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Edinburgh University Press Life Worlds of Middle Eastern Oil
Book SynopsisStudies how oil has shaped the societies and cultures of the modern and contemporary Middle East.Trade Review"This groundbreaking collection of interdisciplinary essays is a major contribution to understanding the social life of oil in the Middle East. Rather than the usual and reductive focus on the geopolitics of oil or the impact of its financial revenues in enabling states and ruling elites, the contributors shed light on the many ways in which oil has shaped everyday social experience, covering topics from the ecology and the built environment of cities and nation states to the public imaginaries and the cultural and material lives of ordinary peoples. ?" -Kaveh Ehsani, DePaul University
£76.50
Edinburgh University Press The Apocalypse of the Birds
Book SynopsisIdentifies and contextualises a new work within the Animal Apocalypse, dated to the dawn of the First Jewish Revolt.
£22.49
Edinburgh University Press The Edinburgh Companion to Childrens Literature
Book SynopsisThis collection takes informed and scholarly readers to the utmost frontier of children's literature criticism, from the intricate worlds of children's poetry, picturebooks and video games to the new theoretical constellations of critical plant studies, non-fiction studies and big data analyses of literature.
£33.30
Edinburgh University Press Romanian and Chinese Cinemas
Book SynopsisCompares the cinema cultures of Romania and China before and after socialism.
£101.62
Edinburgh University Press Cinema and Machine Vision
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£17.99
Edinburgh University Press Research Methods for Law
Book SynopsisA handbook and guide to research methods for students of law, criminology, sociology and social sciences, from an interdisciplinary perspective
£31.49
Edinburgh University Press Virginia Woolf and the Anthropocene
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£22.49
Edinburgh University Press Refocus The Films of Joachim Trier
Book SynopsisThe first book-length academic study of the work of Norwegian director, Joachim Trier.
£17.99
Edinburgh University Press Scots Criminal Law
£40.50
Edinburgh University Press The IntensiveImage in Deleuzes FilmPhilosophy
Book SynopsisIntroduces the concept of the intensive-image to develop a deeper understanding of the part played by intensity in the history of the cinematic imageTrade Review"Gilles Deleuze's monumental cinema books privileged properties of movement and time, differentiating the classical from the modern. Crist bal Escobar respectfully re-opens Deleuze's books in order to emphasize a term that cuts across and unifies all these categories: intensity. His contribution is brilliant and radical, leading us to experience films anew." -Adrian Martin, Film Critic, Monash University
£76.50
Edinburgh University Press The Presidents Kill List
Book SynopsisInvestigates the US government's involvement in the assassination of foreign officials from the early Cold War to the present day.
£22.49
Edinburgh University Press The Karbala Story and Early Shiite Identity
Book SynopsisExplores how the story about al-usayn's death at Karbala developed into a paradigmatic myth in formative Shiism.
£76.50
Edinburgh University Press Reading Modernisms Readers
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£20.48
Edinburgh University Press Poetry from the Waverley Novels and Other Works
Book SynopsisThe original poetry by Walter Scott in the Waverley Novels and other works
£90.00
Edinburgh University Press Categories
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Edinburgh University Press The Korean War Novel
Book SynopsisUncovers how historical novels rewrite the history of the Korean War
£81.00
Edinburgh University Press Women and Documentary Film in Contemporary Iran
Book SynopsisTakes an industrial approach to women's documentary practices in Iran since the late 1990s with a patrticular focus on gender politics.
£72.25
Edinburgh University Press Katherine Mansfield Illness and Death
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Edinburgh University Press The Reader in Modernist Fiction
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£20.48
Edinburgh University Press Somewhere Between Art History and Phenomenology
Book SynopsisBrings together art history and philosophy to explore the wonder of early modern European works of art in unusual critical readings
£76.50
Edinburgh University Press Informality and Courts
Book SynopsisThis volume explores an understudied aspect of courts: The extent to which informal institutions and relational networks (e.g., professional, clientelist, family etc.) relations affect how courts are organised and operate. For instance, to what extent can ?good personal relations? outweigh professional merits in judicial appointment processes? Or in what ways do international or domestic judicial networks help protect courts against other branches of power? Our relational-institutional perspective allows us to better understand a variety of important processes for the comparative study of courts ? including judicial appointments, judicial decision-making, judicial administration, institutional development, inter-branch relations, corruption, and court reform, among others. More importantly, an emphasis on informality sheds new light on the accountability role of courts in democratic regimes, at a time when democracy worldwide is at risk and authoritarian regimes are on the rise. Bringing together the thoughts of scholars with different levels of seniority and disciplinary expertise, this volume offers cross-national engagement with theory, providing systematic analyses of the configuration, operation, and roles of informal institutions and relations, and their importance in different socio-political contexts and legal systems.
