Birth and Death in British Culture. Liminality, Power, and Performance, Unabridged ed, Hardback - ***

Why discuss birth and death when they lie outside discourse? And why look at them together when they are so much unlike each other, one the moment ...

Part memoire, part ethnography, readers are taken through moments of life, death, and midwifery in the Gurage lands of Ethiopia.Publisher: Pinter &...

The Vietnam War is evolving from contemporary memory into history. Fifty years on, it still serves as a benchmark in the history of war reporting a...

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLCAuthor(s): Dr Roopa FarookiNumber of pages: 240Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 308 x 254 x 25Cover type: Hard...

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLCAuthor(s): Jimi FamurewaNumber of pages: 320Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 145 x 224 x 31Cover type: Hardbac...

The aim of this volume is to record the resurgent influence of Language Learning in Translation Studies and the various contemporary ways in which ...

This book examines how the expansion of a steam-powered Royal Navy from the second half of the nineteenth century had wider ramifications across th...

Who Defines Me: Negotiating Identity in Language and Literature is a collection of insightful articles that represent an interdisciplinary study of...

From the award-winning author of King Leopold's Ghost, the dramatic story of the men who ignited the first great human rights movementPublisher: Pa...

Elephants are as unique as people. They can be clever and curious or headstrong and impulsive, shy or sociable. Learn to know them as individuals a...

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Ethics has become a particularly relevant topic for discussion and a subject for serious study. It has a very long tradition, of course; but nowada...

Cloud computing is one of these new areas, where cryptography is expected to unveil its power by bringing striking new features to the cloud. This ...

This book explores the legacy of colonial heritage on Nigerian political activities and journalistic practices.Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publis...

As chaste women devoted to God, nuns are viewed as the purest of the pure. Yet, as females who reject courtship, sex, marriage, child bearing, and ...

The specter of the apocalypse has always been a semiotic fantasy: only at the end of all things will their true meaning be revealed. Our long roman...

In 1997, when the author began research in Peru, she observed a profound disconnect between the birth care desires of health personnel and those of...

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Publisher: Artech House PublishersAuthor(s): Krishnendu ChakrabartyNumber of pages: 210Publication date: 2010Dimensions: 164 x 235 x 18Cover type: ...

The benefits of the digital age are huge. Our lives have been transformed, both in the developed and the undeveloped world. However, this transform...

This book addresses the topic of geospatial computing in smartphones, including positioning, mobile Geographic Information Systems (GIS) and smart ...

This book offers a substantial and up-dated discussion and presentation of the new European "frontiers" related to complex and controversial social...

This book highlights that masquerade can be regarded as a distinct genre of performance activity that employs elements of the carnivalesque, circus...

Sure to be hailed alongside H is for Hawk and The Hare with Amber Eyes, an exceptional work that is at once an astonishing journey across countries...

This volume covers a variety of authors and topics related to the New Criticism school of the 1920s-1950s in America. Contributors trace the histor...

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Popular anthologies hold that the Romantic Era in Great Britain ended promptly in 1832 and that the early Twentieth Century was the time of Moderni...

Can Christianity be reconciled with Darwin's theory of evolution by natural selection? What relevance do the biological sciences have to religious ...

Women's Utopian and Dystopian Fiction explores the genres of utopian and dystopian recent fiction. It is about how this literature of both imagined...

Social movements continue to provide rich fodder for social researchers in the twenty-first century.Publisher: Cambridge Scholars PublishingNumber ...

Yesterday's Words: Contemporary, Current and Future Lexicography reflects the main issues of scholarly discussion in the fields of historical lexic...

Reducere. The Birth and Death of Meaning, Paperback

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Examines the teaching of the theology of Christ's ascension in Anglo-Saxon literature, offering the only comprehensive examination of how patristic...

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This book is a passionate rendezvous with cinema, the most collaborative of art forms. The essays here explore the possibilities offered by a close...

The nineteenth century is too often invoked as moment where Britain alone exerted global dominance, without the need for European collaboration. Th...

Researching the Self originated in a conference held at the University of Amsterdam in 2005, where scholars from various academic backgrounds prese...

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLCAuthor(s): Louisa TregerNumber of pages: 304Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 144 x 222 x 31Cover type: Hardbac...

Reducere. Beyond the Brain seriously challenges the existing neurophysiological models of the brain. After three decades of extensive research on those non-o...

Byron at the Theatre is a collection of essays by a wide spectrum of European scholars, dealing with Byron's dramas in a variety of ways.Publisher:...

Stories from various cultures and periods of time can be identified which deal with a concept of soul loss that is essentially shamanic. In shamani...