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Bad History and the Logics of Blockbuster Cinema(2011) MCGEE, P.McGee studies historical representation in commodified, popular cinema as expressions of historical truths that more authentic histories usually miss and argues for the political and social significance of mass culture through the interpretation of four rVezava: Mehka70,86 € -
American Military Intervention in Unconventional War(2011) BERT, W.A study of the major U.S. military interventions in unconventional war, this book looks at four wars that occurred while the U.S. was a superpower in the post-war WW II period and one in the Philippines in 1898.Vezava: Mehka70,86 €
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Geocritical Explorations(2011)In recent years the spatial turn in literary and cultural studies has opened up new ways of looking at the interactions among writers, readers, texts, and places. Geocriticism offers a timely new approach, and this book presents an array of concrete exampVezava: Mehka86,61 €
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Land Ownership Inequality and Rural Factor Markets in Turkey(2012) UNAL, F.Ünal uses Turkey as a case study to investigate the effectiveness and efficiency of land and labor markets in spreading economic opportunities within agriculture and its ability to reduce rural poverty.Vezava: Mehka70,86 €
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Adapting Poe(2012)Adapting Poe is a collection of essays that explores the way Edgar Allan Poe has been adapted over the last hundred years in film, comic art, music, and literary criticism. A major theme that pervades the study concerns the more recent re-imaginings of PoVezava: Mehka70,86 €
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Real Venture Capital(2008) THOMPSON, R.A principal theme of the book is a plea for ' real venture capital', with the venture capitalist adding substantial value to companies and their founders through a wide knowledge of business, in contrast to the purely financial skills required in other seVezava: Mehka63,30 €
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Essays on Levinas and Law(2009) MANDERSON, DESMONDThis collection brings together major writers and major works on what Emmanuel Levinas means to law, and injects Levinas' provocative ethics right into the heart of living law, radically changing our understanding of both.Vezava: Mehka70,86 €
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Global Marriage(2010) WILLIAMS, LUCYThe popular imagination of marriage migration has been influenced by stories of marriage of convenience, of forced marriage, trafficking and of so-called mail-order brides. This book presents a uniquely global view of an expanding field that challenges thVezava: Mehka70,86 €
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Performing Childhood in the Early Modern Theatre(2009) LAMB, EDELThis book investigates how the Children of Paul's (1599-1606) and the Children of the Queen's Revels (1600-13) defined their players as children and, via an analysis of their plays and theatrical practices, it examines early modern theatre as a site in whVezava: Mehka70,86 €
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Hardy the Physician(2008) FINCHAM, T.Was Thomas Hardy clinically depressed or just syphilitic? Was Egdon Heath imbued with melancholic vapours? And does this explain why many of his characters suffered from depression, took their own lives or developed homicidal tendencies? This book by a ruVezava: Mehka70,86 €
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Shakespeare and War(2008)A lively collection of essays from scholars from across Europe, North America and Australia. The book ranges from Shakespeare's use of manuals on war written for the sixteenth-century English public by an English mercenary, to reflections on the ways in wVezava: Mehka70,86 €
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Labour Party and Constitutional Reform(2008) DOREY, P.Examines the Labour Party's approach to constitutional reforms in historical context, and how these have been pursued more to 'modernize' political institutions, rather that radically transform them. Explains the reasons for this constitutional conservatiVezava: Mehka70,86 €
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Political Romance(2012) FOLEY, S.,SOWERWINE, C.Léon Gambetta is renowned as a founder of the French Third Republic. This unique study of his correspondence with his lover, Léonie Léon, provides a fascinating insight into their intimate and political partnership. It brings to life Gambetta as lover andVezava: Mehka70,86 €
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Performing Otherness(2010) COHEN, M.A far-reaching examination of exoticism, cultural internationalism and modernism's encounters with Indonesian tradition, Performing Otherness examines how Indonesia entered world stages through imperialism as an antimodern phantasm and through nationalismVezava: Mehka125,99 €
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Reaganism, Thatcherism and the Social Novel(2008) HUTCHINSON, C.The social novel is the traditional haunt of the liberal conscience. What does the triumph of the New Right mean for this type of fiction in Britain and the US? Should the liberal left seek consensus or assertion? This book examines these issues, and asseVezava: Mehka70,86 €
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Finance, Politics, and Imperialism(2012) DILLEY, A.Andrew Dilley offers a major new study of financial dependence, examining the connections this dependence forged between the City and political life in Edwardian Australia and Canada, mediated by ideas of political economy. In doing so he reconstructs theVezava: Mehka70,86 €
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Electing and Ejecting Party Leaders in Britain(2015) QUINN, THOMASThe Conservatives, Labour and the Liberal Democrats each allow their members to participate in the selection of the party leader. It also examines the consequences of all-member ballots in leadership elections. It looks at how parties remove leaders, showVezava: Mehka70,86 €
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Global Financial Meltdown(2009) READ, C.In easy to understand terms and journalistic style, Read describes the reasons for global financial unrest arising from the sub-prime mortgage crisis and economic meltdowns. He walks the reader through a number of topics in economics and connects these toVezava: Mehka66,71 €
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Moral Emotions and Intuitions(2011) ROESER, S.The author presents a new philosophical theory according to which we need intuitions and emotions in order to have objective moral knowledge, which is called affectual intuitionism. Affectual Intuitionism combines ethical intuitionism with a cognitive thVezava: Mehka70,86 €
