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Interpreting Susan Sontag’s Essays Radical Contemplative

Interpreting Susan Sontag’s Essays Radical Contemplative

Interpreting Susan Sontag’s Essays: Radical Contemplative offers its readers a scholarly examination of her essays within the context of philosophy and aesthetic theory. This study sets up a dialogue between her works and their philosophical counterparts in France and Germany including the works of Hannah Arendt Jacques Derrida Roland Barthes and Walter Benjamin. Artists and concepts discussed in relation to Sontag’s essays include the works of Andy Warhol Pop Art French New Wave Cinema the music of John Cage and the cinematic art of Robert Bresson Leni Riefenstahl Ingmar Bergman and Jean-Luc Godard. Her aesthetic formalism is compared with Harold Bloom and this is the first volume to examine her late works and their position within the American events of 9/11/01 and the War on Terror(ism). | Interpreting Susan Sontag’s Essays Radical Contemplative

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Letters from India The Correspondence of Lady Susan Ramsay 1854–1856

Letters from India The Correspondence of Lady Susan Ramsay 1854–1856

This fascinating volume reproduces the letters and journal of Lady Susan Ramsay (1837-1898) the elder daughter of the Marquess of Dalhousie Governor-General of India from 1848 to 1856. The correspondence was written over a two-year period: commencing with Susan’s positive response to her father’s request that she join him in Calcutta following the death of her mother; and concluding with Susan’s arrival with her father at Southampton. Lady Susan was still only 17 when she arrived in India and was therefore the youngest person to take up the role of vicereine of India. Her letters and journal represent the unique viewpoint of a highly intelligent witty articulate and unprejudiced young woman expressed from locations that range from Osborne on the Isle of Wight to Seringapatam in Mysore. The detail maturity and inventive quality of her writing invites comparison with that of Emily Eden Emily Metcalfe Charlotte Canning and other prominent early Victorian women. Accompanied by extensive introductions and annotations by Ross Nelson this volume will be of great interest to students and scholars of Imperial History. | Letters from India The Correspondence of Lady Susan Ramsay 1854–1856

GBP 110.00
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Social Cognition Selected Works of Susan Fiske

Social Cognition Selected Works of Susan Fiske

In the World Library of Psychologists series international experts present career-long collections of what they judge to be their finest pieces—extracts from books key articles salient research findings and their major practical theoretical contributions. Susan T. Fiske has an international reputation as an eminent scholar and pioneer in the field of social cognition. Throughout her distinguished career she has investigated how people make sense of other people using shortcuts that reveal prejudices and stereotypes. Her research in particular addresses how these biases are encouraged or discouraged by social relationships such as cooperation competition and power. In 2013 she was elected to the National Academy of Sciences and in 2011 to the British Academy. She has also won several scientific honours including the Guggenheim Fellowship the APA Distinguished Scientific Contributions Award the APS William James Fellow Award as well as the European Federation of Psychologists’ Associations Wundt-James Award and honorary degrees in Belgium the Netherlands Spain and Switzerland. This collection of selected publications illustrates the foundations of modern social cognition research and its development in the late twentieth and early twenty-first century. In a specially written introductory chapter Fiske traces the key advances in social cognition throughout her career and so this book will be invaluable reading for students and researchers in social cognition person perception and intergroup bias. | Social Cognition Selected Works of Susan Fiske

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The Nationalities Factor In Soviet Politics And Society

The Nationalities Factor In Soviet Politics And Society

The editors express their gratitude to the John M. Olin Foundation for its financial assistance and to the Harvard University Russian Research Center for the facilities and staff support that made this project possible. We wish to thank those who contributed their invaluable scholarly advice including Vernon Aspaturian Abram Bergson Steven Blank Walker Connor Robert Conquest Murray Feshbach Erich Goldhagen Richard Pipes and Marc Raeff. We gratefully acknowledge the assistance of Barbara A. Anderson and Brian D. Silver with Soviet demographic data used throughout the volume. Susan Zayer and Karen Taylor-Brovkin provided able administrative help. For skillful technical assistance with the manuscript we are indebted to Jane Prokop Elizabeth Taylor and Alison Koff. Catherine Reed Susan Gardos-Bleich Christine Porto and Alex Sich helped generously in diverse ways. Finally the editors profited at every stage from the congenial working atmosphere and the encouragement of colleagues at the Russian Research Center too numerous to mention. To all of them goes our deep appreciation. | The Nationalities Factor In Soviet Politics And Society

