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Imitation (Routledge Revivals)
By Joel Weinsheimer. 1984
In this book, first published in 1984, Joel Weinsheimer advocates revitalizing the practice of imitating literature as a mode appropriate…
for literary critics as well as artists. The book is not only about imitation; it is itself an imitation, specifically of Samuel Johnson. As both the focus and mode of presentation, imitation is presented not merely as a kind of poetry that once flourished in the eighteenth century but also as a kind of criticism particularly relevant today. Applying arguments from philosophy of science, deconstruction, psycho-analysis, literary theory, semiotics and hermeneutics, Weinsheimer shows that the three main currents of thought responsible for forcing imitation underground were empiricism, originalism and historicism. The three central chapters of the book concentrate on their representatives: John Locke, Edward Young and Thomas Warton. The author then applies Johnsonian arguments – supported by those of Gadamer Peirce – to challenge those objections and re-establish imitation as an intellectually defensible mode of writing.Globalization: A Very Short Introduction (Fourth Edition)
By Manfred B. Steger. 2017
"Globalization" has become one of the defining buzzwords of our time - a term that describes a variety of accelerating…
economic, political, cultural, ideological, and environmental processes that are rapidly altering our experience of the world. It is by its nature a dynamic topic. This Very Short Introduction has been fully updated for a fourth edition, to include recent developments in global politics, the global economy, and environmental issues. Presenting globalization as a multifaceted process encompassing global, regional, and local aspects of social life, Manfred B. Steger looks at its causes and effects, examines whether it is a new phenomenon, and explores the question of whether, ultimately, globalization is a good or a bad thing. In this fourth edition Steger discusses some of the key features of recent years, such as the EU fiscal crisis, the rise of robot technology and new war technology with civilian usage such as drones, the Ebola epidemic in West Africa, and new identity discussions around gender fluidity and sex change in the media. ABOUT THE SERIES: The Very Short Introductions series from Oxford University Press contains hundreds of titles in almost every subject area. These pocket-sized books are the perfect way to get ahead in a new subject quickly. Our expert authors combine facts, analysis, perspective, new ideas, andenthusiasm to make interesting and challenging topics highly readable.The Finisher (Peter Diamond Investigation #19)
By Peter Lovesey. 2020
On the 50th anniversary of the publication of his first novel, Peter Lovesey, Mystery Writers of America Grand Master and…
titan of the British detective novel, returns to the subject of his very first mystery—running. Through a particularly ill-fated series of events, couch potato Maeve Kelly, an elementary school teacher whose mother always assured her “curvy” girls shouldn’t waste their time trying to be fit, has been forced to sign up for the Other Half, Bath’s springtime half marathon. The training is brutal, but she must disprove her mother and collect pledges for her aunt’s beloved charity. What Maeve doesn’t know is just how vicious some of the other runners are. Meanwhile, Detective Peter Diamond is tasked with crowd control on the raucous day of the race—and catches sight of a violent criminal he put away a decade ago, and who very much seems to be up to his old tricks now that he is paroled. Diamond’s hackles are already up when he learns that one of the runners never crossed the finish line and disappeared without a trace. Was Diamond a spectator to murder?AP Comparative Government and Politics: With 3 Practice Tests (Barron's Test Prep)
By Jeff Davis M.Ed.. 2020
Barron&’s AP Comparative Government and Politics is fully revised for the May 2020 exam changes. You&’ll get in-depth review plus…
practice that reflects the new multiple-choice format and changes to free-response questions.This updated edition features:Two full-length practice tests to help you apply the knowledge you learned in classOne diagnostic test to help you determine which sections you need to focus onIn-depth study of the governments of six nations: Britain, Russia, China, Mexico, Iran, and NigeriaUseful quick country comparison chart and glossaries of important termsAP Chemistry with Online Tests (Barron's Test Prep)
By Neil D. Jespersen, Pamela Kerrigan. 2018
Barron’s AP Chemistry with Online Tests provides realistic practice exams and in-depth content review aligned with the current AP Chemistry…
