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This book focuses on the first edition of Kenneth Frampton's Modern Architecture: A Critical History, published in 1980. It searches for clues and positions that will provide the reader with an unprecedented insight into the significance of Frampton's historiography of modern architecture.
This book examines a possible source for the origin of religion, using the theory of evolution and findings from cognitive science. It adds a theory of power to suggest the agency of early Homo sapiens.
In late eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century British literature, Scandinavia emerged as a place where Gothic terror took place. This book explores the extensive use of Nordic superstition in providing a vocabulary for Gothic texts as well as the cultural significance it had for writers attempting to understand Britain's northern roots.
This book makes an argument critical to literary theory and sexuality in 2022. It argues that Colette's fiction portrays a woman struggling to live in the throes of the incest taboo, understood in its psychological implications for power relations both private and public, then and now.
In this seminal edited collection, scholars from different fields critically examine histories of esotericism, mysticism and occultism in modern Asia, understood here as the period roughly stretching from the late nineteenth through the twentieth century, paving eventually the way for the so-called 'New Age'.
This book presents an analysis of the poet Robinson Jeffers in view of his contributions to recent debates about the status of "the human" and the development of an inhumanist philosophy.
Extradition often priorities international comity and state rights over individual protections. This can create unfairness and concerns about extraditee welfare. Using case studies, this book explores these issues and argues that defendant-centered reforms are needed to adjust these unequal levels of authority.
This edited collection provides the first accessible introduction to Law and Humanities. Each chapter explores the nature, development and possible further trajectory of a disciplinary 'law and' field.
An introduction to some of the most important illustrators producing work inspired by the tales and poems of American writer Edgar Allan Poe from their earliest iterations in the 1880s to the present day
This book offers fresh perspectives about the religious convictions and faith of "the Mother of Feminism," many of which have been ignored, misunderstood or misrepresented in Wollstonecraftian scholarship.
Other Canon Economics: Essays in the Theory and History of Uneven Economic Development brings together key essays on development economics from one of the most prolific and important development economists and historians of economic policy today.
This book examines the conundrum that has haunted the Black and White ancestry for ages on what supremacy actually means. Is it Black or White supremacy? Granted, the term White supremacy has occupied the sociopolitical, cultural and economic discourse for ages, but what does that really imply? This book debates that concept.
Ante Dabro believes that the ability to see what other people don't see is a real gift. He says, 'It's like a star wheeling round the earth, fertilising the imagination as it goes.' This book explores the different ways he has liberated an essence of humanity by releasing the soul of a human form from its imprisoning substance, whether it be from wood, marble, stone or plaster.
Using an innovative methodological approach, Conditions of Accessexamines how novels circulate globally through the trade in publishing rights, introduces a model by which to trade these rights and assess threats, and using Australia as a case study, provides a new account of how one nation's literature arrives onthe international stage.
Independent School Entrance Exam (ISEE) is a school entrance exam taken by students in grades 4 through 12 seeking admission into private schools and non-Catholic religious schools throughout the United States. This book focuses on the ISEE Upper Level. The Upper Level ISEE Exam is for students currently in grades 8 through 11 who are candidates for admission to grades 9 through 12.This ISEE Upper Level Book comprehensively covers all the five sections of the ISEE: Verbal Reasoning, Quantitative Reasoning, Reading Comprehension, Mathematics Achievement and Essay. There are almost 400 questions across 3 full-length practice tests. Each test comes with directions to take the test, time limits, answer keys and detailed explanations, so students can get an immersive experience of the real ISEE.The duration of each test is 2 hours 20 minutes and contains 160 questions. The questions are distributed in each of the sections as mentioned below:1-20 (20 qs): Verbal Reasoning21-40 (20 qs): Sentence Completion1-36 (36 qs): Reading ComprehensionTotal English Questions = 761-37 (37 qs): Quantitative Reasoning1-47 (47 qs): Mathematics AchievementTotal Math Questions = 84This book will help students not only get familiar with the ISEE in general, but also help them ace the test. The book also includes how the ISEE results are published and how to interpret the performance of the student from the results.
