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Edinburgh University Press TechnoEcologies of Bill Viola and Gilbert Simondon
£93.75
Edinburgh University Press Historical Linguistics
Book SynopsisLyle Campbell presents an accessible, hands-on introduction to historical linguistics. The fourth edition has a lucid and engaging style, expert guidance and comprehensive coverage, making it ideal for students coming to historical linguistics for the first time.
£26.99
Edinburgh University Press A Safavid Armenian Monument
£148.75
Edinburgh University Press The Umayyad Empire
Book SynopsisThis book presents a history of the Umayyad Empire, the only period in which an Arabian ruling elite and its tribal armies ruled a world empire. Marsham presents a number of arguments which, taken together, offer a new perspective on the Umayyads.
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Edinburgh University Press Spinozas Ethics
Book SynopsisA step-by-step guide to Spinoza's EthicsTrade ReviewIn this engaging and unpretentious introduction Beth Lord guides the beginning student through the maze of propositions and axioms of Spinoza's Ethics with unflagging patience and encouragement. Teachers and students alike should welcome this new addition to Spinoza studies. -- Professor Moira Gatens, University of Sydney, Australia In this engaging and unpretentious introduction Beth Lord guides the beginning student through the maze of propositions and axioms of Spinoza's Ethics with unflagging patience and encouragement. Teachers and students alike should welcome this new addition to Spinoza studies.Table of ContentsSeries Editor's Preface; Acknowledgements; List of Figures; Introduction; 1. A Guide to the Text; Part I: Being, Substance, God, Nature; Part II: Minds, Bodies, Experience, and Knowledge; Part III: The Affects; Part IV: Virtue, Ethics, and Politics; Part V: Freedom and Eternity; 2. Study Aids; Glossary; Further Reading; Types of Question You Will Encounter; Tips for Writing about Spinoza; Bibliography; Index.
£16.14
Edinburgh University Press Deleuze and Guattari and Terror
Book SynopsisThis collection of essays considers the contribution of Deleuze and Guattari's philosophical ideas in forging a critique of global terror and counter-terror.
£76.50
Edinburgh University Press Squid Cinema from Hell
Book SynopsisHere be Kraken! The Squid Cinema From Hell draws upon writers like Vilem Flusser, Donna J. Haraway, Graham Harman and Eugene Thacker to offer up a critical analysis of cephalopods and other tentacular creatures in contemporary media, while also speculating that digital media might themselves constitute a weird, intelligent alien.
£90.00
Edinburgh University Press Australian International Pictures 1946 75
Book SynopsisOffers an important insight into the formative moments of transnational film culture in AustraliaTrade Review"Before Australian cinema's breakthrough in the early 1980s, visiting filmmakers made important and varied contributions to what Danks and Verevis call 'the imagination of Australia'. The Overlanders, On the Beach, Age of Consent, Ned Kelly and Walkabout are among the international productions here valuably reconsidered from a contemporary Australian perspective." -Ian Christie, Birkbeck College, University of London
£76.50
Edinburgh University Press Turkish Politics and the People
Book SynopsisExplores the transformations of the notion of 'the people' from the late Ottoman to current Turkish political discourses
£81.00
Edinburgh University Press Performance Theatricality and the US Presidency
Book SynopsisProposes a new perspective on the contemporary rise of mainstreamed populism by exploring features of populist-style politics through the lens of distrust
£22.49
Edinburgh University Press Sidonius Letters Book 5 Part 1
Book SynopsisStudies the first half of Sidonius' fifth book of letters from a philological, literary and historical perspective
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Edinburgh University Press How Isis Fights
Book SynopsisOmar Ashour analyses the military and tactical innovations of ISIS and their predecessors in Iraq, Syria, Libya and Egypt. He shows how their capacity to mix conventional military tactics with innovative guerrilla warfare and urban terrorism strategies allowed ISIS to expand and endure beyond expectations.
£16.14
Edinburgh University Press War in Space
Book SynopsisThis book presents a theory of spacepower and considers the implications of space technology on strategy and international relations.
£24.69
Edinburgh University Press NineteenthCentury African American Speeches in
Book SynopsisBrings together, for the first time, eighty trailblazing speeches by forty-two African American freedom-fighters who made a revolutionary impact on UK and Irish nineteenth-century transatlantic literary cultures and political histories
£127.50
Edinburgh University Press Diagrammatic Immanence
Book SynopsisRocco Gangle addresses the methodological questions raised by a commitment to immanence in terms of how diagrams may be used both as tools and as objects of philosophical investigation. Gangle integrates insights from Spinoza, Pierce and Deleuze in conjunction with the formal operations of category theory.
£22.79
Edinburgh University Press Agamben and the Existentialists
Book SynopsisDivided into three sections 'Agamben and the Sovereign Exception', 'Agamben and the Death of God' and 'Existentialist Themes in Agamben' this collection challenges, complicates and reimagines Agamben's critique of the sovereign exception and other existentialist themes including feminism and postcolonialism.
£81.00
Edinburgh University Press Legacies of the Past
Book SynopsisThis collection analyses the audio-visual representations of several heightened events in Mexican history.
£81.00
Edinburgh University Press Shimmer
Book SynopsisIn this deeply personal book, the last one she wrote before her death in 2018, Deborah Bird Rose explores the shimmer of life - the iridescent pulse of beauty and power, the processes of transition and transformation - that flows across and between generations, grounded in her work with flying foxes in Australia.
