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French philosopher Alain Badiou (1937) has caused a worldwide stir in academic and non academic circles, partly explained by his work's incredible breadth of engagement. In this dictionary, the 200 entries provide a full survey of the extent and depth of his work.

Relates developments in fiction, poetry and drama to social change - from the new generation of London novelists such as Martin Amis and Ian McEwan to the impact of feminism in the writing of Angela Carter and Jeanette Winterson.

This is the first book to consider the contemporary Scottish Labour party, analysing it in the context of Scottish politics, Scotland, and the UK, as well as drawing on international comparisons.

Lindsay Paterson draws together for the first time a collection of the key arguments for and against the reinstating of a Scottish Parliament.

A comprehensive, fully illustrated volume about the burial monuments of the early inhabitants of the Central Highlands of Scotland - an indispensable reference source for the neolithic period in this area of Scotland.

This interdisciplinary collection explores a diverse range of the multiple and changing forms of masculinities from the late eleventh to the late twentieth century.

This textbook offers a chronological introduction to the New Deal which incorporates material on events and developments outside as well as within Washington DC and on popular reaction to the policies

Tracing the background to the Treaty of Union of 1707, this book explains why it happened and assesses its impact on Scottish society, including the bitter struggle with the Jacobites for acceptance of the union in the two decades that followed its inauguration. It challenges dominant view that the Scots were 'bought and sold for English gold'.

Examines what is distinct, what is shared and what is universal in Greek narrative tradition. This title has two closely related objectives: to define what is characteristically Greek in Greek narratives of different periods and genres, and to see how narrative techniques and concerns develop over time.

Showcases the impact which Achaemenid and Hellenistic rule had on Bactria and Bactrian identity during the period from ca 546 to ca 135 BCE. This title focuses on the relation of Bactria and the Bactrians with Sodgiana, the Sogdians and the Scythians. It includes in depth analysis of the connection between Bactria and the Zoroastrian faith.

This collection features work by some of the most important and innovative thinkers and writers in the field, including a new poem by Assia Djebar.

Timothy Chappell surveys the central topics in philosophy, providing an historical and philosophical map of the major themes.

Offers a series of edited collections forging connections between contemporary critical theorists and a wide range of research areas, such as critical and cultural theory, gender studies, film, literature, music, philosophy and politics.

Bhikhu Parekh's contribution to the political theory of multiculturalism is widely regarded as amongst the most original and significant. In this book, some of the leading theorists of multiculturalism revisit aspects of Parekh's work both to underline its continuing importance and the vitality of multiculturalist theory.

Forty-six key passages from Plato in an entirely new, modern translation. Arranged thematically, the main themes and contexts of the selections are introduced, while notes and cross-references aid reading of the individual passages.

Guides you through Paul Virilio concepts with headwords including Accident, Body, Cinema, Deterritorialization and Eugenics. This title helps you explore the edge of his pioneering thought in cultural and social theory with the entries on Foreclosure, Grey Ecology, Polar Inertia and the Overexposed City.

Guides you through Paul Virilio's concepts with headwords including Accident, Body, Cinema, Deterritorialization and Eugenics. This title helps you explore the edge of Virilio's pioneering thought in cultural and social theory with the entries on Foreclosure, Grey Ecology, Polar Inertia and the Overexposed City.

The influential readings collected for this volume reflect not just the textual and discursive nature of colonial and postcolonial discourse in relation to gender, but also the material effects of the postcolonial condition and practices developed in relation to it.

Jean Luc Nancy (1940), Professor of Political Philosophy and Media Aesthetics at the European Graduate School, is an influential French philosopher, most famous for his work The Inoperative Community. This dictionary equips students and scholars alike with insights into the philosophical and theoretical background to his work.

What was life like in Scotland between 4000 and 2000 BC? Where were people living? Why did they spend so much time building extravagant ritual monuments? This volume presents fresh research and radical new interpretations of the pits, postholes, ditches, rubbish clumps, human remains and broken potsherds left behind by our Neolithic forebears.

Archaeologists show us how the Neolithic human lived in mainland Scotland, with new research, first publication of key datasets and radical reinterpretation of both burial practices and ceramics across 3rd millennium BC mainland Scotland.

Wyndham Lewis (1882-1957) was one of the most innovative writers and painters of his time. An indefatigable critic of ideology, politics, and culture, Lewis was also one of modernism's key creative artists and a unique twentieth-century thinker. This book offers a scholarly companion to his written work.

Features works of Wyndham Lewis as writer, novelist, and critic. This guide explains about the role of his work in the formation, development, and criticism of modernism. It offers a biographical overview.

Examines the structural similarities between English mercantile treatises and drama c1600-1642. This book analyses the representational conventions of plays and mercantile treatises written between the chartering of the English East India Company in 1600 and the closing of the public playhouses at the outset of the English Civil War in 1642.

A collection of newly commissioned critical essays that reads across and between New Yorker departments, from sports writing to short stories, cartoons to reporters at large, poetry to annals of business. It offers multiple perspectives on American writing and periodical culture at specific moments in 20th century history.

Looks at how Deleuze challenges architecture as a discipline, how architecture contributes to philosophy and how we can come to understand the politics of space of our increasingly networked world. This title shows Deleuze's influence on the emerging biotechnological paradigm and practices of participatory design.

Politicians and the press exploit the rhetorical strength of the word 'evil' in phrases such as 'evil regimes' or 'Axis of Evil'. But does it have any role in political theory? This title explores the actual and possible roles of evil in current-day international politics.

An exploration of the juxtaposition between cultural attitudes and national policies on the Scottish environment which offers a fascinating contrast between the landscape in imagination and in practical policy.

Provides overviews of the main writers and key themes of Anglophone Jewish fiction. This title highlights the wealth of diversity in this field, identifying and exploring key themes including immigration, Diaspora, the Holocaust, Judaism, assimilation, anti Semitism and Zionism. It is discussed in relation to theoretical frameworks.

Scotland is at the heart of modern sustainable upland management. Large estates cover vast areas of mountain environment in Scotland, with a deeply historical and unique tradition of land ownership and land use. This title offers a critical study of Scotland's land use and ownership.