£94.50
Edinburgh University Press Coalfield Justice
Book SynopsisOral histories helped secure justice for Scottish miners victimised during the 1984-85 strike
£14.24
Edinburgh University Press The Arabic Language
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Edinburgh University Press A History of the Scottish Labour Party
£22.49
Edinburgh University Press Womens Periodicals and Print Culture in Britain
Book SynopsisThis innovative volume presents for the first time collective expertise on women's magazines and periodicals of the long eighteenth century.
£35.99
Edinburgh University Press World Christian Encyclopedia
Book SynopsisThe World Christian Encyclopedia, now in its 3rd edition, documents the changing status of World Christianity over the past 120 years from historical and social scientific perspectives.
£202.50
Edinburgh University Press Union and Revolution
Book SynopsisA provocative new account of Scotland's history across a century of revolution and political instability
£20.89
Edinburgh University Press Thinking Antagonism
Book SynopsisOliver Marchart presents the main features of Ernesto Laclau's ontology and tracks the development of antagonism from German Idealism via Marx to today's post-Marxism. In doing so, he demonstrates Laclau's significant contribution to the current 'ontological turn' in political thought.
£22.79
Edinburgh University Press Assemblage Theory
Book SynopsisManuel DeLanda provides the first detailed overview of the assemblage theory found in germ in Deleuze and Guattari's writings. Through a series of case studies DeLanda shows how the concept can be applied to economic, linguistic, and military history as well as to metaphysics, science, and mathematics.
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Edinburgh University Press Speculative Empiricism
Book SynopsisDidier Debaise focuses in on Whitehead s attempt to construct a metaphysical system of everything in the universe that exists whilst simultaneously claiming that it can account for every element of our experience, giving us a radically new way of conceiving the relations between experience and speculation.Trade Review'In Speculative Empiricism, Didier Debaise expertly guides the reader on a remarkable voyage through Whitehead's metaphysical masterpiece, Process and Reality. The juxtaposition of the two title words sets the agenda, giving notice from the start that we will be heading into unexpected territory. Here, speculation will become a matter of experience, and experience, reciprocally, will be imbued with the futurity of potential. The result is a novel pragmatics of becoming which Debaise maps with unerring lucidity and precision, providing both an introduction to key Whiteheadian concepts and a major contribution to the scholarship that will be of equal interest to specialists.' - Brian Massumi, University of Montreal
£22.79
Edinburgh University Press Women and the Gothic
Book SynopsisThis collection of newly commissioned essays brings together major scholars in the field of Gothic studies in order to re-think the topic of `Women and the Gothic .
£22.79
Edinburgh University Press Slaves and Highlanders
Book SynopsisShortlisted for the 2021 Highland Book Prize. Explores the prominent role of Highland Scots in the slavery industry of the cotton, sugar and coffee plantations of the 18th and 19th centuries.Table of ContentsList of illustrations, tables and maps; Acknowledgements; Standard abbreviation used in the text Foreword by Rod Westmaas and Juanita Cox-Westmaas Chapter 1 Jumbies Part 1: The African slave trade, the English 'sugar islands', and Scots in the expanding Empire Chapter 2 The slave trade Chapter 3 Jamaica - 'As much gold as will fill a flagon' Chapter 4 The Ceded Islands - Grenada Chapter 5 A family of Highland carpenters in the Ceded islands Part 2: Northern Scots in Guyana on the 'last frontier' of Empire Chapter 6 Guyana - A last frontier Chapter 7 Guyana - Voices of the enslaved Chapter 8 Guyana - The 'free coloured' moment Chapter 9 Guyana - The merchant houses Part 3: Entangled histories - the legacies of slavery in the North of Scotland Chapter 10 Northern Scotland - Investments Chapter 11 Landowners, Caribbean Wealth, and Highland Identities Chapter 12 Enslaved Blacks and black servants Chapter 13 Children of colour Part 4: Reckonings Chapter 14 'It is always easier to remember victims than to cope with the difficult issue of perpetrators.' Afterword Ghosts in our blood Index
£15.19
Edinburgh University Press NietzscheS Unfashionable Observations
Book SynopsisA guide to the whole of Nietzsche's understudied early masterpiece
£22.79
Edinburgh University Press ShakespeareS Moral Compass
Book SynopsisThis ground-breaking study fearlessly combines latest research in evolutionary psychology, historical scholarship and philosophy to answer a question that has eluded critics for centuries: what is Shakespeare's moral vision?
