Edinburgh University Press

Whether you're a student coming to commercial law for the first time, you are studying for your exams or you are a professional who needs to update or refresh your knowledge, this is the study guide...

What do you call a paper bag in Scots? How would you describe a dull day in Scots?This comprehensive dictionary of words and phrases is for all who want to use the Scots language.* A unique...

The first comprehensive account of female beauty in nineteenth-century British print culture Pinpointing how consumer culture transformed female beauty ideals during the nineteenth and early...

Drawing on autobiographical and postcolonial theories, Hiyem Cheurfa examines twenty-first-century Arab women's life writing as sites for the articulation of resistance to power structures and...

Reconsiders contemporary Disney animation through the critical lens of genre theoryAuthor: Eve BenhamouPublisher: Edinburgh University PressPublication Date: Aug 31, 2024Number of Pages: NA...

In this volume of 18 essays, leading philosophers address the varied, volatile and novel encounters between contemporary and antique thought. They reconceive and redeploy the problems of ancient...

Studies the people, places and objects credited with ritual cures and the elite rhetoric critical of these cures In the ancient Mediterranean world, individuals routinely looked for divine aid to...

Contract Law Essential Cases is a companion volume to Contract Law Essentials. By summarising the most important cases, it shows how Scots contract law has been enforced and how it has evolved over...

A state of the field essay collection that offers new models for analysing time, space, self and politics in nineteenth-century American cultureAuthor: Edward SugdenPublisher: Edinburgh University...

This collection of essays considers the contribution of Deleuze and Guattari's philosophical ideas in forging a critique of global terror and counter-terror.Author: Anindya Sekhar Purakayastha,...

Deleuze's thought on the nature of temporality developed throughout his career in reference to a complex array of concepts, thinkers and artistic works as well as natural and social phenomena. In...

Deleuze's Conception of Philosophy: Creation of ConceptsAuthor: Axel CherniavskyPublisher: Edinburgh University PressPublication Date: Nov 30, 2024Number of Pages: 280 pagesBinding: Hardback or Cased...

From Lucretius to Schelling to Foucault, this book looks at 16 philosophers, writers and artists whose work influenced the philosophy of Gilles Deleuze. Each chapter introduces the thinker in...

Places Deleuze's cinematic philosophy in dialogue with contemporary digital media and the concept of information Timothy Deane-Freeman traces Deleuze's remarks about the digital to reveal both their...

Andrew Jampol-Petzinger pursues Gilles Deleuze's significantly underdiscussed interpretation of Søren Kierkegaard. He presents a view of ethics and selfhood that responds to theories of moral...

Provides new solutions to the central problems of the philosophy of mathematics by reconstructing Deleuze's metaphysics Michael Ardoline argues that mathematical truth is grounded in the necessity of...

Puts forward a bold, polemical interpretation of democracy as an emancipatory political project through the work of Jacques Rancière, Claude Lefort and Miguel Abensour. This book explores an often...

The world of post-truth is a world of intense disinformation, an offensive of pseudoscience and widespread scepticism about expert knowledge. It is a world in which the terms of the political game...

Examines the mental health interventions that changed 1960s British and American cinemaAuthor: Tim Snelson, William MacAuley, David Allen KirbyPublisher: Edinburgh University PressPublication Date:...

This book brings together 11 essays by international specialists in Victorian culture and modernism and provides a general and period-specific introduction to distributed cognition and the cognitive...

Studies the topic of divine communication in Paul's letters in the context of Graeco-Roman divination This book analyses the apostle Paul's claims to receive and interpret knowledge from divine...

Feuds within fashion houses, megalomaniacs and photoshoot nightmares - fashion and drama have been a perfect match for decades. Over the past ten years, we have witnessed a boom of documentaries...

Uncovers the impact of architectural practices and discourses on the sexual imagination This book sheds light on the contributions of architecture and its literary representations to a series of...

Dundee Worthies, a collection of tales of colourful Dundonians, was first published in 1934, compiled by George M Martin. Reminicences of the city, old time games, period advertisments and poems sit...

This is the first book to focus on the Tetrarchy as an imperial dynasty.Author: Byron WaldronPublisher: Edinburgh University PressPublication Date: May 31, 2024Number of Pages: NA pagesLanguage:...

Missionary medicine flourished during the period of high European imperialism in the late 19th and early 20th centuries and was considered the best and surest method to overcome the distrust of and...

[headline]Analyses how the political career of Sir Thomas Overbury exposes the changing systems of power at the English court between 1603 and 1613 Through an analysis of the career of the eminent...

The first comparative study of estimative intelligence and strategic surprise in a European context, complementing and testing insights from previous studies centred on the United StatesAuthor:...

Exotic Cinema is the first systematic analysis of decentred exoticism in contemporary transnational and world cinema. By critically examining regimes of visuality such as the imperial, the...

Outlines the key debates in feminism and women's fiction in the twentieth and twenty-first centuriesThis book introduces you clearly and succinctly to the ways in which feminist ideas have...