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Irish crime fiction, long present on international bestseller lists, has been knocking on the door of the academy for a decade. With a wide range of scholars addressing some of the most essential Irish detective writing, Guilt Rules All confirms that this genre has arrived.

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This essay chronicles and analyzes the rise and fall of the prophetic poem in modern Hebrew literature, focusing on H.N. Bialik's contribution.

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The essays in this collection entertain the question of how scholars may reconfigure ""area-based knowledge"" to respond to social sciences and globalization. The authors demonstrate that local knowledge is vital to understanding rapidly changing global patterns.

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Offers a reexamination of the Egyptian women's movement in light of class differences. This book describes the way in which elite feminism created a concept of womanhood that fed into the nationalist cultural ideal, one that was not necessarily progressive for all Egyptian women.

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Considers the ways in which the Irish canon not only represents an ongoing awareness of trauma as a literary and cultural force, but also how this representation has shifted since the end of the twentieth and beginning of the twenty-first century.

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This study emphasizes the pattern of literary change in Iran, as it focuses on the relationship between the constructive elements of literary creativity, literary movement, ideology, and metaphorical language of modern Persian authors.

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Anthropologists and sociologists are particularly interested in the advantages and disadvantages of doing fieldwork in one's own society. In this book, Arab women researchers research their own societies and discuss the experience.

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This study argues that both England and its American social experiments were the underdeveloped elements of an empire emerging on both sides of the Atlantic and that the pivotal moment of that empire, the so-called ""Glorious Revolution"", was in fact a military coup driven by religious fears.

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Maureen ORourke Murphy and James MacKillop survey 13 centuries of Irish literature, including old Irish epic and lyric poetry, Irish folksongs and a selection of 19th-century prose and poetry. For each author there is a biographical sketch, discussion of how his or her selections relate to a larger body of work, and a selected bibliography.

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This study of the short stories of Raymond Carver also takes excursions into his poetry and essays. Runyon argues that the stories are intricately linked as part of a cohesive body of work.

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Offering a fresh perspective, this volume traces the rich history of the Irish American diaspora press, uncovering the ways in which a lively print culture forged significant cultural, political, and even economic bonds between the Irish living in America and the Irish living in Ireland.

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The final volume in Miller's trilogy on the history of American intentional communities. Providing a comprehensive survey of communities during the last quarter of the twentieth century, Miller offers a detailed study of their character, scope, and evolution.

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Combining historical research and cultural analysis, Maoz Azaryahu explores the different myths that have been part of the vernacular and perception of Tel Aviv. He relates the city’s mythology to its physicality through buildings, streets, personal experiences, and municipal policies.

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In Egypt, something that fails to live up to its advertised expectations is often called a watermelon. The political transition in Egypt after protests overthrew Husni Mubarak is one such watermelon. Stacher examines the uprising and its aftermath to show how the country's new ruling incumbents deferred the democratic dreams of the people of Egypt.

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This study of the relationship between Muslim culture and Western modernity, portrays a society bound to its own glorified history - yet facing an external reality from the West. The meeting of these two worlds leads to a profound distortion, especially in how the Muslim world sees itself.

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In this book Dr Anis Obeid, a Druze layman, provides a penetrating analysis of Druze scriptures and beliefs (Tawhid). Presenting a chronological narrative of the foundation and development of the faith, he explains the historical conditions and religious rationale behind this closed religion.

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This volume introduces new sources for the study of the past and present life of Muslim women that challenge paradigms about the ways in which they""have been studied in the past veiled, exoticised and outside of general women's history. Amira El-Azhary Sonbol and the contributors deconstruct the past and offer fresh new perspectives.

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Reveals how the comic book hero has evolved to maintain relevance to America's fluctuating ideas of masculinity, patriotism, and violence. The book outlines the history of Captain America's adventures and places the unfolding storyline in dialogue with the comic book industry as well as America's varying political culture.

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The Journal of Turkish Literature encompasses the literary output of the Turks in Asia, the Middle East, the Balkans, and elsewhere.

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This collection of essays builds on the contributions of Albert Schweitzer's philosophy of "Reverence for Life" as it pertains to our world today.

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Traces the formation of political subjectivity in times of crisis, by attending to the 2011 occupation of Syntagma Square in Athens: the heart of the Greek anti-austerity movement. Dimitris Soudias conceives of the Syntagma Square occupation as a lens through which we can critically engage with broader theoretical and political issues.

