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In Sullivan's Shadow: The Use and Abuse of Libel Law During the Long Civil Rights Struggle
Aimee Edmondson
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• Author(s): Aimee Edmondson • Publisher: University of Massachusetts Press • Publisher Imprint: University of Massachusetts Press • BISAC: Media StudiesFor many years, the far right has sown public distrust in the media as a political strategy, ...
View full detailsBeyond Accommodation: Everyday Narratives of Muslim Canadians
Jennifer A. Selby
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• Author(s): Jennifer A. Selby • Publisher: UBC Press • Publisher Imprint: UBC Press • BISAC: Anthropology - Cultural & SocialProblems - of integration, failed political participation, and requests for various kinds of accommodation - seem to...
View full detailsAn Introduction to Political Thought: A Conceptual Toolkit
Peri Roberts
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• Author(s): Peri Roberts • Publisher: Edinburgh University Press • Publisher Imprint: Edinburgh University Press • BISAC: History & Theory - GeneralYour conceptual toolkit for the study of political thought. New for this edition Brand new c...
View full detailsRuling Out Art: Media Art Meets Law in Ontario's Censor Wars
Taryn Sirove
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• Author(s): Taryn Sirove • Publisher: UBC Press • Publisher Imprint: UBC Press • BISAC: CensorshipIn the 1980s, the Ontario Board of Censors began to subject media artists' work to the same cuts, bans, and warning labels as commercial film. This...
View full detailsGently Floating
Alan Hunter
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• Author(s): Alan Hunter • Publisher: Constable & Robinson • Publisher Imprint: Constable & Robinson • BISAC: Mystery & Detective - GeneralGently wades through a torrent of suspects when a body is found floating face down in the river...
View full detailsLanded Gently
Alan Hunter
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• Author(s): Alan Hunter • Publisher: Constable & Robinson • Publisher Imprint: Constable & Robinson • BISAC: Mystery & Detective - GeneralHaving been invited to spend Christmas in the country, fishing for pike, Gently finds himself h...
View full detailsWhat's Trending in Canadian Politics?: Understanding Transformations in Power, Media, and the Public Sphere
Mireille Lalancette
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• Author(s): Mireille Lalancette • Publisher: University of British Columbia Press • Publisher Imprint: University of British Columbia Press • BISAC: World - CanadianWhat trends are shaping contemporary political communication and behaviour in Ca...
View full detailsShaping the Future on Haida Gwaii: Life Beyond Settler Colonialism
Joseph Weiss
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• Author(s): Joseph Weiss • Publisher: UBC Press • Publisher Imprint: UBC Press • BISAC: Indigenous StudiesToo often Indigenous peoples have been portrayed as being without a future, destined either to disappear or assimilate into settler society...
View full detailsGently Down the Stream
Alan Hunter
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• Author(s): Alan Hunter • Publisher: Constable & Robinson • Publisher Imprint: Constable & Robinson • BISAC: Mystery & Detective - GeneralTime spent messing about on the river isn't supposed to end with a brutal murder.The staff at S...
View full detailsThe New Ndp: Moderation, Modernization, and Political Marketing
David McGrane
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• Author(s): David McGrane • Publisher: UBC Press • Publisher Imprint: UBC Press • BISAC: World - CanadianThe New NDP is the definitive account of the evolution of the New Democratic Party's political marketing strategy in the early twenty-first ...
View full detailsUser's Guide for the Structured Clinical Interview for the Dsm-5(r) Alternative Model for Personality Disorders (Scid-5-Ampd)
Michael B. First
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• Author(s): Michael B. First • Publisher: American Psychiatric Publishing • Publisher Imprint: American Psychiatric Publishing • BISAC: Psychiatry - GeneralThe Structured Clinical Interview for the DSM-5 Alternative Model for Personality Disorde...