GBP 130.00
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Art and Nature in the Anthropocene Planetary Aesthetics

Art and Nature in the Anthropocene Planetary Aesthetics

This book examines how contemporary artists have engaged with histories of nature geology and extinction within the context of the changing planet. Susan Ballard describes how artists challenge the categories of animal mineral and vegetable—turning to a multispecies order of relations that opens up a new vision of what it means to live within the Anthropocene. Considering the work of a broad range of artists including Francisco de Goya J. M. W. Turner Robert Smithson Nancy Holt Yhonnie Scarce Joyce Campbell Lisa Reihana Katie Paterson Taryn Simon Susan Norrie Moon Kyungwon and Jeon Joonho Ken + Julia Yonetani David Haines and Joyce Hinterding Angela Tiatia and Hito Steyerl and with a particular focus on artists from Australia and Aotearoa New Zealand this book reveals the emergence of a planetary aesthetics that challenges fixed concepts of nature in the Anthropocene. The book will be of interest to scholars working in art history visual culture narrative nonfiction digital and media art and the environmental humanities. | Art and Nature in the Anthropocene Planetary Aesthetics

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Thinking to Some Purpose

Thinking to Some Purpose

I am convinced of the urgent need for a democratic people to think clearly without the distortions due to unconscious bias and unrecognized ignorance. Our failures in thinking are in part due to faults which we could to some extent overcome were we to see clearly how these faults arise. It is the aim of this book to make a small effort in this direction. Susan Stebbing from the Preface Despite huge advances in education knowledge and communication it can often seem we are neither well-trained nor well practised in the art of clear thinking. Our powers of reasoning and argument are less confident that they should be we frequently ignore evidence and we are all too often swayed by rhetoric rather than reason. But what can you do to think and argue better? First published in 1939 but unavailable for many years Susan Stebbing's Thinking to Some Purpose is a classic first-aid manual of how to think clearly and remains astonishingly fresh and insightful. Written against a background of the rise of dictatorships and the collapse of democracy in Europe it is packed with useful tips and insights. Stebbing offers shrewd advice on how to think critically and clearly how to spot illogical statements and slipshod thinking and how to rely on reason rather than emotion. At a time when we are again faced with serious threats to democracy and freedom of thought Stebbing’s advice remains as urgent and important as ever. This Routledge edition of Thinking to Some Purpose includes a new Foreword by Nigel Warburton and a helpful Introduction by Peter West who places Susan Stebbing’s classic book in historical and philosophical context.

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Photography A Critical Introduction

Photography A Critical Introduction

Now in its sixth edition this seminal textbook examines key debates in photographic theory and places them in their social and political contexts. Written especially for students in further and higher education and for introductory college courses it provides a coherent introduction to the nature of photographic seeing. Individual chapters cover: • Key debates in photographic theory and history • Documentary photography and photojournalism • Personal and popular photography • Photography and the human body • Photography and commodity culture • Photography as art. This revised and updated edition includes new case studies on topics such as: Black Lives Matter and the racialised body; the #MeToo movement; materialism and embodiment; nation branding; and an extended critical discussion of landscape as genre. Illustrated with over 100 colour and black and white photographs it features work from Bill Brandt Susan Derges Rineke Dijkstra Fran Herbello Hannah Höch Mari Katayama Sant Khalsa Karen Knorr Dorothea Lange Susan Meiselas Lee Miller Ingrid Pollard Jacob Riis Alexander Rodchenko Andres Serrano Cindy Sherman and Jeff Wall. A fully updated resource information including guides to public archives and useful websites full glossary of terms and a comprehensive bibliography plus additional resources at routledgetextbooks. com/textbooks/9780367222758/ make this an ideal introduction to the field. | Photography A Critical Introduction

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The Routledge Companion to Native American Literature

