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Night's Black Agents: Witches, Wizards and the Dead in the Ancient World מאת Daniel Ogden The Ghost of Sychaeus: At length, in dead of night, the ghost appears Of her unhappy lord: the specter stares, And, with erected eyes, his bloody bosom bares. The cruel altars and his fate he tells--The Aeneid The literature of classical antiquity bristles with ...

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Teaching NLP in the Classroom (Ideas in Action) מאת Kate Spohrer This book will contain a wealth of ideas for teaching NLP (neuro-linguistic programming), with concepts ranging from understanding the basic principles behind NLP to using it effectively in the classroom to develop pupils learning.NLP is very effective in enabling young people to overcome fears, anx...

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I Shot a Man in Reno: A History of Death by Murder, Suicide, Fire, Flood, Drugs, Disease, and General Misadventure, As Related in Popular Song מאת Graeme Thomson Ask the gangsta rap devotee. Ask the grizzled blues fanatic and the bearded folk fan. Ask the goth and the indie kid. Ask and they will all tell you the same thing: death and popular music have forever danced hand-in-hand in funereal waltz time. The pop charts and the majority of radio stations' ...

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The Home We Build Together: Recreating Society מאת Jonathan Sacks This is Jonathan Sacks' new book on the future of British society and the dangers facing liberal democracy. A counterweight to his earlier book, "The Dignity of Difference", Sacks makes the case for "integrated diversity" within a framework of shared political values. Arguing that global communicati...

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The Siege of Jerusalem: Crusade and Conquest in 1099 מאת Conor Kostick This book offers a fascinating insight to the final siege of the First Crusade. The most extraordinary siege in medieval history began with the arrival of a Christian army at Jerusalem on the dawn of 6 June, 1099. There were other sieges that lasted longer, involved greater numbers of troops and dep...

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Dignity of Difference: How to Avoid the Clash of Civilizations מאת Jonathan Sacks Rabbi Jonathan Sacks presents a proposal for reframing the terms of this important debate. The first major statement by a Jewish leader on the ethics of globalization, it introduces a new paradigm into the search for co-existence. Sacks argues that we must do more than search for common human value...

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Nick Drake's Pink Moon (33 1/3) מאת Amanda Petrusich The backside of Nick Drake's headstone, wedged deep into the earth of an English parish church graveyard, reads: "Now we rise and we are everywhere." The words were penned by Drake in 1974; 30 years later, they are jarringly prophetic. Like nearly all prematurely buried cult figures, Nick Drake is r...

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The Bob dylan Encyclopedia - אנציקלופדיה בוב דילן MICHAEL GRAY

The Bob dylan Encyclopedia - אנציקלופדיה בוב דילן מאת MICHAEL GRAY

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Truth And Method (Continuum Impacts) מאת Hans-Georg Gadamer Is Gadamer's most influential work, his magnum opus. An astonishing synthesis of literary criticism, philosophy, theology, the theory of law and classical scholarship, it is undoubtedly one of the most important texts in twentieth century philosophy....

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Derrida's Writing and Difference: A Reader's Guide (Continuum Reader's Guides) מאת Sarah Wood "Writing and Difference" is widely perceived to be an excellent starting place for those new to Derrida and this "Reader's Guide" is the perfect accompaniment to the study of one of the most important philosophical works of the 20th Century."Writing and Difference" is one of Jacques Derrida's most w...

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The Documentary Film Makers Handbook: A Guerilla Guide מאת Genevieve Jolliffe Documentary films have enjoyed a huge resurgence over the last few years, and there’s a new generation of filmmakers wanting to get involved. In addition, the digital revolution has made documentaries even more accessible to the general filmmaker. Documentary films can now be shot professionally u...

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Heidegger and Happiness: Dwelling on Fitting and Being (Continuum Studies in Continental Philosophy) מאת Matthew King This title offers an original interpretation of the later Heidegger within the context of his thought as a whole, showing similarities and differences between his earlier and later thought. "Heidegger and Happiness" offers an original interpretation of Heidegger's later thought, within the context o...

