World Literature in Theory

The Price of Literature examines the presence of theory in the nineteenth-century French novel, something Proust likened to leaving a price tag on ...

Reducere. History of Particle Theory fills an important gap existing in the literature by discussing the impressive progress in understanding the elementary ...

Radical universalism vs postcolonial theory

Pioneering study offering a 'new comparatism' - a new world-systems' approach to the 'world' in 'world literature'.Publisher: Liverpool University ...

Reducere. In What Is a World? Pheng Cheah, a leading theorist of cosmopolitanism, offers the first critical consideration of world literature's cosmopolitan ...

Contributor(s): Author: Jeffrey NealonAuthor: Susan Searls GirouxThis text involves students in understanding and using the "tools" of critical soc...

Reducere. The fifth edition of this authoritative text continues to provide expert guidance for counseling professionals working with adults who are coping w...

Reducere. "This concise and lucid volume offers a satisfying survey of all the major theories, from structuralism in the 1960s to deconstruction today, that ...

Steadily growing applications of game theory in modern science (including psychology, biology and economics) require sources to provide rapid acces...

Contributor(s): Author: Kate Bornstein"This updated edition of Bornstein's formative My Gender Workbook (1997) provides an invigorating introductio...

Reducere. Hermann Broch achieved international recognition for his brilliant use of innovative literary techniques to present the entire range of human exper...

This book explores how comics function to make meanings in the manner of a language. It outlines a framework for describing the resources and pract...

For students studying the new Language A Language and Literature syllabus for the IB Diploma. Written by an experienced, practising IB English teac...

In the sixth century BC, Anaximander of Miletus, an associate of Thales, initiated Western philosophy and science with a theory of how the world or...

In the sixth century BC, Anaximander of Miletus, an associate of Thales, initiated Western philosophy and science with a theory of how the world or...

Reducere. This is one of the first studies to describe the practice of 'performance psychology'. It blends theory and practice by integrating literature revi...

Combining the fields of evolutionary economics and the humanities, this book examines McCarthy's literary works as a significant case study demonst...

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Features sixteen authors exploring the history and culture of the intersection of Judaism and gender from the biblical world to today. Topics inclu...

Jacques Derrida's Structure, Sign, and Play is one of the most controversial and influential philosophical texts of the 20th century. Delivered at ...

DescriptionThe notion of aesthetic illusion relates to a number of art forms and media. Defined as a pleasurable mental state that emerges during t...

The leading guide to the principles and clinical applications of evidence-based medicine--updated with new examples and new chapters Revised and up...

Reducere. Sex, or the Unbearable is a dialogue between Lauren Berlant and Lee Edelman, two of our leading theorists of sexuality, politics, and culture. In j...

Important essays from one of the giants of literary criticism, including a dozen published here in English for the first timeErich Auerbach (1892-1...

Reducere. Across the Third World, people grew up reading inexpensive, beautifully-produced books from the Soviet Union - children's books, classics of world ...

The Blazing World is one of the most fascinating, unusual and astonishing pieces of literature in the English language. Written in 1666 by Margaret...

Reducere. Planning algorithms are impacting technical disciplines and industries around the world, including robotics, computer-aided design, manufacturing, ...

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Following the overthrow of the classical world picture by the findings of quantum mechanics, physicists have proposed a broad gamut of alternative ...

The aim of this book is to explain in simple language what we know and what we do not know about information and entropy -- two of the most frequen...

This book examines tragedy and tragic philosophy from the Greeks through Shakespeare to the present day. It explores key themes in the links betwee...

Argues that blackness disrupts our essential ideas of race, gender, and, ultimately, the human Rewriting the pernicious, enduring relationship betw...

Reducere. Robin Fox's study of systems of kinship and alliance has become an established classic of the social science literature. It has been praised above ...

In this meditative and haunting memoir, renowned cultural critic Jonathan Dollimore recounts a life spent dedicated to understanding the delight an...

Although in recent years the entire world has been increasingly concerned with the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, there are few truly reliable sourc...

