Bloomsbury Academic imprint: 2928 books
Hindu Worldviews
Theories of Self, Ritual and Reality
Language: English
Release Date: February 9, 2017
Designed to help readers deepen their understanding of Hinduism, and reflecting themes central to the study of religion and culture, Jessica Frazier explores classical Hindu theories of self, the body, the cosmos, and human action. Case studies from Hindu texts provide readers with direct access to...
Rebirth and the Stream of Life
A Philosophical Study of Reincarnation, Karma and Ethics
Language: English
Release Date: January 28, 2016
Rebirth and the Stream of Life explores the diversity as well as the ethical and religious significance of rebirth beliefs, focusing especially on Hindu and Buddhist traditions but also discussing indigenous religions and ancient Greek thought. Utilizing resources from religious studies, anthropology...
An Anthropology of Contemporary Art
Practices, Markets, and Collectors
Language: English
Release Date: January 25, 2018
Drawing on the exciting developments that have occurred in the anthropology of art over the last twenty years, this study uses ethnographic methods to explore shifts in the art market and global contemporary art. Recognizing that the huge diversity of global phenomena requires research on the ground,...
by Dr Steven Moore
Language: English
Release Date: February 26, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: February 26, 2015
In 1989, Steven Moore published the first scholarly study of all three of William Gaddis's novels and since then it has been generally regarded as the best book on this difficult but major writer's work. This revised and expanded edition includes new chapters on the novels Gaddis published after 1989,...
by Paul Wells
Language: English
Release Date: January 10, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: January 10, 2019
Basics Animation 03: Drawing for Animation introduces readers to the practice of drawing images for use in animation. It examines the thinking process and techniques involved with drawing characters, composition and movement, narrative and adaptation.
Drawing is a fundamental part of the preparatory...
Metanoia
A Speculative Ontology of Language, Thinking, and the Brain
Language: English
Release Date: November 16, 2017
Fusing speculative realism, analytical and linguistic philosophy this book theorises the fundamental impact the experience of reading has on us. In reading, language provides us with a world and meaning becomes perceptible. We can connect with another subjectivity, another place, another time. At...
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Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2016
The annual collections in the History of Technology series look at the history of technological discovery and change, exploring the relationship of technology to other aspects of life and showing how technological development is affected by the society in which it occurred.
In It to Win
Electing Madam President
Language: English
Release Date: May 21, 2015
When will the United States elect its first woman president? Many political observers believed that Hillary Clinton would win the White House in 2008, and many still believe she is a strong contender for 2016. Yet, while many believe that electing the first woman president is not a question of if,...
Quentin Tarantino's Django Unchained
The Continuation of Metacinema
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2014
Django Unchained is certainly Quentin Tarantino's most commercially-successful film and is arguably also his most controversial. Fellow director Spike Lee has denounced the representation of race and slavery in the film, while many African American writers have defended the white auteur. The use of...
Government Communication
Cases and Challenges
Language: English
Release Date: June 20, 2013
Government communication is a curiously neglected area of discursive analysis. No considered examination of the subject exists which provides either an account of the contemporary governmental landscape or an explanation of the common and divergent themes on both a domestic and international basis....
Knowledge and Ethics in Anthropology
Obligations and Requirements
Language: English
Release Date: November 19, 2015
Inspired by the work of world-renowned anthropologist Marilyn Strathern, this collection of essays features contributions from a range of internationally recognized scholars – including Strathern herself – which examine a range of methodologies and approaches to the anthropology of knowledge.
The...
Contemporary Democracy and the Sacred
Rights, Religion and Ideology
Language: English
Release Date: July 26, 2018
Debates on the impact of religious traditions upon secular politics have raged throughout the last century and continue today. Exposing the ambiguity of secularity in political life, Jon Wittrock investigates the contemporary relevance of the scared beyond established religious communities and within...
Critical Theory and Libertarian Socialism
Realizing the Political Potential of Critical Social Theory
Language: English
Release Date: January 2, 2014
This volume in the Critical Theory and Contemporary Society series examines the role critical theory plays in today's political, social, and economic crises, showing how it can help to both diagnose and remedy such problems.
Critical social theory is first revisited by exposing the affinity between...
Rethinking the Weimar Republic
Authority and Authoritarianism, 1916-1936
Language: English
Release Date: December 19, 2013
"McElligott's impressive mastery of an enormous body of research guides him on a distinctive path through the dense thickets of Weimar historiography to a provocative new interpretation of the nature of authority in Germany's first democracy.†? Sir Ian Kershaw, Emeritus Professor of Modern...