curriculum. This edition includes: * Three full-length practice exams in the book with all questions answered and explained * Three online practice exams with all questions answered and explained * Three diagnostic tests in the book to help students target areas where they need more study * A comprehensive subject review covering the structure of matter, chemical bonding, states of matter, physical chemistry, chemical reactions, and all other test topics * Study tips and test-taking strategies to help students apply the skills they learn in classAP French Language and Culture with Online Test & Downloadable Audio
By Eliane Kurbegov Ed.S., Edward Weiss M.A.. 2019
Barron's AP French Language and Culture is aligned to the College Board's AP French course and features expert review and…
key practice to help students prepare for the exam.Developed by expert French teachers who have worked with the College Board for years, this edition features: Two full-length practice exams in the book with all questions answered and explainedOne full-length online practice exam with audio and answer explanationsDownloadable audio and audio scripts for all listening exercises, exemplary conversations, and oral presentationsExpanded open response and oral presentation sectionTips and strategies for mastering all skills and tasks required for success on the examPractice for multiple-choice sections, the persuasive essays, and the audio portions of both practice examsAP English Language and Composition Premium: With 8 Practice Tests (Barron's Test Prep)
By George Ehrenhaft Ed. D.. 2020
Barron's updated AP English Language and Composition with Online Tests features practice tests, sample essays, and essay-writing tips to help…
students practice their skills and score high on the exam.This edition includes:Five full-length practice exams in the book with all questions answered and explainedThree full-length online practice exams with answer explanations and automatic scoringA complete overview of the AP testAdvice and instruction for answering multiple-choice questionsA guide to writing focused and well-organized responses to essay questionsSample student essays with critiquesGuidelines for evaluating essays and determining final AP exam scoresAP English Language and Composition: With 5 Practice Tests (Barron's Test Prep)
By George Ehrenhaft Ed. D.. 2020
Barron&’s AP English Language and Composition Study Guide is aligned with the College Board&’s AP course and provides comprehensive review…
and practice for the exam.This edition includes:Completely renovated to be aligned with the May 2020 test changes1 Diagnostic test4 Practice TestsStrict Convexity and Complex Strict Convexity: Theory and Applications
By Istratescu. 1983
This important work provides a comprehensive overview of the properties of Banachspaces related to strict convexity and a survey of…
significant applications-uniting a wealthof information previously scattered throughout the mathematical literature in a well-organized,accessible format.After introducing the subject through a discussion of the basic results of linear functionalanalysis, this unique book proceeds to investigate the characteristics of strictly convexspaces and related classes, including uniformly convex spaces, and examine important applicationsregarding approximation theory and fixed point theory. Following this extensivetreatment, the book discusses complex strictly convex spaces and related spaces- alsowith applications. Complete, clearly elucidated proofs accompany results throughout thebook, and ample references are provided to aid further research of the subject.Strict Convexity and Complex Strict Convexity is essential fot mathematicians and studentsinterested in geometric theory of Banach spaces and applications to approximationtheory and fixed point theory, and is of great value to engineers working in optimizationstudies. In addition, this volume serves as an excellent text for a graduate course inGeometric Theory of Banach Spaces.Phallic Critiques: Masculinity and Twentieth-Century Literature (Routledge Revivals)
By Peter Schwenger. 1984
Phallic Critiques, first published in 1984, is a study of ‘masculine’ styles of writing in the twentieth century – an…
age, according to Virginia Woolf, when ‘virility has become self-conscious’. Writers who carry macho values to their extreme often subscribe to the popular feeling that writing is an effeminate activity for a real man to be engaged in. Consequently they attempt to forge ‘masculine’ style of writing in an effort to redeem language from its sexually suspect nature. These styles reveal much about the ambiguous and paradoxical attitudes of men towards their own masculine role. Peter Schwenger demonstrates the international nature of ‘masculine’ styles. His study ranges from such American authors as Norman Mailer, Ernest Hemingway and Philip Roth, to figures like Yukio Mishima, Alberto Moravia and Michel Leiris. This book should be of interest to students of literature.Adolescent Substance Abuse: A Guide to Prevention and Treatment
By Richard Isralowitz, Mark Singer, Jerome Beker. 1983
An enlightening discussion of the major issues related to the prevention and treatment of adolescent substance abuse. Information-packed chapters lend…