£15.19
Edinburgh University Press Islamic Architecture
Book SynopsisA comprehensive and authoritative survey of Islamic Architecture from the world's leading expert.Trade ReviewThis book is a treasure trove ! a refreshing contribution to the field of Islamic architecture. The publication in paperback of Robert Hillenbrand's Islamic Architecture will be a boon to those who want to study the subject in depth ... Since this book first appeared in 1994 it has provided readers with an opportunity to grasp the vast scope of architectural history in the Islamic world and to understand how its traditions developed. The author discusses the evolution of Islamic architecture from its origins in Medina to its flowering in diverse and far-flung territories from Spain to Afghanistan. His task was daunting, but in an impressive lifetime of study he has personally experienced the architecture in all but one of the countries he covers...with his scholarly guidance and broad perspective, countless readers will gain a broader perspective and a deeper understand of Islamic architecture. Islamic Architecture is an awesome achievement ... Hillenbrand's arguments are incisively presented in a prose [which] occasionally develops an eloquence that mesmerises. Islamic Architecture is a work on a grand scale ... admirable for its intellectual rigour. Marvellous ... no other work comes close remotely close to this wealth of illustrations and informed discussion This book is a treasure trove ! a refreshing contribution to the field of Islamic architecture. The publication in paperback of Robert Hillenbrand's Islamic Architecture will be a boon to those who want to study the subject in depth ... Since this book first appeared in 1994 it has provided readers with an opportunity to grasp the vast scope of architectural history in the Islamic world and to understand how its traditions developed. The author discusses the evolution of Islamic architecture from its origins in Medina to its flowering in diverse and far-flung territories from Spain to Afghanistan. His task was daunting, but in an impressive lifetime of study he has personally experienced the architecture in all but one of the countries he covers...with his scholarly guidance and broad perspective, countless readers will gain a broader perspective and a deeper understand of Islamic architecture. Islamic Architecture is an awesome achievement ... Hillenbrand's arguments are incisively presented in a prose [which] occasionally develops an eloquence that mesmerises. Islamic Architecture is a work on a grand scale ... admirable for its intellectual rigour. Marvellous ... no other work comes close remotely close to this wealth of illustrations and informed discussionTable of ContentsScope of the enquiry; religious architecture 1 - the mosque; religious architecture 2 - the minaret; religious architecture 3 - the madrasa; the mausoleum; secular architecture 1 - the caravanserai; secular architecture 2 - the palace.
£56.70
Edinburgh University Press An Introduction to Middle English
Book SynopsisThis book is designed to provide undergraduate students of English historical linguistics with a concise description of the language during the period 1100-1500.Table of ContentsPreface; Abbreviations; 1. Introduction; 2. What did Middle English look like?; 3. Middle English in use; 4. Spelling and sounds; 5. The lexicon; 6. Grammar; 7. Looking forward; Bibliography; Appendix of texts; Discussion of the exercises.
£17.99
Edinburgh University Press Domination and Lordship
Book SynopsisThis book discussed the processes by which the Gaelic kingdom of Alba established its mastery over the lesser kingdoms of northern mainland Britain and transformed itself into a state recognisable as Scotland.Table of ContentsIntroduction: Scotland in 1070; PART 1 Narratives; Chapter 1 Out with the Old (1070-1093); Chapter 2 Kings and pretenders (1093-1136); Chapter 3 Building the Scoto-Northumbrian Realm (1136-1157); Chapter 4 Under the Angevin Supremacy (1157-1189); Chapter 5 Settling the Succession (1189-1230); PART 2 Processes; Chapter 6 Power; Chapter 7 Re-working Old Patterns: Rural landscapes and societies; Chapter 8 Towns, Burghs and Burgesses; Chapter 9 Nobles; Chapter 10 The Making of the Ecclesia Scoticana; Guide to Further Reading; Timeline; Bibliography
£24.69
Edinburgh University Press The Dictionary of Feminist Theory
Book SynopsisThe most comprehensive guide to the terminology and history of feminist theory available, this established and much admired dictionary provides succinct definitions of more than 600 terms, topics, movements and approaches as well as influential feminist thinkers, activists and critics within feminist theory.
£29.45
Edinburgh University Press Augustan Rome 44 BC to AD 14 the Restoration of
Book SynopsisCentring on the reign of the emperor Augustus, volume four is pivotal to the series, tracing of the changing shape of the entity that was ancient Rome through its political, cultural and economic history.