£22.79
Edinburgh University Press Lucretius I
Book SynopsisThomas Nail argues convincingly and systematically that Lucretius was not an atomist, but a thinker of kinetic flux. In doing so, he completely overthrows the interpretive foundations of modern scientific materialism, whose philosophical origins lie in the atomic reading of Lucretius' immensely influential book 'De Rerum Natura'.
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Edinburgh University Press Control Culture
Book SynopsisStarting from Deleuze's brief but influential work on control, the 11 essays in this book questions how contemporary control mechanisms influence, and are influenced by, cultural expression. They also collectively revaluate Foucault and Deleuze's theories of discipline and control in light of the continued development of biopolitics
£20.89
Edinburgh University Press Scottish Gothic
Book SynopsisWritten from various critical standpoints by internationally renowned scholars, 'Scottish Gothic: An Edinburgh Companion' interrogates the ways in which the concepts of the Gothic and Scotland have intersected and been manipulated from the mid-eighteenth century to the present day.
£22.79
Edinburgh University Press The Land Agent
Book SynopsisThis book brings together leading researchers of British and Irish rural history to consider the role of the land agent, or estate manager, in the modern period.
£21.84
Edinburgh University Press Us Modernism at Continents End
Book SynopsisThis book is first to historicise and theorise the significance of the early twentieth-century little art colony as a uniquely modern social formation within a global network of modernist activity and production.
£81.00
Edinburgh University Press Last Lectures College De France 1968 and 1969
Book SynopsisBenveniste's lectures had a shaping influence on a generation of scholars that includes Barthes, Deleuze, Foucault, Derrida, Kristeva and Todorov and here, for the first time, these are made available in English for a new generation of linguists and philosophers of language.
£26.59
Edinburgh University Press Scheming
Book SynopsisSean Damer provides a sustained critique of the Corporation of Glasgow's council housing policy and argues that it had the unintended consequence of amplifying social segregation and ghettoisation in the city.
£20.89
Edinburgh University Press Phases of the Moon
Book SynopsisProvides the first academic monograph dedicated to developing a cultural understanding of the werewolf film.
£20.89
Edinburgh University Press Modern Hadith Studies
Book SynopsisThis book examines the various methods and trends in Hadith Studies across the globe. Bringing together contributions from 10 scholars of Hadith, it addresses the subject from a variety of methodological vantage points and historical premises.
£19.94
Edinburgh University Press Cognitive Linguistic Approaches to Text and
Book SynopsisDrawing on range of text genres including novels, poems, health forums, holiday guestbooks, prayers, political songs and news stories, each chapter uses cognitive linguistics to shed light on the meanings and meaning-making processes invoked when we encounter texts belonging to different literary and political genres.
£20.89
Edinburgh University Press Roman Law for Scots Law Students
Book SynopsisFrom property law to delict and unjustified enrichment, this textbook focuses on the areas of Roman law that most influenced Scots law. Students will enter practice with a greater depth of understanding of the roots of modern Scots law, helping them to feel confident in using Roman materials when tackling today's legal problems.
£39.60
Edinburgh University Press The Arab Lefts
Book SynopsisBased on an analysis of textual and audio-visual materials, the book surveys radical Left traditions in the Arab world that took shape between the 1950s and 1970s.
£24.69
Edinburgh University Press Monstrosity and Philosophy
Book SynopsisAmazons and giants, snakes and gorgons, centaurs and gryphons: monsters abounded in the ancient world. Del Lucchese grapples with the concept of monstrosity, showing how ancient philosophers explored metaphysics, ontology, theology and politics to respond to the challenge of radical otherness in nature and in thought.
£29.45
Edinburgh University Press The Edinburgh Companion to D. H. Lawrence and the
Book SynopsisThis book includes twenty-eight innovative chapters by specialists from across the arts, reassessing Lawrence's relationship to aesthetic categories and specific art forms in their historical and critical contexts.
£153.00
