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India’s Nonviolent Freedom Struggle The Thomas Christians (1599–1799)

India’s Nonviolent Freedom Struggle The Thomas Christians (1599–1799)

India’s Nonviolent Freedom Struggle is a groundbreaking book that offers a fresh perspective on the Indian freedom struggle. It focuses on the Thomas Christians a group of Christians in South India who waged a nonviolent struggle against European colonization during the politically volatile period of 1599–1799. The book has three related objectives and unique characteristics. First it offers a comprehensive study of primary sources that scholars have referenced but rarely studied in depth. Second it argues that the Thomas Christian narratives provide a unique position to challenge prevalent estimations found in canonical and postcolonial critical discourse on the nation. Third the book considers how an account of a nonviolent struggle by Thomas Christians further complicates received ideas of the postcolonial nation. The book sheds light on the often-overlooked contributions of the Thomas Christians in India’s nonviolent freedom struggle and challenges readers to reimagine the complex and often contentious relationship between colonizers and colonized. A unique contribution to the study of Indian history this book is an essential read for scholars of colonialism anticolonial movements and the history of India. | India’s Nonviolent Freedom Struggle The Thomas Christians (1599–1799)

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Thomas S. Szasz The Man and His Ideas

Thomas S. Szasz The Man and His Ideas

As it entered the 1960s American institutional psychiatry was thriving with a high percentage of medical students choosing the field. But after Thomas S. Szasz published his masterwork in 1961 The Myth of Mental Illness the psychiatric world was thrown into chaos. Szasz enlightened the world about what he called the “myth of mental illness. ” His point was not that no one is mentally ill or that people labeled as mentally ill do not exist. Instead he believed that diagnosing people as mentally ill was inconsistent with the rules governing pathology and the classification of disease. He asserted that the diagnosis of mental illness is a type of social control not medical science. The editors were uniquely close to Szasz and here they gather for the first time a group of their peers—experts on psychiatry psychology rhetoric and semiotics—to elucidate Szasz’s body of work. Thomas S. Szasz: The Man and His Ideas examines his work and legacy including new material on the man himself and the seeds he planted. They discuss Szasz’s impact on their thinking about the distinction between physical and mental illness addiction the insanity plea schizophrenia and implications for individual freedom and responsibility. This important volume offers insight into and understanding of a man whose ideas were far beyond his time. | Thomas S. Szasz The Man and His Ideas

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Thomas Harriot: Science and Discovery in the English Renaissance

Thomas Harriot: Science and Discovery in the English Renaissance

This volume sheds new light on one of the most remarkable polymaths of the English Renaissance. It offers original perspectives not only on Harriot’s personal achievements in mathematics and natural philosophy but also on the wider realms of exploration colonial ambition and philosophical debate in which he earned the attention and respect of contemporaries in and far beyond the socially elevated circles of his two great patrons first Walter Ralegh and then Henry Percy the ninth Earl of Northumberland. Harriot’s sixteenth-century world was one of unprecedented expansion in both scientific understanding and the discovery of new lands and peoples. The essays gathered here bring out forcefully the effect of this expanding vision encapsulated in Harriot’s Briefe and true report of the new found land of Virginia (1588) the first detailed description of America to be published in the English language. In addition to an essay by a recent biographer of Harriot the volume contains reworked versions of seven Thomas Harriot Lectures an annual lecture series inaugurated in 1990 in Oriel College Oxford. It follows two earlier volumes of Harriot Lectures also edited by Robert Fox that appeared in 2000 and 2012. | Thomas Harriot: Science and Discovery in the English Renaissance

GBP 120.00
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Boss Tweed The Story of a Grim Generation

Boss Tweed The Story of a Grim Generation

No political scandal in American history has had a greater impact on America's political consciousness than the rise and fall of the Tweed Ring in New York City between 1866 and 1871. In an age ripe with scandal both public and private the spectacular corruption charged to Boss Tweed and his associates-estimates of their extortion range from $20 million to $200 million-became an enduring symbol of the dark side of democratic politics. The Tweed Ring contributed much more than cartoonist impressions; it helped to shape a powerful theory of political reform. It was in truth one of the formative events of progressivism that multifaceted doctrine that has evolved into the modern American creed. In this sense the Tweed Ring was to produce not only deep misgivings about the existing regime but an insight into how it should be reformed. Denis Tilden Lynch's biography of Boss Tweed was first published in 1927 in a time filled like Tweed's with sudden prosperity daunting problems and spectacular scandals. It is a straight-forward workmanlike study untroubled by the conceits of modern historical scholarship and close enough to its subject's generation to have some of the immediacy of journalism. Of all the books published about the Tweed affair Lynch's study is the only one that is a genuine biography in which the man himself is the focus. For this reason it conveys something of the texture of daily life in New York in the nineteenth century while bringing Tweed out from behind the shadows of Thomas Nast's leering cartoons and presenting him as much as is possible as a man and not an icon. An interesting example of Americana this volume will be of interest to historians of the period as well as those interested in American urban and political life. | Boss Tweed The Story of a Grim Generation