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Edinburgh University Press New Cultural Studies
Book SynopsisA study of new directions and territories for cultural studies, including the status of cultural theory within cultural studies.Trade ReviewJust when even the stodgiest of academics was getting used to the idea of cultural studies as a traditional academic discipline, here comes a book to shake everything up again -- Mikita Brottman Popmatters New Cultural Studies is a rousing call to reinvigorate cultural studies. Presenting and interrogating a range of new theoretical discourses, the book provides a generous and informative look at a new generation of theorists whose work is crucial to understanding the agency of politics within cultural studies. New Cultural Studies is a must read for anyone concerned not just about the future of cultural studies but also about theory's presence in constructing such a future. -- Henry Giroux, McMaster University This is a wonderful book about emergent possibilities within cultural studies. The contributors valuably deconstruct and rearticulate the too-often taken for granted theoretical discourses of cultural studies. Rather than a declaration of generational independence as the title might suggest, it is an important reminder of the need for cultural studies to go on theorizing, in ever-changing contexts of political demands. -- Lawrence Grossberg, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Hall and Birchall, along with the writers they have included in this volume, breathe fresh intellectual life in the field of Cultural Studies by looking to strands in contemporary philosophy and showing how an animated conversation between Cultural Studies and Philosophy especially in relation to world events, ethics, war, multi-culturalism, technology and the body, is long overdue. The chapters in this collection are erudite and lucid, they are also lively and engaged, and they are highly effective insofar as they bring Cultural Studies into a new era. -- Angela McRobbie, Goldsmiths College London An invaluable resource for both lecturers and students in enhancing the teaching and learning experience. This title offers a diverse selection of really well-written and informative interventions (theoretical and methodological) that will undoubtedly be influential in helping to establish both what cultural studies is, and what it might become, as we move further into the 21st Century. -- Liam French Art, Design, Media Subject Centre Newsletter Just when even the stodgiest of academics was getting used to the idea of cultural studies as a traditional academic discipline, here comes a book to shake everything up again New Cultural Studies is a rousing call to reinvigorate cultural studies. Presenting and interrogating a range of new theoretical discourses, the book provides a generous and informative look at a new generation of theorists whose work is crucial to understanding the agency of politics within cultural studies. New Cultural Studies is a must read for anyone concerned not just about the future of cultural studies but also about theory's presence in constructing such a future. This is a wonderful book about emergent possibilities within cultural studies. The contributors valuably deconstruct and rearticulate the too-often taken for granted theoretical discourses of cultural studies. Rather than a declaration of generational independence as the title might suggest, it is an important reminder of the need for cultural studies to go on theorizing, in ever-changing contexts of political demands. Hall and Birchall, along with the writers they have included in this volume, breathe fresh intellectual life in the field of Cultural Studies by looking to strands in contemporary philosophy and showing how an animated conversation between Cultural Studies and Philosophy especially in relation to world events, ethics, war, multi-culturalism, technology and the body, is long overdue. The chapters in this collection are erudite and lucid, they are also lively and engaged, and they are highly effective insofar as they bring Cultural Studies into a new era. An invaluable resource for both lecturers and students in enhancing the teaching and learning experience. This title offers a diverse selection of really well-written and informative interventions (theoretical and methodological) that will undoubtedly be influential in helping to establish both what cultural studies is, and what it might become, as we move further into the 21st Century.Table of Contents1. Introduction: New Cultural Studies (Clare Birchall and Gary Hall); Part 1: New Adventures in Theory; 2. Cultural Studies and Deconstruction (Gary Hall); 3. Cultural Studies and Post-Marxism (Jeremy Valentine); 4. Cultural Studies and Ethics (Joanna Zylinska); 5. Cultural Studies and German Media Theory (Geoffrey Winthrop-Young); Part 2: New Theorists; 6. Cultural Studies and Gilles Deleuze (Gregory J. Seigworth); 7. Cultural Studies and Giorgio Agamben (Brett Neilson); 8. Cultural Studies and Alain Badiou (Julian Murphet); 9. Cultural Studies and Slavoj Zizek (Paul Bowman); Part 3: New Transformations; 10. Cultural Studies and Anti-Capitalism (Jeremy Gilbert); 11. Cultural Studies and the Transnational (Imre Szeman); 12. Cultural Studies and New Media (Caroline Bassett); Part 4: New Adventures in Cultural Studies; 13. Cultural Studies and Rem Koolhaas' Project on the City (J. McGregor Wise); 14. Cultural Studies and the Post-Human(ities) (Neil Badmington); 15. Cultural Studies and the Extreme (Dave Boothroyd); 16. Cultural Studies and the Secret (Clare Birchall).
£29.45
Edinburgh University Press Gilles Deleuzes Logic of Sense
Book SynopsisThis book offers the first critical study of Gilles Deleuze's The Logic of Sense, his most important work on language and ethics.Trade ReviewJames Williams has an amazing talent for extracting simple and important questions out of an apparently abstruse argument. He does so at regular intervals, so that the reader is able to grasp Deleuze's argument as it unfolds. This book will be essential reading for whoever wants to master Deleuze's philosophical project. -- Jean-Jacques LecercleTable of ContentsContentsChapter 1. Introduction to the logic of sense* Event and structure* Life and morals* Reading Logic of Sense* Preliminary critical questionsChapter 2. Language and event* Events as effects* Unfolding the circle of the proposition: denotation, manifestation, signification and sense* Sense and the circle* Series and paradox* Structure and esoteric words* Paradox and nonsenseChapter 3. Philosophy as event* Philosophy and diagrams* Height, depth and surface* Individuals* Singularities and sense* Transcendental deductions* Singularities and series* Problems* The connection of events* The ideal game* Static genesis* Deleuze and HusserlChapter 4. Morals and events* Placing the human* Principles for moral problems* How moral problems are replayed* How to act morally (principles)* How to act morally (examples)* The crack-up* Individuals, solipsism and the communication of events* Time and univocityChapter 5. Thought and the unconscious* The thinker deposed* Thought and problems* Seriation and the phantasm* Thought and sexuality* Dynamic genesisChapter 6. Conclusion: on method and metaphysicsBibliography
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Edinburgh University Press Deleuze and Queer Theory
Book SynopsisThis exciting collection of new work proposes a major paradigm shift in debates on sexuality: a shift away from discourse, identity and signification, to a radical new conception of bodily materialism.Trade ReviewThis is a brilliant and well-timed collection of state-of-the-arts essays. It conclusively proves that queerness has to do not only with identity politics and performative stances, but also with material and collective experiments with radical otherness and un-programmed intensity. -- Rosi Braidotti, Distinguished Professor and Director of the Centre for the Humanities at Utrecht University and Honorary Professor at Birkbeck College LondonTable of ContentsIntroduction; 1. On the Very Possibility of Queer Theory, Claire Colebrook; 2. Thirty-six Thousand Forms of Love: The Queening of Deleuze & Guattari, Verena Andermatt Conley; 3. The Sexed Subject in-between Deleuze and Butler, Anna Hickey-Moody and Mary Louise Rasmussen; 4. Every 'One' - a Crowd, Making Room for the Excluded Middle, Dorothea Olkowski; 5. The adventures of a sex, Luciana Parisi; 6. Queer Hybridity, Mikko Tuhkanen; 7. Prosthetic Performativity: Deleuzian Connections and Queer Corporealities, Margrit Shildrick; 8. Unnatural Alliances, Patricia MacCormack; 9. Schreber and the Penetrated Male, Jonathan Kemp; 10. Butterfly kiss: the contagious kiss of becoming-lesbian, Chrysanthi Nigianni; Notes on Contributors; Index.
