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Engages with some of the most pressing issues affecting our society in a lively yet academically rigorous manner. This book offers students a crucial first introduction to the way the theory is used.

This examination of the role of alcohol in hard-boiled detective fiction begins with the genre's birth, in an era influenced and affected by Prohibition, and follows the genre's development and its relation to our changing understanding of and attitudes towards alcohol and alcoholism.

Covering both Hollywood and also European and Asian action cinema, this exciting collection addresses action and adventure from the silent to the contemporary period exploring diverse questions of aesthetics, industry and ideology.

This book considers the personal and subjective use of housing and the ways we use our housing, as well as discussion of a method for analysing these actions.

A concise and accessible survey of the character and life of Tiberius Caesar, heir of Augustus Caesar and emperor of Rome from AD 14 to AD 37.

This book brings to light important issues which are often ignored - that the social effects of poverty are acute in rural areas. Milbourne examines the effects of poverty on issues such as social exclusion in rural areas.

Ipswich past and present

Covering four million years of history across the continent, this book introduces the general reader and beginning student to Africa's past, emphasizing those aspects only known or best known from archaeological and related evidence.

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This CD-ROM combines a variety of approaches designed to enable the user to appreciate and understand the imaging of the Welsh nation during the period extending from the collapse of Roman government in the fifth century to the Renaissance of the fifteenth and early sixteenth centuries.

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Pepys's Later Diaries

This is a picture-led narrative, drawing on a range of private and museum sources to illustrate the course of the Battle of Britain. Rather than concentrate solely on the exploits of RAF Fighter Command, the author's narrative tells the wider story of the battle.

Panic attacks

Henrik Ibsen is regarded as the first major innovative modern dramatist. Creating new attitudes to theatre, he is credited with being one of the first to write about ordinary people in prose, abandoning traditional theatrical effects in favour of a new style of performance. This is a biography of the founding genius of modern European theatre.

Girish Karnad is one of India's foremost dramatists and actors. This play, first staged at the Leicester Haymarket Theatre, is based on a tenth-century Jain myth about a king who finds his queen involved with an elephant-keeper.

Tradition and revelation are often regarded as polar opposites: tradition is identified with the dead hand of the past, and revelation is seen as given definitively once and for all. Through detailed examination of some key biblical narratives, this book argues that postcanonical traditions have not only sometimes functioned as imaginative enrichments of religious belief, they can also at times lay claim to the title of revelation.

Philosophy is a dangerous profession, risking censorship, prison, even death. And no wonder: philosophers have questioned traditional pieties and threatened the established political order. Some claimed to know what was thought unknowable, others doubted what was believed to be certain. Someattacked religion in the name of science, others attacked science in the name of mystical poetry, some served tyrants, others were radical revolutionaries....

This interdisciplinary study follows the Incarnation Summit, an international and ecumenical meeting of 24 scholars. Addressing a variety of issues related to the subject, this is a well researched, skilfully argued, and, at times, provocative volume on the central Christian belief: the Incarnation of the Son of God.

This advanced text focuses on the uses of distance sampling to estimate the density and abundance of biological populations. It addresses new methodologies, new technologies and recent developments in statistical theory and is the follow-up companion to Introduction to Distance Sampling (OUP, 2001). In this text, a general theoretical basis is established for methods of estimating animal abundance from sighting surveys, and a wide range of app...