Bloomsbury Academic imprint: 2928 books
Teacher Agency
An Ecological Approach
Language: English
Release Date: October 22, 2015
Recent worldwide education policy has reinvented teachers as agents of change and professional developers of the school curriculum. Academic literature has analyzed changes in how teacher professionalism is conceived in policy and in practice but Teacher Agency provides a fresh perspective on this...
The Study of Religion
An Introduction to Key Ideas and Methods
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2013
This updated textbook unravels the complex issues related to methodology and theory in the study of religion. It equips students with the knowledge needed for the academic study of religion, explaining the history of the methodology, including ideas of key theorists, and discusses key issues in the...
The Subject of Rosi Braidotti
Politics and Concepts
Language: English
Release Date: September 25, 2014
The Subject of Rosi Braidotti: Politics and Concepts brings into focus the diverse influence of the work of Rosi Braidotti on academic fields in the humanities and the social sciences such as the study and scholarship in - among others - feminist theory, political theory, continental philosophy, philosophy...
Sneakers
Fashion, Gender, and Subculture
Language: English
Release Date: January 28, 2016
This is the first academic study of sneakers and the subculture that surrounds them. Since the 1980s, American sneaker enthusiasts, popularly known as "sneakerheads†? or "sneakerholics†?, have created a distinctive identity for themselves, while sneaker manufacturers such as Reebok,...
by Dr Claire O’Callaghan
Language: English
Release Date: January 26, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: January 26, 2017
Sarah Waters: Gender and Sexual Politics uniquely brings together feminist and queer theoretical perspectives on gender and sexuality through close analysis of works by Sarah Waters. This timely study examines topics ranging from heterosexuality, homosexuality, masculinities, femininities, sex, pornography,...
Archaeologists, Tourists, Interpreters
Exploring Egypt and the Near East in the Late 19th–Early 20th Centuries
Language: English
Release Date: September 24, 2015
In the late 19th and early 20th centuries, growing numbers of tourists and scholars from Europe and America, fascinated by new discoveries, visited the Near East and Egypt – attracted by the riches and mysteries of the Land of the Bible. Almost all such visitors, no matter how esoteric or academic...
by Dr David Hitchcock, Professor Brian Cowan, Beat Kümin
Language: English
Release Date: July 14, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: July 14, 2016
CHOICE Outstanding Academic Title 2017
The first social and cultural history of vagrancy between 1650 and 1750, this book combines sources from across England and the Atlantic world to describe the shifting and desperate experiences of the very poorest and most marginalized of people in early...
Geographers
Biobibliographical Studies, Volume 25
Language: English
Release Date: December 14, 2015
An annual collection of studies of individuals who have made major contributions to the development of geography and geographical thought. Subjects are drawn from all periods and from all parts of the world, and include famous names as well as those less well known: explorers, independent thinkers...
Making Time in Stanley Kubrick's Barry Lyndon
Art, History, and Empire
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2014
Considered by critics to be Stanley Kubrick's masterpiece, Barry Lyndon has suffered from scholarly and popular neglect. Maria Pramaggiore argues that one key reason that this film remains unappreciated, even by Kubrick aficionados, is that its transnational and intermedial contexts have not been...
Hip Hop Headphones
A Scholar’s Critical Playlist
Language: English
Release Date: August 25, 2016
Hip Hop Headphones is a crash course in Hip Hop culture. Featuring definitions, lectures, academic essays, and other scholarly discussions and resources, Hip Hop Headphones documents the scholarship of Dr. James B. Peterson, founder of Hip Hop Scholars-an organization devoted to developing the educational...
Geographers
Biobibliographical Studies, Volume 1
Language: English
Release Date: January 28, 2016
An annual collection of studies of individuals who have made major contributions to the development of geography and geographical thought. Subjects are drawn from all periods and from all parts of the world, and include famous names as well as those less well known: explorers, independent thinkers...
The Lost Frontier
Reading Annie Proulx's Wyoming Stories
Language: English
Release Date: June 19, 2014
The success of The Shipping News and the film of Brokeback Mountain brought Proulx international recognition, but their success merely confirms what literary critics have known for some time: Proulx is one of the most provocative and stylistically innovative writers in America today. She is at her...
by Dr Bodie A. Ashton
Language: English
Release Date: January 12, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: January 12, 2017
CHOICE Outstanding Academic Title 2017
This book examines the 1871 unification of Germany through the prism of one of its 'forgotten states', the Kingdom of Württemberg. It moves beyond the traditional argument for the importance of the great powers of Austria and Prussia in controlling German...
Resting on the Future
Catholic Theology for an Unfinished Universe
Language: English
Release Date: September 24, 2015
Science has now demonstrated without a doubt that we live in an "unfinished universe.†? Discoveries in geology, biology, cosmology and other fields of scientific inquiry have shown that the cosmos has a narrative character and that the story is far from over. The sense of a universe that is...