a new perspective to the field and suggest implications for practice in services for youth.Fifty Years Since MLK (Boston Review)
By Barbara Ransby, Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor, Brandon Terry, Bernard Harcourt. 2017
Martin Luther King's legacy for today's activists, fifty years after his death. Since his death on April 4, 1968, Martin…
Luther King's legacy has influenced generations of activism. Edited and with a lead essay by Brandon Terry, this volume explores what this legacy can and cannot do for activism in the present. King spent the months leading up to his death organizing demonstrations against the Vietnam War and planning the Poor People's Campaign, a “multiracial army of the poor” that would march on Washington in pursuit of economic justice. Thus the spring of 1968 represented a hopeful, albeit chaotic set of possibilities; King, along with countless other activists, offered both ethical and strategic solutions to the multifaceted problems of war, racism, and economic inequality. With a critical eye on both the past and present, this collection of essays explores that moment of promise, and how, in the fifty years since King's death, historical forces have shaped what we claim as a usable past in fighting the injustices of our time. Contributors Christian G. Appy, Andrew Douglas, Bernard E. Harcourt, Elizabeth Hinton, Samuel Moyn, Ed Pavlić, Aziz Rana, Barbara Ransby, Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor, Brandon M. Terry, Jeanne Theoharis, Thad WilliamsonMutual Aid Universities: Radical Forum On Adult Education Ser. (Routledge Revivals)
By Eric Midwinter. 1984
First published in 1984, this collection of essays was the first account of the development of the University of the…
Third Age in Britain (U3A). Changing employment patterns and increasing pressure on traditional areas of secondary and higher education has led to the idea that learning can be a life-long process. The theories of U3As in Britain, their development under the influence of European models, and the major influences on them are analysed. The authors argue that the consequences of social change and the economic, social, political, sexual and racial inequalities that exist are often reinforced by the inequalities in our educational system. A comprehensive title, this book will be useful to any students with an interest in adult and continuing education.Frontier Regions in Western Europe
By Malcolm Anderson. 1983
Extremism (The MIT Press Essential Knowledge Series)
By J. M. Berger. 2018
What extremism is, how extremist ideologies are constructed, and why extremism can escalate into violence. A rising tide of extremist…
movements threaten to destabilize civil societies around the globe. It has never been more important to understand extremism, yet the dictionary definition—a logical starting point in a search for understanding—tells us only that extremism is “the quality or state of being extreme.” In this volume in the MIT Press Essential Knowledge series, J. M. Berger offers a nuanced introduction to extremist movements, explaining what extremism is, how extremist ideologies are constructed, and why extremism can escalate into violence. Berger shows that although the ideological content of extremist movements varies widely, there are common structural elements. Berger, an expert on extremist movements and terrorism, explains that extremism arises from a perception of “us versus them,” intensified by the conviction that the success of “us” is inseparable from hostile acts against “them.” Extremism differs from ordinary unpleasantness—run-of-the-mill hatred and racism—by its sweeping rationalization of an insistence on violence. Berger illustrates his argument with case studies and examples from around the world and throughout history, from the destruction of Carthage by the Romans—often called “the first genocide”—to the apocalyptic jihadism of Al Qaeda, America's new “alt-right,” and the anti-Semitic conspiracy tract The Protocols of the Elders of Zion. He describes the evolution of identity movements, individual and group radicalization, and more. If we understand the causes of extremism, and the common elements of extremist movements, Berger says, we will be more effective in countering it.Construction Site for Possible Worlds
By Matthew Poole, Robin Mackay, Amanda Beech, Adam Berg, Mat Dryhurst, Jeremy Lecomte, Anna Longo, Anil Bawa-Cavia, Patricia Reed, Daniel Sacilotto, Christine Wertheim, Inigo Wilkins. 2020
Perspectives from philosophy, aesthetics, and art on how to envisage the construction site of possible worlds. Given the highly coercive…
