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Language: English
Release Date: September 21, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: September 21, 2015
Putting readers into the shoes of film and TV professionals, Adventures in the Lives of Others is a gripping insider's account of ethics, problem-solving and decision-making at the cutting edge of documentaries and factual television.
It brings together a range of intimate, candid accounts...
After the Genocide in Rwanda
Testimonies of Violence, Change and Reconciliation
Language: English
Release Date: June 27, 2019
Since the Genocide against the Tutsi, when up to one million Rwandan people were brutally killed, Rwanda has undergone a remarkable period of reconstruction. Driven by a governmental programme of unity and reconciliation, the last 25 years have seen significant changes at national, community, and...
The Europe Dilemma
Britain and the Drama of EU Integration
Language: English
Release Date: February 20, 2014
What is Britain's future in Europe? This book revisits an old argument but for dramatically new times. The old argument is about Britain's 'semi-detachedness' from Europe and whether that posture could ever change. The new times are the crisis in the Eurozone and its wider impact on the European Union's...
Heidegger Reframed
Interpreting Key Thinkers for the Arts
Language: English
Release Date: December 2, 2010
It is frequently commented that Heidegger writes impenetrable texts that are difficult to read and comprehend, but he also, as Barbara Bolt demonstrates in this clear, original guide to his oeuvre, provides an 'artists' guide to the world'. Heidegger Reframed grounds Heidegger's writings in the critical...
Political Islam and the Secular State in Turkey
Democracy, Reform and the Justice and Development Party
Language: English
Release Date: June 20, 2014
How safe is Turkey's liberal democracy? The rise to power in 2002 of the right-leaning Islamic Justice and Development Party ignited fears in the West that Turkey could no longer be relied upon to provide a buffer against the growth of Islamic fundamentalism in the Middle East. But the contribution...
Beyond Feminism and Islamism
Gender and Equality in North Africa
Language: English
Release Date: November 8, 2012
Are women in North Africa and the Middle East 'feminist'? Or is being a Muslim incompatible with feminism? Is there such a thing as 'Islamic feminism'? Through interviews with Moroccan activists and jurists - both male and female - and by situating these interviews within their socio-political and...
Christian-Muslim Relations in Egypt
Politics, Society and Interfaith Encounters
Language: English
Release Date: June 4, 2015
he subject of Christian-Muslim relations in the Middle East – and indeed in the West – attracts much academic and media attention. Nowhere is this more the case than in Egypt, which has the largest Christian community in the Middle East, estimated at 6-10 per cent of the national population. Henrik...
The Arab World and Latin America
Economic and Political Relations in the Twenty-First Century
Language: English
Release Date: April 2, 2016
With the growing importance of emerging markets the focus of analysts has begun to concentrate on the contribution of Latin America and the Middle East to the global economy, and the relations between these two regions. This has become ever more important with the trend in Latin America to diversify...
Sustainable Cities
Assessing the Performance and Practice of Urban Environments
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2016
Sustainable Cities is about the challenges faced by our urban environments and how these can be met. Examining the built environment at three levels of observation - individual buildings, urban neighbourhoods, and entire cities and towns, the first part of the book reveals the scale of the task. The...
Architecture in Abjection
Bodies, Spaces and their Relations
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2017
This book marks a turning point in architectural theory by using philosophy to examine the field anew.
Breaking from the traditional dualism within architecture – which presents the body as subject and space as object – it examines how such rigid boundaries can be softened. Zuzana Kovar thus engages...
The Economic Transformation of Turkey
Neoliberalism and State Intervention
Language: English
Release Date: October 27, 2016
The coup d'état which took place in Turkey on 12 September 1980 was the third in the history of the Republic, and ushered in a three-year period of military rule. Nilgün Önder investigates the economic transformation of Turkey after this coup, examining both the policies enacted under the military...
Social Media in the Arab World
Communication and Public Opinion in the Gulf States
Language: English
Release Date: April 21, 2016
Following the Arab Spring, the use of social media has become instrumental in organising activist movements and spreading political dissent in the Middle East. New online behaviours have transformed traditional communication channels, enabling young people of all backgrounds to feel politically empowered....
Journalism and the Nsa Revelations
Privacy, Security and the Press
Language: English
Release Date: March 30, 2017
Edward Snowden's revelations about the mass surveillance capabilities of the US National Security Agency (NSA) and other security services triggered an ongoing debate about the relationship between privacy and security in the digital world. This discussion has been dispersed into a number of national...
A Tale in Two Cities
Fanny Burney and Adèle, Comtesse de Boigne
Language: English
Release Date: February 7, 2014
Fanny Burney and Adèle, Comtesse de Boigne, were two of the most remarkable female writers of the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries: one a famous novelist, the other an aristocrat from one of France's most ancient families. This was the tumultuous era which saw the French Revolution,...