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Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Few directors have played such a prominent role as Francis Veber in shaping the cinematic identity of France over the past forty years, yet in many ways his chosen genre of comedy has relegated his work to the margins of Film Studies. Using an auterist lens to challenge the notions of taste, genre and aesthetics that are commonly used to form the cinematic canon, this book explores the twelve films Veber directed between 1976 and 2008. These include Le Jouet (1976), Les fugitifs (1986) and L'emmerdeur (2008).Considering also Veber's extensive work as a playwright, theatre director and screenwriter - as well as the numerous remakes and adaptations of his films in Hollywood - author Keith Corson focuses on issues of class, labour and politics to examine the ways in which Veber embeds serious social critiques in his mainstream films.Keith Corson is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Film, Theatre and Creative Writing at the University of Central Arkansas.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Applies cognitive linguistic approaches to text analysis in the traditions of poetics and critical discourse analysis.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Iris Murdoch was not only one of post-war Britain's most celebrated and prolific novelists - she was also an influential philosopher, whose work was concerned with the question of the good and how we can see our moral worlds more clearly.Murdoch believed that paying attention to art is a way for us to become less self-centred, and this book argues that cinema is the perfect form of art to enable us to do this. Bringing together Murdoch's moral philosophy and contemporary cinema to build a dialogue about vision, ethics and love, author Lucy Bolton encourages us to view cinema as a way of studying other worlds and moral journeys, and to reflect upon their ethical significance in the world of the film and in our daily lives.Lucy Bolton is senior lecturer in film studies at Queen Mary University of London.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Intersects the philosophy of Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari and anarchist thoughtWhile both Deleuze and Guattari were deeply affected by the events of May '68 and an anarchist sensibility permeates their philosophy, there is no sustained or explicit discussion of anarchism in their work. This book offers a new analysis of Deleuze and Guattari's relationship to the notion of anarchism from both an anthropological and historical perspective.This collection of 13 essays addresses and explores Deleuze and Guattari's relationship to the concept of anarchism as they conceived of it themselves. Their concept of anarchism is diverse and is referred to in very different senses throughout their work. The essays also highlight the relationship between anarchism and anthropology as referenced through the work of Pierre Clastres.This map of Deleuze and Guattari's thought intersects with both classic and contemporary anarchist discourse and practices in both academia and society at large.Chantelle Gray van Heerden is a Senior Researcher at the Institute for Gender Studies at the University of South Africa. Aragorn Eloff is an independent researcher with a long-standing interest in the work of Deleuze and Guattari.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Daniel A. Dombrowski brings together the thought of philosophy's greatest political liberal of the twentieth century, John Rawls, with that of the great process philosophers, Alfred North Whitehead and Charles Hartshorne. He shows that political liberalism is intimately linked with process philosophy, renaming it 'process liberalism'. He justifies this process liberalism in contrast to four potentially troublesome sources or influences: metaphysics, religion, right-wing politics and left-wing politics.Dombrowski engages a series of interlocutors and alternative positions including Franklin I. Gamwell, Timothy D. Snyder, Martin Heidegger and Karl Marx. In conclusion, he offers a compelling, intricate and resourceful argument for nonhuman animal rights based on Rawlsian principles, which in turn forms the basis of a future environmental ethics.Daniel A. Dombrowski is Professor of Philosophy at Seattle University.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Looks at how Jews and Palestinians set out to 'claim the homeland' during the late Ottoman era Uncovering a recent history buried by competing nationalist narratives (Jewish, Arab and Palestinian) this book looks at how the late Ottoman era set the stage for the Palestinian-Israeli conflict that has lasted for over a century. It seeks to change how we understand the conflict by exploring the period before World War One: a time when a unique sense of Palestinian identity emerged, and many Zionists imagined a Jewish national home within an Ottoman framework. Further, it argues that in the late Ottoman era Jews and Palestinians were already locked in conflict. The new freedoms introduced by the post-1908 Young Turk Constitutional Revolution exacerbated divisions, rather than serving as a unifying factor. Offering an integrative approach, it considers both communities, together and separately, in order to provide a sophisticated narrative of how the conflict unfolded in its first years. Key Features - Explores internal Jewish politics in the Yishuv and the greater Ottoman Empire - Places Palestinians within the greater Arab and regional context - Rethinks both Palestinian and Jewish nationalism to transform our understanding of the roots of the Palestinian-Israeli conflict - Based on documents in Ottoman Turkish, Arabic, Hebrew and French Louis A. Fishman is an Assistant Professor at Brooklyn College, City University of New York.