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A week after uncovering the secret of what really happened at the Battle of the Little Bighorn, history professor Matt Conroy was lying in a morgue with the back of his head blown off. SFPD homicide inspector Tom McGuire, a long-time friend of Conroy's, volunteers to assist the FBI in bringing the killer to justice. The FBI, however, is ordered to stand down for "national security" reasons. They thought that would be the end of it. They were w...

This volume looks at the significance and range of ethical questions that pertain to various film practices. Diverse philosophical traditions provide useful frameworks to discuss spectators¿ affective and emotional engagement with film, which can function as a moral ground for one¿s connection to others and to the world outside the self. Contributors explore the moral engagement of the spectator and the ethical consequences of both producing a...

This study argues that neorealism¿s visual genius is inseparable from its almost invisible relation to the Fascist past: a connection inscribed in cinematic landscapes. Through her readings of canonical neorealist films, Minghelli unearths the memorial strata of the neorealist image. Films discussed include Ossessione (1943) Paisà (1946), Ladri di biciclette (1948), and Cronaca di un amore (1950).

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Social Cognition brings together diverse and timely writings that highlight cutting-edge research and theories on the development of social cognition and social behavior across species and the life span.

Through rich ethnographic detail, Urban Educational Identity captures the complexities of urban education by documenting the everyday practices of teaching and learning at a high-achieving, high-poverty school.

This book engages the reality of the new historical genres practised today (such as historical re-enactments, gaming history, social media, graphic narratives and first-person narratives of, memoirs of trauma, and film-history) which compete with the traditional model of historical prose (such as monographs, biographies, or narratives histories), and asks if we can we use this category for a critical analysis of historical practice. This book ...

Based on presentations at a meeting held at the Macquarie Center for Cognitive Science in Sydney, Australia.

This volume explores the application of computer simulation technology to measurement issues in education, especially as it pertains to problem based learning. Whereas most assessments related to problem solving are based on expensive and time consuming measures (i.e., think-aloud protocols or performance assessments that require extensive human rater scoring), this book relies on computerization of the major portion of the administration, sco...

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First Published in 1996. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Jews and Jazz: Improvising Ethnicity explores the meaning of Jewish involvement in the world of American jazz. It focuses on the ways prominent jazz musicians like Stan Getz, Benny Goodman, Artie Shaw, Lee Konitz, Dave Liebman, Michael Brecker, and Red Rodney have engaged with jazz in order to explore and construct ethnic identities.The author looks at Jewish identity through jazz in the context of the surrounding American culture, believing t...