Addressing representations of Russia and neighbouring Eastern Europe in post-1989 Nordic cinemas, this ground-breaking book investigates their hitherto overlooked transnational dimension. Departing from the dark stereotypes that ... Zobraziť viac
How can theories of language development be understood and applied in your language classroom? By presenting a range of linguistic perspectives from formal to functional to cognitive, this book highlights the relevance ... Zobraziť viac
Combining perspectives from discourse analysis and sociolinguistics, the second edition of this popular textbook provides... Zobraziť viac
What relates the early films of Yorgos Lanthimos with Vasilis Kekatos’s 2019 Cannes triumph The Distance Between Us and the Sky? What is the lasting legacy of Panos Koutras’s 2009 trans narrative Strella: A Woman’s Way in today’s gender... Zobraziť viac
Examines the direct-to-consumer genetic testing industry's controversial use of 'wrap' contracts Uses the example of DTC genetic testing companies using wrap contracts as their dominant means of governance to show the challenges that disruptive... Zobraziť viac
This book is the first study in English to examine some of the key themes and traditions of Czech and Slovak cinema, linking inter-war and post-war cinemas together with developments in the post-Communist period. It examines links between theme, genre... Zobraziť viac
A literary, historical and philosophical discussion of attitudes to blindness by the sighted, and what the blind `see'. Why has there been a persistent fascination by the sighted, including philosophers, poets and the public, in what the blind... Zobraziť viac
Vyvyan Evans covers all aspects of the relationship between language and mind, as well as applications and extensions of cognitive linguistics to the study of text, literature, discourse, and society... Zobraziť viac
The tradition of British realism has changed dramatically over the last 20 years, where films by directors such as Duane Hopkins, Joanna Hogg, Andrea Arnold, Shane Meadows and Clio Barnard have suggested a markedly poetic turn... Zobraziť viac
Displacement and Erasure in Palestine: The Politics of Hope explores the ways in which Palestinians negotiate physical and symbolic erasures by producing their own archives and historical narratives... Zobraziť viac
Russia's annexation of Crimea in 2014 marked a watershed in post-Cold War European history and brought East-West relations to a low. At the same time, by selling this fateful action in starkly nationalist language, ... Zobraziť viac
Edinburgh University Press: This is an interrogation of the theory and practice of design through the thought of Gilles... Zobraziť viac
Political philosophy in Russia has always sought, and sometimes found, a middle way between embracing anarchy and searching for authority. Political philosophy in Russia has never before been the subject of a scholarly monograph... Zobraziť viac
How should we live? How should we act? How might we live? These are the three questions of moral philosophy. Brent Adkins traces the history of ethics and morality by examining six thinkers: Aristotle, Spinoza, Kant, Mill, Nietzsche, and Levinas... Zobraziť viac