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The Dawn of Astrology: A Cultural History of Western Astrology: The Ancient and Classical Worlds מאת Nicholas Campion This first volume comprehensively charts Western astrology from 30,000 BCE up to the 17th century, with particular focus on its magical, political and apocalyptic movements and use in everyday life throughout history. This is the first comprehensive examination of astrology's origins and examines th...

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Pedagogy Of Hope: Reliving Pedagogy Of The Oppressed (Continuum Impacts) מאת Paulo Freire Chronicles the ongoing social struggles of Latin America and the Third World, revisiting the themes of Freire's seminal Pedagogy of the Oppressed. Freire's abiding concern for social justice and education in the developing world remains as timely and as inspiring as ever....

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Comedy Italian Style: The Golden Age of Italian Film Comedies מאת Remi Fournier Lanzoni "The so-called Comedy Italian Style has been, in a certain way, affiliated with neorealism, and is therefore considered as realistic comedy. But it is also a fusion of bitterness and charm, a genre of entertaining films that at the same time told something, in a particular moment, about an Italian s...

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Last Chance: Roads to Freedom IV מאת Jean-Paul Sartre This is the first English translation of Sartre's unfinished fourth volume of "Roads to Freedom", exploring the interrelations of politics, responsibility; friendship and freedom - themes central to Sartrean existentialism. "Last Chance" brings to an English-speaking audience for the first time the ...

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Not Every Spirit: A Dogmatics of Christian Disbelief מאת Christopher Morse "Not Every Spirit" explores the notion of Christian faith as disbelief and how the task of 'testing the spirits' develops and comes to be understood within Christianity as a theological discipline called 'dogmatics'. This book is a fresh and timely dogmatic text that will take its place as a standar...

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Interpreting the Qur'an: A Guide for the Uninitiated מאת Clinton Bennett This book guides readers through the Qur'an by reordering its chapters into a continuous narrative. Post 9/11, sales of translations of the Qur'an have rocketed. Students and general readers alike are increasingly interested in the sacred writings of Islam. But the Qur'an can often make difficult re...

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Hamlet: Character Studies (Continuum Character Studies) מאת Michael Davies Designed for first year students, this innovative guide builds on the usual knowledge base of students beginning literary study in "HE" by focusing on the familiar characters but introducing more sophisticated analysis.Arguably Shakespeare's most famous play, few works have commanded so much critica...

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Making Waves: New Cinemas of the 1960s מאת Geoffrey Nowell-Smith This is a sharp, focused and brilliant survey of the innovative filmmaking of the 1960s. The 1960s was famously the decade of sex, drugs and rock 'n' roll. It was also a decade of revolution and counter-revolution, of the Cuban missile crisis, American intervention in Vietnam, of economic booms and ...

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Disputed Truth: Memoirs מאת Hans Kung This is the second volume of riveting memoirs from Hans Kung, the leading - and controversial - theologian. Hans Kung has been a major influence on post-war Christianity by any reckoning. A peritus for the Second Vatican Council, he then went on to publish a number of controversial books including "...

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Digimodernism: How New Technologies Dismantle the Postmodern and Reconfigure Our Culture מאת Alan Kirby Almost without anybody noticing, a new cultural paradigm has come center stage, displacing an exhausted and increasingly marginalised postmodernism. Dr. Alan Kirby calls this cultural paradigm digimodernism, a name comprising both its central technical mode and its privileging of the fingers and thu...

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Cross-Rhythms: Jazz Aesthetics in African-American Literature (Continuum Literary Studies) מאת Keren Omry This work uses close analysis of key African-American literary texts to investigate the links between the development of blues and jazz and the development of modern African-American literature."Cross-Rhythms" investigates the literary uses and effects of blues and jazz in African-American literatur...

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Scepticism and the Possibility of Knowledge מאת A. C. Grayling This book discusses a subject of particular resonance today when belief - religious and otherwise - can shape the modern world. Complex theories are brought to life by Grayling's skill and accessible style. A book on scepticism from Anthony Grayling is to be greatly valued. Grayling is rare among ac...

