This book is an interpretive analysis of transatlantic security relations from the preparation of the North Atlantic Treaty to the Obama administration.>
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Acoustic Territories: Sound Culture and Everyday Life offers an expansive reading of auditory life. It provides a careful consideration of the performative dynamics inherent to sound culture and acts
Haunting has long been a compelling element in popular culture, and has become an influential category in academic engagements with politics, economics, and aesthetics. While recent scholarship has us
Containing over 70 tried-and-tested activities, Activities for Individual Learning Through Rhyme is a practical resource which takes a cross-curricular thematic approach and uses the themes of number
Rock the Nation analyzes Latino/a identity through rock 'n' roll music and its deep Latin/o history. By linking rock music to Latinos and to music from Latin America
Ministry of Defeat is a devastating account of military and strategic incompetence. When Tony Blair insisted that British Armed Forces form part of the invasion of Iraq, little attention was paid as t
Two global warming skeptics argue that the fight against apparent global warming has become an unstoppable force based on emotion rather than science, exploring the politics, netotiations, and scienti
Most texts on religion and science rightly focus on the effect of modern cosmology and biology on views about God and on the place of humankind in the universe. Many analyze current disputes about Int
How to Be an Existentialist is a witty and entertaining book about the philosophy of existentialism. It is also a genuine self-help book offering clear advice on how to live according to the principle
Rethinking Children's Rights explores attitudes towards and experiences of children's rights. Phil Jones and Sue Welch draw on a wide range of thought, research an
In this collection of essays, Stewart (English, Yeshiva U., New York) interprets responses to modern existence by Walter Benjamin (1892-1940), German-Jewish philosopher, sociologist, literary critic,
We live in a world where the one-time opposition between things and humans has been transformed, where the center of contemporary sensibility is the encounter between philosophy and sexuality, where s
How can we answer the many questions young children have about death? Looking for a meaningful way to explain to neighbourhood children the death of a five year old friend, Doris Stickney adapted the
In this strikingly personal account of recent literary approaches to the Bible, Jeffrey Staley shows how people's life experiences relate to what they read in the Scriptures. He illustrates his argume
Mercia dominated Anglo-Saxon Britain from the early eighth through the ninth centuries, but is little considered by either the public or scholars. Historians and museum curators analyze and interpret
