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Britton on Film

The Complete Film Criticism of Andrew Britton

By: Andrew Britton

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Britton on Film

The Complete Film Criticism of Andrew Britton

By: Andrew Britton

Renowned film scholar and editor Barry Keith Grant has assembled all of Britton's published essays of film criticism and theory for this volume, spanning the late 1970s to the early 1990s. The essays are arranged by theme: Hollywood cinema, Hollywood movies, European cinema, and film and cultural theory. In all, twenty-eight essays consider such varied films as Hitchcock's Spellbound, Jaws, The Exorcist, and Mandingo and topics as diverse as formalism, camp, psychoanalysis, imperialism, and feminism. Included are such well-known and important pieces as "Blissing Out: The Politics of Reaganite Entertainment" and "Sideshows: Hollywood in Vietnam," among the most perceptive discussions of these two periods of Hollywood history yet published. In addition, Britton's critiques of the ideology of Screen and Wisconsin formalism display his uncommon grasp of theory even when arguing against prevailing critical trends.

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Wayne State University Press

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081433363X

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9780814333631

Higher English Language Skills for CfE

By: Mary M. Firth,Andrew G. Ralston

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Higher English Language Skills for CfE

By: Mary M. Firth,Andrew G. Ralston

Exam Board: SQA Level: Higher Subject: English First Teaching: September 2014 First Exam: June 2015 This is a brand new edition of a bestselling title, updated for the newest CfE Higher English course, and particularly directed at offering support for Paper 1: Reading for Understanding, Analysis and Evaluation. It provides you with the support and advice you will need to succeed in this element of Higher English, which is worth 30% of the available marks in your examination. - Become more secure in your knowledge of the English language and in your reading skills - Apply those reading skills in learning how to answer questions on close reading - Practise answering questions and check your work using theaccompanying book of suggested answers

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Hodder Gibson

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1471838048

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9781471838040

The Vikings and the Victorians

Inventing the Old North in Nineteenth-century Britain

By: Andrew Wawn

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The Vikings and the Victorians

Inventing the Old North in Nineteenth-century Britain

By: Andrew Wawn

Andrew Wawn draws together a wide range of source material, including novels, poems, lectures and periodicals, to give a comprehensive account of the construction and translation of the Viking age in 19th century Britain.

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Boydell & Brewer Ltd

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0859916448

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Inventing the cave man

From Darwin to the Flintstones

By: Andrew Horrall

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Inventing the cave man

From Darwin to the Flintstones

By: Andrew Horrall

Fred Flintstone lived in a sunny Stone Age American suburb, but his ancestors were respectable, middle-class Victorians. They were very amused to think that prehistory was an archaic version of their own world because it suggested that British ideals were eternal. In the 1850s, our prehistoric ancestors were portrayed in satirical cartoons, songs, sketches and plays as ape-like, reflecting the threat posed by evolutionary ideas. By the end of the century, recognisably human cave men inhabited a Stone Age version of late-imperial Britain, sending-up its ideals and institutions. Cave men appeared constantly in parades, civic pageants and costume parties. In the early 1900s American cartoonists and early Hollywood stars like Charlie Chaplin and Buster Keaton adopted and reimagined this very British character, cementing it in global popular culture. Cave men are an appealing way to explore and understand Victorian and Edwardian Britain.

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Manchester University Press

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1526113872

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English Language Skills

By: Mary M. Firth,Andrew G. Ralston

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English Language Skills

By: Mary M. Firth,Andrew G. Ralston

This text will teach pupils how to recognise the demands of a question, providing an understanding of the phrasing and proposing methods of approaching writing an appropriate response.

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Margaret

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0716932245

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Automotive Empire

How Cars and Roads Fueled European Colonialism in Africa

By: Andrew Denning

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Automotive Empire

How Cars and Roads Fueled European Colonialism in Africa

By: Andrew Denning

In Automotive Empire, Andrew Denning uncovers how roads and vehicles began to transform colonial societies across Africa but rarely in the manner Europeans expected. Like seafaring ships and railroads, automobiles and roads were more than a mode of transport—they organized colonial spaces and structured the political, economic, and social relations of empire, both within African colonies and between colonies and the European metropole. European officials in French, Italian, British, German, Belgian, and Portuguese territories in Africa shared a common challenge—the transport problem. While they imagined that roads would radiate commerce and political hegemony by collapsing space, the pressures of constructing and maintaining roads rendered colonial administration thin, ineffective, and capricious. Automotive empire emerged as the European solution to the transport problem, but revealed weakness as much as it extended power. As Automotive Empire reveals, motor vehicles and roads seemed the ideal solution to the colonial transport problem. They were cheaper and quicker to construct than railroads, overcame the environmental limitations of rivers, and did not depend on the recruitment and supervision of African porters. At this pivotal moment of African colonialism, when European powers transitioned from claiming territories to administering and exploiting them, automotive empire defined colonial states and societies, along with the brutal and capricious nature of European colonialism itself.