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Two Planks and a Passion: The Dramatic History of Skiing מאת Roland Huntford Predating the wheel, the ski has played an important role in our history. This is brilliantly brought to life in this engaging book. Roland Huntford's brilliant history begins 20,000 years ago in the last ice age on the icy tundra of an unformed earth. Man is a travelling animal, and on these icy sl...

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Theory of the Subject מאת Alain Badiou Badiou is widely considered to be France's most important and exciting contemporary thinker. Much of Badiou's earlier work (including "Being and Event") can only be fully understood with a clear grasp of "Theory of the Subject", one of his most important works."Theory of the Subject", first publishe...

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Screenwriting: The Sequence Approach מאת Paul Joseph Gulino The great challenge in writing a feature-length screenplay is sustaining audience involvement from page one through 120. Screenwriting: The Sequence Approach expounds on an often-overlooked tools can be key in solving this problem. A screenplay can be understood as being built of sequences of about ...

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Challenge of Homer: School, Pagan Poets and Early Christianity (Library of New Testament Studies) מאת Karl Olav Sandnes This title offers a presentation of education in the ancient world, and the role of Homer's poetic works in this culture. Homer was the gateway to education, to the skills of reading and writing. These skills were necessary for the nascent Church. Knowledge of Homer's writings was a sign of Greeknes...

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Knights Templar: The Essential History מאת Stephen Howarth Here is a complete account of one of the strangest phenomena of medieval history: The Poor Fellow Soldiers of Christ, the Knights of The Temple of Solomon - more popularly known as The Knights Templar. In their brotherhood, the Knights united two conflicting medieval ideals, for they were both monks...

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Kierkegaard, Metaphysics and Political Theory: Unfinished Selves (Continuum Studies in Philosophy) מאת Alison Assiter This title offers a new reading of the work of Kierkegaard in relation to metaphysics and political theory. Alison Assiter argues that the notion of the person that lies at the heart of the liberal tradition is derived from a Kantian and Cartesian metaphysic. This metaphysic, according to her, is fl...

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Digimodernism: How New Technologies Dismantle the Postmodern and Reconfigure Our Culture מאת Alan Kirby Almost without anybody noticing, a new cultural paradigm has come center stage, displacing an exhausted and increasingly marginalised postmodernism. Dr. Alan Kirby calls this cultural paradigm digimodernism, a name comprising both its central technical mode and its privileging of the fingers and thu...

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The Human Face of War (Birmingham War Studies) מאת Jim Storr Warfare is hugely important. At times the fates of nations, and even continents, rests on the outcome of war and thus on how its practitioners consider war. The Human Face of War is a new exploration of military thought. It starts with the observation that much military thought is poorly developed -...

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The MC5's Kick Out the Jams (33 1/3) מאת Don McLeese When the Motor City 5 stormed the stage, the band combined the kinetic flash of James Brown on acid with the raw musical dynamics of the Who gone berserk. It’s a unique band that can land itself on the cover of Rolling Stone a month before the release of its debut album and then be booted from its...

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James's The Turn of the Screw: A Readers Guide (Contimuum Reader's Guides) מאת Leonard Orr This is a concise, authoritative but very readable guide to "The Turn of the Screw", offering students a guide to contexts, language, criticism and reading the text. Henry James' ghost story novella, "The Turn of the Screw" (1898) is a key gothic text and is one of the most popular James texts for u...

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Romanovs: Ruling Russia 1613-1917 מאת Lindsey Hughes This book presents a vivid and original portrait of the entire Romanov family, who shaped Russian history and politics for three centuries and whose legacy still sparks the public's imagination. For 300 years the history of Russia was inextricably linked to that of one family: The Romanovs. Claiming...

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I Drink Therefore I Am: A Philosopher's Guide to Wine מאת Roger Scruton The ancients had a solution to the alcohol problem, which was to wrap the drink in religious rituals, to treat it as the incarnation of a god, and to marginalize disruptive behaviour as the god's doing, not the worshipper's. Gradually, under the discipline of ritual, prayer and theology, wine was ta...

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Healing Fiction מאת James Hillman This book is Hillman’s main analysis of analysis. He asks the basic question, "What does the soul want?" With insight and humor he answers, "It wants fictions that heal."...

