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Censorship Moments
Reading Texts in the History of Censorship and Freedom of Expression
Language: English
Release Date: November 20, 2014
Censorship in varying forms has been part of human experience for 2,500 years and has proved itself to be a recurring presence for political thought, whether as active repression, a shaping context for expression, or as itself a subject for analysis and argument. From the death of Socrates to the...
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Language: English
Release Date: February 22, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: February 22, 2018
Charles H. Long is one of the most influential and pioneering scholars in the study of religion from the past 50 years. This is the first comprehensive collection of his writings, edited by Long himself, and contains 38 pieces, including both published and previously unpublished articles, lectures,...
Enemy in our Midst
Germans in Britain during the First World War
Language: English
Release Date: March 26, 2014
With the approach of the First World War, the German community in Britain began to be assailed by a combination of government measures and popular hostility which resulted in attacks against individuals with German connections and confiscation of their property. From May 1915, a policy of wholesale...
Forgetfulness
Making the Modern Culture of Amnesia
Language: English
Release Date: October 5, 2017
Forgetfulness is a book about modern culture and its profound rejection of the past. It traces the emergence in recent history of the idea that what is important in human life and work is what will happen in the future.
Francis O'Gorman shows how forgetting has been embraced as a requirement...
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Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2016
Religion and Orientalism in Asian Studies analyses the role of religion in past and present understandings of Asia. Religion, and the history of its study in the modern academy, has exercised massive influence over Asian Studies fields in the past century. Asian Studies has in turn affected, and is...
The Geek’s Guide to the Writing Life
An Instructional Memoir for Prose Writers
Language: English
Release Date: December 14, 2017
The desire to create, to write, to fulfil our artistic dreams is a powerful human need. Yet the number of people who make a living solely by their pen is actually quite small. What does that mean for the rest of us, the self-described writing geeks, who are passionate about writing and who still want...
Knowledge and the Future School
Curriculum and Social Justice
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2014
Written at a time of uncertainty about the implications of the English government's curriculum policies, Knowledge and the Future School engages with the debate between the government and large sections of the educational community. It provides a forward-looking framework for head teachers, their...
Shameful Bodies
Religion and the Culture of Physical Improvement
Language: English
Release Date: January 12, 2017
What happens when your body doesn't look how it's supposed to look, or feel how it's supposed to feel, or do what it's supposed to do? Who or what defines the ideals behind these expectations? How can we challenge them and live more peacefully in our bodies?
Shameful Bodies: Religion and the...
Spirituality, Corporate Culture, and American Business
The Neoliberal Ethic and the Spirit of Global Capital
Language: English
Release Date: February 9, 2017
By the early twenty-first century, Americans had embraced a holistic vision of work, that one's job should be imbued with meaning and purpose, that business should serve not only stockholders but also the common good, and that, for many, should attend to the “spiritual” health of individuals and...
Achieving Democracy
Democratization in Theory and Practice
Language: English
Release Date: December 24, 2015
Democracy is the ability to participate freely and equally in the political and economic affairs of the country. Americans have relied on philosophical pragmatism and on the impulse of political progressivism to express those creedal democratic values. Achieving Democracy argues that, in the last...
The Language of Brexit
How Britain Talked Its Way Out of the European Union
Language: English
Release Date: February 8, 2018
Investigating the 2016 EU Referendum in the UK, The Language of Brexit explores the ways in which 'Brexit' campaigners utilised language more persuasively than their 'Remain' counterparts. Drawing parallels with effective political discourse used worldwide, this book highlights the linguistic features...
by Professor Corinne Squire, Professor Molly Andrews, Dr. Mark Davis
Language: English
Release Date: November 20, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: November 20, 2014
Narrative research has become a catchword in the social sciences today, promising new fields of inquiry and creative solutions to persistent problems.
This book brings together ideas about narrative from a variety of contexts across the social sciences and synthesizes understandings of the...
Contemporary Second Language Assessment
Contemporary Applied Linguistics Volume 4
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2016
Includes chapters on key aspects of second language assessment such as test construct, diagnosis, exam design, and the growing range of public policy, social and ethical issues. Each of the contributors is an expert in their area; some are established names while others are talented newcomers to the...
Understanding Language Classroom Contexts
The Starting Point for Change
Language: English
Release Date: April 11, 2013
Arguably the whole point of education is to effect change in what people know and are able to do. Globalization has contributed to a common perception worldwide of the need to introduce changes to the teaching and learning of languages. The success of many attempts to do so has been limited by insufficient...