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English Literature in the Age of Chaucer

English Literature in the Age of Chaucer

Written in an engaging and accessible manner English Literature in the Age of Chaucer serves as both a lucid introduction to Middle English literature for those coming fresh to the study of earlier English writing and as a stimulating examination of the themes traditions and the literary achievement of a number of particulary original and interesting authors. In addition to detailed and sensitive treatment of Chaucer's major works the book includes chapters on his chief contemporaries such as John Gower William Langland and the Gawain-poet. It also examines the often underrated contribution to the English literary tradition of his successors John Lydgate and Thomas Hoccleve as well as the interesting and original work of the Scottish poets Robert Henryson William Dunbar and Gavin Douglas who also claim Chaucer as their model. Apart from the narrative poetry of Chaucer and his followers the book also contains chapters on the Middle English lyric; Middle English prose including Mandeville's travels; the most original and imaginative writings of the Middle English mystics in particular Julian of Norwich and Margery Kempe; and Thomas Malory's impressive prose compilation of Arthurian stories.

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The Game of Humor A Comprehensive Theory of Why We Laugh

The Game of Humor A Comprehensive Theory of Why We Laugh

Humor wit and laughter surround each person. From everyday quips to the carefully contrived comedy of literature newspapers and television we experience humor in many forms yet the impetus for our laughter is far from innocuous. Misfortune stupidity and moral or cultural defects however faintly revealed in others and ourselves seem to make us laugh. Although discomforting such negative terms as superiority aggression hostility ridicule or degradation can be applied to instances of humor. According to scholars Thomas Hobbes's superiority theory that humor arises from mischances infirmities and indecencies where there is no wit at all applies to most humor. With the exception of good-natured play Charles R. Gruner claims that humor is rarely as innocent as it first appears. Gruner's proposed superiority theory of humor is all-encompassing. In The Game of Humor he expands the scope of Hobbes's theory to include and explore the contest aspect of good-natured play. As such the author believes all instances of humor can be examined as games in terms of competition and keeping score winners and losers. Gruner draws on a broad spectrum of thought-provoking examples. Holocaust jokes sexual humor the racialist dialogue of such comic characters as Stepin Fetchit and Archie Bunker simple puns and many of the author's own encounters with everyday humor. Gruner challenges the reader to offer a single example of humor that cannot be de-humorized by its agonistic nature. The Game of Humor makes intriguing and enjoyable reading for people interested in humor and the aspects of human motivation. This book will also be valuable to professionals in communication and information studies sociologists literary critics and linguists and psychologists concerned with the conflicts and tensions of everyday life. | The Game of Humor A Comprehensive Theory of Why We Laugh

GBP 130.00
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Textual Practice 10.3

Textual Practice 10.3

Papers include: Tragedy and the nationalist condition of criticism Thomas Doucherty-Descartes Baudrillard Dryden and a consideration of cultural relations between England and France in the late seventeenth century. ILaodamia and the moaning of Mary John Barrell-changing critical responses to Wordsworth's heroic version of masculinity. Melodrama as Avant-garde: enacting a new subjectivity Simon Shepherd-nineteenth-century English radicals and translations of French melodrama. The diasporic imaginary: theorizing the Indian diaspora Vijay Mishra; Bisexuality heterosexuality and wishful theory Jonathan Dollimore. Reviews index. Holcroft IA Tale of Mystery -a melo-drame and ICaleb Williams | Textual Practice 10. 3

GBP 175.00
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Classical Islam A History 600 A