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Homemade Hollywood: Fans Behind the Camera מאת Clive Young Who would swing off a six-story building for a homemade Spider-Man movie? Why would newlyweds with a baby spend $20,000 on a Star Wars film from which they can never profit? How did three nobodies blow Steven Spielberg's mind with an Indiana Jones flick they made as teens in the Eighties? They're al...

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Joyce: A Guide for the Perplexed (Guides for the Perplexed Series) מאת Peter Mahon Focusing on the most commonly studied texts, it guides the reader through Joyce's stylistic and thematic complexity and through differing theoretical interpretations of his work. James Joyce's work has, not unjustly, been regarded as some of the most obscure, challenging and difficult writing ever c...

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The Chemical Choir מאת P. G. Maxwell-Stuart A pre-cursor to contemporary chemistry and physics, alchemy began as the pursuit of knowledge, initially in China as a search for the secret of immortality, and appearing independently in Egypt as an attempt to produce gold through the arts of smelting and alloying metals. In The Chemical Choir

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French in the Primary Classroom: Ideas and Resources for the Non-linguist Teacher מאת Angela Mclachlan This is a dedicated resource that supports primary classroom teachers and teaching assistants in the delivery of the KS2 Framework for Languages. "French in the Primary School" is an ideas and activities resource for teachers and teaching assistants, regardless of their linguistic competence. It is ...

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History of Western Astrology: The Medieval and Modern Worlds מאת Nicholas Campion Following on from "The History of Western Astrology Volume I", Nicholas Campion examines the foundation of modern astrology in the medieval and Renaissance worlds. Medieval and Renaissance Europe marked the high water mark for astrology. It was a subject of high theological speculation, was used to ...

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Heidegger's Later Writings: A Reader's Guide (Reader's Guides) מאת Lee Braver This is a Reader's Guide to the most important and influential essays of Heidegger's later work, crucial to an understanding of his philosophy as a whole.Martin Heidegger is one of the most important thinkers of the twentieth century. His later writings are profoundly original and innovative, giving...

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Samuel Beckett's Waiting for Godot (Modern Theatre Guides) מאת Mark Taylor-Batty This title provides informative critical introduction to Beckett's "Waiting for Godot", one of the most commonly studied modern plays."Samuel Beckett's Waiting for Godot" is not only an indisputably important and influential dramatic text - it is also one of the most significant western cultural lan...

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Heavenly Torah: As Refracted Through the Generations מאת Abraham Joshua Heschel Known most widely for his active role in the civil rights and peace movements of the 1960s, Abraham Heschel made major scholarly contributions to the fields of biblical studies, rabbinics, and Hasidism. His most ambitious scholarly achievement, his three-volume study of rabbinic Judaism written in H...

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The Power of Comics: History, Form, and Culture מאת Randy Duncan "The Power of Comics" is the first textbook to introduce undergraduate students to a broader understanding of the medium and its communication potential. Similar to film appreciation courses of the past, this text is intended for a comic appreciation course offered at most undergraduate courses. It ...

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War: A Short History מאת Jeremy Black In this concise history of war, Jeremy Black ranges widely, giving due attention to non-western as well as western traditions. Black probes the diverse character of military capability and the varied nature of military change. The history of war is inextricably bound to the history of the world and ...

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Harold Pinter (Writers Lives) מאת William Baker Harold Pinter is one of the most important writers in English of the late twentieth century and early twenty-first century. This brief biography offers fresh insights into his life and work, concentrating on the themes, patterns, relationships, ideas and language common to his life and creative outp...

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Psycho in the Shower: The History of Cinema's Most Famous Scene מאת Philip J. Skerry "With this book, Philip Skerry makes an ambitious and largely successful effort to restore perspective to the debate that has swirled around Psycho since Hitchcock first ripped back the shower curtain of our expectations in 1960 and plunged his knife into the collective cinematic consciousnes...

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Story of Libraries: From the Invention of Writing to the Computer Age מאת Fred Lerner In this fully updated edition, Fred Lerner continues to explore the ways in which records of human experience are collected. Updated to include our new technology, this work describes the crucial role libraries played in ancient Egypt, Han-dynasty China, the ancient Western Classical world (the grea...