£29.45
Edinburgh University Press PracticeLed Research ResearchLed Practice in the
Book SynopsisThis book addresses one of the most exciting and innovative developments within higher education: the rise in prominence of the creative arts and the accelerating recognition that creative practice is a form of research.The book considers how creative practice can lead to research insights through what is often known as practice-led research. But unlike other books on practice-led research, it balances this with discussion of how research can impact positively on creative practice through research-led practice. The editors posit an iterative and web-like relationship between practice and research. Essays within the book cover a wide range of disciplines including creative writing, dance, music, theatre, film and new media, and the contributors are from the UK, US, Canada and Australia. The subject is approached from numerous angles: the authors discuss methodologies of practice-led research and research-led practice, their own creative work as a form of research, research training for creative practitioners, researchers, students in the creative arts and university leaders.Table of ContentsIntroduction; 1. Practice-led research, Research-led practice: towards the Iterative Cyclic Web, Hazel Smith and Roger T. Dean; Section I: Methodologies of Practice-led research and Research-led practice; 2. Making Space: The Purpose and Place of Practice-led Research, Graeme Sullivan; 3. New Media: the 'First Word' in Art?, Simon Biggs; 4. Knowledge Unspoken: Contemporary Dance and the Cycle of Practice-led Research, Basic and Applied Research, and Research-led Practice, Shirley McKechnie and Catherine Stevens; 5. Practice as Research through Performance, Baz Kershaw; 6. Beach combing: a fossicker's guide to whiteness and indigenous sovereignty, Anne Brewster; Section II: Case Histories; 7. Integrating Creative Practice and Research in the Digital Media Arts, Andrew R. Brown and Andrew Sorensen; 8. Mariposa: The story of new work of research/creation, taking shape, taking flight, Kathleen Vaughan; 9. Sustaining The Sustainable? Developing a practice and problem-led New Media Praxis, Keith Armstrong; 10. Nightmares in the Engine Room, Jane Goodall; Section III: Creative Practice and Research in Education and Politics; 11. Acquiring Know-How: Research Training for Practice-led Researchers, Brad Haseman and Daniel Mafe; 12. Asking questions of art: higher education, research and creative practice, Judith Mottram; 13. The Academic Mode of Production, Sharon Bell; Index.
£29.45
Edinburgh University Press The Edinburgh Companion to the Gaelic Language
Book SynopsisThis book is a comprehensive introduction to all aspects of the Scottish Gaelic language.Trade ReviewThe Edinburgh Companion to the Gaelic Language is to be recommended as a valuable addition to the body of introductory texts covering Gaelic studies. Readers will find that this volume accomplishes the editors' aims to fill many of the gaps which have hindered the study of Gaelic and to promote future research endeavours. -- Mairi Henderson, University of Aberdeen Reference Reviews The Edinburgh Companion to the Gaelic Language is to be recommended as a valuable addition to the body of introductory texts covering Gaelic studies. Readers will find that this volume accomplishes the editors' aims to fill many of the gaps which have hindered the study of Gaelic and to promote future research endeavours.Table of ContentsNotes on Contributors; Acknowledgements; Abbreviations; Preface; 1. A History of Gaelic to 1800: Colm O Baoill; 2. Language in Society: 1800 to the modern day: Michelle Macleod; 3. Gaelic Place-names: Richard A. V. Cox; 4. Language in Gaelic Literature: Moray Watson; 5. A' Ghaidhlig an Canada: Scottish Gaelic in Canada: Kenneth E. Nilsen; 6. Hebridean and Mainland Dialects: Seosamh Watson; 7. The Gaelic Language-Group: Demography, Language-Usage, -Transmission and -Shift: Kenneth MacKinnon; 8. Language Planning: Robert Dunbar; 9. Sociolinguistic Ethnography of Gaelic Communities: Emily McEwan-Fujita; 10. Gaelic Vocabulary: Andrew Breeze; 11. Gaelic Orthography: The Drunk Man's Broad Road: Ronald Black; 12. Phonology in Modern Gaelic: Anna R. K. Bosch; 13. Gaelic Morphology: David Adger; 14. Gaelic Syntax: David Adger; Index
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Edinburgh University Press The Death and Return of the Author