Classical Islam A History 600 A

In a book written with the poignancy and beauty appropriate to its subject matter the author opens by reminding us that the essence of a society is in a sense identical with its history. Classical Islam also serves as a reminder that in the case of Islam despite its triumphs on the fields of battle telling its history is the only way open to us to render that essence accessible and show it from all sides. The work offers a grand narrative of a faith that offers an interpretation of the world a way of life and a style of thinking that goes far beyond institutional or political supports. The relevance of this historical perspective is beyond dispute. The period from 610 A. D. when Muhammad received his call until the conquest of Baghdad by the Mongols in 1258 is known as the classical period of Islam. This was the period of the great expansion of Islam both as a political structure and as a religious and intellectual community. It established the base for the development of the high Islamic civilization of North Africa the Near East Persia and India as well as further expansion of the Islamic religious and intellectual community throughout the world. This book presents an authoritative history of the period written by one of the world's leading experts on the subject. Classical Islam examines the relationships both cultural and political between the Islamic world and the Mediterranean countries and India and elaborates on the economic social and intellectual factors and forces that shaped the Muslim world and molded its interactions with infidels. The work is written in a clear and direct narrative form emphasizing simultaneously the major intellectual trends and the political events and tendencies of the formative period in Islamic history that still resonates today. | Classical Islam A History 600 A

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Politics in Russia

Politics in Russia

Highly regarded for its comprehensive coverage up-to-date scholarship and comparative framework Politics in Russia is an authoritative overview of Russia's contemporary political system and its recent evolution. Area specialist Thomas Remington focuses on four areas of change in this text state structure regime change economic transformation and identity to offer a dynamic context for analyzing the post-Soviet era. With a consistent emphasis on the intersection of politics and economics and the tension between authoritarian and democratic trends no other text guides students through the complexities and ambiguities of Russian politics today like Politics in Russia.

GBP 175.00
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The Paradoxical Structure of Existence

The Paradoxical Structure of Existence

For metaphysicians who have imbibed the sober and inebriating teachings of Thomas Aquinas existence is an act the act which makes all things actually to be. As the act of existence makes things to be essence makes them to be what they are. Essence and the act of existence in other words are really distinct yet together they compose each of the things that are. Such an understanding involves a number of paradoxes and Frederick D. Wilhelmsen's articulation of them reveals his philosophical genius. These paradoxes include the fact that the act of existence does not exist that it can be thought but not conceived by the mind and that truths about God can be known while He himself remains absolutely unknown. Wilhelmsen argues the notion that the Christian faith and philosophical reason harmonize while remaining completely distinct from each other. Writing in a captivating style Wilhelmsen begins with a discussion of the development strengths and limitations of the ancient Greek philosophical accounts of being. Following that he develops such key topics as the problem of existence St. Thomas Aquinas' understanding of being critical analyses of Hegel's and Heidegger's doctrines of being existence as towards God and a metaphysical approach to the human person. The final two chapters develop the sense in which metaphysical thinking is and is not shaped by historical and social factors. | The Paradoxical Structure of Existence

GBP 145.00
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Celia in Search of a Husband: By a Modern Antique

Celia in Search of a Husband: By a Modern Antique

This ground-breaking nineteenth-century volume is of considerable scholarly interest as an example of a femino-centric popular novel. Celia in Search of a Husband is a high-spirited and entertaining example of an anti-Jacobin novel written at the height of the backlash against female intellectuals during the Napoleonic wars. Despite this hostile climate the author sought to acknowledge the importance of female education and independence whilst at the same time endorsing the traditional Christian teaching that a wife should be subordinate to her husband. Although second wave feminists prioritized the progressive writers with whom they more readily identified more recent scholarship has rightly paid close attention to conservative or moralist writers such as Miss Byron and recognized how influential they were. Accompanied by extensive editorial commentary this edition of Celia in Search of a Husband contributes to this scholarship on the literary history of women’s writing and will be a welcome to those with a particularly interest in women’s writing satiric novels and spoofs and Jane Austen. | Celia in Search of a Husband: By a Modern Antique

GBP 120.00
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Anthology of Post-Tonal Music For Use with Understanding Post-Tonal Music

Anthology of Post-Tonal Music For Use with Understanding Post-Tonal Music

This anthology of over 40 scores and excerpts represents a wide range of music from across the twentieth century and into the twenty-first century from pieces by Debussy Stravinsky and Bartok to works by Arvo Pärt Thomas Adès and Kaija Saariaho. Showcasing the vast range of compositional styles encompassed in the post-tonal era this volume offers a convenient compendium including hard-to-find scores. Designed for use with Understanding Post-Tonal Music by Miguel A. Roig-Francolí which includes extensive analyses of the scores provided here this anthology can also stand alone for study and analysis in other courses on the history and analysis of post-tonal music. | Anthology of Post-Tonal Music For Use with Understanding Post-Tonal Music

