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Writing Backwards: Historical Fiction and the Reshaping of the American Canon (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
Writing Backwards explores what the dominance of historical fiction in the contemporary canon reveals about American literary culture.
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Climate Change Education: An Earth Institute Sustainability Primer (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
This book provides a framework for putting climate change at the forefront of educational agendas and pedagogical tools for teaching climate science across local and global settings.
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Moments for Nothing: Samuel Beckett and the End Times (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
Gabriele Schwab draws on decades of close engagement with Beckett to explore how his work speaks to our current existential anxieties and fears.
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Teen Movies: A Century of American Youth (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
This book is a comprehensive and accessible history of the depiction of teenagers in American film, from the silent era to the twenty-first century.
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On Niccolo Machiavelli: The Bonds of Politics (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
Gabriele Pedullà—a leading Italian expert and acclaimed writer—provides a vivid and engaging introduction to Machiavelli’s life and works that sheds new light on his originality and relevance.
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An An Address in Paris: Emplacement, Bureaucracy, and Belonging in Hostels for West African Migrants (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
Aïssatou Mbodj-Pouye examines the changing roles that foyers have played in the lives of generations of West African migrants, weaving together rich ethnographic description with a critical historical account.
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Black Sun: Depression and Melancholia (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
Julia Kristeva addresses the subject of melancholia, examining this phenomenon in the context of art, literature, philosophy, the history of religion and culture, and psychoanalysis.
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Revolutionary Becomings: Documentary Media in Twentieth-Century China (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
Revolutionary upheavals characterized China’s twentieth century. Ying Qian studies documentary film as an “eventful medium” deeply embedded in these upheavals and as a prism to investigate the entwined histories of media and China’s revolutionary movements.
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A A Brain for Innovation: The Neuroscience of Imagination and Abstract Thinking (Bog, Hardback, Engelsk)
Min W. Jung offers a new understanding of the neural basis of innovation in terms of humans’ exceptional capacity for imagination and high-level abstraction.
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The The Trilobite Collector's Guide (Bog, Hardback, Engelsk)
Andy Secher—one of the most prolific trilobite collectors in the world—takes readers on an entertaining and enlightening journey to the distant epoch when these ancient arthropods swarmed through the seas.
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Terrorist Minds: The Psychology of Violent Extremism from Al-Qaeda to the Far Right (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
Drawing on groundbreaking personal interviews as well as decades of research from psychologists and others, John Horgan traces the pathways that lead people into violent extremism and explores what happens to them as their involvement deepens.
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Podcast Journalism: The Promise and Perils of Audio Reporting (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
David O. Dowling critically examines how podcasting and its evolving conventions are transforming reporting—and even reshaping journalism’s core functions and identity.
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