View full detailsThe Last Suffragist Standing: The Life and Times of Laura Marshall Jamieson
Veronica Strong-Boag
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• Author(s): Veronica Strong-Boag • Publisher: UBC Press • Publisher Imprint: UBC Press • BISAC: Women's StudiesThe Last Suffragist Standing is an unprecedented study of a pioneering politician, a New Woman who tested Canadian democracy. Laura Ma...
View full detailsNothing to Write Home about: British Family Correspondence and the Setter Colonial Everyday in British Columbia
Laura Ishiguro
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• Author(s): Laura Ishiguro • Publisher: UBC Press • Publisher Imprint: UBC Press • BISAC: Canada - GeneralNothing to Write Home About uncovers the significance of British family correspondence sent between the United Kingdom and British Columbia...
View full detailsVisionary Experience in the Golden Age of Spanish Art
Victor I. Stoichita
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• Author(s): Victor I. Stoichita • Publisher: Reaktion Books • Publisher Imprint: Reaktion Books • BISAC: History - GeneralIn this original and lucid account of how Spanish painters of the 16th and 17th centuries dealt with mystic visions in thei...
View full detailsEating Disorders: A Guide to Medical Care and Complications
Philip S. Mehler
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• Author(s): Philip S. Mehler • Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press • Publisher Imprint: Johns Hopkins University Press • BISAC: Internal Medicine A comprehensive guide to the medical complications, diagnosis, and treatment of eating disord...
View full detailsGently by the Shore
Alan Hunter
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• Author(s): Alan Hunter • Publisher: Constable & Robinson • Publisher Imprint: Constable & Robinson • BISAC: Mystery & Detective - GeneralYou'll find plenty of bodies stretched out on a summer beach - but they're not usually dead...I...
View full detailsThe Nazi Holocaust. Part 8: Bystanders to the Holocaust. Volume 2
Michael Robert Marrus
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• Author(s): Michael Robert Marrus • Publisher: K.G. Saur Verlag • Publisher Imprint: K.G. Saur Verlag • BISAC: Modern - 20th Century - General
Japan and the Culture of the Four Seasons: Nature, Literature, and the Arts
Haruo Shirane
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• Author(s): Haruo Shirane • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Asian - GeneralElegant representations of nature and the four seasons populate a wide range of Japanese genres and media--fr...
View full detailsThis Incredible Need to Believe
Julia Kristeva
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• Author(s): Julia Kristeva • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Movements - Deconstruction"Unlike Freud, I do not claim that religion is just an illusion and a source of neurosis. The tim...
View full detailsScots Thesaurus
Scottish National Dictionary Association
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• Author(s): Scottish National Dictionary Association • Publisher: Edinburgh University Press • Publisher Imprint: Edinburgh University Press • BISAC: GeneralUnique subject guide to over 20,000 Scots words.* Subject-by-subject access to Scots wor...
View full detailsThe Cinema of Jan Svankmajer: Dark Alchemy
Peter Hames
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• Author(s): Peter Hames • Publisher: Wallflower Press • Publisher Imprint: Wallflower Press • BISAC: Film - History & CriticismThe Cinema of Jan Svankmajer explores the legacy of this legendary Czech surrealist filmmaker, a key influence on ...
View full detailsVolume 1: Prison Notebooks
Antonio Gramsci
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• Author(s): Antonio Gramsci • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: History & Theory - GeneralAntonio Gramsci (1891-1937) is widely celebrated as the most original political thinker in W...
View full detailsThe Agamben Dictionary
Alex Murray
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• Author(s): Alex Murray • Publisher: Edinburgh University Press • Publisher Imprint: Edinburgh University Press • BISAC: Movements - DeconstructionIn recent years Agamben's work has gained prominence for its incisive critique of the Western poli...
View full detailsThe Question Concerning Technology in China: An Essay in Cosmotechnics
Yuk Hui
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• Author(s): Yuk Hui • Publisher: Urbanomic • Publisher Imprint: Urbanomic • BISAC: MetaphysicsA systematic historical survey of Chinese thought is followed by an investigation of the historical-metaphysical questions of modern technology, asking...