The Routledge Companion to Native American Literature

The Routledge Companion to Native American Literature engages the multiple scenes of tension — historical political cultural and aesthetic — that constitutes a problematic legacy in terms of community identity ethnicity gender and sexuality language and sovereignty in the study of Native American literature. This important and timely addition to the field provides context for issues that enter into Native American literary texts through allusions references and language use. The volume presents over forty essays by leading and emerging international scholars and analyses: regional cultural racial and sexual identities in Native American literature key historical moments from the earliest period of colonial contact to the present worldviews in relation to issues such as health spirituality animals and physical environments traditions of cultural creation that are key to understanding the styles allusions and language of Native American Literature the impact of differing literary forms of Native American literature. This collection provides a map of the critical issues central to the discipline as well as uncovering new perspectives and new directions for the development of the field. It supports academic study and also assists general readers who require a comprehensive yet manageable introduction to the contexts essential to approaching Native American Literature. It is essential reading for anyone interested in the past present and future of this literary culture. Contributors: Joseph Bauerkemper Susan Bernardin Susan Berry Brill de Ramírez Kirby Brown David J. Carlson Cari M. Carpenter Eric Cheyfitz Tova Cooper Alicia Cox Birgit Däwes Janet Fiskio Earl E. Fitz John Gamber Kathryn N. Gray Sarah Henzi Susannah Hopson Hsinya Huang Brian K. Hudson Bruce E. Johansen Judit Ágnes Kádár Amelia V. Katanski Susan Kollin Chris LaLonde A. Robert Lee Iping Liang Drew Lopenzina Brandy Nālani McDougall Deborah Madsen Diveena Seshetta Marcus Sabine N. Meyer Carol Miller David L. Moore Birgit Brander Rasmussen Mark Rifkin Kenneth M. Roemer Oliver Scheiding Lee Schweninger Stephanie A. Sellers Kathryn W. Shanley Leah Sneider David Stirrup Theodore C. Van Alst Jr. Tammy Wahpeconiah

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The Photography Reader History and Theory

The Photography Reader History and Theory

Following on from its hugely successful first edition The Photography Reader: History and Theory provides deeper insight into the critical discussions around photography – its production its uses and its effects. Presenting both the historical ideas and the continuing theoretical debates within photography and photographic study this second edition contains essays by photographers including Edward Weston and László Moholy-Nagy and key thinkers such as Walter Benjamin Roland Barthes and Susan Sontag. Along with its companion text – The Photography Cultures Reader: Representation Agency and Identity – this is the most comprehensive introduction to photography and photographic criticism. This new edition features: • Over 50 additional photographs • New essays from photographers and academics • Revised introductions setting ideas and debates in their historical and theoretical context • Sections on Art photography Documentary and Photomedia. Includes essays by: Jan Baetens Roland Barthes Geoffrey Batchen David Bate André Bazin Walter Benjamin Lynn Berger Matthew Biro Osip Brik Victor Burgin Hubert Damisch Edmundo Desnoes Umberto Eco Elizabeth Edwards Steve Edwards Andy Grundberg Lisa Henderson Estelle Jussim Sarah Kember Siegfried Kracauer Rosalind Krauss Martin Lister Lev Manovich Christian Metz W. J. T. Mitchell Tina Modotti László Moholy-Nagy Wright Morris Darren Newbury Daniel Palmer Marjorie Perloff Fred Ritchin Martha Rosler Steven Skopik Abigail Solomon-Godeau Susan Sontag Lucy Soutter John Szarkowski John Tagg Hilde Van Gelder Ian Walker Liz Wells Edward Weston Peter Wollen. | The Photography Reader History and Theory

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Rethinking Australia’s Art History The Challenge of Aboriginal Art

Rethinking Australia’s Art History The Challenge of Aboriginal Art

This book aims to redefine Australia’s earliest art history by chronicling for the first time the birth of the category Aboriginal art tracing the term’s use through published literature in the late eighteenth nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Susan Lowish reveals how the idea of Aboriginal art developed in the European imagination manifested in early literature and became a distinct classification with its own criteria and form. Part of the larger story of Aboriginal/European engagement this book provides a new vision for an Australian art history reconciled with its colonial origins and in recognition of what came before the contemporary phenomena of Aboriginal art. | Rethinking Australia’s Art History The Challenge of Aboriginal Art

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Interpreting COVID-19 Through Turbulence Theory Perspectives and Cases from Early Childhood and Special Education

Interpreting COVID-19 Through Turbulence Theory Perspectives and Cases from Early Childhood and Special Education