Book SynopsisFor the late twentieth century, the death of the author assumed a significance analogous to the death of God one hundred years previously. In this now classic study, Seán Burke both provides the first detailed explanation of anti-authorialism and shows how, even taken on its own terms, the attempt to abolish the author is philosophically untenable. Rather than developing a traditionally humanist defence, Burke effectively out-theorises theory through rigorous readings which demonstrate that the concept of the author remained profoundly active even and especially as its disappearance was being articulated. The question of the author, he argues, is not a question within theory but the question of theory.Building on a substantially revised second edition, Burke further explores the challenges faced by an authorial theory that is ''still to come''. Prompted by the responses to the passing of Jacques Derrida in 2004, he revisits the enigmatic borderlines between life and work, life and (authorial) death.Trade ReviewThanks largely to Burke, 'Author Studies' is now legitimate in literary academia...truly brilliant. Writing in Education Thanks largely to Burke, 'Author Studies' is now legitimate in literary academia...truly brilliant.Table of ContentsPreface to Third Edition: The 'Life Death' of the Author; Preface to the Second Edition; Prologue: The Deaths of Paul de Man; Introduction: A Prehistory of the Death of the Author; 1. The Birth of the Reader: Authorship and Apotheosis; From Work to Life; The 'Founders of Languages'; Mimesis and the Author; Autobiographies; 2. The Author and the Death of Man: Cogito and the Birth of Man; The Founder of Futurity; What (and Who) is an Author?; Allegories of Misreading; Transcendental Lures: LAcan and the Mastery of Language; Subjectivities; 3. Misread Intentions: Authors of Absence; Hors-Texte; A History of Silence; Doubling the Text: Intention and its Other; The Myth of Writing; Reading and (Self-) Writing; Conclusion: Critic and Author: Critic and Author?; Misreceptions: Phenomenology into Deconstruction; The Ghost in the Machine: Authorial Inscription and the Limits of Theory; Epilogue: Technology and the Politics of Reading; 'Half Dust, Half Deity': The Middle Way of Situated Authorship; Appendix 1: The Biographical Imperative; Appendix 2: The Author as Reader; Notes; Bibliography; Index.
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Edinburgh University Press The History of Islamic Political Thought
Book SynopsisSecond edition of the history of Islamic political thought that traces its roots from early Islam to the current age of Fundamentalism (622 AD to 2010 AD).Trade ReviewThis is an outstanding and most welcome book. Since its first publication in 2001, Islam and its corollaries of Islamism and Islamophobia have become household words and everyday currency in Western media. Unfortunately, the upsurge of rhetoric is not equivalent to any substantial knowledge in this area. Fortunately, this revised and updated edition of the text can remedy the pervasive historical and intellectual knowledge gaps. Antony Black, one of the most renowned historians of intellectual and religious ideas, offers us a guide to a complex but crucially important topic in our time. His book deserves the widest possible readership. -- Fred Dallmayr, author of Dialogue Among Civilizations This is an outstanding and most welcome book. Since its first publication in 2001, Islam and its corollaries of Islamism and Islamophobia have become household words and everyday currency in Western media. Unfortunately, the upsurge of rhetoric is not equivalent to any substantial knowledge in this area. Fortunately, this revised and updated edition of the text can remedy the pervasive historical and intellectual knowledge gaps. Antony Black, one of the most renowned historians of intellectual and religious ideas, offers us a guide to a complex but crucially important topic in our time. His book deserves the widest possible readership.Table of ContentsMap; Time Chart; Introduction; Part I: The Messenger and the Law c.622-1000; 1. The Mission of Muhammad; 2. The Idea of Monarchy under the Umayyads and 'Abbasids c.661-850; 3. The Formation of the Shari'a; 4. Shi'ism; 5. The Restoration of Persia c.850-1050; 6. Knowledge and Power: Philosophy without the Polis; Part II: Religion and State Power (din wa dawla): Sunni Doctrine & the State c.900-1220; 7. The Theory of the Caliphate; 8. State and Religion under the Saljuqs; 9. Al-Ghazali: Mysticism and Politics; 10. The Ethics of Power: Advice-to-Kings (nasihat al-muluk); 11. Ibn Rushd; 12. The Politics of Sufism; Part III: The Shari'a and the Sword c.1220-1500; 13. The Rape of Asia; 14. Mamluk Ideology and the Sultan-Caliph; 15. Nasir al-Din Tusi (1201-74): Social Philosophy and Status Groups; 16. Ibn Taymiyya (1263-1328): Shari'a Governance (al-siyasa al-shari'yya); 17. The Delhi Sultanate and al-Barani: Statecraft and Morality; 18. Ibn Khaldun (1332-1406): The Science of Civilization and the Governance of Islam; 19. The Decline of Classical Islamic Political Thought; Part IV: Religious Ideology and Political Control in Early Modern States; 20. A New World Order; 21. The State of the House of Osman (devlet-i al-i Osman); 22. The Safavids; 23. India and the Mughals; 24. The Decline and Reform of the Ottoman Empire; Part V: Islam and the West; 25. Modernism from the Ottoman Reforms to the Turkish Revolution; 26. Conservatism and Modernism in Iran; 27. Islamism; 28. Islamism, Reformism and the Secular State; Conclusion; Glossary; Bibliography; Index.
