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Are we allowed to choose where we belong? What pressures make us feel that we should belong somewhere? This book brings together four major poets--Heaney, Mahon, Zagajewski, and Hartwig--who ask...

Koji Kondo's Super Mario Bros. (1985) score redefined video game music. With under three minutes of music, Kondo put to rest an era of bleeps and bloops-the sterile products of a lab...

Explores how Kraftwerk impacted so significantly the broader music world from the relative solitude of their Kling Klang studios in Düsseldorf.Author: Steve Tupai FrancisPublisher: Bloomsbury...

Whatever people think about Kubrick's work, most would agree that there is something distinctive, even unique, about the films he made: a coolness, an intellectual clarity, a critical edginess, and...

This pioneering study provides a critical appraisal of pop star Kylie Minogue. It argues that a study of this mononymous global pop icon and celebrity - as "Kylie," she takes her place alongside...

Kyoto's Gion Festival : A Social HistoryAuthor: Mark TeeuwenPublisher: Bloomsbury AcademicPublication Date: Aug 22, 2024Number of Pages: NA pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10:...

La Poesia Espanola del Siglo XX Y La Tradicion LiterariaAuthor: T. J. DadsonPublisher: Bloomsbury AcademicPublication Date: Aug 08, 2003Number of Pages: 200 pagesBinding: Paperback or...

The land reform carried out in Japan during the period of American Occupation is often spoken of as one of the most successful of the post-war reforms. It was certainly one of the most thorough going...

The challenges and opportunities offered to British farming by the profound changes of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries make these years of outstanding interest to the agricultural historian...

Regions of the world with greatest biodiversity are shown to exhibit greatest linguistic diversity, strongly suggesting that the relationship between language and ecology is both symbiotic and...

Language Learner Strategies combines principles with research and classroom practice, providing a new view of language learning to inform policy and teaching methodology. Divided into three parts,...

Language Lost and Found takes as its starting-point Iris Murdoch's claim that "we have suffered a general loss of concepts." By means of a thorough reading of Iris Murdoch's philosophy in the light...

Language Lost and Found takes as its starting-point Iris Murdoch's claim that "we have suffered a general loss of concepts." By means of a thorough reading of Iris Murdoch's philosophy in the light...

This book challenges monoglossic ideologies, traditional language pedagogies and dominant forms of knowledge construction by foregrounding multilingual and multicultural students' language...

Underpinned by the ideas of philosophers from Plato to Ockham, and from Locke to Vygotsky, Nikola Kompa use theories within the philosophy of language, mind, and cognitive science and draws on...

This book offers a multi-dimensional analysis of the experiences of faculty, students, and staff at a Canadian university that emphasizes international education, providing an ethnographic lens for...

A number of factors-new research into human and animal consciousness, a heightened awareness of the methods and consequences of intensive farming, and modern concerns about animal welfare and...

Providing an up-to-date, multi-perspective and cross-linguistic account of the centrality of the expressive function in communication, this book explores the conceptualization of emotions in language...

A history of Hindi film music recounted from a list of 50 of Lata Mangeshakar's songs that she chose as her favorites.Lata Mangeshkar, one of India's all-time most influential singers was known as...

Modern literary culture depended on the medium of the print book. Today, with the advent of digital technologies, it is far from apparent that print is, or should be, the vehicle of choice for...

A.G. Dickens is the most eminent English historian of the Reformation. His books and articles have illuminated both the history and the historiography of the Reformation in England and in Germany...

The relationship between law and literature is rich and complex. In the past three and half decades, the topic has received much attention from literary critics and legal scholars studying modern...

Unlike the preceding volumes in this series, Law Reporting in Britain has a single, clear theme: the history and development of law reporting in Britain, from the earliest English reports of the...

R.C. Van Caenegem is the successor of Henri Pirenne and of F.L. Ganshof at the University of Ghent. These essays reflect Van Caenegem's main interests over his career: the Common Law in England and...

Legal history has usually been written in terms of writs and legislation, and the development of legal doctrine. Christopher Brooks, in this series of essays roughly half of which are previously...

Leadership in religious schools is a complex and often misunderstood subject. Educational leaders must perform the dual task of encouraging religious identities while relating them to wider issues of...

The essays in this text deal with aspects of British legal learning. It traces the tradition of learning dating back to the Middle Ages and how the inns of court provided the equivalent of a legal...

Employing scientific explanations and hard data, this book shows why coal is such a problem, how the pro-coal forces got to be so powerful, and how those forces might be defeated through political...

This volume offers a new perspective on the political history of the socialist, communist and alternative political Lefts, focusing on the role of networks and transnational connections. Embedding...

Legal History in the Making: Proceedings of the Ninth British Legal History ConferenceAuthor: William M. GordonPublisher: Bloomsbury AcademicPublication Date: Aug 02, 2003Number of Pages: 256...