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Chomsky: A Guide for the Perplexed (Guides for the Perplexed) מאת John Collins Noam Chomsky is one of the most influential thinkers of the twentieth-century. His work in linguistics, philosophy and political theory has spanned six decades, and has been met with critical acclaim and controversy in equal measure. This book is not only an introduction to Chomsky's theoretical wri...

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Eugenics, Race and Intelligence in Education מאת Clyde Chitty This is a fascinating study into how eugenics and concepts of intelligence have influenced education systems in both the UK and US. For over a hundred years, psychologists and human biologists have been engaged in an often heated debate as to whether 'heredity' or 'environment' should be viewed as t...

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Flaming Lips' Zaireeka (33 1/3) מאת Mark Richardson Zaireeka is the anti-headphone and the anti-mp3. It purposely makes the two biggest developments in end-user music in the last 30 years irrelevant. Zaireeka is not mobile. It is not personal. It is not solitary, cannot be easily controlled, and can't easily be consumed in small doses. ...

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Heidegger's Being And Time: A Reader's Guide (Reader's Guides) מאת William Blattner "Continuum's Reader's Guides" are clear, concise and accessible introductions to classic works of philosophy. Each book explores the major themes, historical and philosophical context and key passages of a major philosophical text, guiding the reader toward a thorough understanding of often demandin...

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The Politics of Aesthetics מאת Jacques Ranciere The Politics of Aesthetics rethinks the relation between art and politics, reclaiming 'aesthetics' from its current narrow confines to reveal its significance for contemporary experience. Presented as a set of inter-linked interviews, The Politics of Aesthetics ranges across art and politics, the us...

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Being and Event מאת Alain Badiou "Being and Event" is the centrepiece of Alain Badiou's oeuvre; it is the work that grounds his reputation as one of France's most original philosophers. Long-awaited in translation, "Being and Event" makes available to an English-speaking readership Badiou's groundbreaking work on set theory - the c...

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This Sentence Is False: An Introduction to Philosophical Paradoxes מאת Peter Cave This book offers a lively and accessible introduction to philosophical paradoxes - ideal for anyone coming to this fascinating subject for the first time. Put your neurons through their paces with this lively and engaging introduction to paradoxes. From "Buridan's Ass" and the "Surprise Examination"...

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Life in the Medieval Cloister מאת Julie Kerr Julie Kerr's vivid account provides insights into the thoughts and experiences of the medieval monk.This book will make an important contribution to our understanding of monastic life by exploring key aspects that have been either inadequately addressed or overlooked by historians. For example, what...

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Life Energy: Using the Meridians to Unlock the Hidden Power of Your Emotions מאת John Diamond This ground breaking material focuses on the psychological aspects of Life Energy. Learn how to assess the level of your Life Energy and determine the specific psychological factors which are interfering with its activation and expression. Here for the first time is a comprehensive explanation of ou...

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Noise/Music: A History מאת Paul Hegarty Noise/Music looks at the phenomenon of noise in music, from experimental music of the early 20th century to the Japanese noise music and glitch electronica of today. It situates different musics in their cultural and historical context, and analyses them in terms of cultural aesthetics. Paul ...

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Interrogating the Real מאת Slavoj Zizek Interrogating the Real is the first volume of the collected writings of Slavoj Zizek - undoubtedly one of the world's leading contemporary cultural commentators. Drawing upon the full range of his prolific output, the articles here cover psychoanalysis, philosophy and popular culture. Thematically o...

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Pasaporte al Mundo Hispano: Advanced Spanish Resource Book (Spanish Edition) מאת Samuel Anaya-guzman This book features an ideal linguistic and cultural preparation for anyone planning to study Spanish abroad, covering culture, society, education, young people, work and health. "Pasaporte al Mundo Hispano Segunda Edicion" is an advanced Spanish language course designed specifically to prepare stude...

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Velvet Underground's The Velvet Underground and Nico (Thirty Three and a Third series) מאת Joe Harvard "Thirty Three and a Third" is a new series of short books about critically acclaimed and much-loved albums of the last 40 years. The authors provide fresh, original perspectives – often through their access to and relationships with the key figures involved in the recording of these albums. By...

