First published in 1999, this new edition has been revised and updated throughout to reflect modern Scots usage, alongside coverage of older Scots. Combining... Læs mere
Explores the relationship between unexpected events in narrative and life. Focusing on surprise, spontaneous eruption and the... Læs mere
Celluloid Singapore is a ground-breaking study of the three major periods in Singapore's fragmented cinema history, namely the golden age of the 1950s and 60s, the post-studio 1970s, and the revival from the 1990s onwards.
Identifies different ways of thinking about ethics, and of thinking ethically about international and global relations.
From a small city college in the sixteenth century the University of Edinburgh grew to be one of the world's greatest centres of scholarship, research and learning. Its history is told here by three of its leading historians with wit, verve and style.
This text offers a sustained demonstration of the way in which works of art can help us to explore the most difficult ethical and political issues of our time: war, terror, extermination, torture and abuse.
This book is about the politics of cyberspace. It shows that cyberspace is no mere virtual reality but a rich geography of practices and power relations.
This book provides consistently nuanced readings of individual texts as well as a broad view of the whole field of British writing during the period 1930s .
This volume describes the history of the Highlands and Islands in the period since 1880. This is defined broadly to include areas with a Gaelic cultural heritage.
This book examines late 19th-century feminism in relation to technologies of the time, marking the crucial role of technology in social and literary struggles for equality.
Since the Cold War, humanitarian interventions have transitioned through a range of stages. These 12 essays focus on the challenges associated... Læs mere
This critical edition of Scott's Minstrelsy presents a seminal 19th-century work for a 21st-century audience... Læs mere