Through the lens of Turbulence Theory this volume offers students and scholars an innovative toolkit for understanding the COVID-19 pandemic and its impact on teachers families and students. Bringing together cases from early childhood and special education written by parents and educators author Susan H. Shapiro leverages Turbulence Theory as a framework to help readers evaluate the level of turbulence during each scenario and what methods if any might help mitigate or escalate the situation. With more than 20 insightful case-based examples and discussion questions this book explores what lessons and strategies we can bring into future crises—and how we move forward in an ever-evolving educational landscape. | Interpreting COVID-19 Through Turbulence Theory Perspectives and Cases from Early Childhood and Special Education

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A Primer for Emotionally Focused Individual Therapy (EFIT) Cultivating Fitness and Growth in Every Client

A Primer for Emotionally Focused Individual Therapy (EFIT) Cultivating Fitness and Growth in Every Client

From best-selling author Susan M. Johnson with over 1 million books sold worldwide! This essential text from the leading authority on Emotionally Focused Therapy Susan M. Johnson and colleague T. Leanne Campbell applies the key interventions of EFT to work with individuals providing an overview and clinical guide to treating clients with depression anxiety and traumatic stress. Designed for therapists at all levels of expertise Johnson and Campbell focus on introducing clinicians to EFIT interventions techniques and change processes in a highly accessible and practical format. The book begins by summarizing attachment theory and science – the theoretical basis of this model – together with the experiential approach to change in psychotherapy. Chapters describe the three stages of EFIT macro-interventions such as the EFIT Tango and various micro-interventions through clinical exercises case studies and transcripts to demonstrate this model in practice with individuals highlighting the unique benefits of EFT as a cross-modality approach for treating emotional disorders. With exercises interwoven throughout the text this book is built to accompany in-person and online training helping the practicing clinician offer targeted and empirically tested interventions that not only alleviate symptoms of distress but expand the client’s emotional balance agency and sense of self. As the next major extension of the EFT approach this book will appeal to therapists already working with couples and families as well as those just beginning their professional journey. Psychotherapists psychologists counselors social workers and mental health workers will also find this book invaluable. | A Primer for Emotionally Focused Individual Therapy (EFIT) Cultivating Fitness and Growth in Every Client

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Producing the Past Aspects of Antiquarian Culture and Practice 1700–1850

Producing the Past Aspects of Antiquarian Culture and Practice 1700–1850

First published in 1999 this volume examines antiquarianism which had its roots in Renaissance thought and was a popular intellectual and cultural pursuit throughout the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. The antiquarian work of collecting compiling and presenting material which exposed the past was seminal to the formation of social and national identities. These essays evaluate the cultural and poltical implications of antiquarianism in the period 1700-1850. The volume also considers how the antiquarians laid the foundations of later museum culture and the discipline of history. With a preface by Stephen Bann and introduced by Martin Myrone and Lucy Peltz Producing the Past has contributions from Stephen Bending Alexandrina Buchanan Susan A. Crane David Haycock Maria Grazia Lolla Heather MacLennan Martin Myrone Lucy Peltz Annegret Pelz Sam Smiles and Johann Reusch. | Producing the Past Aspects of Antiquarian Culture and Practice 1700–1850

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Coaching Skills for Academic Leaders Bringing Out the Best in Yourself and Others

Coaching Skills for Academic Leaders Bringing Out the Best in Yourself and Others

This practical evidence-based guide equips higher education leaders with the coaching skills they need to encourage and support faculty engagement productivity and satisfaction. Drawing from research in neuroscience faculty development and the scholarship of coaching this book focuses on three essential skill sets: assessment setting an agenda and keeping success going. This logical easy-to-follow process will improve how academic leaders engage with faculty thus resulting in more productive conversations and desired outcomes. Experienced seminar leader and academic coach Susan Robison imparts step-by-step guidance and provides plentiful exercises on how to listen deeply ask meaningful questions and co-create effective plans to set up faculty for success. A powerful tool for department chairs program directors deans provosts and more this book will become a well-used staple in any college leader’s library. | Coaching Skills for Academic Leaders Bringing Out the Best in Yourself and Others

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Trade and Human Rights The Ethical Dimension in US - China Relations

