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Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - This book covers key material for Scots commercial law courses.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - A fresh translation and in-depth commentary of Leibniz's seminal text Discourse on Metaphysics Written in 1686, Discourse on Metaphysics is one of the most important and widely published works in the history of philosophy. This translation and commentary by Christopher Johns has much new to offer. Based on the Akademie edition this is the first truly scholarly translation. Also included is historical and philosophical context, detailing Leibniz's activities during 1685 and 1686 and in several letters previously unpublished in English. These letters and texts illuminate important themes found in the Discourse and shed light on the intellectual context of the time and will be of particular interest to scholars and teachers of Leibniz. Key features - Represents the first English translation based extensively on the Academie Edition's variant record - Provides in-depth commentary on each of the 37 sections of the Discourse - Includes previously unpublished and untranslated letters from 1685 - Offers historical and biographical context for the work and the author himself - Designed for teachers and students of Early Modern philosophy - Includes a bibliography of primary texts and recommended secondary reading Christopher Johns is Associate Professor of Philosophy at the American University of Beirut, Lebanon.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Investigates how leaders in Turkey's political sphere have hindered democratic consolidation.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - The first comprehensive scholarly volume on Kim Ki-young and his films in English.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - The first comprehensive study of men and masculinity in the cinema of Satyajit Ray.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Religion has played a key formational role in the development of Scottish society shaping cultural norms, defining individual and corporate identities, and underpinning legal and political institutions. This series presents the very best scholarship on the role of religion as a formative and yet divisive force in Scottish society and highlights its positive and negative functions in the development of the nation's culture. The impact of the Scots diaspora on the wider world means that the subject has major significance far out with Scotland.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Taiwan New Cinema (first wave, 1982-1989; second wave, 1990 onward) has a unique history regarding film festivals, particularly in the way these films are circulated at major European film festivals. It shares a common formalist concern about cinematic modernism with its Western counterparts, departing from previous modes of filmmaking that were preoccupied with nostalgically romanticizing China's image. Through utilising in-depth case studies of films by Taiwan-based directors: Tsai Ming-liang, Zhao Deyin and Hou Hsiao-hsien, Tsai discusses how Taiwan New Cinema represents a struggling configuration of the 'nation', brought forth by Taiwan's multilayered colonial and postcolonial histories. Taiwan New Cinema at Film Festivals presents the conditions that have led to the production of a national cinema, branding the auteur, and examines shifting representations of cultural identity in the context of globalization. Beth Tsai is Visiting Assistant Professor in East Asian Languages and Cultural Studies at the University of California, Santa Barbara. Her research focuses primarily on the cinema of Taiwan, film festivals, and transnational film theory. She has published in the International Journal of Asia Pacific Studies, Quarterly Review of Film and Video, Journal of Asian Cinema, and Oxford Bibliographies.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Traces authors' attitudes toward US economic expansionism through their fictional allusions to internationally-traded commodities Offering an interdisciplinary study of references to internationally-traded commodities in US fiction, Consuming Empire assembles an integrated geopolitical analysis of Americans' material, gendered and aesthetic experiences of empire at the turn of the twentieth century. Examining allusions to contested goods like cochineal, cotton, oranges, fur, gold, pearls, porcelain and wheat, Consuming Empire reveals a linked global imagination among authors who were often directly or indirectly critical of US imperial ambitions. Furthermore, Consuming Empire considers the commodification of art itself, interpreting writers' allusions to paintings, sculptures and artists as self-aware acknowledgements of their own complicity in global capitalism. As Consuming Empire demonstrates, literary texts have long trained consumers to imagine their relationship to the world through the things they own. Heather Wayne is a teacher of English and independent scholar living in Massachusetts. Her research focuses on nineteenth-century US literature, material culture, feminism, visual culture, empire and global history.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Ian Verstegen gives us an account of the theory and practice of members of the so-called 'second' or 'younger' Viennese school associated with Hans Sedlmayr and Otto Pächt. He demonstrates the strong dependence of these writers on the work of nascent Gestalt psychology. Gestalt theory emerges as the master key to interpreting Sedlmayr and Pächt's ideas about art and history. Ian Verstegen is Associate Director of Visual Studies at the University of Pennsylvania. Trained in Italian Renaissance art history, he also writes on art theory and historiography.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Examines history, modernity, gender and sexuality through the literary innovations of two late-Victorian female co-authors All authors try to do something new, or tell an old story in a new way; but for Katharine Bradley and Edith Cooper, who wrote as Michael Field and called themselves 'Poets and Lovers', rewriting old stories, history and traditional literary forms with extraordinary innovation was nothing short of high art. Offering new readings of a wide range of Michael Field texts, this book asks: how do ambitious experiments with a joint diary, closet drama, ekphrasis, elegy and nature, devotional and love poetry help these women navigate the paradox of looking backward in order to achieve their goal 'to make all things new' How do their revisionary poetics help the co-authors, as queer, female Aesthetes, cope with late-Victorian modernity Through an interdisciplinary approach to their passionate and sometimes eccentric life and work, this book provokes thought about the fin-de-siècle and invites readers, like Michael Field themselves, to engage the past in order to create transtemporal community and to make sense of the present. Jill R. Ehnenn is Professor of English at Appalachian State University, where she is also standing faculty in the Gender, Women's and Sexuality Studies Program. She has published on a wide range of nineteenth-century writers and is the author of Women's Literary Collaboration, Queerness, and Late-Victorian Culture (2008/2017).