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On the surface, James Joyce's work is largely a political. Through most of the twentieth century he was the proud embodiment of the rootless intellectual. This title includes essays that bring Joyce within the ambit of postcolonial studies.

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This work shows that while the series ""The West Wing"" may be criticized as ""idealistic"", its clever techniques of camera work, lighting, editing, and mise en scene reflect America's best image of itself, and entertains a loyal audience that wants to believe in the nobility of the American Dream.

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Presents a bold new reading of one of Denmark’s greatest writers of the nineteenth century, situating him, first and foremost, as a Jewish artist. Offering an alternative to the nationalistic discourse so prevalent in the scholarship, Gurley examines Goldschmidt’s relationship to the Hebrew Bible and later rabbinical traditions, such as the Talmud and the Midrash.

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Analyses the emergence of modern Hebrew literature after 1780, a time when Jews were moving beyond their conventional Torah- and Zion-centred worldview. Taking a fresh look at the origins of modern Jewish literature, Frieden launches a new approach to literary studies, one that lies at the intersection of translation studies and travel writing.

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In this highly original book, Tricia Cusak explores the significance of painted riverscapes to the creation of national identities in nineteenth and early twentieth century Europe and America. Focusing on five rivers, the author outlines the history of the development of national landscapes, elaborating on the distinctive nature of riverscapes.

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This study analyses Iran's post-revolutionary politics.

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In this luminous bilingual collection of poems, Ghareeb Iskander offers a personal response to the The Epic of Gilgamesh. Iskander’s modern-day Gilgamesh is a nameless Iraqi citizen who witnessed the fall of the dictatorship, who exists in a constant state of threat, and who dreams, not about eternity, but simply about life.

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Brings together in one volume Haddad’s seminal work and a considerable selection of poems from his oeuvre, stretching over forty years. The selected poems reveal Haddad’s playful yet profound meditations. A powerful lyric poet, Haddad juxtaposes classical and modern symbols, and mixes the old with the new, the sensual with the sacred, and the common with the extraordinary.

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As a small sect that emerged from Islam over years ago, the Druze religion and society has been cloaked in a tradition of secrecy. This book provides an analysis of Druze scriptures and beliefs (Tawhid). It presents a chronological narrative on the foundation and development of the faith, explaining historical conditions and religious rationale.

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Bringing together leading and emerging scholars from the fields of Irish studies and Jewish studies, this volume captures the most recent scholarship on their comparative history with nuance and remarkable insight.

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Examines how graffiti writers in Boston remake various spaces within and across the city. The spaces readers will encounter in this book are not just meaningful venues of writing, but also outcomes of writing itself: social spaces not just where writing happens but created because writing happens.

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This is a grouping of some 40 short stories that attempts to capture the essence of everyday life in the small Middle East country of Kuwait. The stories explore life in Kuwait from an American expatriate's perspective.

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Examining a broad range of network and cable TV shows across the history of the medium, this book explores the ways in which social imaginaries related to ‘bad behaviour’ have been humorously exploited over the years.

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This study takes a fresh look at the influential French philosopher, arguing that Jaques Derrida cannot be fully understood without considering the Jewish dimension of his thought, and offering a re-appraisal of his work.

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Drawing on primary sources, this is a comprehensive survey of of lycanthropy, with a focus on the medieval and Renaissance periods. Charlotte Otten shows that the study of lycanthropy uncovers basic issues in human life - the significance of violence and criminality, the role of the demonic in aberrant behaviour, and the nature of good and evil

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Builds on recent research to show that even when conceptualized as a set of practices rather than as a simple territorial label, authoritarianism has a spatiality: both drawing from and producing political space and scale in many often surprising ways.

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Showcases written and visual contributions by Iraqi artists, writers, poets, filmmakers, photographers, and activists. Contributors explore the way Iraqis retain, subvert, and produce art and activism as ways of coping with despair and resisting chaos and destruction.

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This is a pictoral history of the travellers of Ireland. Photographer Oppersdorff records the transition from nomadism and exclusion from ""society"", to the concessions to education and settling down in housing projects and caravan parks.

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A history of the ideologies and personalities of the feminist peace movement in the US. This study explores: connections between militarism and violence against women; women as the ""mothers"" of society; women as naturally responsible citizens; and the desire to be independent of male control.

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