View full detailsDinosaurs
New Holland Publishers
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• Author(s): New Holland Publishers • Publisher: New Holland Publishers • Publisher Imprint: New Holland Publishers • BISAC: Animals - Dinosaurs & Prehistoric CreaturesBoard Book, Age 0+ years Picture books, activity books & early learni...
View full detailsThe Scots Imagination and Modern Memory
Andrew Blaikie
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• Author(s): Andrew Blaikie • Publisher: Edinburgh University Press • Publisher Imprint: Edinburgh University Press • BISAC: Europe - Great Britain - GeneralAndrew Blaikie explores how different, but connected, ways of seeing infuse relationships...
View full detailsDifference and Disability in the Medieval Islamic World: Blighted Bodies
Kristina Richardson
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• Author(s): Kristina Richardson • Publisher: Edinburgh University Press • Publisher Imprint: Edinburgh University Press • BISAC: Middle East - GeneralDid you know that blue eyes, baldness, bad breath and boils were all considered bodily 'blights...
View full detailsMedia Arabic
Elisabeth Kendall
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• Author(s): Elisabeth Kendall • Publisher: Edinburgh University Press • Publisher Imprint: Edinburgh University Press • BISAC: Linguistics - GeneralGives you up-to-date expressions, jargon and new coinages for modern concepts in media Arabic. Wh...
View full detailsThe Computer Music Tutorial, Second Edition
Curtis Roads
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• Author(s): Curtis Roads • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: ReferenceExpanded, updated, and fully revised--the definitive introduction to electronic music is ready for new generations of students. Essential and state-...
View full detailsThe End of the Roman Republic, 146 to 44 BC: Conquest and Crisis
Catherine Steel
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• Author(s): Catherine Steel • Publisher: Edinburgh University Press • Publisher Imprint: Edinburgh University Press • BISAC: Ancient - RomeA crucial and turbulent centuryBy 146, Rome had established itself as the leading Mediterranean power.Over...
View full detailsPostmodern Social Work: Reflective Practice and Education
Ken Moffatt
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• Author(s): Ken Moffatt • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Social WorkHow should social workers adapt to a time of widespread instability and uncertainty? How can social work practice a...
View full detailsHitchcock Annual: Volume 23
Sidney Gottlieb
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• Author(s): Sidney Gottlieb • Publisher: Hitchcock Annual • Publisher Imprint: Hitchcock Annual • BISAC: Asian - GeneralHitchcock Annual, volume 23, includes essays on Hitchcock's use of silence in his films, civilians at war in his World War II...
View full detailsRisk, Language, and Power: The Nanotechnology Environmental Policy Case
Jeffery T. Morris
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• Author(s): Jeffery T. Morris • Publisher: Lexington Books • Publisher Imprint: Lexington Books • BISAC: Public Policy - Environmental PolicyRisk, Language, and Power applies discourse analysis to public policy debates about nanotechnology to ex...
View full detailsThe Classic of Changes: A New Translation of the I Ching as Interpreted by Wang Bi
Richard John Lynn
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• Author(s): Richard John Lynn • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: I ChingUsed in China as a book of divination and source of wisdom for more than three thousand years, the I Ching has be...
View full detailsDefiant Diplomat: George Platt Waller: American Consul in Nazi-Occupied Luxembourg, 1939-1941
Willard Allen Fletcher
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• Author(s): Willard Allen Fletcher • Publisher: University of Delaware Press • Publisher Imprint: University of Delaware Press • BISAC: PoliticalAmerican diplomat George Platt Waller's memoir of his experiences in Luxembourg from 1939-1941 revea...
View full detailsCities of the Dead: Circum-Atlantic Performance
Joseph Roach
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• Author(s): Joseph Roach • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Native American StudiesIn the early eighteenth century, a delegation of Iroquois visited Britain, exciting the imagination of...