and heavily surveilled dynamics of the present moment, when the tremendous pressures exerted by capital on contemporary life produces an aggressively normative “official reality,” the question of the construction of other possible worlds is crucial and perhaps more urgent than ever.T his collection brings together different perspectives from the fields of philosophy, aesthetics, and art to discuss the mechanisms through which possible worlds are thought, constructed, and instantiated, forcefully seeking to overcome the contemporary moment's deficit of conceptualizing alternate realities—its apparent fear of imagining possible new and compelling futures—to begin the arduous task of producing the political dynamics necessary for actual construction.Implicit in this dynamic between the imaginary and the possible is the question of how thinking intertwines with both rationality and the inherited contingencies and structures of the world. With no ascertainable ground on which to build, with no confidence in any given that could guarantee our labors, how do we even envisage the construction site(s) of possible worlds, and with what kind of diagrams, tools, and languages can we bring them into being?What is Architecture?: An Essay on Landscapes, Buildings, and Machines
By Paul Shepheard. 1994
British architect and critic Paul Shepheard is a fresh new voice in current postmodern debates about the history and meaning…
of architecture. In this wonderfully unorthodox quasi-novelistic essay, complete with characters and dialogue (but no plot), Shepheard draws a boundary around the subject of architecture, describing its place in art and technology, its place in history, and its place in our lives now. At a time when it is fashionable to say that architecture is everything—from philosophy to science to art to theory—Shepheard boldly and irreverently sets limits to the subject, so that we may talk about architecture for what it is. He takes strong positions, names the causes of the problems, and tells us how bad things are and how they can get better. Along the way he marshals some unlikely but plausible witnesses who testify about the current state of architecture. Instead of the usual claims or complaints by the usual suspects, these observations are of an altogether different order. Constructed as a series of fables, many of them politically incorrect, What is Architecture? is a refreshing meditation on the options, hopes, possibilities, and failures of shelter in society.Yayoi Kusama: Infinity Mirror Room - Phalli's Field (One Work)
By Jo Applin. 2012
A study of Kusama's era-defining work, a “sublime, miraculous field of phalluses,” against the background of abstraction, eroticism, sexuality, and…
softness. Almost a half-century after Yayoi Kusama debuted her landmark installation Infinity Mirror Room—Phalli's Field (1965) in New York, the work remains challenging and unclassifiable. Shifting between the Pop-like and the Surreal, the Minimal and the metaphorical, the figurative and the abstract, the psychotic and the erotic, with references to “free love” and psychedelia, it seemed to embody all that the 1960s was about, while at the same time denying the prevailing aesthetics of its time. The installation itself was a room lined with mirrored panels and carpeted with several hundred brightly polka-dotted soft fabric protrusions into which the visitor was completely absorbed. Kusama simply called it “a sublime, miraculous field of phalluses.” A precursor of performance-based feminist art practice, media pranksterism, and “Occupy” movements, Kusama (born in 1929) was once as well known as her admirers—Andy Warhol, Donald Judd, and Joseph Cornell. In this first monograph on an epoch-defining work, Jo Applin looks at the installation in detail and places it in the context of subsequent art practice and theory as well as Kusama's own (as she called it) “obsessional art.” Applin also discusses Kusama's relationship to her contemporaries, particularly those working with environments, abstract-erotic sculpture, and mirrors, and those grappling with such issues as abstraction, eroticism, sexuality, and softness. The work of Lee Lozano, Claes Oldenburg, Louise Bourgeois, and Eva Hesse is seen anew when considered in relation to Yayoi Kusama's.New Perspectives in Scottish Legal History: New Per Scot Legal His
By A. K. Kiralfy, Hector L MacQueen. 1984
Jonathan Swift: Political Writer (Routledge Revivals)
By Alan Downie. 1984
First published in 1984, this biography gives an account of Jonathan Swift’s political ideas and provides a critical commentary on…
his major works. With its emphasis on Swift as a political writer, the title offers a revision of the prevailing view of Swift’s politics and its application in the study of his works. Alan Downie argues that in terms of the party politics of the day Swift is neither a Whig nor Tory. Swift thought of himself as an ‘Old Whig’, and said he was ‘of the old Whig principles, without the modern articles and refinements’. Downie shows how Swift’s writings consistently make political points about society’s deviation from an ideal. As Swift’s views on morality, religion and politics are so closely linked, an understanding of his political ideas is vital; this reissue provides a detailed analysis of this aspect of Swift’s writings and views, and as such will be of great interest to any students researching his satire.