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The Plays and Films of Bahram Beyzaie

Bahram Beyzaie is one of Iran's leading playwrights and auteur filmmakers. This book examines several of Beyzaie's films and plays and their preoccupation with the modalities and transformations of Irania…

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Tolstoy's War and Peace

This book consists of eight essays written by world-renowned Tolstoy specialists; the essays provide an in-depth consideration of the central topics of Tolstoy's masterpiece. Tolstoy's War and Peace explo…

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Oswyn Murray
The Muse of History

How the modern world has understood the ancient Greeks and why they matter todayThe study of ancient Greek history has been central to the western conception of history since the Renaissance. The Muse of …

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David Lay Williams
The Greatest of All Plagues

How the great political thinkers have persistently warned against the dangers of economic inequalityEconomic inequality is one of the most daunting challenges of our time, with public debate often turning…

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Duane A Garrett
Psalms 1-72

Discover the relevance of the Psalms to the life of faith.In this distinctive commentary, Duane A. Garrett frames the Psalter as an anthology of hymns, prayers, and lessons meant to guide believers in the…

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Optimizing Evidence-Based Treatment for Body Dysmorphic Disorder

This book provides an understanding of body dysmorphic disorder (BDD), a psychiatric classification that is characterized by a preoccupation with a perceived or slight imperfection in physical appearance.…

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William Shakespeare,
The Winter's Tale

'It is required You do awake your faith'Variously seen as a romance, a comedy, and a tragic fairytale, The Winter's Tale is a radical experiment with genre, character, and storytelling towards the end of …

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Simon van Schalkwyk
Robert Lowell's Imitations and the Cold War

The first book-length study focusing on Robert Lowell's career-long preoccupation with the liberal mode of translational adaptation known as imitation.Robert Lowell's Imitations and the Cold Warargues tha…

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Jennifer Manoukian
Purist Pursuits

Purist Pursuits chronicles how and why Armenians in the Ottoman Empire fashioned a new language called Western Armenian. Tracing its rise from the eighteenth to the early-twentieth centuries, Jennifer Man…

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Massimiliano Gioni
New Humans

A timely exploration of artists' enduring preoccupation with what it means to be human in the face of sweeping technological changeNew Humans traces a diagonal history of the twentieth and twenty-first ce…

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Yearbook of International Humanitarian Law, Volume 25 (2022)

Volume 25 of the Yearbook of International Humanitarian Law (IHL) sheds light on the interplay between IHL and other adjacent branches of international law. This Volume moves beyond the traditional preocc…

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Jamison Kantor
Honor, Romanticism, and the Hidden Value of Modernity

Despite our preconceptions, Romantic writers, artists, and philosophers did not think of honor as an archaic or regressive concept, but as a contemporary, even progressive value that operated as a counter…

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Climate Migration

This book investigates the epistemological and ethical challenges faced by studies exploring the relations between climate change and human migration.At the heart of the contemporary preoccupation with cl…

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Steven Connor
Exorbitance

Although modern life provides many examples of exorbitance -- of wealth, growth, information, ambition, consumption, violence -- preoccupation with what is 'over the top' is not new. What is it about the …

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Christopher B Barnett
Kierkegaard, Statecraft and Political Theology

Influenced by the backdrop of the contemporary issues facing Christianity and a trend toward 'political theology', Christopher Barnett explores Kierkegaard's relation to politics and the modern state.By t…

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Steven Connor
Exorbitance

Although modern life provides many examples of exorbitance -- of wealth, growth, information, ambition, consumption, violence -- preoccupation with what is 'over the top' is not new. What is it about the …

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Queer Shakespeare

The go-to resource for understanding desire, same-sex and trans eroticism in Shakespeare's texts, as well as in stage performance and in textual criticism, this second edition features revisions to the or…

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Sex, Politics, and Science in the Nineteenth-Century Novel

Six critics consider what is significantly not present-- or at least significantly well hidden-- in a provocative examination of the cultural anxieties that the nineteenth-century novel manipulates and co…

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Georg Friedrich Händel (1685-1759)

Alexander's Feast

Vox Chor, Vox Orchester, Lorenzo Ghirlanda

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Philip Carr-Gomm
A Brief History of Nakedness

"In A Brief History of Nakedness psychologist Philip Carr-Gomm traces our inescapable preoccupation with nudity. Rather than studying the history of the nude in art or detailing the ways in which the…

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