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Your one-stop introduction to Scotland's mixed legal systemWhether you're studying Law in Scotland or looking to convert to Scots law, this invaluable guide will quickly equip you with all the basics of the Scottish legal system. Fully updated for the fourth edition, it is the ideal textbook for busy law students revising for those all-important exams. Summary sections of Essentials Facts and Essential Cases will help you to identify, understand and remember the key elements of the subject.The fourth edition is fully updated to take into account recent case law developments and to cover:. The 2017 Westminster General Elections, the 2016 elections to the Scottish Parliament, the Scottish Independence Referendum 2014 and the Scotland Act 2016. Article 50 and the European Union (Withdrawal) Bill. Carloway and Bowen Reviews. Criminal Procedure (Legal Assistance, Detention and Appeals) (Scotland) Act 2010. Criminal Justice (Scotland) Act 2016. Community Justice (Scotland) Act 2016. New Sheriff Court Procedure Rules. New Simple Procedure RulesGerard Keegan is a Tutor in Law in the ISC at the University of Strathclyde and a researcher with the University of Newcastle Law School.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Throughout the 20th century Scottish miners resisted deindustrialisation through collective action and by leading the campaign for Home Rule. This book shows that coal miners occupy a central position in Scotland's economic, social and political history. It highlights the role of miners in formulating labour movement demands for political-constitutional reforms that helped create the conditions for the establishment of the Scottish Parliament in 1999. The author also uses the experiences of the miners to explore working class wellbeing more broadly throughout the prolonged and politicised period of deindustrialisation that culminated in the Thatcherite assault of the 1980s.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Offers a unique critical insight into the political dynamics of anti-militarist activism in the UKIn the past fifteen years, activists opposing militarism in the UK have auctioned off a tank outside an arms fair, superglued themselves to Lockheed Martin's central London offices, and stopped a battleship with a canoe. They have also challenged militarism on an everyday level in many other ways. This book tells the story of their resistance. It explores why anti-militarists take part in such actions, considers the politics of different tactics, and examines the tensions and debates within the movement. As it explores the multifaceted, imaginative and highly subversive world of anti-militarism, the book also makes two overarching arguments. First, that anti-militarists can help us to understand militarism in novel and useful ways. And second, that the methods and ideas used by anti-militarists can be a potent force for radical political change.Chris Rossdale is a Fellow at the London School of Economics and Political Science.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - A unique angle on the topic of sovereignty and violenceSovereign violence is a dominant issue in contemporary political theory and has attracted much attention from proponents of biopolitics, critical theory, deconstruction and post-structuralism.Gavin Rae offers an original approach to the topic by looking at a wide range of thinkers which he organises into three models. Benjamin, Schmitt, Arendt, Deleuze and Guattari form the radical-juridical perspective, Foucault and Agamben are biopolitical and Derrida is bio-juridical.Gavin Rae offers an original approach to the topic by looking at a wide range of thinkers which he organises into three models: the radical-juridical perspective (Benjamin, Schmitt, Arendt, Deleuze and Guattari); biopolitical (Foucault and Agamben); and bio-juridical (Derrida).Rae engages with new translations of Derrida's late seminars on The Beast and the Sovereign as well as The Death Penalty to show that Derrida offers a radical and alternative angle in which violence is placed between law and life, simultaneously creating and regulating each through the other.Gavin Rae is Conex Marie Sklodowska-Curie Experienced Research Fellow at the Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, Spain.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Exploring revolutionary politics in the work of one of America's most important avant-garde writersThis study brings the radicalism of Acker's politics back to life. Moving beyond conventional accounts of her postmodernism, it explores her work as a continuation of the historical avant-garde and examines how she took moments and movements from modern history, including Russian nihilism, Spanish anarchism and the global revolts of the 1960s, to create her own political agenda. In doing so, it presents Acker in a new light: a revolutionary voice in an age when such voices are sorely needed.Emilia Borowska lectures in American Literature at Royal Holloway, University of London.