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Feeling Theatre(2012) WELTON, MARTINWhy is it that in going to see plays we are also touched or moved by them, and is there more than metaphor involved in such claims? Considering these and other questions, this book examines a range of contemporary performance works in which performers andVezava: Mehka70,86 € -
Music of Verse(2012) PHELAN, JOSEPHThrough its recovery of the metrical principles underlying the work of some of the century's major poets, this study highlights the intricacy of the relation between the 'music' of verse and its meaning, and helping us to understand the way in which the fVezava: Mehka70,86 €
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International Migration, Development and Human Wellbeing(2012) WRIGHT, KATIEKatie Wright explores how human wellbeing is constructed and how it 'travels' across spatial boundaries. She draws on empirical research, undertaken with Peruvian migrants based in London and Madrid and their Peru-based relatives and close friends to explVezava: Mehka70,86 €
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Screening the Unwatchable(2012) GRØNSTAD, A.Tracing the rise of extreme art cinema across films from Lars von Trier's The Idiots to Michael Haneke's Caché, Asbjørn Grønstad revives the debate about the role of negation and aesthetics, and reframes the concept of spectatorship in ethical terms.Vezava: Mehka70,86 €
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Challenging US Foreign Policy(2011)Some categorisations of US power have long governed analyses of American foreign policy - concepts such as 'empire', 'decline', 'superpower', 'the Cold War' and 'the War on Terror' - and have led to a distortion that sees US policy measured by broad labelVezava: Mehka70,86 €
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Biology, Computing, and the History of Molecular Sequencing(2012) GARCIA-SANCHO, M.Sequencing is often associated with the Human Genome Project and celebrated achievements concerning the DNA molecule. However, the history of this practice comprises not only academic biology, but also the world of computer-assisted information managementVezava: Mehka69,29 €
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Pathognomy of Performance(2011) BAYLY, S.Exploring the themes of the event, ephemerality and democracy that mark the encounter between performance and philosophy, this original study elaborates fresh perspectives on the experiences of undoing, fiasco and disaster that shadow both the both stageVezava: Mehka70,86 €
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Law and the Brontes(2012) WARD, I.In its exploration of legal issues presented in novels of the Brontë sisters, this book represents a significant and original contribution to the study, not just of the Brontës and the mid-nineteenth century 'woman's novel', but also the situation of womeVezava: Mehka70,86 €
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House of Lords Reform Since 1911(2011) DOREY, P.,KELSO, A.Examines the debates and developments about House of Lords reform since 1911, and notes that disagreements have occurred within, as well as between, the main political parties and governments throughout this time. It draws attention to how various proposaVezava: Mehka70,86 €
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Getting Between the Balance Sheets(2011) FRODSHAM, D.,LIECHTENSTEIN, H.For many entrepreneurs there is a mystique about finance -starting, growing and selling new ventures is tough enough. Yet with some focused financial knowledge you can run your company with less cash, grow it more quickly and make more money when it is soVezava: Mehka94,49 €
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It Came From the 1950s!(2011) JONES, DARRYL,MCCARTHY, ELIZABETH,MURPHY, BERNICE M.An eclectic and insightful collection of essays predicated on the hypothesis that popular cultural documents provide unique insights into the concerns, anxieties and desires of their times. 1950s popular culture is analysed by leading scholars and criticsVezava: Mehka70,86 €
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Capitalism and Climate Change(2012) KOCH, MAXThis book discusses climate change as a social issue, examining the incompatibility of capitalist development and Earth's physical limits and how these have been regulated in different ways. It addresses the links between modes of consumption, energy regiVezava: Mehka70,86 €
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Rise and Fall of an Economic Empire(2010) READ, C.We have seen many empires come and go. From the Roman Empire to the British Empire, we are now witnessing the decline of the US as a superpower. How do economic innovations foster global economic dominance, and how does the natural evolution of an economiVezava: Mehka59,86 €
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NATO: The Power of Partnerships(2011)NATO has many European and global partner countries. The political and military utility of all these partnerships is clear; they 'provide' more security than they 'consume'. But the utility for NATO of partners also changes over time. This book scrutinizeVezava: Mehka70,86 €
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Modernist Nowheres(2012) WADDELL, N.Modernist Nowheres explores connections in the Anglo-American sphere between early literary modernist cultures, politics, and utopia. Foregrounding such writers as Conrad, Lawrence and Wyndham Lewis, it presents a new reading of early modernism in which uVezava: Mehka70,86 €
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Community, Market and State in Development(2011)'How to combine the community, the market, and the state in the total economic system is probably the most important agenda for economists geared towards the reduction of poverty in developing economies'.Vezava: Mehka70,86 €
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Dorothy Wordsworth and Hartley Coleridge(2012) HEALEY, N.This book provides a reassessment of the writings of Hartley Coleridge and Dorothy Wordsworth and presents them in a new poetics of relationship, re-evaluating their relationships with William Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor Coleridge to restore a more accurVezava: Mehka70,86 €
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East Asian Cinemas(2011)This book is an original volume of essays that sheds new and critical light on current and emerging filmmaking trends and practices in China, Taiwan, Hong Kong, Japan and South Korea. A timely and important contribution to existing scholarship in the fielVezava: Mehka70,86 €
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Shakespeare's Irrational Endings(2012) MARGOLIES, D.Problem Plays' has been an awkward category for those Shakespeare plays that don't fit the conventional groupings. Expanding from the traditional three plays to six, the book argues that they share dramatic structures designed intentionally by ShakespeareVezava: Mehka70,86 €
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Engineering Society(2012) BRUCKWEH, KERSTIN,WETZELL, RICHARD F.Explaining crime by reference to abnormalities of the brain is just one example of how the human and social sciences have influenced the approach to social problems in Western societies since 1880. Focusing on applications such as penal policy, therapy, aVezava: Mehka70,86 €
