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This book examines more than twenty cultures, both ancient and modern, Eastern and Western, emphasizing how kings, empires, religions and societies have enhanced their authority and power through fictional histories, claims of divine origins, fabricated genealogies, and miraculous events presented in literary works and forged doctrines.

This book provides a critical introduction to the complex relationship between law and peace.

This book provides a critical introduction to the complex relationship between law and peace.

This book is primarily a research-informed textbook aimed at any reader with an interest in using film and literature in sociological and social science research.

This book scrutinizes the poetries of Aboriginal poets Oodgeroo Noonuccal (formerly Kath Walker, 1920-1993) and Lionel Fogarty (1958-), and African American poets Amiri Baraka (formerly LeRoi Jones, 1934-2004), and Sonia Sanchez (1934-) and aims to show how these poets collaborated with other civil rights activists in voicing the demands of their people, and how they used their poetry to reflect the realities they experienced and to imagine ne...

A vibrant, enthralling account of Russia's most fascinating period of history.

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For all its fame in the wider world, Edward FitzGerald's 'Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám' (1859) has been largely ignored by the academic establishment. This volume explores the reasons for both its popularity and neglect.

This volume is an account of the stage and screen practice of Australian photographer and film maker Frank Hurley, in the context of early twentieth-century mass media.

An expensive Matsusaka cow vanishes from a cattle-house at the last minute before shipment. Jukichi is a seasoned fisherman who can row a fishing boat with proficiency and catch fish an abundance of fish in the traditional way until he comes across nameso, a sea beast. A crab moves slowly along the highway in an attempt to reach the sea. 'Lost Souls, Sacred Creatures' contains four extraordinary stories written by award-nominated author Juko N...

Has the British Labour Party lost its way? In this critical analysis of New Labour's economic and welfare policies, John Grieve Smith suggests that, far from pursuing any new Third Way, Tony Blair's Government is actively consolidating the Thatcherite Revolution. He argues that if Labour is to break the Thatcherite mould and achieve its long-standing objective of a fairer society, it must adopt radically different policies. John Grieve Smith a...

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A haunting tale of friendship and rivalry between three women artists, who've known each other for years, who must come to terms with imminent mortality and artistic frustration: Liz Moore, born poor in Minnesota, fought her way to New York in the 1920s, but isn't "discovered" until late in life, C.C. Davis, a well-to-do New Yorker is Moore's only student, and rival, who, just after WWII achieves some small success, but feels, as she faces can...

Intrigue, betrayal, family secrets, forbidden passions - this tale of adventure and suspense links the Tiananmen Massacre of 1989 and the Kobe earthquake of 1995 through the story of a man searching for his father, long assumed dead but in fact revealed to be missing in China, and in danger.