Independent School Entrance Exam (ISEE) is a school entrance exam taken by students in grades 4 through 12 seeking admission into private schools and non-Catholic religious schools throughout the United States. This book focuses on the ISEE Lower Level. The Lower Level ISEE Exam is for students currently in grades 4 and 5 who are candidates for admission to grades 5 and 6. This ISEE Lower Level Book comprehensively covers all the five sections of the ISEE: Verbal Reasoning, Quantitative Reasoning, Reading Comprehension, Mathematics Achievement and Essay. There are almost 400 questions across 3 full-length practice tests. Each test comes with directions to take the test, time limits, answer keys and detailed explanations, so students can get an immersive experience of the real ISEE. The duration of each test is 2 hours 20 minutes and contains 128 questions. The questions are distributed in each of the sections as mentioned below:1-17 (17 qs): Verbal Reasoning18-34 (17 qs): Sentence Completion1-25 (25 qs): Reading Comprehension1: Essay TopicTotal English Questions = 60 1-38 (38 qs): Quantitative Reasoning1-30 (30 qs): Mathematics AchievementTotal Math Questions = 68 This book will help students not only get familiar with the ISEE in general, but also help them ace the test. The book also includes how the ISEE results are published and how to interpret the performance of the student from the results.
Independent School Entrance Exam (ISEE) is a school entrance exam taken by students in grades 4 through 12 seeking admission into private schools and non-Catholic religious schools throughout the United States. This book focuses on the ISEE Middle Level. The Middle Level ISEE Exam is for students currently in grades 6 and 7 who are candidates for admission to grades 7 and 8.This ISEE Middle Level Book comprehensively covers all the five sections of the ISEE: Verbal Reasoning, Quantitative Reasoning, Reading Comprehension, Mathematics Achievement and Essay. There are almost 400 questions across 3 full-length practice tests. Each test comes with directions to take the test, time limits, answer keys and detailed explanations, so students can get an immersive experience of the real ISEE.The duration of each test is 2 hours 20 minutes and contains 161 questions. The questions are distributed in each of the sections as mentioned below:1-20 (20 qs): Verbal Reasoning21-40 (20 qs): Sentence Completion1-36 (36 qs): Reading Comprehension1: Essay TopicTotal English Questions = 771-37 (37 qs): Quantitative Reasoning1-47 (47 qs): Mathematics AchievementTotal Math Questions = 84This book will help students not only get familiar with the ISEE in general, but also help them ace the test. The book also includes how the ISEE results are published and how to interpret the performance of the student from the results.
This book investigates the link between migrating, self-translating and identity in migrant narratives, by analysing a corpus of texts written by authors who were born in Italy and them moved to English-speaking countries.
Invention and Craft: Exercising Creativity in College Writing and Research is a first-year college composition textbook that leverages creativity theory to demystify practices associated with writing in various academic and public genres. Working from the premise that all writing is creative, Invention and Craft approaches students as meaning-makers while emphasizing the importance of forward- and backward- reaching knowledge transfer.
This book explores the emergence of the first bible, focussing on second-century Scripture, the earliest New Testament, and the canon formation process. Textual-interpretative, ritual, and paratextual aspects of the Christian Scriptures are discussed as well as their impact on the wider Roman and Medieval literary cultures, and beyond.
This book examines Australian parental leave provisions and compares them with their counterpart provisions in Canada, Germany, and Switzerland. Following comparison and analysis, recommended amendments to the Paid Parental Leave Act 2010 (Cth) are provided.
The volume examines the relationship between Samuel Beckett and Italian culture from an intermedial perspective.
This scholarly biography explores the act of bearing witness through the politically charged, mural-scale art of Lebanese-American activist and neo-expressionist, Nabil Kanso.
In 21 case studies, this short book examines the distinctive coincidental history of America, Britain, and various Asian countries during the twentieth century.
Creating Cultures of Peace details aspects of cultures, including language, films, journalism, political economics, museums, education, parenting, gender, artistic activism, and spirituality, which can contribute to either more violent societies or more peaceful ones. Solutions-oriented, it aims to inspire deep understanding and reflection, empowerment, and grassroots action in cultural spheres.
Approaching Irish nationalism through the historical lens of "Iran," this book investigates patterns of Irish nationalist self-configuration and uses of memory, counter-memory, and historical amnesia by means of worlding Ireland from the late eighteenth century until Ireland's partition and the founding of Irish Free State in 1922.
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