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Cornell University Press

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1501775383

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Morocco close

A nexus of Scots ancestry

By: Andrew Griffiths

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Morocco close

A nexus of Scots ancestry

By: Andrew Griffiths

Occasionally, in the course of tracing family history, a specific place or event can take hold in the imagination. In my case, this happened with an ancient tenement in Edinburgh's Canongate, which carries the fanciful name of Morocco Close. That is where my great grandmother Agnes Reid was born and spent the first years of her childhood. It is also where her father died in 1839. My purpose, in these pages, is to draw the threads that lead to and from Morocco Close, breathe some life into its late Georgian and early Victorian inhabitants, and bring some order into a very tangled web.

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3759750532

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Two Dimensions of Meaning

Similarity and Contiguity in Metaphor and Metonymy, Language, Culture, and Ecology

By: Andrew Goatly

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Two Dimensions of Meaning

Similarity and Contiguity in Metaphor and Metonymy, Language, Culture, and Ecology

By: Andrew Goatly

The book takes as its point of departure the notion that similarity and contiguity are fundamental to meaning. It shows how they manifest in oral, literate, print, and internet cultures, in language acquisition, pragmatics, dialogism, classification, the semantics of grammar, literature, and, most centrally, metaphor and metonymy. The book situates these reflections on similarity and contiguity in the interplay of language, cognition, culture, and ideology, and within broader debates around such issues as capitalism, biodiversity, and human control over nature. Positing that while similarity-focused systems can be reductive, and have therefore been contested in social science, philosophy, and poetry, and contiguity-based ones might disregard useful statistical and scientific evidence, Andrew Goatly argues for the need for humans to entertain diverse metaphors, models, and languages as ways of understanding and acting on our world. The volume also considers the cognitive connections between the similarity-contiguity duality and the noun-verb distinction. This innovative volume will appeal to scholars involved in wider debates on meaning, within the fields of cognitive semantics, pragmatics, metaphor and metonymy theory, critical discourse analysis, and the philosophy of language. Equally, the motivated and intelligent general reader, interested in language, philosophy, culture, and ecology, should find the later chapters of the book fascinating, and the earlier technical chapters accessible.

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Taylor & Francis

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1000600246

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Flexibility at Work

Balancing the Interests of Employer and Employee

By: Peter Andrew Reilly

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Flexibility at Work

Balancing the Interests of Employer and Employee

By: Peter Andrew Reilly

Flexibility at Work shows you how to obtain the business benefits of flexibility whilst addressing the needs of both employer and employee. Peter Reilly breaks down flexibility into five different types, from functional through to financial. He introduces a model of how mutual flexibility might be developed and the preconditions necessary to make it successful. Along the way he cites much evidence of how employers are introducing alternative working arrangements that provide benefits to both parties.Flexibility can reduce costs, improve quality and service, increase productivity, hedge against change, and meet supply needs.

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Gower Publishing, Ltd.

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0566082594

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9780566082597

Pharmacotherapeutics for Advanced Practice

A Practical Approach

By: Virginia Poole Arcangelo,Andrew Peterson,Veronica Wilbur,Jennifer A. Reinhold

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Pharmacotherapeutics for Advanced Practice

A Practical Approach

By: Virginia Poole Arcangelo,Andrew Peterson,Veronica Wilbur,Jennifer A. Reinhold

Be ready to prescribe and administer drugs safely and effectively, with the fully updated Pharmacotherapeutics for Advanced Practice, 5th Edition. Anchored in pharmacology and the principles of therapeutics, and written by experts in the field, this is your road map to effective drug therapies. Learn to correctly identify a disorder, review the drugs used to treat it, and select the optimal therapy. With expert direction on more than 50 common disorders, this is the ideal resource for advanced practice clinicians and students learning pharmacotherapeutics, and a go-to reference for experienced clinicians.

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1989

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Lippincott Williams & Wilkins

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1975160606

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Landscape in Middle English Romance

The Medieval Imagination and the Natural World

By: Andrew M. Richmond

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Landscape in Middle English Romance

The Medieval Imagination and the Natural World

By: Andrew M. Richmond

Our current ecological crises compel us not only to understand how contemporary media shapes our conceptions of human relationships with the environment, but also to examine the historical genealogies of such perspectives. Written during the onset of the Little Ice Age in Britain, Middle English romances provide a fascinating window into the worldviews of popular vernacular literature (and its audiences) at the close of the Middle Ages. Andrew M. Richmond shows how literary conventions of romances shaped and were in turn influenced by contemporary perspectives on the natural world. These popular texts also reveal widespread concern regarding the damaging effects of human actions and climate change. The natural world was a constant presence in the writing, thoughts, and lives of the audiences and authors of medieval English romance – and these close readings reveal that our environmental concerns go back further in our history and culture than we think.

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Cambridge University Press

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1108913091

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Interlopers of Empire

The Lebanese Diaspora in Colonial French West Africa

By: Andrew Arsan

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Interlopers of Empire

The Lebanese Diaspora in Colonial French West Africa

By: Andrew Arsan

First comprehensive history of Lebanese communities of Francophone West Africa in the colonial period.

