Brings together well-established and emerging scholars from a variety of disciplines to present a contemporary ‘diasporic’ perspective... Læs mere
The first illustrated scholarly work devoted to the reception and reputation of Edinburgh's premier Enlightenment portrait painter.
Key Concepts in the Gothic provides a one-stop resource which details and defines, in accessible language, those contexts essential for the study of the Gothic in all periods and media.
A one-stop, truly comprehensive, dedicated and reliable sourcebook for archaeology.
This book is a first-stop introduction to corpus-based language research. It introduces the practical problems and... Læs mere
This text introduces the concept of need as viewed by Hegel and Marx, and places it within the context of modern need theories and theorists.
Offers the reader an insight to Glasgow at the Millennium, covering the most recent scholarship and opinion, and looking to the future of Glasgow in the coming century.
A study of media and minorities - both the representations of minorities by dominant society 'outsiders', and indigenous self-representation and media creation, in film, television, radio, print and new media.
This volume presents the reader with a comprehensive and critical introduction to the development and institutionalization of literary and cultural studies throughout the twentieth century and at the beginning of the twenty-first.
Wilson explores the aesthetic and political implications of the relationship between magic and mimesis in the work of writers, artists and filmmakers who were most self-consciously experimental, including James Joyce, Ezra Pound, Dziga Vertov and Sergei M. Eisenstein.
Legally Married gives you all the the facts you need to develop an informed judgment regarding same-sex marriage in the UK and the US. It looks at the claims made on both sides of the debate, placing them in their historical context and contributing in a reasoned, unbiased way.
This book examines a wide range of financial institutions in Britain which fall broadly within the ethical sector, considering the nature of their principles and practices, and how they relate to Islamic models and to Muslim communities.