Geographies of Myth and Places of Identity. The Strait of Scylla and Charybdis in the Modern Imagination, Hardback - ***

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLCAuthor(s): Marco Benoit (University College London, UK) CarboneIllustration(s): 24 bw illusNumber of pages: 280...

Exploring popular culture and national identity in post-revolutionary Iran, this accessible and innovative book based on multi-disciplinary researc...

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The debate on modernity and postmodernity has awakened interest in the importance of the spatial for cultural formations. Rob Shields has here deve...

Naturalism in the Christian Imagination explores the writings of key thinkers from early modern England who wrestled with the challenge of situatin...

The Sea! The Sea! The Shout of the Ten Thousand in the Modern Imagination - Tim Rood

On 24 May 1941 within minutes of battle being joined the pride of the Royal Navy, 'HMS Hood', had been sunk and its newest battleship outfought. Ho...

An award-winning historian's revisionary account of the early modern world, showing how apocalyptic ideas stimulated political, religious, and inte...

"Impressive. . . . Rich in cultural history and imagination. . . . To Ball, mythic writing is where the conditions of irrationality, superstition, ...

Publisher: Taylor & Francis LtdAuthor(s): Philip HubbardNumber of pages: 264Collection: Routledge RevivalsPublication date: 2019Dimensions: 225 x 1...

The search for a shared practice of storytelling around which a popular study of cognitive narratology might form need look no further than our nig...

An award-winning author shows that holiness means being radical in our ways of imagining the future, imagining each other, and imagining God, and t...

This book presents a remarkable picture of the men and machines that played such an important part in the early history of flight.Illustrations: Ap...

Reducere. Description'Beauty and the Beast - Origins of the Fairy Tales from around the World' contains seven different versions of the 'Beauty and the Beast...

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An examination of the Scottish kingdom's historic links with Ireland, and the beginnings of a Scottish national identity from c. 1290.Publisher: Bo...

Publisher: University of Notre Dame PressAuthor(s): Robert E. StillmanIllustration(s): 1 Halftones, black and whiteNumber of pages: 480Collection: ...

Literature has always played a central role in creating and disseminating culturally specific notions of citizenship, nationhood, and belonging. In...

This innovative book explores how the making of Edinburgh as an influential Enlightenment capital depended on a series of spatial processes that ex...

What is the "Mytharc", how did it arise, and how does it inform modern long-form storytelling? How does the classical hero's journey intersect with...

In late 1944, the Second World War was going badly for Japan. The Japanese strategy in Leyte was to entrap the U.S. Navy's 7th Fleet with assault f...

While the loss of sight may be understood as a disability, blind people in the Tokugawa period (1600-1868) could thrive because of disability. The ...

The idea of the separation of powers, a bedrock of modern constitutionalism, has a deeper history. David Flatto uncovers striking antecedents in th...

Publisher: Transcript VerlagAuthor(s): Gerhard VinkenNumber of pages: 290Collection: Urban StudiesPublication date: 2021Dimensions: 166 x 239 x 34C...

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What can a turn to humour offer International Relations? This book suggests that a focus on comic practice can illuminate the relationship between ...

Publisher: The University of Chicago PressAuthor(s): Amy HollywoodIllustration(s): 3 halftonesNumber of pages: 200Collection: TRIOSPublication date...

This co-authored book examines the implications of the global ascent of China on cross-Strait relations and the identity of Taiwan as a democratic ...

Reducere. KING GEORGE The Triumphs and Tragedies In The Life of George Strait THE KING OF COUNTRY MUSIC THE TRAGEDIES ---George's mother left him as a child ...

An examination of how two fundamental concepts of order influence our ideas about sovereignty, citizenship, law, and history

Reducere. From the back cover: 12 Lectures On The Creative Power of Imagination From The World's Greatest MysticFrom beginning to end, the Bible speaks only ...

This book gives an eye-opening account of the ways various political and intellectual projects have appropriated the medieval past for their own en...

Publisher: Distributed Art PublishersNumber of pages: 392Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 238 x 289 x 39Cover type: HardbackEditor(s): Ilona Katze...

As part of a series of reports in which RAND researchers examine the established concepts of deterrence and develop a framework for evaluating the ...

This study is an interdisciplinary examination of the role of sport in the formation of urban identity in Chicago. The author employs historical an...

In blurring the boundaries between fact and fiction, diplomats and travellers, English nation and Italian nation, Maura O'Connor shows us the exten...

The fascinating story of the evolution of the country house in Britain, from its Roman precursors to the presentPublisher: Yale University PressAut...

The first book to present an analysis of images of working people in Roman society and to interpret the meaning and significance of these images. W...

Reducere. The shocking true story of the United States government's quest to hide the reality of extraterrestrial contact, even at the cost of its citizens. ...

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLCAuthor(s): Deborah (University of Technology Sydney, Australia) Ascher BarnstoneIllustration(s): 41 color and 6...