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Edinburgh University Press About Time
Book SynopsisWhy have theorists approached narrative primarily as a form of retrospect? Mark Currie argues that anticipation and other forms of projection into the future are vital for an understanding of narrative and its effects in the world.Table of ContentsSeries Editor's Preface; Acknowledgements; Introduction About About Time; Chapter One: The Present; Chapter Two: Prolepsis; Chapter Three: Temporality and Self-Distance; Chapter Four: Inner and Outer Time; Chapter Five: Backwards Time; Chapter Six: Fictional Knowledge; Chapter Seven: Tense Times; Bibliography; Index.
£22.79
Edinburgh University Press Classroom Discourse and Teacher Development
Book SynopsisHow does a dynamic classroom operate? What role does interaction play? This title examines the relationship between language, interaction and learning, and shows how classroom discourse can be applied to develop and improve teaching. It introduces techniques for encouraging effective data collection and analysis. It includes task commentaries.Table of Contents1. Introduction; 2. Classroom discourse: an overview; 3. Classroom interactional competence; 4. SETT: self-evaluation of teacher talk; 5. Researching classroom discourse; 6. Reflective practice revisited; 7. Conclusion; Task commentaries; References; Index; Appendices.
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Edinburgh University Press Inside the IRA
Book SynopsisThe Irish Republican movement was one of the most significant revolutionary movements of the twentieth century. This book focuses on the issue of republican splits, which created the Provisional and Official republican movements, and the subsequent development of those movements.Trade ReviewA compelling study of one of the most important themes in modern Irish politics. The question of schism and re-born militancy remains potent in contemporary Irish republicanism, and Sanders' historically informed analysis represents a significant, illuminating interpretation. -- Richard English, author of Armed Struggle: The History of the IRA A compelling study of one of the most important themes in modern Irish politics. The question of schism and re-born militancy remains potent in contemporary Irish republicanism, and Sanders' historically informed analysis represents a significant, illuminating interpretation.Table of ContentsAcknowledgements; List of Abbreviations; 1. The Origins of Division: The Republican Movement in the 20th century, 1916 - 1962; 2. The Movement Divides: The 1960s; 3. The Split and its Aftermath: The 1970s; 4. The American Dimension: How Support from America Directed the Path of Irish Republicanism; 5. Prison, Politics and Violence: The 1980s; 6. Irish-America in the 1980s; 7. Changed Priorities: The 1990s; 8. The 21st Century; Bibliography.
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Edinburgh University Press Social Interaction and English Language Teacher
Book SynopsisAnalyses how different English language teacher identities and power relationships are oriented to and made relevant in social interaction.Table of ContentsIntroduction; Part A: Survey; 1. Different Approaches to the Study of Teacher Learning and Identity; 2. Talk and Identity in Teacher Education and Development; Part B: Analysis; 3. Social Interaction, Knowledge and Identity in Pre-service ELT Teacher Education; 4. Social Interaction and the Global ELT Coursebook; 5. Social Interaction and Reflection in an In-service Context; Part C: Applications; 6. Managing Interaction in Teacher Education Contexts; 7. The Wider Context: Implications for the Global ELT Industry; Conclusion.
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Edinburgh University Press Our Nazis
Book SynopsisWhy has a fascination with fascism re-emerged after the Cold War? What is its cultural function now, in an era of commemoration? Focusing particularly on the British context, this study offers an analysis of contemporary popular and literary fiction, film, TV and art exhibitions about Nazis and Nazism.
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Edinburgh University Press OntoCartography
Book SynopsisWhat sort of interaction is there between, for example, slow-moving objects like climate and comparatively fast-moving objects like governments? Using real-world examples, the author shows how a networked concept of space and time is at the heart of our central political concerns.Trade Review'Bryant's ecological focus on the crucial interaction of the corporeal and incorporeal makes his contribution extremely important ... The sturdiest bridge yet built between post-structuralism and the vibrant new research being conducted under the auspices of a return to materialist thought.'--Los Angeles Review of Books
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Edinburgh University Press Form and Object
Book SynopsisWhat is a thing? What is an object? The author decisively overturns 100 years of Heideggerian orthodoxy about the supposed derivative nature of objects and in so doing provides deep insights about the world and our place in it.