View full detailsPopulation Genetics: A Concise Guide
John H. Gillespie
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• Author(s): John H. Gillespie • Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press • Publisher Imprint: Johns Hopkins University Press • BISAC: Life Sciences - EvolutionThis concise introduction offers students and researchers an overview of the discipli...
View full detailsPast and Present Energy Societies: How Energy Connects Politics, Technologies, and Cultures
Nina Mollers
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• Author(s): Nina Mollers • Publisher: Transcript Verlag, Roswitha Gost, Sigrid Noke • Publisher Imprint: Transcript Verlag, Roswitha Gost, Sigrid Noke • BISAC: Public Policy - City Planning & Urban DevelopmentAbundant, salutary, problematic ...
View full detailsImitation of Life
Fannie Hurst
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• Author(s): Fannie Hurst • Publisher: Duke University Press • Publisher Imprint: Duke University Press • BISAC: LiteraryA bestseller in 1933, and subsequently adapted into two beloved and controversial films, Imitation of Life has played a vital...
View full detailsEugene Onegin: A Novel in Verse
Alexander Pushkin
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• Author(s): Alexander Pushkin • Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA • Publisher Imprint: Oxford University Press, USA • BISAC: ClassicsEugene Onegin is the master work of the poet whom Russians regard as the fountainhead of their literature....
View full detailsAsylum After Empire: Colonial Legacies in the Politics of Asylum Seeking
Lucy Mayblin
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• Author(s): Lucy Mayblin • Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield International • Publisher Imprint: Rowman & Littlefield International • BISAC: Colonialism & Post-ColonialismThis book critiques existing literature on the response of Wester...
View full detailsFrench Queer Cinema
Nick Rees-Roberts
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• Author(s): Nick Rees-Roberts • Publisher: Edinburgh University Press • Publisher Imprint: Edinburgh University Press • BISAC: Film - History & CriticismFrench Queer Cinema examines the representation of queer identities and sexualities in c...
View full detailsFairbairn's Object Relations Theory in the Clinical Setting
David Celani
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• Author(s): David Celani • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Psychotherapy - PsychoanalysisW. R. D. Fairbairn (1889-1964) challenged the dominance of Freud's drive theory with a psychoan...
View full detailsJune, Reimagined
Rebekah Crane
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• Author(s): Rebekah Crane • Publisher: Skyscape • Publisher Imprint: Skyscape • BISAC: Coming of AgeFrom the writer who brought you the Irish romance The Upside of Falling Down comes a new novel about secrets, friendship, reinvention, and unexpe...
View full detailsCouchsurfing Cosmopolitanisms: Can Tourism Make a Better World?
David Picard
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• Author(s): David Picard • Publisher: Transcript Verlag, Roswitha Gost, Sigrid Noke • Publisher Imprint: Transcript Verlag, Roswitha Gost, Sigrid Noke • BISAC: Media StudiesThe book provides unique insights into the culture of computer-mediated ...
View full detailsThe Edinburgh Companion to Robert Burns
Gerard Carruthers
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• Author(s): Gerard Carruthers • Publisher: Edinburgh University Press • Publisher Imprint: Edinburgh University Press • BISAC: English, Irish, Scottish, WelshIn this comprehensive introduction to Robert Burns detailed commentary on the artistry ...
View full detailsTaking Conspiracy Theories Seriously
Matthew R. Dentith
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• Author(s): Matthew R. Dentith • Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield International • Publisher Imprint: Rowman & Littlefield International • BISAC: EpistemologyThis volume challenges the prima facie that conspiracy theories are irrational be...
View full detailsThe Radical Luhmann
Hans-Georg Moeller
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• Author(s): Hans-Georg Moeller • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: History & Theory - GeneralNiklas Luhmann (1927-1998) was a German sociologist and system theorist who wrote on law,...