Trade and Human Rights The Ethical Dimension in US - China Relations

This title was first published in 2002: Utilizing the case of the 1994 US decision to delink China’s human rights record from most favoured nation status Susan C. Morris addresses the critical issues where commercialism and human rights converge. This insightful addition to the literature on US foreign policy on human rights draws on both political and economic theory touching upon the relationships between labour conditions and production business and freedom of association management and bargaining and ultimately the relationship between economics and human justice. Empirically the work draws on US Congressional proceedings and debates throughout the decade of the 1990s. Although the trade and human rights debate has long been ingrained in the rhetoric of scholars the research approaches the issue within the context of communism’s last major threshold making it a valuable contribution to the field of international relations. | Trade and Human Rights The Ethical Dimension in US - China Relations

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Trade and Human Rights The Ethical Dimension in US - China Relations

Trade and Human Rights The Ethical Dimension in US - China Relations

This title was first published in 2002: Utilizing the case of the 1994 US decision to delink China’s human rights record from most favoured nation status Susan C. Morris addresses the critical issues where commercialism and human rights converge. This insightful addition to the literature on US foreign policy on human rights draws on both political and economic theory touching upon the relationships between labour conditions and production business and freedom of association management and bargaining and ultimately the relationship between economics and human justice. Empirically the work draws on US Congressional proceedings and debates throughout the decade of the 1990s. Although the trade and human rights debate has long been ingrained in the rhetoric of scholars the research approaches the issue within the context of communism’s last major threshold making it a valuable contribution to the field of international relations. | Trade and Human Rights The Ethical Dimension in US - China Relations

GBP 74.99
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Keeping Them Out of the Hands of Satan Evangelical Schooling in America

Keeping Them Out of the Hands of Satan Evangelical Schooling in America

First published in 1988 this work was the product of extensive fieldwork in two evangelical communities. This in-depth ethnographic study focuses on the meaning systems organizational structures and the daily lives of the people Susan D. Rose encountered. The study is centred around Christian schooling as a method of socialisation. Tracing the rise of evangelicalism and the development of the Christian School Movement in the latter half of the twentieth century it examines the kinds of educational alternatives evangelicals have structured for their children. Moving beyond the issue of schooling itself it analyses the interactions among schooling ideology economic structures and the nature of work in contemporary American society and explores how people relate to one another within the church-family-school network. It addresses the provocative question of why evangelicalism a self-proclaimed conservative reactionary movement held so much appeal for so many Americans at the time of publication. This work will be of particular interest to those studying education and religion and education in the U. S. A. | Keeping Them Out of the Hands of Satan Evangelical Schooling in America

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The Transgender Studies Reader Remix

The Transgender Studies Reader Remix

The Transgender Studies Reader Remix assembles 50 previously published articles to orient students and scholars alike to current directions in the fast-evolving interdisciplinary field of transgender studies. The volume is organized into ten thematic sections on trans studies’ engagements with feminist theory queer theory Black studies science studies Indigeneity and coloniality history biopolitics cultural production the posthumanities and intersectional approaches to embodied difference. It includes a selection of highly cited works from the two-volume The Transgender Studies Reader more recently published essays and some older articles in intersecting fields that are in conversation with where transgender studies is today. Editors Susan Stryker and Dylan McCarthy Blackston provide a foreword an introduction and a short abstract of each article that taken together document key texts and interdisciplinary connections foundational to the evolution of transgender studies over the past 30 years. A handy overview for scholars activists and all those new to the field this volume is also ideally suited for use as a textbook in undergraduate or graduate courses in gender studies.

GBP 54.99
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Silverpoint and Metalpoint Drawing A Complete Guide to the Medium

Silverpoint and Metalpoint Drawing A Complete Guide to the Medium

Silverpoint and metalpoint more generally is the practice of marking with soft metal on a specifically prepared drawing surface. Practiced for centuries the artform is experiencing a resurgence in recent years with contemporary work exploring abstract as well as realist conceptual as well as traditional. Silverpoint and Metalpoint Drawing is the essential manual of metalpoint technique written by Susan Schwalb and Tom Mazzullo contemporary masters of the medium. This book is the first treatise on the subject for artists and art teachers with chapters on early history materials including grounds supports metals and tools techniques for working in metalpoint as well as mixed media and finally the care of metalpoint works. Not only beautifully illustrated this book also demonstrates how to photograph and exhibit metalpoint art. Featuring a gallery of drawings by contemporary artists along with their tips and insight Silverpoint and Metalpoint Drawing is a perfect introduction for students of the medium and an inspiration for those already more familiar with it. | Silverpoint and Metalpoint Drawing A Complete Guide to the Medium

