A self-contained introduction to the field of ethics and development for students, practitioners and the general reader.
The influential readings collected for this volume reflect not just the textual and discursive nature of colonial and postcolonial discourse in relation to gender, but also the material effects of the postcolonial condition and practices developed in relation to it.
A clear account of how Islamic political thought has developed from the politico-religious structure established by Mohammed and his immediate successors.
This is a comprehensive introduction to the study of older and present-day Scots language.
The reader is invited to view Islamic art as no more and no less than ordinary art, neither better nor worse than anything else that counts as art. It follows that there are no special techniques required in Islamic aesthetics as compared with any other form of aesthetics.
A clear and demythologised account of the military campaigns waged by the Jacobites against the Hanoverian monarchs.
This pocket-sized alphabetic guide introduces popular terms used in the study of language and society. A central topic within modern linguistics, sociolinguistics deals... Læs mere
One of the key aims of devolution in Scotland was to change the way people felt about their country and the way they were governed. This book draws on a unique range of Scottish... Læs mere
Minds and Computers introduces readers to interdisciplinary philosophical consideration of Artificial Intelligence.
This study of the last pagan Roman emperor provides remarkable insight into the man and his times.
This collection takes up the challenge of thinking spatially by exploring Deleuze’s spatial concepts in applied contexts: architecture, cinema, urban planning, political philosophy and metaphysics.
Derek Ryan demonstrates how materiality is theorised in Woolf’s writings by focusing on the connections she makes between culture and nature, embodiment and environment, human and nonhuman, life and matter.