GBP 130.00
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A Plea for Plausibility Toward a Comparative Decision Theory

A Plea for Plausibility Toward a Comparative Decision Theory

This book develops an original theory of decision-making based on the concept of plausibility. The author advocates plausible reasoning as a general philosophical method and demonstrates how it can be applied to problems in argumentation theory scientific theory choice risk management ethics law economics and epistemology. Human decisions are conditioned by formidable uncertainty. The standard resource for dealing rationally with uncertainty is the mathematical concept of probability. The probability calculus is well-known but since the numerical demands for applying it cannot usually be met it is not widely applicable. By contrast the concept of plausibility is widely applicable but it is little known. This book relies on a generalized concept of plausibility whose strength is its adaptability. The adaptability is due to a novel form of decision theory that takes plausibilities as inputs. This form of decision theory remains applicable to decisions informed by sharp probabilities and utilities but it can also be applied to decisions that must be made without them. It can aid in the rationally critical enterprise of discriminating good arguments from bad and this can foster philosophical progress. A Plea for Plausibility will be of interest to scholars and advanced students working in argumentation theory philosophy of science ethics epistemology economics law and risk management. | A Plea for Plausibility Toward a Comparative Decision Theory

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Risk A Sociological Theory

Risk A Sociological Theory

A great deal of attention has been devoted to risk research. Sociologists in general have limited themselves to varying recognitions of a society at risk and have traced out the paths to disaster. The detailed research has yet to be undertaken. In Risk now available in paperback Niklas Luhmann develops a theoretical program for such research. His premise is that the concept of risk projects essential aspects of our description of the future onto the present. Risk is conceived as the possibility of triggering unexpected unlikely and detrimental consequences by means of a decision attributable to a decision maker. | Risk A Sociological Theory

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The Displaced Rohingyas A Tale of a Vulnerable Community

The Displaced Rohingyas A Tale of a Vulnerable Community

This volume offers a comprehensive overview of the Rohingya refugee crisis in Bangladesh. It analyses the socio-cultural and humanitarian challenges of the crisis along with the discourses that have developed on this issue via the local and international media and literature. The volume also suggests ways to build sustainable solutions for the Rohingya refugees. It discusses wide-ranging issues including a historical overview of the Rohingyas; the Rakhine State of Myanmar and the issue of religious toleration; the struggle for existence in Malaysia and Thailand; vulnerable Rohingya in Bangladesh; and stratified lives in Bangladeshi camps. It also sheds light on social insecurity among Rohingya adolescent girls; understanding gender-based violence in camps; the portrayal of the crisis in Chinese and Indian newspapers; and Bangladesh’s policy in addressing the Rohingya crisis and repatriation. This book will be useful for scholars and researchers of sociology social anthropology refugee studies peace and conflict studies international relations human rights political studies gender studies and South Asian studies. | The Displaced Rohingyas A Tale of a Vulnerable Community

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A Preface to Marlowe

A Preface to Marlowe

This study provides an authoritative overview of all Marlowe's work. It includes thorough investigations of his major plays Tamburlaine Edward II The Jew of Malta and Doctor Faustus as well as a full discussion of The Massacre at Paris Dido Queen of Carthage and all his extant poetry. Analysis of Faustus takes full account of both A and B text versions. Thoroughly researched and yet presented in an accessible engaging style A Preface to Marlowe reads Marlowe's life and times as well as his work in the light of current critical theory. Consequently it is a vital guide for all students of early modern drama. As well as providing sharp analysis of stage history Dr Simkin reflects on the wider significance of a stage-oriented approach. The result is a reading of Marlowe that re-opens debates about his status as a radical figure and as a subversive playwright and invites the reader to experience the plays as immediate exciting 'live' documents.

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Being a Lived Body From a Neo-phenomenological Point of View

Being a Lived Body From a Neo-phenomenological Point of View

This book begins with the distinction between the so-called lived body or felt body (Leib) and the physical body (Körper) tracing the conceptual history of this distinction through key figures in philosophical and social thoughts and articulating a theory of the lived body that draws on the New Phenomenology developed by Hermann Schmitz. An explanation of our being-in-the-world in terms of a felt-bodily communication with all perceived forms and their affective-bodily resonance in us Being a Lived Body integrates and critically assesses the leading theories of embodiment while presenting a new approach to the body. It will therefore appeal to scholars of philosophy social theory and anthropology with interests in phenomenology and embodiment. | Being a Lived Body From a Neo-phenomenological Point of View

GBP 130.00
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