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A unique look at how 'the nation' is represented in the literature of the Middle East, this book provides a compelling study of the construction of the nation in literary production from an interdisciplinary perspective.

This book examines the autocratic rulers and dynasties of classical Greece and Rome and the changing concepts of tyranny in political thought and culture.

This second volume completes a project, begun by Cambridge University Press, to produce an up-to-date detailed Greek flora. A team of 25 botanists from several European countries catalogue the flora and endemic species found in the Greek mountain region.

In this now classic study, Sean Burke further explores the challenges faced by an authorial theory and revisits the enigmatic borderlines between life and work, life and (authorial) death.

The Carbon Footprint Wars challenges current policies about how to deal with global warming, outlining their potentially disastrous side-effects on society and the environment and offers some radical solutions for dealing with climate change.

This volume explores the usefulness of Deleuze's thinking about our new digital and biotechnological future.

A third edition of this bestselling Media Studies Reader.

This book aims to challenge the current orthodoxy concerning how Deleuze's work is viewed, whilst also bringing illumination to bear on areas of his work that too often seem obscure, even impenetrable.

This Companion brings together an international 'Brodie set' of critics to trace the history, impact, reception and major themes of Spark's work, from her early poetry to her last novel.

This volume considers the major themes, texts and authors of Scottish literature of the twentieth and, so far, twenty-first century. Moving beyond traditional classifications, it draws on the most recent critical approaches to open up new perspectives on Scottish literature since 1900.

In this comprehensive introduction to Robert Burns detailed commentary on the artistry and critical contexts of his work is complemented by material on the cultural reception and afterlife of this most iconic of world writers.

This is the first book to take political devolution as an organising context for the presentation and discussion of main currents in contemporary Scottish poetry.

This book examines the quilts, ceramics, paintings, sculpture, installations, assemblages, daguerreotypes, photography and performance art produced by African American artists over a two hundred year period.

A serious, academically-credible yet accessible and highly-illustrated single-volume history of Edinburgh.

This book explores the iconography of Islamic art, presenting a diverse range of approaches to the subject.

Ritual, art and secrecy in Casamance, Senegal.

Language and language problems affect all of us and are an integral part of our social experience. In this foundational textbook, Professor Davies takes this simple fact as his starting point and sets out to show that applied linguistics is better understood by doing it than studying it or reading about it.

This volume combines articles on the ethics, epistemology and ontology of Plato and the influence of his thinking on Aristotle and beyond.

A chronological introduction to the work of Jean Baudrillard, with a selection of classic readings.

Explores the relationship between the Sufi and theological currents in Islamic history, underscoring aspects of tension and interaction between them.

As a writer of fiction, a literary critic, thinker and political commentator, Maurice Blanchot fulfilled some of his century's most pressing challenges. In the centenary year of his birth, this volume considers these questions from a variety of approaches, and addresses the significance of Blanchot's writing for the times to come.

This book identifies and interprets the longstanding, transatlantic dialogue between the literary imaginations of Anglo-Ireland and the Anglo-American South.

A study of the increasingly overlapping area of music and media, brought about by digitisation.

A series of studies on small national (or sub-national) cinemas

The early part of the period covered by this volume marked the centrality of the book as a vehicle of communication. The later part of the period witnesses the book's decline as a mass medium, although it retains a high cultural value in contemporary society.

A theological, sociological, anthropological, psychological and political science analysis of the causes and consequences of Islamic Political Radicalism.

A vibrant study of the rich cultural and literary landscape of mid-eighteenth Britain and the forging of 'modern' subjectivity in a time of global war.

This book represents the final definitive report on the excavations of a major, but previously neglected, castle which has one of the longest and richest archaeological sequences of any castle site in Scotland.

The Correspondence of James Boswell with James Bruce and Andrew Gibb, Overseers of the Auchinleck Estate

This is the first modernized edition of the poems of Lady Mary Wroth.