Reducere. As Western culture struggles with its addiction to a tragically limited and negative worldview, evidence of our shaman-mystic-scientist past, persi...

Reducere. This ground-breaking book demonstrates that the decentralized decision-making processes characteristic of democracies are responsible for making th...

``It is not the well-being of individuals that makes cities great, but the well-being of the community`` Few figures in intellectual history have p...

Reducere. "Blanchot describes a world where the Absolute has finally overcome all other rivals to its authority. The State is unified, universal, and homogen...

Reducere. A leading astronomer proves that India had a thriving civilization capable of sophisticated astronomy long before Greece, Egypt, or any other world...

Reducere. On the Origin of Species, published on 24 November 1859, is a work of scientific literature by Charles Darwin which is considered to be the foundat...

Reducere. In the course of nearly thirty years of work with patients in psychiatric hospitals and private practice, Francoise Davoine and Jean-Max Gaudillier...

Reducere. DescriptionLiterary Nonfiction. Essays. Latinx Studies. How do our bodies speak for us when words don't suffice? How can we make ourselves understo...

A new, fully-revised and updated edition of the leading introduction to social movements and collective action - covers a broad range of approaches...

Reducere. This book will satisfy the demand among college majors in Finance and Financial Engineering, and mathematically-versed practitioners for descriptio...

An accessible, focused exploration of the field of political ecology The third edition of Political Ecology spans this sprawling field, using groun...

(c) Chisokudo Publications 2019Nishida, Kawabata, and the Japanese Response to Modernity explores the Japanese response to Western modernity in phi...

Reducere. This new edition provides an up-to-date coverage of important theoretical models in the scheduling literature as well as significant scheduling pro...

DescriptionThis provocative Element is on the 'state of the art' of theories that highlight policymaking complexity. It explains complexity in a wa...

A milestone in the study of culture from the father of structural anthropologyThis watershed work records Claude Levi-Strauss's search for -a human...

In An Essay Concerning Human Understanding, first published in 1690, John Locke (1632-1704) provides a complete account of how we acquire everyday,...

Reducere. Indigenous Methodologies is a groundbreaking text. Since its original publication in 2009, it has become the most trusted guide used in the study o...

DescriptionArtist, architect, poet and philosopher, Leon Battista Alberti revolutionized the history of art with his theories of perspective in On ...

Chaos exists in systems all around us. Even the simplest system can be subject to chaos, denying us accurate predictions of its behavior, and somet...

DescriptionStephanie Day Powell illuminates the myriad forms of persuasion, inducement, discontent, and heartbreak experienced by readers of Ruth. ...

Reducere. A new translation of the infamous Renaissance classic, in a striking deluxe edition The original blueprint for realpolitik, The Prince shocked sixt...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Kenneth RoseProject Quality Management: Why, What and How, Second Edition demonstrates how to implement the general methods...

The concept of the avant garde is highly contested, whether one consigns it to history or claims it for present-day or future uses. The first volum...

DescriptionThe new media landscape touches every aspect of our social, political and cultural lives. It is more important than ever, therefore, tha...

This radically original book argues for the power of ordinary language philosophy--a tradition inaugurated by Ludwig Wittgenstein and J. L. Austin,...

Find What's Lost with the Power of Horary Astrology 45 Sample Charts and Real-World Examples With nothing more than a sincerely asked question, hor...

Reducere. DescriptionMy research has revealed that there are two separate and opposing powers in Freemasonry. One, headquartered in London, subscribes to and...

To Write Like a Woman is a rare example of a feminist tackling science fictuion using postmodern theory, which makes for a much more sophisticated ...

Returning to print for the first time since the 1980s, Metamorphoses of Science Fiction is the origin point for decades of literary and theoretical...

Reducere. Sandy Abend has been a close friend of mine for more than twenty years. For decades longer I have been an admirer of his. The qualities that make S...

Reducere. "Kings Dethroned" is a history of the evolution of astronomy from the Roman Empire to the early twentieth century. From Copernicus to Einstein, thi...