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Should representative governments restrict the democratic rights of their extremist opponents Militant Democracy refers to the defensive policies democracies use to respond to antidemocratic movements. Can defensive efforts that curtail rights of participation be consistent with democratic values In this collection of essays, scholars from across politics, philosophy and law address the unresolved practical and theoretical questions concerning democracy and extremism. The collection provides an update to a key contemporary debate in democratic theory and asks us to reconsider the potential promise and costs of militant democracy.Anthoula Malkopoulou is Docent and Lecturer in the Department of Government at Uppsala University.Alexander Kirshner is Associate Professor of Political Science at Duke University.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - A one-stop shop for developing your Arabic writing skills, packed with practical exercises and drillsHow to Write in Arabic teaches intermediate and advanced learners how to use the Arabic linguistic features that are key to achieving written fluency. Each unit contains carefully selected exercises where students practise their vocabulary and grammar in a wide range of registers and contexts - such as writing a CV, a short story, a love letter, an essay and many more.In addition to brand-new drills and vocabularies, this 2nd edition also features 3 new units. The unit on Arabic expressions and vocabulary provides learners with a variety of phrases in context. The unit on media writing focuses on themes such as diplomacy, elections, the economy, the environment and revolutions, amongst others. And the unit on writing errors helps learners spot and correct common mistakes, especially in punctuation and tense.Key Features¿ Designed for intermediate and advanced learners of Arabic who are looking to develop and refine their writing skills¿ Gives students theoretical and practical guidelines on how to make their writing flow by using connectors and cohesive devices¿ Helps students to expand their vocabulary with new words, phrases and idioms¿ Challenges learners with a variety of practical writing exercises in different registers, such as correspondence, academic articles, creative writing and reporting for mediaContents¿ Unit 1: Connectors¿ Unit 2: Letter Writing¿ Unit 3: Stylistic Expressions and Vocabulary¿ Unit 4: Free Writing¿ Unit 5: Creative Writing¿ Unit 6: Arabic Expressions and Vocabulary in Context¿ Unit 7: Arabic Media Writing¿ Unit 8: My Writing ErrorsEl Mustapha Lahlali is Professor at the University of Leeds and the author of numerous textbooks - including Advanced Media Arabic (2nd edition, 2017), Essential Skills in Arabic (with Radia Kesseiri, 2018) and Advanced English-Arabic Translation (with Wafa Abu Hatab, 2014), all published by Edinburgh University Press.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - The New Romanian CinemaEdited by Christina StojanovaWith the Participation of Dana DumaCovering more than forty films made since 2001 - including The Death of Mr. Lazarescu, The Paper will be Blue, Police, Adjective and Beyond the Hills - this pioneering collection of essays on New Romanian Cinema is the first to contextualise it aesthetically, theoretically and historically. Scholars from across Europe and North America are brought together, reflecting on the realism, minimalism and intermedial artifice of New Romanian cinemas, on its approaches to issues of national and gender identity, and on its unique convergence of ethics and aesthetics.With its thorough bibliographic and filmographic references, and a comprehensive historical overview, the anthology represents a systematic guide to New Romanian Cinema as a consolidated cinematic movement, and highlights its potential as a rich interdisciplinary field of study.Christina Stojanova is an associate professor at the Department of Film, University of Regina. Dana Duma is a film critic and Professor in Film History at the National University of Theatre and Cinema in Bucharest.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Praise for the previous edition'I am sorry it did not exist when I was a student. and I expect it to be a useful addition to every linguistics student's bookshelf.' Nordic Journal of LinguisticsThe go-to- companion for anyone studying linguisticsLaurie Bauer has expertly crafted a compendium of essential things for linguistics students to know -- from the IPA chart to the Saussurean dichotomies, this book will be the constant companion of anyone undertaking studies of linguistics. Part reference work, part revision guide, and with tables providing summary information on some 300 languages, the book provides a new learning tool as a supplement to your usual textbooks.The new edition features:. New chapters on the Neogrammarians, figures of speech and writing systems. New coverage on punctuation, spelling and academic writing. 15 new languages added to the Language File section including Bororo, Kuuk Thaayorre, Mapuche, Seediq, Tamashek, Ute. New data and examples to reflect new research. Guidance on how to use the Language File for assignmentsLaurie Bauer is Emeritus Professor of Linguistics at Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand.