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This is volume 17 in the Major Conservative and Libertarian Thinkers series.

Sir Walter Raleigh is a figure writ large in popular imagination. Yet how can we understand this man who was soldier, voyager, visionary, courtier, politician, poet, historian, patriot and 'traitor'? This biography of one of the key figures in British history focuses on both his writing and legacy.

Offers prospective graduate students an in-depth preview of low-residency creative writing MFA programs. This guide clarifies the application process and offers application tips from program directors and alumni. It also considers funding, program structures, and unique opportunities such as editorships and assistantships.

Aims to treat bombing during WWII as a European phenomenon and not just the 'Blitz' on Britain and Germany. This book provides the basis for a comparison of the experience of western states under the impact of bombing. It considers the political, cultural, and social responses to bombing rather than the military, strategic, and social dimensions.

Suitable for undergraduate students, this title combines essays on actual causes and issues that mobilize activists with theory and concepts of social mobilization. It introduces the various causes, actors, and organization of transnational mobilization to provide a survey of cases and theory.

A multi-perspectival, broadly thematic exploration of ghettoization and deportation in Hungary as spatio-temporal processes, integrating the so-called 'spatial turn' in the humanities into Holocaust Studies. It explores ways of integrating the so-called 'spatial turn' in the humanities into Holocaust Studies.

An introduction of an academic means for critical analysis of film adaptations. It signifies an exploration into film adaptation from a novelists' perspective, from the author working with a screenwriter, embarking on a journey to understand the implications of literature-to-film adaptation and the complexities and problems it raises.

Investigates interreligious hospitality from five different religious perspectives: Jewish, Christian, Hindu, Buddhist and Islamic. This volume offers five different hermeneutic readings that each wrestle with what interreligious hospitality means and what it demands. It remind us of the urgent need for interreligious hospitality.

Schopenhauer's "The World as Will and Representation" is widely considered to be one of the most important and influential texts in nineteenth-century German philosophy. This title introduces students to the context, key themes and influence of Schopenhauer's major work, a key text in 19th Century German thought.

Provides a comprehensive survey of the pastoral leader's role in secondary school and practical guidance on how to do the job. This title includes information and guidance on: becoming effective in your role as a pastoral leader; how to get the best out of your tutor team; your role in managing pupil behaviour; and, more.

Many universities are including modules on materials development on their MA in applied linguistics courses and more students are studying materials development in their PhD research. This book examines current research in materials development and discussing their implications for the learning and teaching of languages.

How can we be free if everything is determined by factors beyond our control, stretching back in time to the Big Bang and the laws of nature operating then? Does not randomness hinder you from being the author of your actions? This book looks at how much of the structure of our everyday judgments can survive the arguments behind such questions.

The issue of 'leadership'; the need for good, insightful and decisive leaders is a prominent theme in Education. Yet few can define exactly what leadership is. This book examines the phenomenon of leadership in post-compulsory education through the careful description and analysis of a long-term observational study of college Principals at work.

Drawing on the theories of digital media and on the materiality of words and images, this study makes three original claims about the work of William Blake. It explores these three claims through the concept of incarnation.

Offers a critical examination of learning and teaching theories together with debate on the sociological construct of the curriculum. This guide is suitable for undergraduate students on Education Studies courses and postgraduate trainee teachers looking to gain a deeper understanding of teaching and learning theories and curriculum development.

A study of world cinema, illustrating how its creative peaks stem from the urge to reveal otherwise hidden political and social dimensions of reality. It includes case studies drawn from a wide range of realist trends, including the Japanese New Wave, the nouvelle vague, the Cinema Novo, the New German Cinema, and the Inuit Indigenous Cinema.

Suitable for undergraduate students, this title combines essays on actual causes and issues that mobilize activists with theory and concepts of social mobilization. It introduces the various causes, actors, and organization of transnational mobilization to provide a survey of cases and theory.

What is the relationship between education and reconciliation initiatives? Who encourages and enacts it and who discourages and detracts from it? This book explores the role education has played in fostering or hindering reconciliation between groups divided by violent and/or social conflict.

A guide to key terms in literary theory. It is designed for the student who needs to know what a particular term means, how it is used, and where it comes from, and enables them to apply the terms and concepts to their own investigations.

This is volume 18 in the Major Conservative and Libertarian Thinkers series.

Tells the story of one church's attempt to live out Liberation Theology in 21st century. This title is about their successes and disasters, and their modelling of a new version of the Action/Reflection cycle called EARS (Education, Action, Reflection, Sustaining), aimed at helping other Christians.

An extensive exploration into autobiographical writing, combining practical analysis for creative nonfiction writers with criticism of key texts for students of literary studies

Demonstrates that filmmakers and marketers actually went to extraordinary lengths to make early teen slashers attractive to female youth, to minimize displays of violence, gore and suffering and to invite comparisons to a wide range of post-classical Hollywood's biggest hits - including "Love Story (1970)," and "The Exorcist (1973)."

A reference guide to the research and future directions in Epistemology. It covers all the fundamental questions asked by epistemology - areas that have continued to attract interest historically. It reveals where important work continues to be done in the area and, most valuably, the directions the field is taking.

Outlaws, irreverent humorists, political underdogs, authoritarians... these are the images of Australians as revealed through the lens of "King Lear" play. This title focuses on the wide-ranging issues of identity and history raised by "King Lear" by exploring Australians' engagements with the play.

In July 1888, fourteen hundred women and girls employed by the matchmakers Bryant and May walked out of their East End factory and into the history books. The author gives us a challenging new interpretation of events proving that the women themselves, not celebrity socialists like Annie Besant, began it.

By the time of the emperors, the Romans had created the world's first global empire. This book explores how they pursued sensual delights - from steamy bathhouses to stately country villas; the excesses of the festivals to the rich culture of music, dance and song and sex, as both unrestrained and puritanical.