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Nirvana's in Utero (33 1/3) מאת Gillian G. Gaar Instead of sticking to the "grunge pop" formula that made Nevermind so palatable to the mainstream, with In Utero Nirvana chose instead to challenge their audience, producing an album that truly matched Kurt Cobain’s vision of what he had always wanted the band to sound like. There...

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Newman מאת Avery Robert Cardinal Dulles This is an introduction to one who may be considered the most outstandingly original and creative English religious thinker of the nineteenth century.Newman may be considered the most outstandingly original and creative English religious thinker of the nineteenth century. Here is by far the clearest...

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Neutral Milk Hotel's In the Aeroplane Over the Sea (33 1/3) מאת Kim Cooper Of all the recordings to emerge from the Athens-via-Denver collective called Elephant 6, Neutral Milk Hotel’s second album is the one that has worked its way under the most skins. Magnet magazine named it the best album of the 1990s, and Creative Loafing recently devoted a cover story to one f...

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No Time To Think: The Menace of Media Speed and the 24-hour News Cycle מאת Howard Rosenberg An eviscerating look at the state of journalism in the age of the 24 hour news cycle by a Pulitzer Prize-winning television critic and a veteran news correspondent No Time To Think focuses on the insidious and increasing portion of the news media that, due to the dangerou...

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Beethoven's Fifth and Seventh Symphonies: A Closer Look (Magnum Opus) מאת David Hurwitz Composers often write pieces in highly contrasting moods in very close proximity. But no composer took this process further than Beethoven. His famous Fifth Symphony, with an opening any child knows, became the standard for the Romantic, tragedy to triumph, "victory symphony." The sunny Se...

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Sin Bravely: A Joyful Alternative to the Purpose-Driven Life מאת Mark Ellingsen Ellinson demonstrates that awareness of sin is shown to lead to freedom and joy, as the pressure is removed to do and be good all the time. The book's other primary aim is to flesh out an alternative approach to life to Rick Warren's and the dominant American Christian vision. This alternative, life...

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Studying Islam: The Critical Issues (Studying World Religions) מאת Clinton Bennett Including historical foundations, scripture, society, thought, ethics, rituals, spirituality and aesthetics, this is the ideal study aid for those approaching Islam for the first time. This first volume in the "Studying World Religions" series, this is an essential guide to the study of the Islamic ...

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How to Be an Existentialist: Or How to Get Real, Get a Grip and Stop Making Excuses מאת Gary Cox This book presents a concise and humorous introduction to existentialism aimed squarely at a general readership. It shows how existentialism can be an honest, positive and uplifting philosophy - and how it can be applied to our everyday lives. "How to Be an Existentialist" is a concise, witty and en...

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Empiricists: A Guide for the Perplexed (Guides for the Perplexed) מאת Laurence Carlin This work offers a concise and accessible introduction to the key empiricists of the 17th and 18th centuries, ideal for undergraduate students. Empiricism is one of the most widely discussed topics in philosophy. Students regularly encounter the well known opposition between rationalism and empirici...

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The Jews Against Rome מאת Susan Sorek This is the first book to examine the causes, events and consequences of a major conflict in ancient Palestine, and assess the accounts of its star witness, Josephus. The Jewish war, culminating in the siege of Jerusalem and the destruction of the Temple, can be called the most signifi...

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Arendt: A Guide for the Perplexed (Guides for the Perplexed) מאת Karin Fry This book provides a clear and comprehensive introduction to Arendt's key ideas and texts, ideal for students coming to her work for the first time. Hannah Arendt is considered to be one of the most influential political thinkers of the twentieth century. Although her writing is somewhat clear, the ...

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Answering Back: Liberal Responses to Conservative Arguments מאת David Coates "Answering Back" presents the conservative and liberal arguments on eight key policy issues: trickle-down economics, welfare, social security, health care, immigration control, religion, the war in Iraq, and economic prosperity. Each chapter begins with a brief introduction, followed by conservative...

