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by Dan Lioy
Language: English
Release Date: April 29, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: April 29, 2016
In this thought-provoking study, Dan Lioy asserts that a Christocentric and Christotelic perspective is an unmistakable feature of Paul’s discourse. The journey begins with an analysis of the old Adamic creation in Genesis 1–3 before digressing into representative passages from Paul’s writings,...
Writing Colonisation
Violence, Landscape, and the Act of Naming in Modern Italian and Australian Literature
Language: English
Release Date: July 8, 2014
Writing Colonisation: Violence, Landscape, and the Act of Naming in Modern Italian and Australian Literature offers a unique comparative analysis of modern Italian and Australian literature which has never been attempted at such length and depth. The book investigates the relation between language,...
Global Literary Journalism
Exploring the Journalistic Imagination, Volume 2
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2013
Following on from the first volume published in 2012, this new volume significantly expands the scope of the study of literary journalism both geographically and thematically.
Chapters explore literary journalism not only in the United Kingdom, the United States and India – but also in countries...
The Intellectual as a Detective
From Leonardo Sciascia to Roberto Saviano
Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2015
The Intellectual as a Detective: From Leonardo Sciascia to Roberto Saviano offers a fresh perspective on both Italian crime fiction and the role of the intellectual in Italian society. By analyzing the characterization of men of culture as investigators, this book addresses their social commitment...
Investigating Fascism
Crime, Mystery, and the Fascist Ventennio in the Historical Novel
Language: English
Release Date: September 6, 2017
Investigating Fascism offers an original approach to the historical novel and its connection to crime fiction. The study of contemporary novels set during Mussolini’s rule, with specific attention to the topics of violence, justice, mystery, and personal identity, leads to a discussion about, among...
Chaos in Theater
Improvisation and Complexity Translated by Anna Grazia Cafaro and Melina Masterson
Language: English
Release Date: November 24, 2016
Have you ever prepared a speech until you knew it by heart and then found out that, when the moment arrives, the surprise and uniqueness of hic et nunc are inevitable? No matter how much you prepare a text, it will need improvisation to be used on a stage or in the street. But, what is the limit between...
The Mourning News
Reporting Violent Death in a Global Age
Language: English
Release Date: January 9, 2018
A conventional wisdom in media studies is that "when it bleeds it leads". The media love violence and from the newsroom perspective, negative news is good news. Violent death often makes it to the headlines, and mass violent death events often become media events that receive immediate continuous...
The Observable
Heisenbergs Philosophy of Quantum Mechanics
Language: English
Release Date: November 3, 2015
Patrick Aidan Heelan’s The Observable offers the reader a completely articulated development of his 1965 philosophy of quantum physics, Quantum Mechanics and Objectivity. In this previously unpublished study dating back more than a half a century, Heelan brings his background as both a physicist...
The Foundations of Industrialism
Charles Comte, Charles Dunoyer and Liberal Thought in France
Language: English
Release Date: April 29, 2016
From its beginnings, the doctrine of industrialism has inspired writers of varying persuasions. Saint-Simon is often closely associated with it, however, he represents only the socialist variant of the doctrine. By contrast, the variant that relates to liberalism has been virtually overlooked. Jean-Baptiste...
Yankee Bishops
Apostles in the New Republic, 1783 to 1873
Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2015
The office of bishop in the Episcopal Church in the United States has long begged attention from historians. Yankee Bishops: Apostles in the New Republic, 1783 to 1873 is the first collective examination of the American episcopate and offers critical insight into the theory and practice of episcopal...
Addressing Challenges Latinos/as Encounter with the LIBRE Problem-Solving Model
Listen-Identify-Brainstorm-Reality-test-Encourage
Language: English
Release Date: July 22, 2016
Written for educators and professionals, this book examines the cultural challenges Latinos/as encounter as they move from one social setting to the next. Problem solving is presented as a skill, strategy, and protective factor in the development of resiliency and self-efficacy. This solution-oriented...
by Vitor Tomé, Belinha S. de Abreu
Language: English
Release Date: January 12, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: January 12, 2018
Mobile Learning through Digital Media Literacy proposes media literacy education as a conceptual framework for bridging mobile technologies in teaching and learning. As cell phones have become more advanced and applications more innovative and fitting, candid conversations are taking place as to how...
by Steven L. Bindeman
Language: English
Release Date: July 20, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: July 20, 2015
In this volume, author Steven L. Bindeman presents a survey of the key figures in postmodern antiphilosophy. Noting that the main thrust of their work can be found in their need to respond to the threat of nihilism, he is guided by the question, if the path to abstract truth is no longer viable, what...
The Criminal Humanities
An Introduction
Language: English
Release Date: April 19, 2016
This groundbreaking anthology examines the phenomenon of crime and our historical understanding – and misunderstanding – of the criminal mind through the lens of the humanities, unpacking foundational concepts in criminology and criminal investigative analysis through disciplines such as the visual...