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Lesbian Dames Sapphism in the Long Eighteenth Century

Lesbian Dames Sapphism in the Long Eighteenth Century

How are romantic and erotic relationships between women represented in the literature of the long eighteenth century? How does Sapphism surface in other contemporary discourses including politics pornography economics and art? After more than a generation of lesbian-gay scholarship that has examined identities practices prohibitions and transgressions surrounding same-sex desire this collection offers an exciting and indispensable array of new scholarship in gender and sexuality studies. The contributors - who include noted writers critics and historians such as Emma Donoghue George E. Haggerty Susan S. Lanser and Valerie Traub - provide varied and provocative research into the dynamics and histories of lesbianism and Sapphism. They build on the work of scholarship on Sapphism and interrogate the efficacy of such a notion in describing the varieties of same-sex love between women during the long eighteenth century. This groundbreaking collection the first multi-authored volume to examine lesbian representation and culture in this era presents a diversity of theoretical and critical approaches from close literary analysis to the history of reading and publishing psychoanalysis biography historicism deconstruction and queer theory. | Lesbian Dames Sapphism in the Long Eighteenth Century

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Second Language Acquisition An Introductory Course

Second Language Acquisition An Introductory Course

Now in a fifth edition this bestselling introductory textbook remains the cornerstone volume for the study of second language acquisition (SLA). Its chapters have been fully updated and reorganized where appropriate to provide a comprehensive yet accessible overview of the field and its related disciplines. In order to reflect current developments new sections and expanded discussions have been added. The fifth edition of Second Language Acquisition retains the features that students found useful in previous editions. This edition provides pedagogical tools that encourage students to reflect upon the experiences of second language learners. As with previous editions discussion questions and problems at the end of each chapter help students apply their knowledge and a glossary defines and reinforces must-know terminology. This clearly written comprehensive and current textbook by Susan Gass Jennifer Behney and Luke Plonsky is the ideal textbook for an introductory SLA course in second language studies applied linguistics linguistics TESOL and/or language education programs. This textbook is supported with a Companion Website containing instructor and student resources including PowerPoint slides exercises stroop tests flashcards audio and video links: https://routledgetextbooks. com/textbooks/9781138743427/ | Second Language Acquisition An Introductory Course

GBP 52.99
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A Philosophy of Cultural Scenes in Art and Popular Culture

A Philosophy of Cultural Scenes in Art and Popular Culture

This book seeks to understand culture through the lens of scenes analyzing them aesthetically and culturally as well as understanding them through the frameworks of gender social networks and artworlds. It is common to talk about the cultural and intellectual scenes of early twentieth-century Vienna the visual art scene of postwar New York and the music and fashion scene of the swinging London. We often think about artists and works of art as essentially belonging to a certain scene. Scenes might offer a new approach to study what is possible what is a tradition and/or to discuss what are the relevant units of contemporary culture for research. The book posits that scenes explain a lot about how the artworld and the cultural field function. Vivienne Westwood Rene Magritte Roman Jakobson Arthur C. Danto Susan Sontag James Baldwin and Didier Eribon are among the figures included in the book which examines scenes in cities such as Moscow Bombay New York London Paris Brussels Helsinki and Bratislava. The book will be of interest to scholars working in art history cultural studies philosophy film literature and urban studies. | A Philosophy of Cultural Scenes in Art and Popular Culture

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Thomas Cranmer

Thomas Cranmer

Thomas Cranmer’s place in English history is firmly established yet the complexities of his character have remained obscure and he continues to be one of the most problematic figures of the Tudor period. Susan Wabuda’s biography sheds fresh light not only on the private Cranmer but also on the qualities that enabled him to master a shifting political landscape and to build a new English Church. Athletic by nature Cranmer enjoyed hunting and he was a keen collector of books. He was blessed with several lifelong friendships and twice risked his career by marrying the women he loved. A skilled debater and a deft politician Cranmer sought to balance his long-term plans for the Church against the immediate demands of survival at court. Obedient at all times yet never entirely trustworthy he had to reconcile the will of his God with the will of the monarch he served. For too long Cranmer’s legacy has overshadowed the life of the man himself but this new biography enriches and extends our understanding of both. Accessible and informative it will be essential reading for students and scholars of the English Reformation and the Tudor age.

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