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Derrida, Literature, and War: Absence and the Chance of Meeting (Philosophy, Aesthetics and Cultural Theory) מאת Sean Gaston This is a fascinating examination of the relation between absence and chance in Derrida's work and through that a re-examination of the relation between war and literature. "Derrida, Literature and War" argues for the importance of the relation between absence and chance in Derrida's work in thinkin...

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Church Dogmatics (31 vols) מאת Karl Barth The most important theological work of the 20th century in a new edition! Karl Barth's Church Dogmatics is one of the major theological works of the 20th century. The Swiss-German theologian Karl Barth (1886-1968) was the most original and significant Reformed theologian of the twentieth century. He...

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Beckett: A Guide for the Perplexed (Continuum Guides for the Perplexed) מאת Jonathan Boulter Samuel Beckett (1906-1989) is one of the most important twentieth century writers. Seen as both a modernist and postmodernist, his work has influenced generations of playwrights, novelists and poets. Despite his notorious difficulty, Beckett famously refused to offer his readers any help in interpre...

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David Mamet's Oleanna (Modern Theatre Guides) מאת David Sauer This book presents an accessible, informative and critical introduction to Mamet's modern college classic, "Oleanna". David Mamet is widely considered the voice of contemporary American Theatre. His use of what is taken to be realistic language together with minimalist staging creates a postmodern c...

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Balfour and Weizmann: The Zionist, the Zealot, and the Emergence of Israel מאת Geoffrey Lewis This is a fascinating insight into the relationship between Arthur Balfour and Chaim Weizmann and an important background to the Arab-Israeli conflict raging today.On November 2nd 1917 Arthur Balfour, then Foreign Secretary, wrote to Lord Rothschild to say that the British Government viewed with fav...

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The Wonderful and Surprising History of Sweeney Todd: The Life and Times of an Urban Legend מאת Robert L. Mack The tales surrounding Sweeney Todd's notorious barber shop in London's Fleet Street have entertained generations of audiences and have made Todd himself one of the most famous - or perhaps notorious - characters in the city's history. The Wonderful and Surprising History of Sweeney Todd trace...

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The Ministry of Defeat: The British War in Iraq 2003-2009 מאת Richard North This book presents a damning analysis of Britain's military involvement in the Iraq conflict. "Ministry of Defeat" is a devastating account of military and strategic incompetence. When Tony Blair insisted that British Armed Forces form part of the invasion of Iraq, little attention was paid as to ho...

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Aristotle's Metaphysics: Form, Matter and Identity (Continuum Studies in Ancient Philosophy) מאת Jeremy Kirby This book presents an important new examination of Aristotle's metaphysics, treating the systematic thought of history's most influential philosopher at its core. Aristotle maintains that biological organisms are compounds of matter and form and that compounds that have the same form are individuate...

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Swordfishtrombones (33 1/3) מאת David Smay Two entwined narratives run through the creation of Swordfishtrombones and form the backbone of this book. As the 1970s ended, Waits felt increasingly constrained and trapped by his persona and career. Bitter and desperately unhappy, he moved to New York in 1979 to change his life. It wasn't working...

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The Improv Handbook: The Ultimate Guide to Improvising in Comedy, Theatre, and Beyond מאת Tom Salinsky "The Improv Handbook" is a great new guide that covers the history of improvisation and includes chapters on spontaneity and the fundamentals of storytelling.Although there are already several successful books on the market about the theory and practice of improvised theatre, there's nothing compreh...

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Empress Zenobia: Palmyra's Rebel Queen מאת Pat Southern The ancient sources for the life and times of Zenobia are sparse, and the surviving literary works are biased towards the Roman point of view, much as are the sources for two other famous women who challenged Rome, Cleopatra and Boudica. In Empress Zenobia, Pat Southern seeks to tell the othe...

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Understanding Music: Philosophy and Interpretation מאת Roger Scruton Following his celebrated book "The Aesthetics of Music", Scruton explores the fundamental elements that constitute a great piece of music.Roger Scruton is one of the most notable British philosophers of the post-war years. Like many, Bernard Williams and Brian Magee among them, he is passionately in...