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Reinterprets the dialogue between theories and practices of poetry in early modern England How did ideas about the poet's art surface in early modern texts By looking into the intersections between poetry, poetics and other discourses - logic, rhetoric, natural philosophy, medicine, mythography or religion - the essays in this volume unearth notions that remained largely unwritten in the official literary criticism of the period. Focusing on questions of poetry's origins and style, and exploring individual responses to issues of authenticity, career design, difficulty or inspiration, this collection revisits and renews the critical lexicons that connect poetic theory and practice in early modern English texts and their European contexts. Reading canonical poets and critics - Sidney, Spenser, Marlowe, Shakespeare, Puttenham, Dryden - along less studied figures such as Henry Constable, Barnabe Barnes, Thomas Lodge, Aemilia Lanyer, Fulke Greville or George Chapman, this book extends the coordinates for a dialogue between literary practice and the Renaissance theories from which they stemmed and which they helped to outgrow. Zenón Luis-Martínez is Senior Lecturer of English at the University of Huelva, Spain, where he teaches medieval and early modern literature. He is the author of In Words and Deeds: The Spectacle of Incest in English Renaissance Tragedy (2002) and has edited Abraham Fraunce's The Shepherds' Logic and Other Dialectical Writings (2016).

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Presents the first comprehensive examination of daily and weekly newspapers in Scotland in the century after 1850 Filling a significant gap in the history of the Scottish press and in Scottish social history, this book draws on a range of sources. It examines the great expansion of Scottish newspapers, following the removal of the 'taxes on knowledge' through to the mid-20th century. W. Hamish Fraser provides the historical basis for meaningful, in-depth study of many different aspects of the Scottish press and adds a new dimension to Scottish historical studies. Through an extensive search of newspapers, the use of local history material and of the limited business and organisational records that are available, he gathers little-known information on the world of Scottish journalism and on the people who provided the mass of the population with their news and tried to shape their attitudes. By focusing on different regions, he moves away from earlier rather sweeping generalisations on a key part of the media in Scotland, and he assesses the extent of continuity and change in a crucial century. ? Considers the city-based daily papers and the many local weeklies, which were the most extensively read papers throughout most of the period, containing international and national commentary as well as local reports ? Captures the tone of the papers by focusing on such issues as the American Civil War, parliamentary reform, changing attitudes to politics, empire and social change ? Considers issues that were regarded as being distinctively Scottish such as attitudes towards education, democracy and religion and how far Scottish newspapers contributed or undermined to the idea of a distinct Scottish identity ? Examines growth of group ownership of Scottish papers in the 20th century and the reduced role of the local weekly press in shaping opinion and the extent of how far, by the 1940s, papers had changed from those in the 19th century W. Hamish Fraser is an emeritus professor of the University of Strathclyde. He has published on many aspects of labour and social history and edited books on the history of both Glasgow and Aberdeen. With a long interest in the press, he has contributed numerous entries to the Dictionary of Nineteenth-century Journalism. His books include The Wars of Archibald Forbes (2015) and a new edition of The Coming of the Mass Market, 1850-1914 (originally published in 1981).