue between celebrity studies and critical gender studies.

Drawing on thinkers such as Montesquieu, Plato, Aristotle, and Althusius, as well as on real world examples, this book offers a fresh approach and contribution to the study of federalism that may interest students in government and intergovernmental relations, federalism, political theory, American politics, and comparative politics.

Jacques Ranciere's work has defined itself through a remarkable set of philosophical differences in relation to other key figures working in the fields of politics, philosophy and aesthetics. This book offers a critically balanced response to the work of this major contemporary theorist.

Born in Turkey, noted philosopher Ilham Dilman spent the majority of his working life teaching philosophy in the United States and Great Britain and published widely in moral philosophy and psychology, most notably on Wittgenstein and Freud. This title offers critiques of Ilham Dilman's major contemporaries.

Analyzes the rhetorical construction of the Iranian nuclear threat during the Bush presidency, and US/Iran relations more generally. This book offers an in-depth consideration of the rhetoric surrounding Iran's controversial nuclear programme. It points out the conditions that lent credibility to the Bush administration's position.

The myths of the Norse god Thor were preserved in the Icelandic Eddas, set down in the early Middle Ages. The bane of giants and trolls, Thor was worshipped as the last line of defence against all that threatened early Nordic society. This title explores the extraordinary regard in which Thor has been held since medieval times.

An examination of developments in contemporary narrative, placing them in the context of wider social, cultural and technological trends, using a case-study approach. Taking a case study approach, it traces key narrative developments in the context of a range of theoretical approaches, including multimodality, multilingualism and transliteracy.

Compares the philosophies of Rosenzweig and Heidegger to elucidate their diverging ethical paths and to indicate philosophical consequences. The author provides a close reading of some of their essential texts - "The Star of Redemption" for Rosenzweig and "Being and Time" and "The Origin of the Work of Art" for Heidegger.

Posits that the post 9/11 war on terrorism has had a profound effect on NATO's post Cold War structure and military missions. This book focuses on the decades from 1989 until 2009, during which NATO underwent two major transformations.

Described as the Mona Lisa literature and the world's first detective story, Sophocles' "Oedipus the King" is a major text from the ancient Greek world and an iconic work of world literature. This book covers the afterlife of the play in depth and provides a comprehensive guide to further reading for students.

Examines scientific discourse using a textographic framework, highlighting tensions between global and local trends in academic writing. This book contests monolingual assumptions informing scientific discourse, calling attention to emerging glocal discourses that make hybrids of the standard globalized and local academic English norms.

School leadership is undergoing significant change as headteachers respond to new opportunities and challenges offered to or imposed on them as a result of government policy. This book considers the developing nature of school leadership and the impact of new roles for headteachers inside and outside school and system leadership.

A primer on the complexities of history writing, and writing history. It challenges the view of historiography as an esoteric subject by presenting an overview of the history of historical writing from the Renaissance to the present, focusing primarily on the US and Europe.

A guide to planning, carrying out and presenting successful classroom inquiry for teachers working towards a Masters-level qualification in education, whether on a MTL programme, working towards an Education MA or carrying out teacher inquiry as part of their professional development.

Engages with the thinking of the French philosopher Paul Ricoeur (1913-2005) in order to propose innovative responses to 21st-century problems actively contributing to global conflict. This work presents an elucidation of the practical significance of Ricoeur's thinking and a contribution to resolving socio-political conflicts in the 21st century.

G I Gurdjieff (d 1949) remains an important, if controversial, figure in early 20th-century Western Esoteric thought. This book explores an introduction of Gurdjieff's discourse on spiritual transformation in the late 20th century and its relation to Sufism.

Explores the implications of our animal origins and posthuman futures for our understanding of our humanity and our relations with other species. This title investigates what it means to call ourselves human beings in relation to both our distant past and our possible futures as a species.

Offers a critical study of the reinscription of biblical parables in Victorian realist fiction. The author shows that authors such as Charles Dickens, Margaret Oliphant, and Charlotte Yonge appreciated the power of parables to deliver an ethical charge that was as unexpected as it was disruptive to conventional moral complacency.