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Edinburgh University Press Deleuze and Guattaris A Thousand Plateaus
Book SynopsisThe sheer volume and complexity of Deleuze and Guattari''s A Thousand Plateaus can be daunting. What is an assemblage? What is a rhizome? What is a war machine? What is a body without organs? What is becoming-animal? Brent Adkins demonstrates that all the questions raised by A Thousand Plateaus are in service to Deleuze and Guattari''s radical reconstruction of the methods and aims of philosophy itself.To achieve this he argues that the crucial term for understanding A Thousand Plateaus is ''assemblage.'' An assemblage is Deleuze and Guattari''s answer to the perennial philosophical question, What is a thing? and they assert that assemblages are always found on a continuum between stasis and change. Each plateau is therefore concerned with a particular type of assemblage (e.g. social, political, linguistic) and its tendencies toward both stasis and change.Table of ContentsAcknowledgments; Introduction: A Perceptual Semiotics; 1. Rhizome; 2. 1914: One or Several Wolves?; 3. 10,000BC: The Geology of Morals; 4. November 20, 1923: Postulates of Linguistics; 5. 587BC - AD 70: On Several Regimes of Signs; 6. November 28, 1947: How Do You Make Yourself a Body Without Organs?; 7. Year Zero: Faciality; 8. 1874: Three Novellas, or 'What Happened?'; 9. 1933: Micropolitics and Segmentarity; 10. 1730: Becoming Intense, Becoming Animal, Becoming Imperceptible...; 11. 1837: Of the Refrain; 12. 1227: Treatise on Nomadology - The War Machine; 13. 7000BC: Apparatus of Capture; 14. 1440: The Smooth and the Striated; Conclusion: The Ethics of Becoming; Suggestions for Further Reading; Bibliography.
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Edinburgh University Press The Victorian Gothic
Book SynopsisSuitable for students and scholars working on the Gothic, Victorian literature and culture and critical theory, this title offers insight into the complex and various Gothic forms of the 19th century. Each chapter is written by an acknowledged expert in their field on a specific topic within the Victorian writing, including science, and gender.Table of ContentsAcknowledgements; Notes on Contributors; Introduction: Locating the Victorian Gothic - Andrew Smith and William Hughes; Realism and the Victorian Gothic: Objects of Terror Transformed - Martin Willis, University of Glamorgan; Sensation Fiction: A Peep Behind the Veil - Laurence Talairach-Vielmas, University of Toulouse; Victorian Gothic Pulp Fiction - Jarlath Killeen, Trinity College Dublin; Victorian Gothic Drama - Diane Long Hoeveler, University of Marquette; Victorian Gothic poetry: The Corpse's Text - Caroline Franklin and Michael Franklin, Swansea University; The Victorian Ghost Story - Nick Freeman, Loughborough University; Victorian Gothic and National Identity- Avril Horner, Kingston University; The Victorian Gothic and Gender - Carol Margaret Davison, University of Windsor; Queer Victorian Gothic - Ardel Thomas, San Francisco College; Victorian Gothic Death - Andrew Smith; Science and the Gothic - Kelly Hurley, University of Colorado at Boulder; Victorian Medicine and the Gothic - William Hughes; Imperial Gothic - Patrick Brantlinger, Indiana University; Fin de Siecle Gothic - Vicky Margree, and Bryony Randall, University of Glasgow; Index.
£22.79
Edinburgh University Press Deleuze and Guattaris What is Philosophy
Book SynopsisDeleuze and Guattari consider themselves to be doing philosophy. In What is Philosophy?, Deleuze and Guattari set out to answer precisely that question. Jeffrey A. Bell explores their answer, that it is the 'art of forming, inventing and fabricating concepts'. In so doing, he draws out the issues at play in their other writings.
£22.79
Edinburgh University Press Fields of Sense
Book SynopsisWhat is the meaning of 'being' - or, rather, 'existence' - and how does that concept relate to the totality of what there is? This title presents an ontology based on the concept of fields of sense.
£22.79
Edinburgh University Press Jean Baudrillard From Hyperreality to
Book SynopsisJean Baudrillard (1929-2007) was one of the world's most influential, celebrated and controversial thinkers. This collection gathers 23 insightful yet previously difficult to find interviews, ranging over topics as diverse as art, war, technology, globalisation, terrorism and the fate of humanity.Table of ContentsAcknowledgements; Introduction: Not Forgetting Baudrillard; Interview 1: Too Bad about Patagonia; Interview 2: Disappearance beyond Disappearance; Interview 3: After Utopia: The Primitive Society of the Future; Interview 4: The Possibility of Another Game; Interview 5: Politics of Performance: Montand, Coluche = Le Pen?; Interview 6: A Time of Promiscuity; Interview 7: Forgetting Critiques; Interview 8: Cover Story; Interview 9: Symbolic Exchange: Taking Theory Seriously; Interview 10: Vivisecting the 90s; Interview 11: Things Surpass Themselves; Interview 12: On the New Technologies; Interview 13: I'm Not a Prophet; Interview 14: Endangered Species?; Interview 15: Hate: A Last Sign of Life; Interview 16: Europe, Globalisation and the Destiny of Culture; Interview 17: Between Difference and Singularity; Interview 18: The Catastrophe of Paradox; Interview 19: This is the Fourth World War; Interview 20: The Matrix Decoded; Interview 21: Continental Drift; Interview 22: The Art of Disappearing; Interview 23: The Antidote to the Global Lies in the Singular; Select Interviews and Dialogues; Books by Jean Baudrillard in English; Name index; Subject index.
