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Winston Churchill is a renowned historical figure, whose remarkable political and military career continues to enthral. This book consists of short, highly readable chapters on key aspects of Churchill's career. Written by leading experts, the chapters draw on documents from Churchill's extensive personal papers as well as cutting-edge scholarship.Ranging from Churchill's youthful statesmanship to the ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 368 páginas
PVP: 32,40 €
ISBN 978-1-4742-7983-3
EAN 9781474279833
In a world riven with conflict, violence and war, this book proposes a philosophical defense of pacifism. It argues that there is a moral presumption against war and unless that presumption is defeated, war is unjustified. Leading philosopher of non-violence Robert Holmes contends that neither just war theory nor the rationales for recent wars (Vietnam, ...
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This volume covers all the most important issues, concepts, movements and approaches in phonetics, looking at both the core and applied domains of phonetics and speech science. It offers insights into areas as diverse as the acquisition, production and perception of speech, and clinical and forensic phonetics. There is a state of the art exploration ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 208 páginas
PVP: 125,35 €
ISBN 978-1-4742-3893-9
EAN 9781474238939
Wilfrid Sellars, Idealism, and Realism is the first study of its kind to address a range of realist and idealist views inspired by psychological nominalism. Bringing together premier analytic realists and distinguished defenders of German idealism, it reveals why psychological nominalism is one of the most important theories of the mind to come out the ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 152 páginas
ISBN 978-1-4725-2922-0
EAN 9781472529220
Feminist Theory After Deleuze addresses the encounter between one of the 20th century's most important philosophers, Gilles Deleuze, and one of its most significant political and intellectual movements, feminism. Feminist theory is a broad, contradictory, and still evolving school of thought. This book introduces the key movements within feminist theory, engaging with both Anglo-American and ...
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ISBN 978-1-5013-1320-2
EAN 9781501313202
Journalist and literary critic Charlie Lee-Potter explores the links between the novel and journalism-and the place of both in responding to traumatic cultural events-in the aftermath of 9/11. Writing the 9/11 Decade investigates the relation of the novel to journalism, and the role of both in shaping culture, by looking at novelists' journalistic responses to ...
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ISBN 978-1-4742-6007-7
EAN 9781474260077
Including new case-study examples from shows and films such as Breaking Bad, Girls and In Bruges, this is a fully updated new edition of the bestselling guide to writing dialogue for stage, television, radio and film. A good story can easily be ruined by bad dialogue. Now in its 4th edition, Rib Davis's bestselling Writing ...
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ISBN 978-1-4742-6020-6
EAN 9781474260206
Now fully updated for its second edition - with examples from such acclaimed dramas as The Wolf of Wall Street, Jerusalem and Game of Thrones - this is an authoritative guide to creating strong characters in scripts for film, TV, theatre and radio. Strong characters - characters we love and hate, those we despair for ...
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ISBN 978-1-4742-6937-7
EAN 9781474269377
A radical re-writing of Sophocles' classic play Antigone by one of the world's most famous and controversial philosophers. While it is common practice in contemporary theatre to re-contextualise a piece of work, the riskier - and Slavoj i ek would argue more faithful - approach might be to change the actual story itself. i ek's ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 248 páginas
PVP: 22,10 €
ISBN 978-1-4742-9416-4
EAN 9781474294164
First published in 2011 The Precariat is the hugely influential first account of an emerging class of people facing insecurity, moving in and out of precarious work that gives little meaning to their lives. Standing warns that the growth of the precariat is producing instabilities in society. Its internal divisions have led to the villainization ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 176 páginas
ISBN 978-1-4742-9745-5
EAN 9781474297455
Roland Barthes - the author of such enduringly influential works as Mythologies and Camera Lucida - was one of the most important cultural critics of the post-war era. Since his death in 1980, new writings have continued to be discovered and published. The Afterlives of Roland Barthes is the first book to revisit and reassess ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 352 páginas
PVP: 29,75 €
ISBN 978-1-4742-2791-9
EAN 9781474227919
¿Por qué? 101 Questions about Spanish is for anyone who wants to understand how Spanish really works. Standard textbooks and grammars describe the "what" of Spanish - its vocabulary, grammar, spelling, and pronunciation - but ¿Por qué? explains the "why".Judy Hochberg draws on linguistic principles, Hispanic culture, and language history to answer questions such as:Why ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 488 páginas
PVP: 24,60 €
ISBN 978-1-4742-9965-7
EAN 9781474299657
No one has had a greater influence on acting as we know it than Stanislavski. His 'method' - or interpretations of it - has become the central force determining almost every performance we see on stage or screen. In My Life in Art Stanislavski recalls his theatrical career, from his early experiences in Rubinstein's Russian ...
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ISBN 978-1-4742-2644-8
EAN 9781474226448
A reader of key pieces on the history of sexuality by one of the leading historians in the field, with new material contextualising the content in line with current debates. Encompassing the long 18th century, Amatory Pleasures examines a broad and enticing variety of topics in the history of sexuality in Georgian times. It includes ...
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ISBN 978-1-5013-1311-0
EAN 9781501313110
Literary history meets economic policy in this entertaining polemic on the ethical and potentially destructive power of terrible literature. Literature can be used to disseminate ideas with devastating real-life consequences. In How Bad Writing Destroyed the World, Adam Weiner spans decades and continents to reveal the surprising connections between the 2008-2009 financial crisis and a ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 288 páginas
PVP: 35,35 €
ISBN 978-1-4411-4389-1
EAN 9781441143891
There is a vigorous debate on the exact beginnings of the Crusades, as well as a growing conviction that some practices of crusading may have been in existence, at least in part, long before they were identified as such. The Prehistory of the Crusades explores how the Crusades came to be seen as the use ...
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ISBN 978-1-5013-1657-9
EAN 9781501316579
Explores the production, representation, and reception of prominent female superheroes in mainstream superhero comics, television shows, and films. Over the last 75 years, superheroes have been portrayed most often as male, heterosexual, white, and able-bodied. Today, a time when many of these characters are billion-dollar global commodities, there are more female superheroes, more queer superheroes, ...
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ISBN 978-1-4725-2338-9
EAN 9781472523389
Charts Winston Churchill's evolving views on nuclear weapons, beginning with the war-time development of the atomic bomb and continuing into the Cold War. Covering the development of the atomic bomb during the Second World War, the origins and early course of the Cold War, and the advent of the hydrogen bomb in the early 1950s, ...
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ISBN 978-1-4725-7633-0
EAN 9781472576330
Helen Graham here brings together leading historians of international renown to examine 20th-century Spain in light of Franco's dictatorship and its legacy. Interrogating Francoism uses a three-part structure to look at the old regime, the civil war and the forging of Francoism; the nature of Franco's dictatorship; and the 'history wars' that have since taken ...
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PVP: 27,55 €
ISBN 978-1-4742-3533-4
EAN 9781474235334
A lively yet substantial biography of the French Existentialist Philosopher Jean-Paul Sartre. Jean-Paul Sartre is one of the undisputed giants of 20th-century philosophy. His intellectual writings popularizing existentialism combined with his creative and artistic flair have made him a legend of French thought. His tumultuous personal life - so inextricably bound up with his philosophical ...
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