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A study of the Chamba religion in two West African villages - one in Cameroon and one in Nigeria.

More than one hundred poets are brought together in this unique anthology, encompassing work from the Middle Ages to the present day in Gaelic, Scots and English.

This is an issue of the journal Architectural Heritage.

More than one hundred poets are brought together in this unique anthology, encompassing work from the Middle Ages to the present day in Gaelic, Scots and English.

How did the people of Dundee respond to the challenges of being the most economically globalized city in the world in the years before the First World War? This 'global' history of Dundee's industrial era combines economic, political and social history. It explores the significance of empire for British policy.

Examines the changing relationship between the Bible and the arts, showing how the arts portray biblical stories in various ways and through various media, and how 'the' Bible is actually multiple entities: fiercely contested translations in many languages. Generously illustrated with examples including painting, architecture and stained glass.

In concise entries from international experts, this dictionary presents the terms, categories, concepts, tropes, movements, forged through the modernist upheavals, highlighting their genealogy, their modernist 'newness', and their historical longevity.

A cross-disciplinary publication which addresses historical, cultural, economic, political and geographical themes relating to the Highlands and Islands and the north-east of Scotland.

The first collective record of the evolution of general medical practice as an academic discipline over half a century.

This book explores the principal thematic and aesthetic preoccupations in MacDiarmid's work, relating his poetry to key national and international concerns in modern culture and politics.

This is a comprehensive collection devoted to the work of Sir Walter Scott, drawing on the innovative research and scholarship which have revitalised the study of the whole range of his exceptionally diverse writing in recent years.

A guide devoted to its subject, the book draws on recent breakthroughs in research on Hogg to illuminate the urgent debates and fruitful contexts that helped to shape his writings. Essays written by an international team of scholars provide an indispensable guide to Hogg's career, and the diverse literary forms in which he wrote.

This in-depth critical assessment of the work of French psychoanalyst and literary theorist, Julia Kristeva, brings together for the first time readings both classical and new.

This book explores the relationship between democracy and republicanism, and its consequences; and articulates new theoretical insights into connections between liberty, law and democratic politics.

A collection of new and exciting essays from leading experts on a key period in American history.

What did Spinoza ever do for us? This vtitle shows how Spinoza's theory of bodies transforms our understanding of music, and how it grounds 'collective subjectivity' in contemporary politics.It deals with Spinoza's connection to literature, politics, the environment and beyond.

We are told that we live in a post ideological era; that we have moved 'beyond Left and Right'; and that we are 'all in it together'. Democracy has been reduced to the consensual administration of economic necessity. How can we make sense of this form of depoliticisation? This title examines how the post political has come to dominate governance.

Is social democracy in a terminal condition in Europe? In this book, the authors examine the fortunes of social democracy in western and east central Europe and the policy challenges in economic policy, labour markets, social welfare, public services, integration and decentralisation.

Explores the historical and theoretical relationships between democracy and republicanism, and their consequences. This book critically assesses conceptions of democracy in different republican traditions.

This collection of essays offers a fresh and new philosophical approach to the study of sex and sexuality as practicein the philosophy of Deleuze.

This collection of essays, newly available in paperback, seeks to explore Agamben's work from philosophical and literary perspectives, thereby underpinning its place within larger debates in continental philosophy.

This is the first volume to comprehensively introduce the ways in which interdisciplinary thinking across the humanities and social sciences might contribute to, critique and develop medical understanding of the human individually and collectively.

A uniquely comprehensive two-volume study of Mina Loy's relationship to the human body and soul

Do Islamic financial institutions perform better during periods of financial stress? How do Islamic financial institutions manage risk, given their unique characteristics and the need for Shari'ah compliance? This title examines the resilience of Islamic banking during the global financial crisis and the subsequent recession.

Film criticism has always been about more than aesthetics, and by staging an encounter between Deleuze's cinema project and his schizoanalysis work with Félix Guattari this volume attempts to open Deleuze's aesthetic and philosophical analysis of film into spaces that can address his cinema books as a project that is also political, historical, industrial, economic, or cartographic in nature. Cinema no longer exists solely inside the cinematic apparatus - cinema must become television, digital imagery, web broadcast, advertisement; it must become open to a field of moving images and visual culture at large, and this volume opens Deleuze's thought accordingly, inviting a range of leading scholars to question what can be done with Deleuze's cinematic analyses if we are made to think of them as a further study in schizoanalysis.Key FeaturesTom Conley explores an intersection between Deleuze and Blanchot in order develop a cartographic theorisation of film and visual culturePatricia Pisters asks what a cinematic conception of Deleuze's third synthesis of time might look like and begins to explore what she will call the NeuroimageRichard Rushton charts the appearance of a Deleuzian imaginary in the films of Jean RenoirHanjo Berressem studies actual/virtual montage in Psycho and The Birds and uncovers a schizoanalytic Hitchcock of pure optical and sound images.

Explores the generation, preservation and manipulation of genealogical knowledge. This title ranges from the Prophet's family tree to the present, ideas about kinship and descent have shaped communal and national identities in Muslim societies.

Introduces topics and debates relevant to nineteenth-century women's everyday lives, using selected primary source material to demonstrate key points. This title taps into the popularity of primary source-based activities in the schools curriculum as well as making many primary sources available to a wider readership for the first time.

These 12 essays give you new perspectives on Agamben's recent work on government and his relationship to the revolutionary tradition, opening up new ways of thinking about politics and critical theory in the post-financial crisis world.