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Edinburgh University Press Slow Cinema
Book SynopsisIn the context of a frantic world that celebrates instantaneity and speed, a number of cinemas steeped in contemplation, silence and duration have garnered significant critical attention in recent years, thus resonating with a larger sociocultural movement whose aim is to rescue extended temporal structures from the accelerated tempo of late-capitalism. Although not part of a structured film movement, directors such as Carlos Reygadas, Tsai Ming-liang, Béla Tarr, Pedro Costa and Kelly Reichardt have been largely subsumed under the term ''slow cinema''. But what exactly is slow cinema? Is it a strictly recent phenomenon or an overarching cinematic tradition? And how exactly do slow cinemas interrelate on an aesthetic, technical and political level?Deploying the concept of slowness as an umbrella category under which filmmakers and traditions from different historical and geographical backgrounds can fruitfully converge, this innovative collection of essays interrogates and expands the frameworks that have generally informed slow cinema debates. Repositioning the term in a broader theoretical space, the book combines an array of fine-grained studies that will provide valuable insight into the notion of slowness in the cinema, while mapping out past and contemporary slow films across the globe.Table of ContentsIllustrations; Foreword, Julian Stringer; Introduction: From Slow Cinema to Slow Cinemas, Tiago De Luca and Nuno Barradas Jorge; Part I: Historicising Slow Cinema: 1: The Politics of Slowness and the Traps of Modernity, Lacia Nagib; 2: The Slow Pulse of the Era: Carl Th. Dreyer's Film Style, C. Claire Thomson; 3: The First Durational Cinema and the Real of Time, Michael Walsh; 4: The Attitude of- Smoking and Observing': Slow Film and Politics in the Cinema Of Jean-Marie Straub and -Daniele Huillet, Martin Brady; Part II: Contextualising Slow Cinema: 5: Temporal Aesthetics of Drifting: Tsai Ming-Liang and a Cinema of Slowness, Song Hwee Lim; 6: Stills and Stillness in Apichatpong Weerasethakul's Cinema, Glyn Davis; 7: Melancholia: The Long, Slow Cinema of Lav Diaz, William Brown; 8: Exhausted Drift: Austerity, Dispossession and the Politics of Slow in Kelly Reichardt's Meek's Cutoff, Elena Gorfinkel; 9: lf These Walls Could Speak: From Slowness to Stillness in the Cinema of Jia Zhangke, Cecilia Mello; Part III: Slow Cinema And Labour: 10: Wastrels of Time: Slow Cinema's Labouring Body, The Political Spectator, and the Queer, Karl Schoonover; 11: Living Daily, Working Slowly: Pedro Costa's in Vanda's Room, Nuno Barradas Jorge; 12: Working/Slow: Cinematic Style as Labour in Wang Bing's Tie Xi Qu: West Of The Tracks, Patrick Brian Smith; 13: 'Slow Sounds': Duration, Audition and Labour in Liu Jiayin's Oxhide and Oxhide II, Philippa Lovatt; Part IV: Slow Cinema and the Nonhuman: 14: It's About Time: Slow Aesthetics in Experimental Ecocinema and Nature Cam Videos, Stephanie Lam; 15: Natural Views: Animals, Contingency and Death in Carlos Reygadas's Japon and Lisandro Alonso's Los Muertos, Tiago de Luca; 16: The Sleeping Spectator: Nonhuman Aesthetics in Abbas Kiarostami's Five: Dedicated to Ozu, Justin Remes; Part V: The Ethics and Politics of Slowness: 17: Bela Tarr: The Poetics and the Politics of Fiction, Jacques Ranciere; 18: Ethics of the Landscape Shot: A.K.A Serial Killer and James Benning's Portraits of Criminals, Julian Ross; 19: Slow Cinema and the Ethics of Duration, Asbjorn Gronstad; Part VI: Beyond 'Slow Cinema': 20: Performing Evolution: Immersion, Unfolding and Lucile Hadiihalilovic's Innocence, Matilda Mroz; 21: The Slow Road to Europe: The Politics and Aesthetics of Stalled Mobility in Hermakono and Morgen, Michael Gott; 22: Crystallising the Past: Slow Heritage Cinema, Rob Stone and Paul Cooke.
£26.09
Edinburgh University Press Portmahomack
Book SynopsisBefore 1996, no one assumed Portmahomack held a key to the understanding of the mysterious Pictish world. This book develops the interpretation of a prime Pictish settlement site in north east Scotland, along with chapters exploring Iron Age, Medieval and European contexts of the settlement.
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Edinburgh University Press Shirley Clarke
Book SynopsisShirley Clarke: Thinking Through Movement is the first film-philosophy book on ?radical, pioneer, visionary? (Dargis 2013) filmmaker Shirley Clarke and the films she edited and directed. The book draws on film analysis, archival research, dance and film theory, and creative practice expertise, to think through Clarke?s work as a dancer turned multi-award-winning editor and director of dancefilm, fiction, documentary, and video art. This account of Clarke?s creative oeuvre offers the reader insight into a too long overlooked filmmaker. Its creative practice and distributed cognition framework provides tools for dismantling some of the exclusionary aspects of authorship theories and offers a novel method for analysis of films, filmmaking practices and cultures of film production.
£17.99
Edinburgh University Press Refocus the Films of Nuri Bilge Ceylan
Book SynopsisExamines the work of Turkish director, Nuri Bilge CeylanTrade Review"An intriguing collection of essays on the work of the celebrated Turkish film director, Nuri Bilge Ceylan. A rewarding read for anyone interested in world cinema, it succeeds in placing Ceylan within his cultural context and analysing his wider significance within Film Studies." -Oliver Leaman, University of Kentucky
£81.00
Edinburgh University Press Arab Philosophical Trends
Book SynopsisIlluminates the core beliefs of twentieth-century Arab philosophers in response to Western ideas of modernisation
£85.50
Edinburgh University Press General William Roy 17261790
Book SynopsisThe first biography of William Roy, exploring his life, career and legacy
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