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Time and Media Markets

Albarran, Alan B / Arrese Reca, Angel
Time and Media Markets
This volume, arising from the Time and Media Markets conference, offers perspectives on time and its relationship to and impact upon media industries. For libraries, scholars, comm. research centers, and grad-level seminars in media mgmt. & economics.

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Objectivity and the Language-Dependence of Thought

Barth, Christian
Objectivity and the Language-Dependence of Thought
Does thought depend on language? Primarily as a consequence of the cognitive turn in empirical disciplines like psychology and ethology, many current empirical researchers and empirically minded philosophers tend to answer this question in the negative. This book rejects this mainstream view and develops a philosophical argument in favor of a universal dependence of language on thought. In doing so, it comprises insights of two primary represe...

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Theorizing a Colonial Caribbean-Atlantic Imaginary

Sandiford, Keith
Theorizing a Colonial Caribbean-Atlantic Imaginary
This book develops a theory of a Caribbean-Atlantic imaginary by exploring the ways two colonial texts represent the consciousnesses of Amerindians, Africans, and Europeans at two crucial points marking respectively the origins and demise of slavocratic systems in the West Indies. Focusing on Richard Ligon¿s History of Barbados (1657) and Matthew `Monk¿ Lewis¿ Journal of a West India Proprietor (1834), the study identifies specific myths and b...

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The Force of Argument

Lear, Jonathan / Oliver, Alex
The Force of Argument
Timothy Smiley has made ground-breaking contributions to modal logic, free logic, multiple-conclusion logic, and plural logic. He has illuminated Aristotle¿s syllogistic, the ideas of logical form and consequence, and the distinction between assertion and rejection, and has worked to debunk the theory of descriptions. This volume brings together new articles by an international roster of leading logicians and philosophers in order to honour Sm...

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Tales of Bluebeard and His Wives from Late Antiquity to P...

Barzilai, Shuli
Tales of Bluebeard and His Wives from Late Antiquity to Postmodern Times
This project provides an in-depth study of narratives about Bluebeard and his wives, or narratives with identifiable Bluebeard motifs, and the intertextual and extratextual personal, political, literary, and sociocultural factors that have made the tale a particularly fertile ground for an author¿s adaptation of the story.

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String Quartets

Parker, Mara
String Quartets
This research guide is an annotated bibliography of sources dealing with the string quartet. This second edition is organized as in the original publication (chapters for general references, histories, individual composers, aspects of performance, facsimiles and critical editions, and miscellaneous topics) and has been updated to cover research since publication of the first edition. Listings in the previous volume have been updated to reflect...

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Strange Cases

Tougaw, Jason
Strange Cases
First Published in 2006. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

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Frederick Delius

Huismann, Mary Christison
Frederick Delius
Frederick Delius is among the most celebrated English composers of the 20th century. Widely studied and performed, his works are considered models of the British impressionist school and continue to fascinate students and scholars centuries later. This research guide serves as a ready reference for students and scholars, but will also be interesting to read and useful for anyone who wants to know where to begin to learn more about this importa...

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Protecting Main Street

Lubin, Paul C
Protecting Main Street
Presents an overview of the importance of conducting different forms of market research to uncover problems in the lending and mortgage markets and how these problems affect the consumers' ability to make optimal credit decisions. This book also outlines the market research methodologies used to measure the consumer experience.

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Plato and Levinas

Staehler, Tanja
Plato and Levinas
Like Plato, Emmanuel Levinas believed that ethics was the most fundamental philosophical discipline. Levinas's approach to ethics begins in the encounter with the other as the most basic experience of responsibility. He acknowledges the necessity to move beyond this initial, dyadic encounter, but has problems extending his approach to a larger dimension, such as community. To shed light on this dilemma, Tanja Staehler examines broader dimensio...

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Gaetano Donizetti

Cassaro, James P
Gaetano Donizetti
Gaetano Donizetti: A Research and Information Guide offers an annotated reference guide to the life and works of this important Italian opera composer. The book opens with a complete chronology of Donizetti's life (1797-1848) and career, relating it to contemporary events. The balance of the book details secondary resources and other works, including general sources, catalogs, correspondence, biographical sources, critical works, production/re...

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