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Court And Spark (33 1/3) מאת Sean Nelson "Court and Spark" is Joni Mitchell's most overt attempt at making a hit record, full of glossy production, catchy choruses, and even guest stars from every stratum of rock culture, high (Robbie Robertson) and low (Cheech and Chong). The record was a smash, reaching number two on the charts in March ...

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New History of Jazz מאת Alyn Shipton In this major update of the acclaimed and award-winning jazz history, Alyn Shipton challenges many of the assumptions that surround the birth and growth of jazz music. How was it that it took off all over the United States early in the 20th century, despite the accepted wisdom that everything began ...

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John Locke (Major Conservative and Libertarian Thinkers) מאת Eric Mack This is the second volume in the "Major Conservative and Libertarian Thinkers". "Major Conservative and Libertarian Thinkers" provides comprehensive accounts of the works of seminal conservative thinkers from a variety of periods, disciplines and traditions - the first series of its kind. Even the s...

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Pasaporte al Mundo Hispano: Advanced Spanish Resource Book (Spanish Edition) מאת Samuel Anaya-guzman This book features an ideal linguistic and cultural preparation for anyone planning to study Spanish abroad, covering culture, society, education, young people, work and health. "Pasaporte al Mundo Hispano Segunda Edicion" is an advanced Spanish language course designed specifically to prepare stude...

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Disguised as Clark Kent: Jews, Comics, and the Creation of the Superhero מאת Danny Fingeroth Fingeroth reveals the Jewish element in many of our favourite comic book heroes. In "Disguised as Clark Kent", Danny Fingeroth - a long-time executive in the comics business who wrote and edited "Spider-Man" as well as other famous lines for Marvel - reflects on the phenomenon of the heavily Jewish ...

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An Introduction to Religion and Literature מאת Mark Knight Organised around important theological ideas, this is a lucid, accessible and thoughtful introduction to the study of literature and religion. Religion has always been an integral part of the literary tradition: many canonical and non-canonical texts engage extensively with religious ideas and the d...

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The Kinks' The Village Green Preservation Society (Thirty Three and a Third series) מאת Andy Miller Andy Miller traces the circumstances surrounding "The Village Green Preservation Society" released in November 1968, and celebrates the songs pieced together by a band who were on the verge of disintegration and who refused to follow fashion....

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Magnetic Fields' 69 Love Songs: A Field Guide (33 1/3) מאת L. D. Beghtol This is a fully illustrated oral history of the Magnetic Fields' 1999 triple album, "69 Love Songs" - an album that was afforded "classic" status by many almost as soon as it was released. LD Beghtol's book is chatty, incestuous, funny, dark, digressive, sexy, maddening, and delightful in equal meas...

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Black Sabbath's Master of Reality: 33 1/3 מאת John Darnielle John Darnielle describes Master of Reality in the voice of a fifteen-year-old boy being held in an adolescent psychiatric center in southern California in 1985. The narrator explains Black Sabbath like an emissary from an alien race describing his culture to his captors: passionately, patient...

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Homemade Hollywood: Fans Behind the Camera מאת Clive Young Who would swing off a six-story building for a homemade Spider-Man movie? Why would newlyweds spend $20,000 on a Star Wars film from which they can never profit? How did three nobodies blow Steven Spielberg's mind with an Indiana Jones flick they made as teens in the Eighties? They're a...

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Forever Changes (Thirty Three and a Third series) מאת Andrew Hultkrans This title is one of a series of books which focus on epic albums of our time. Here, Andrew Hultkrans looks at Love's album "Forever Changes"....

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Guardian Of The Light: Denis Hurley: Renewing the Church, Opposing Apartheid מאת Paddy Kearney Born in Cape Town in 1915 of Irish parents, Dennis Hurley became the youngest Catholic bishop in the world in 1947 at 31 and would later come to be regarded, along with Desmond Tutu, as one of the South African state's "most wanted" political opponents. His inspiring life as a courageous opponent of...

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Husserl: A Guide for the Perplexed (Guides for the Perplexed) מאת Matheson Russell Edmund Husserl's work is a cornerstone of Continental philosophy and the phenomenological tradition. Husserl: A Guide for the Perplexed addresses directly those major points of difficulty faced by students of Husserl and leads them expertly through the maze of complex ideas and language. The book...