View full detailsDeleuze: A Philosophy of the Event: Together with the Vocabulary of Deleuze
Francois Zourabichvili
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• Author(s): Francois Zourabichvili • Publisher: Edinburgh University Press • Publisher Imprint: Edinburgh University Press • BISAC: History & Surveys - ModernA new translation of two essential works on Deleuze, written by one of his contempo...
View full detailsThe Cybernetic Hypothesis
Tiqqun
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• Author(s): Tiqqun • Publisher: Semiotext(e) • Publisher Imprint: Semiotext(e) • BISAC: Political Ideologies - AnarchismAn early text from Tiqqun that views cybernetics as a fable of late capitalism, and offers tools for the resistance.The cyber...
View full detailsSpinal Catastrophism: A Secret History
Thomas Moynihan
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• Author(s): Thomas Moynihan • Publisher: Urbanomic • Publisher Imprint: Urbanomic • BISAC: GeneralThe historical continuity of spinal catastrophism, traced across multiform encounters between philosophy, psychology, biology, and geology.Drawing ...
View full detailsDeleuze's Hume: Philosophy, Culture and the Scottish Enlightenment
Jeffrey Bell
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• Author(s): Jeffrey Bell • Publisher: Edinburgh University Press • Publisher Imprint: Edinburgh University Press • BISAC: Asian - GeneralThis book offers the first extended comparison of the philosophies of Gilles Deleuze and David Hume. Jeffrey...
View full detailsDemocratic Decision-Making: Historical and Contemporary Perspectives
David Lewis Schaefer
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• Author(s): David Lewis Schaefer • Publisher: Lexington Books • Publisher Imprint: Lexington Books • BISAC: Civics & CitizenshipDemocratic Decision-Making: Historical and Contemporary Perspectives contains eight essays by political scientist...
View full detailsHollywood Lighting from the Silent Era to Film Noir
Patrick Keating
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• Author(s): Patrick Keating • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Film - History & CriticismLighting performs essential functions in Hollywood films, enhancing the glamour, clarifying ...
View full detailsUncreative Writing: Managing Language in the Digital Age
Kenneth Goldsmith
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• Author(s): Kenneth Goldsmith • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Semiotics & TheoryCan techniques traditionally thought to be outside the scope of literature, including word process...
View full detailsThe Crusades: Islamic Perspectives
Carole Hillenbrand
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• Author(s): Carole Hillenbrand • Publisher: Edinburgh University Press • Publisher Imprint: Edinburgh University Press • BISAC: Europe - MedievalAt the 900th anniversary of the Crusader capture of Jerusalem, it is timely to reflect on how the ph...
View full detailsA Practical Guide to Culture: Helping the Next Generation Navigate Today's World
John Stonestreet
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• Author(s): John Stonestreet • Publisher: David C Cook • Publisher Imprint: David C Cook • BISAC: Christian Living - Family & RelationshipsWe don't have to lose the next generation to culture. In this practical guide, John Stonestreet and Br...
View full detailsThe Persistence of the Negative: A Critique of Contemporary Continental Theory
Benjamin Noys
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• Author(s): Benjamin Noys • Publisher: Edinburgh University Press • Publisher Imprint: Edinburgh University Press • BISAC: History & Surveys - GeneralThrough a series of incisive readings of leading theoretical figures of affirmationism - Ja...
View full detailsHandbook of European Intelligence Cultures
Bob De Graaff
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• Author(s): Bob De Graaff • Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers • Publisher Imprint: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers • BISAC: Intelligence & EspionageAs experts from the countries discussed, the contributors address the intell...
View full detailsAbout Time: Narrative, Fiction and the Philosophy of Time
Mark Currie
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• Author(s): Mark Currie • Publisher: Edinburgh University Press • Publisher Imprint: Edinburgh University Press • BISAC: Semiotics & TheoryWhy have theorists approached narrative primarily as a form of retrospect? Mark Currie argues that ant...
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