Bloomsbury Academic imprint: 2928 books
Cartoons in Hard Times
The Animated Shorts of Disney and Warner Brothers in Depression and War 1932-1945
Language: English
Release Date: October 19, 2017
Choice Outstanding Academic Title 2018
Cartoons in Hard Times provides a comprehensive analysis of the short subject animation released by the Walt Disney and Warner Brothers from 1932 and 1945, one of the most turbulent periods in Unites States history. Through a combination of content analysis,...
by Peter Gurney
Language: English
Release Date: May 18, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: May 18, 2017
CHOICE OUTSTANDING ACADEMIC TITLE AWARD WINNER 2018
It is commonly accepted that the consumer is now centre stage in modern Britain, rather than the worker or producer. Consumer choice is widely regarded as the major source of self-definition and identity rather than productive activity. Politicians...
Topophobia
A Phenomenology of Anxiety
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2016
Topophobia: A Phenomenology of Anxiety is a vivid second-person inquiry into how anxiety plays a formative part in the constitution of subjectivity. While anxiety has assumed a central role in the history of philosophy – and phenomenology in particular – until now there has been no sustained study...
The Emergence of the Gulf States
Studies in Modern History
Language: English
Release Date: June 16, 2016
CHOICE Outstanding Academic Title 2017
The Emergence of the Gulf States covers the history of the Gulf from the 18th century to the late 20th century. Employing a broad perspective, the volume brings together experts in the field to consider the region's political, economic and social development....
Cold War Summits
A History, From Potsdam to Malta
Language: English
Release Date: October 29, 2015
CHOICE Outstanding Academic Title 2016
This book examines six summits spanning the beginning and the end of the Cold War. Using declassified documents from U.S., British, and other archives, Chris Tudda shows how the Cold War developed from an ideological struggle between capitalism and communism...
Genocide and Gender in the Twentieth Century
A Comparative Survey
Language: English
Release Date: October 29, 2015
CHOICE Outstanding Academic Title 2016
Genocide and Gender in the Twentieth Century brings together a collection of some of the finest Genocide Studies scholars in North America and Europe to examine gendered discourses, practices and experiences of ethnic cleansing and genocide in the 20th...
Meritocracy and the University
Selective Admission in England and the United States
Language: English
Release Date: April 7, 2016
Who gets into elite universities, how and why? What are places like Harvard in the United States or Cambridge in England looking for when they admit undergraduate students? What qualities do selectors value and how do they decide between many applicants with often stellar attainment records? And,...
by Professor Janet Haddock-Fraser, Dr Peter Rands, Dr Stephen Scoffham
Language: English
Release Date: June 14, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: June 14, 2018
Sustainability is a complex concept, and the challenge of understanding it and applying it to a diverse, multi-agent, organisational setting with its potentially conflicting priorities cannot be underestimated. Leadership for Sustainability in Higher Education provides key learning from the authors'...
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Language: English
Release Date: June 6, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: June 6, 2013
This anthology of new essays by an international group of preeminent scholars explores the ground-breaking work of Hayden White, whose thought, beginning with his seminal Metahistory (1973), has revolutionized the way we think about the philosophy of history, historiography, narrative, and the relation...
by Alfio Leotta
Language: English
Release Date: December 17, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: December 17, 2015
Peter Jackson is one of the most acclaimed and influential contemporary film-makers. This is the first book to combine the examination of Jackson's career with an in-depth critical analysis of his films, thus providing readers with the most comprehensive study of the New Zealand film-maker's body...
by David Blundell
Language: English
Release Date: September 22, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: September 22, 2016
How do we understand children and young people's lives in ways that do not rely on nostalgic romantic ideals or demonising prejudices? Can the geographical concepts of space, place and spatiality enhance our understanding of childhood and how children experience their lives as social actors?
This...
Geographers
Biobibliographical Studies, Volume 10
Language: English
Release Date: December 14, 2015
Geographers is an annual collection of studies on 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, including explorers,...
Iran and the United States
An Insider’s View on the Failed Past and the Road to Peace
Language: English
Release Date: June 19, 2014
Choice Outstanding Academic Title 2014
Scores of books have been written by Western experts, mainly American, looking at the root causes of the conflict between Iran and the US. However, none of them have presented an inside look at this complex relationship from within the Iranian culture,...
Mere Reading
The Poetics of Wonder in Modern American Novels
Language: English
Release Date: April 20, 2017
Named a Choice Outstanding Academic Title of the Year
Mere Reading argues for a return to the foundations of literary study established nearly a century ago. Following a recent period dominated by symptomatic analyses of fictional texts (new historicist, Marxist, feminist, identity-political),...