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In the context of today's significant struggles with 'fundamentalisms', media consolidation, and the stifling of dissent, Allen's close readings of Woolf's writings focus on their relevance to our current political situation. Judith Allen approaches Woolf as a theorist of language as well as a theorist of reading, and shows how her writing strategies - sometimes single, resonant words - function to express and enact her politics. Allen also shows how Woolf's complex arguments serve to awaken her readers to the lack of transparency in the dissemination of information, the complexities and power of language, and the urgent need for critical thinking. Key features: close readings of Woolf's essays include "Montaigne", "A Room of One's Own", "Craftsmanship", "Three Guineas" and "Thoughts on Peace in an Air Raid"; sources range from Michel de Montaigne to the Dixie Chicks, from the Northcliffe Press newspaper empire of World War I to today's mainstream newspapers, Rupert Murdoch's empire, satirical news shows like "The Colbert Report" and "The Daily Show", and social media and the blogosphere.

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We are called to four great loves: to love God; to love God’s Word; to love God’s people; to love God’s purposes in the world. It is both an awesome task and a glorious opportunity that God promises to equip us for. Through two studies for each topic, one from the Old Testament and one from the New Testament, we see tangible ways to love and serve the God who loves us perfectly and who longs for us to know him more intimately.

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Month after month over the course of 11 years, artist Judith Allen-Efstathiou has been drawing the wildflowers that grow along an ancient stone-paved footpath near her home on the Greek island of Kea. The drawings document the path and its plants, both endangered by the encroachment of a road. The result of her work, Mapping the Walk, is a gorgeous, lavishly illustrated book that takes the reader on a journey along this path. With the artist as guide, we pass the ancient stone Lion of Kea, enter an intimate world of delicate beauty, and experience the extraordinary wealth of the wildflowers of Greece. Illustrated with 53 full-colour botanical drawings, along with details from the artist’s sketchbook, photographs, and artwork inspired by the drawings, Mapping the Walk is both a testament to the artist’s passionate devotion to this landscape and a celebration of the beauty and resilience of nature. The larger hope for the book is that it may be a spur to the preservation not only of this ancient footpath, but of other marked hiking trails on Kea — living, national treasures, precious, priceless, and irreplaceable.

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The growing literature on comparative European housing policy has played a major part in developing our understanding of the way housing in provided in different countries, and in the way the interaction between the stat, market and civil society is conceptualized. However, much of this analysis is rooted without question in the welfare states of northern Europe – there has been almost no research published in English on the provision of housing in southern Europe. Such research as exists deals with specific feature of housing policy, invariably in a single country. There is probably a better understanding of the housing systems of the former communist countries than those of southern Europe.

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Parasitic Nematodes are amongst the most successful parasites on Earth. This fully-updated second edition constitutes a comprehensive volume that continues to discuss the molecular biology, biochemistry and immunology of nematode parasites of humans, domestic animals and plants. There is a strong focus on new advances including chapters on horizontal gene transfer, genetics of susceptibility in humans, nematode protein structures, role of bacterial symbionts, host immune system modulation, modulation of allergic and autoimmune diseases by parasitic nematodes and the use of these organisms or their products as therapeutics. This book will be of significant importance to advanced students and researchers in human and veterinary parasitology, plant nematology and pathogen immunology in general.

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