Bloomsbury Academic imprint: 2928 books
by Dr Colin Brock
Language: English
Release Date: June 19, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: June 19, 2014
Education, Poverty, Malnutrition and Famine provides an overview of education response – what it is and how it can be improved in relation to one of the more persistent issues globally. Poverty, famine and/or malnutrition exist in variant degrees among developing and developed nations and the issue...
Global Education Policy and International Development
New Agendas, Issues and Policies
Language: English
Release Date: January 25, 2018
Exploring the interplay between globalization, education and international development, this comprehensive introduction surveys the impact of global education policies on local policy in developing countries. With chapters written by leading international scholars in the field, drawing on a full range...
Spirits of Community
English Senses of Belonging and Loss, 1750-2000
Language: English
Release Date: June 16, 2016
Concern about the 'decline of community', and the theme of 'community spirit', are internationally widespread in the modern world. The English past has featured many representations of declining community, expressed by those who lamented its loss in quite different periods and in diverse genres. This...
The Silence of Memory
Armistice Day, 1919-1946
Language: English
Release Date: March 4, 2014
This book examines how the British people came to terms with the massive trauma of the First World War. Although the literary memory of the war has often been discussed, little has been written on the public ceremonies on and around 11 November which dominated the public memory of the war in the inter-war...
Death, Ritual and Belief
The Rhetoric of Funerary Rites
Language: English
Release Date: November 2, 2017
Death, Ritual and Belief, now in its third edition, explores many important issues related to death and dying, from a religious studies perspective, including anthropology and sociology. Using the motif of 'words against death' it depicts human responses to grief by surveying the many ways in which...
Evangelical Youth Culture
Alternative Music and Extreme Sports Subcultures
Language: English
Release Date: October 19, 2017
This book offers a theoretically sophisticated and empirically rich study of the intersections of contemporary Christianity and youth culture, focusing on evangelical engagements with punk, hip hop, surfing, and skateboarding. Ibrahim Abraham draws on interviews and fieldwork with dozens of musicians...
by Eric Yates-Owen, Robert Fournier
Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2016
This new edition of Eric Yates-Owen and Robert Fournier's classic book on British studio potters' marks contains new and revised entries for many potters, with up-to-date information about the artists' styles, marks and addresses.
Entries are arranged alphabetically, with each entry giving...
Writing Historical Fiction
A Writers' and Artists' Companion
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2013
Writing Historical Fiction: A Writers' & Artists' Companion is an invaluable companion for a writer working in this challenging and popular literary genre, whether your period is Ancient Rome or World War II.
PART 1 includes reflections on the genre and provides a short history of historical...
Kennedy
A Cultural History of an American Icon
Language: English
Release Date: August 29, 2013
During his lifetime, John F. Kennedy created a dazzling image that has been sustained since his assassination in 1963. This book examines how Kennedy succeeded in using his military service in World War II, his literary efforts, his sex appeal, his family and other attributes and achievements to develop...
Thunder in the East
The Nazi-Soviet War 1941-1945
Language: English
Release Date: November 19, 2015
Thunder in the East, originally published in 2005, is widely regarded as the best short history of the entire Nazi-Soviet military conflict. It tells the story from the pre-war expectations of Hitler and Stalin, through the pivotal battles deep in Russia in 1942-43, and on to the huge Soviet offensives...
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Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2018
The Animation Studies Reader brings together both key writings within animation studies and new material in emerging areas of the field. The collection provides readers with seminal texts that ground animation studies within the contexts of theory and aesthetics, form and genre, and issues of representation....
Norman McLaren
Between the Frames
Language: English
Release Date: January 25, 2018
Animator Norman McLaren is best known for his experimental films using pioneering techniques and his work as founder of the animation department of the National Film Board of Canada (NFB), but little mention is made of his Scottish heritage or his personal life. Nichola Dobson examines some of the...
The War of the Worlds
From H. G. Wells to Orson Welles, Jeff Wayne, Steven Spielberg and Beyond
Language: English
Release Date: August 25, 2016
First published in 1897, H.G. Wells's alien invasion narrative The War of the Worlds was a landmark work of science fiction and one that continues to be adapted and referenced in the 21st century.
Chronicling the novel's contexts, its origins and its many multi-media adaptations, this book...
Design, Ecology, Politics
Towards the Ecocene
Language: English
Release Date: February 8, 2018
Design, Ecology, Politics links social and ecological theory to design theory and practice, critiquing the ways in which the design industry perpetuates unsustainable development.
Boehnert argues that when design does engage with issues of sustainability, this engagement remains shallow, due...