This is the first book in English to provide a truly comprehensive view of Shining Path ("Sendero Luminoso" ), a major guerilla movement in Peru. "Sendero" 's Maoist principles first begin in the 1960s with a small band of supporters and no attention from the outside world, but later emerged as the [...]
When David Gascoyne celebrated his seventeenth birthday in Paris in 1933, he already had a poetry collection and a novel to his name. He spent much of the next few years in the French capital associating with Eluard, Dali, Ernst, Breton, Peret and other surrealists. By the age of 20 he had firmly es[...]
Featuring one of Shakespeare's best comedies, this revised and repackaged edition includes an updated bibliography, suggested references, stage and film history, and an overview of Shakespeare's life.[...]
The magnificent, timeless drama is the world's most famous tale of "star-crossed lovers." The young, unshakable love of Juliet and Romeo defies the feud that divides their families--the Capulets and Montagues--as their desperate need to be together, their secret meetings, and finally their conceale[...]
How does one traverse the spiritual landscape to move beyond suffering to experience the peace and love of God, to transcend illusion and realize the state of enlightenment? In this collection of inspiring passages from David R. Hawkins's work, the reader is reminded of the illusory nature of the pe[...]
David Scott's 'A World of Ships and Men' is the first fully comprehensive study covering this significant period in British history that challenges many of the long-held beliefs and ideas about our ancestry, and appeals to the scholarly and general audience alike.[...]
In this paperback of his acclaimed and wide-ranging study, David Scott challenges traditional assumptions about how Britain achieved her global might.[...]
A dual portrait of American astronaut Dave Scott and Soviet cosmonaut Alexei Leonov discusses how their ground-breaking careers reflected one of the Cold War's most heated competitions, describing the Apollo Soyuz Test Project that marked the beginning of their decades-long friendship. Reprint. 15,0[...]
What are professional doctorates? How do they change professional knowledge and improve practice? This book examines the relationship between advanced study on higher education courses and professional practice. It explores contributions made by research on practice to professional development.[...]
Renaissance England's great tragedy of intellectual overreaching is as relevant and unsettling today as it was when first performed. This edition provides newly edited texts of both the 1604 (A-Text) and 1616 (B-Text) versions of the play, with detailed explanatory annotations. Included are a select[...]
Takes account of the writings of thinkers and curriculum analysts from the fields of education, philosophy, sociology and psychology. Here, these commentators offer a broad perspective with views from the UK, the US and Europe, and from a range of political stances ranging from radical conservatism [...]
This book addresses fundamental questions in relation to education and its epistemology. The position taken by the author is critical realist; and thus throughout the relationship between education and critical realism is foregrounded. Themes and issues that surface at different times in the book ar[...]
This comprehensive and beautifully illustrated collection of essays conveys a vivid picture of a fascinating and hugely significant period in history. Featuring contributions from thirty-eight international scholars, the book takes a thematic approach to a period which saw the defeat of the Spanish [...]
One of the most innovative and brilliant philosophers of his generation, but largely neglected until he was brought to public attention by Gilles Deleuze, Gilbert Simondon presents a challenge to nearly every category and method of traditional philosophy. 'Psychic and Collective Individuation' is un[...]
Omnibus films bring together the contributions of two or more filmmakers. Does this make them inherently contradictory texts? How do they challenge critical categories in cinema studies? What are their implications for auteur theory? As the first book-length exploration of internationally distribute[...]
This book aims to extend the educational literacy of student teachers. It will enable them to deconstruct policy, research and media texts and place them within historical, social and literary contexts.[...]
This guide teaches birders to use the characteristics of wing types and feather morphology to identify feathers - not only by species but also by their place on the bird's body. The introductory chapters give a detailed overview of the feather - how feathers developed, the parts of a single feather,[...]
This book examines the origins, cultural significance, and legacy of the groundbreaking CBS television series "M*A*S*H", which aired from 1972 to 1983. Few American television series are as deeply entrenched in twentieth-century popular culture as "M*A*S*H", a Korean War medical comedy characterized[...]