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The most comprehensive book to date on the relevant issues in Chinese film studies

Drawn from a variety of academic disciplines and perspectives, this volume approaches ancient India both historically and geographically. This work's temporal focus lies in India's ""Early Historic"" period, from the mid-first millennium BCE through the mid-first millennium CE, and the geographic focus is shifted landward rather than seaward.

The first modern translation of one of the world's earliest ethnographies

Brings together 19 scholars from a variety of fields to reflect on the promises of and challenges facing emergent `neurodisciplines' such as neuroethics, neuroeconomics, and neurohistory. It contains 14 original essays by scholars from the humanities, social sciences, and neurosciences.

Every day, coalition cabinets make policy decisions critical to international politics. Juliet Kaarbo examines the dynamics of these multiparty cabinets in parliamentary democracies in order to assess both the quality of coalition decision making and the degree to which coalitions tend to favour peaceful or military solutions.

What happened to 'race', race thinking, and racial distinctions in Germany, and Europe more broadly, after the demise of the Nazi racial state? This title investigates the after life of 'race' since 1945 and challenges the assumption among historians that it disappeared from public discourse and policy-making with the defeat of the Third Reich.

20 years after Paris Is Burning, a rare look at Ballroom culture--from the inside

This volume was conceived as a first book in SLA for advanced undergraduate or introductory master's courses that include education majors, foreign language education majors, and English majors. Both the research and pedagogy in this book are based on the newest research in the field of second language acquisition.

However, the collegial tone established in previous Commentaries between Swales & Feak and instructors has been retained.This volume contains commentaries on each of the eight units plus the two appendixes.

Coverage includes understanding the intended audience, and academic genres; the use of task-based methodology, analytic group discussion, and genre consciousness-raising; how to write summaries and critiques; and helping students position themselves as junior scholars in their academic communities.

Sheds light on the critical role that women artists have played in the evolution of the American avant-garde

Stepping back to examine the relationship between James Baldwin and queer theory, Brim unveils new critical insights that their complicated pairing provides

A revealing exploration of Northern proslavery sentiment during the period before the Civil War

A study of Oscar Wilde's Salome in modernist and postmodernist literature and culture

A poetry handbook that places poststructuralist and postmodern ways of thinking alongside formalist modes, making explicit points of overlap and tension that are usually tacit. Each of Natasha Saje's nine essays addresses a topic of central concern to readers and writers of poetry while also making an argument about poetic language and ideology.

Analyzes and synthesizes modern critical acting theories, their historical evolution, and their relationship to one another, enabling students, teachers, and professionals to comprehend the different aesthetic possibilities for actors. This work identifies six categories of twentieth-century acting.

Subverting assumptions that American musical theatre is steeped in nostalgia, cheap sentiment, misogyny, and homophobia, this book shows how musicals of the 1950s and early 1960s celebrated strong women characters who defied the era's gender expectations.

Since the 1970s the ascendancy of minority identities based on gender, race, and sexuality has transformed the landscape of cultural theory, embracing greater political urgency and relevance. This book provides evidence of the value and utility that a disability studies perspective can bring to these and other key questions.

A valuable storehouse of information and the first translation of the work into English

Includes essays that aim to capture the versatility and verve of technology writing. This work explores a wide range of topics - from ""crowdsourcing"" to the online habits of urban moms to the digital future of movie production.