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Classical Reception and Children's Literature
Greece, Rome and Childhood Transformation
Language: English
Release Date: January 30, 2018
Reception studies have transformed the classics. Many more literary and cultural texts are now regarded as 'valid' for classical study. And within this process of widening, children's literature has in its turn emerged as being increasingly important. Books written for children now comprise one of...
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Language: English
Release Date: May 30, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: May 30, 2015
These three volumes present an original exploration of all aspects of water - social, cultural, political, religious, historical, economic and technological - from ancient times until the present day. Among the varied themes, the contributors examine the changing histories of water as a private or...
Mapping Frontiers Across Medieval Islam
Geography, Translation and the 'Abbasid Empire
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2017
The story of the 9th-century caliphal mission from Baghdad to discover the legendary barrier against the apocalyptic nations of Gog and Magog mentioned in the Quran, has been either dismissed as superstition or treated as historical fact. By exploring the intellectual and literary history surrounding...
by Eduardo Sacheri
Language: Spanish
Release Date: July 20, 2013
Language: Spanish
Release Date: July 20, 2013
Con los personajes de Metegol, la película del año, dirigida por Juan José Campanella.
Matías está triste y sus amigos, los jugadores del metegol, quieren ayudarlo. Para saber qué le pasa se esconden en la mochila de Mati y van a la escuela con él. Allí, descubren que hay un chico que...
by Eduardo Sacheri
Language: Spanish
Release Date: July 11, 2014
Language: Spanish
Release Date: July 11, 2014
No te pierdas el libro de la película.
Amadeo vive en un pueblo pequeño y anónimo. Trabaja en un bar, juega al metegol mejor que nadie y está enamorado de Laura, aunque ella no lo sabe. Su rutina sencilla se desmorona cuando Grosso, un joven del pueblo convertido en el mejor futbolista...
by Eduardo Sacheri
Language: Spanish
Release Date: July 20, 2013
Language: Spanish
Release Date: July 20, 2013
Los Rayados organizan, a través de internet, un desafío con un misterioso equipo local.
Los Rayados organizan, a través de internet, un desafío con un misterioso equipo local. Los jugadores se escapan de la casa de Amadeo, pero desconocen que, en realidad, se están dirigiendo a un campo...
Arnold
Schwarzenegger and the Movies
Language: English
Release Date: April 16, 2009
Arnold: Schwarzenegger and the Movies' is the first comprehensive, in-depth book to examine one of modern cinema's most celebrated and divisive screen presences. Tracing Schwarzenegger's entire film career and life from teenage bodybuilder to Governor of California, Saunders blends close textual readings...
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Language: English
Release Date: June 25, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: June 25, 2015
Relations between the Arab world and Iran have rarely left the headlines in the last few years, and remain a vital component of international relations in the Middle East. From early disputes over border issues to the Iran-Iraq war of 1980-88, and from later antagonisms between Iran and Saudi Arabia...
Art and Architecture in the Islamic Tradition
Aesthetics, Politics and Desire in Early Islam
Language: English
Release Date: December 20, 2013
What is 'art' in the sense of the Islamic tradition? Mohammed Hamdouni Alami argues that Islamic art has historically been excluded from Western notions of art; that the Western aesthetic tradition's preoccupation with the human body has meant that Islamic and Western art being perceived as inherently...
Dawn of a New Order
Geopolitics and the Clash of Ideologies
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2017
The most significant development in global politics following the end of the bi-polar Cold War era has been the rise of a multi-polar state system. This has led to the emergence of major potential super-powers, global rivalry, international terrorism and the gradual weakening of the one remaining...
by Jonathan Murray
Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2015
From a near-standing start in the 1970s, the emergence and expansion of an aesthetically and culturally distinctive Scottish cinema proved to be one of the most significant developments within late-twentieth and early-twenty-first-century British film culture. Individual Scottish films and filmmakers...
The Myth of Hero and Leander
The History and Reception of an Enduring Greek Legend
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2017
Hero and Leander are the protagonists in a classical tale of epic but tragic love. Hero lives secluded in a tower on the European shore of the Hellespont, and Leander on the opposite side of the passage. Since they cannot hope to marry, the couple resolves to meet in secret: each night he swims across...
Ismaili and Other Arabic Manuscripts
A Descriptive Catalogue of Manuscripts in the Library of the Institute of Ismaili Studies
Language: English
Release Date: January 31, 2000
Ismaili and Other Arabic Manuscripts is a supplement to Adam Gacek's two-volume Catalogue of Arabic Manuscripts in the Library of the Institute of Ismaili Studies, published in London, 1984–1985. This new catalogue includes 189 Arabic manuscripts not listed earlier by Gacek or which have been acquired...
How to Look at Stained Glass
A Guide to the Church Windows of England
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2018
The magical qualities of stained glass have an enduring appeal, but church windows tend to be ignored as a form of creative and artistic expression. How to Look at Stained Glass is a fresh, unstuffy guide, which explores the medium by themes, patterns, designs, and effects. Using an A-Z format to...