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Oxford University Press, USA

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0199333386

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J. D. Bernal

The Sage of Science

By: Andrew Brown

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J. D. Bernal

The Sage of Science

By: Andrew Brown

Desmond Bernal - or 'Sage', as he was known, was an extraordinary man by any account - a brilliant scientist, a fervent Marxist, and a colourful, bohemian figure. This biography includes previously unpublished material from his diaries, and sheds new light on his international influence during both WWII and the ensuing peace movement.

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Oxford University Press, USA

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0198515448

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The History Of Scotland – Volume 3: From the early 17th century to the death of Dundee

By: Andrew Lang

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The History Of Scotland – Volume 3: From the early 17th century to the death of Dundee

By: Andrew Lang

This is volume 3, covering the time from the early 17th century to the death of Dundee. In four volumes of more than 1500 combined pages the series "The History of Scotland" deals with something less than two millenniums of Scottish history. Every single volume covers a certain period in an attempt to examine the elements and forces which were imperative to the making of the Scottish people, and to record the more important events of that time.

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380

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Jazzybee Verlag

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3849685640

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9783849685645

Black Markers

Edinburgh's Dark History Told Through its Cemeteries

By: Jan-Andrew Henderson

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Black Markers

Edinburgh's Dark History Told Through its Cemeteries

By: Jan-Andrew Henderson

Edinburgh's cemeteries have been notorious for centuries, from the infamous Greyfriars to the countless crypts, graveyards and mausoleums that proliferate through the city. This book reveals a host of traditions and stories regarding these distinctive sites, as told by an expert on the subject.

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Amberley Publishing Limited

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1445647990

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Epitaphs and Inscriptions

By: Andrew Jervise

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Epitaphs and Inscriptions

By: Andrew Jervise

Reprint of the original, first published in 1875. The publishing house Anatiposi publishes historical books as reprints. Due to their age, these books may have missing pages or inferior quality. Our aim is to preserve these books and make them available to the public so that they do not get lost.

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BoD – Books on Demand

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338282521X

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9783382825218

British Naval Intelligence through the Twentieth Century

By: Andrew Boyd

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British Naval Intelligence through the Twentieth Century

By: Andrew Boyd

This is the first comprehensive account of how intelligence influenced and sustained British naval power from the mid nineteenth century, when the Admiralty first created a dedicated intelligence department, through to the end of the Cold War. It brings a critical new dimension to our understanding of British naval history in this period while setting naval intelligence in a wider context and emphasising the many parts of the British state that contributed to naval requirements. It is also a fascinating study of how naval needs and personalities shaped the British intelligence community that exists today and the concepts and values that underpin it. The author explains why and how intelligence was collected and assesses its real impact on policy and operations. It confirms that naval intelligence was critical to Britain’s survival and ultimate victory in the two World Wars but significantly reappraises its role, highlighting the importance of communications intelligence to an effective blockade in the First, and according Ultra less dominance compared to other sources in the Second. It reveals that coverage of Germany before 1914 and of the three Axis powers in the interwar period was more comprehensive and effective than previously suggested; and while British power declined rapidly after 1945, the book shows how intelligence helped the Royal Navy to remain a significant global force for the rest of the twentieth century, and in submarine warfare, especially in the second half of the Cold War, to achieve influence and impact for Britain far exceeding resources expended. This compelling new history will have wide appeal to all readers interested in intelligence and its crucial impact on naval policy and operations.

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Seaforth Publishing

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1526736624

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9781526736628

Indian Soldiers in World War I

Race and Representation in an Imperial War

By: Andrew T. Jarboe

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Indian Soldiers in World War I

Race and Representation in an Imperial War

By: Andrew T. Jarboe

Third place in the 2022 SAHR Templer Best First Book Prize More than one million Indian soldiers were deployed during World War I, serving in the Indian Army as part of Britain's imperial war effort. These men fought in France and Belgium, Egypt and East Africa, and Gallipoli, Palestine, and Mesopotamia. In Indian Soldiers in World War I Andrew T. Jarboe follows these Indian soldiers--or sepoys--across the battlefields, examining the contested representations British and Indian audiences drew from the soldiers' wartime experiences and the impacts these representations had on the British Empire's racial politics. Presenting overlooked or forgotten connections, Jarboe argues that Indian soldiers' presence on battlefields across three continents contributed decisively to the British Empire's final victory in the war. While the war and Indian soldiers' involvement led to a hardening of the British Empire's prewar racist ideologies and governing policies, the battlefield contributions of Indian soldiers fueled Indian national aspirations and calls for racial equality. When Indian soldiers participated in the brutal suppression of anti-government demonstrations in India at war's end, they set the stage for the eventual end of British rule in South Asia.

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U of Nebraska Press

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1496227174

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9781496227171

Missionaries, Indigenous Peoples and Cultural Exchange

By: Patricia Grimshaw,Andrew May

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Missionaries, Indigenous Peoples and Cultural Exchange

By: Patricia Grimshaw,Andrew May

Presents fresh insights into the relationships between missions and indigenous peoples, and the outcomes of mission activities in the processes of imperial conquest and colonisation. This book focuses on missions across the British Empire (including India, Africa, Asia, the Pacific), within transnational and comparative perspectives.

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Liverpool University Press

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1836240961

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