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A Critical Companion

by Dr. Amanda Jane Olmstead ...

Series series Musical Theatre Critical Companions
"There are very few times when I really want the audience to look at dance…Dance is just meant to be a framing device that matches emotionally what I want the audience to feel." - Andy BlankenbuehlerThree-time Tony Award-winner Andy Blankenbuehler is one of the most recognizable choreographers working on Broadway today. Known particularly for his work on the hit musical Hamilton, collaborating ... Read more

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"There are very few times when I really want the audience to look at dance…Dance is just meant to be a framing device that matches emotionally what I want the audience to feel." - Andy BlankenbuehlerThree-time Tony Award-winner Andy Blankenbuehler is one of the most recognizable choreographers working on Broadway today. Known particularly for his work on the hit musical Hamilton, collaborating
... Read more
The Social Dinosaur

The Life of the Mesozoic in the Popular Imagination

by Dr Will Tattersdill ...

Series series Explorations in Science and Literature
Since first they emerged into the Victorian limelight, dinosaurs have fascinated generations of artists, scientists, and general readers. This book approaches their history from a literary-critical perspective, arguing that the enormous and enduring popularity of Mesozoic fauna offers a fresh way to understand the relationship between the arts and sciences. We tend to treat those two as opposites ... Read more

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Since first they emerged into the Victorian limelight, dinosaurs have fascinated generations of artists, scientists, and general readers. This book approaches their history from a literary-critical perspective, arguing that the enormous and enduring popularity of Mesozoic fauna offers a fresh way to understand the relationship between the arts and sciences. We tend to treat those two as opposites
... Read more
Children's Lives and Deaths in 1 Thessalonians

Impacts on Interpreting Context and Text

by Dr David E. Bell ...

Series series The Library of New Testament Studies
This volume offers new insights into 1 Thessalonians by demonstrating how children and childhood are a key part of its social setting. Around one third of this first-century Macedonian society and community would be under 15 years old: a segment easily ignored by modern scholarship but essential to interpreting the social context and so Paul's letter itself. Based on new research, David E. Bell ... Read more

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This volume offers new insights into 1 Thessalonians by demonstrating how children and childhood are a key part of its social setting. Around one third of this first-century Macedonian society and community would be under 15 years old: a segment easily ignored by modern scholarship but essential to interpreting the social context and so Paul's letter itself. Based on new research, David E. Bell
... Read more
Audible Ancestors

Tamborazo Music and Indigenous Memory in the Borderlands

by Dr. Luis Chávez-González ...

Audible Ancestors provides a new understanding of music performance and the inheritance of Indigenous epistemologies and methodologies in Greater Mexico.By examining the audibility of Indigenous ancestry in the negotiation of Mexican subjectivities through danza performance, author Luis Chávez-González amplifies muted Caxcan Indigeneity rooted in the sounds of Regional Mexican music through ... Read more

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Audible Ancestors provides a new understanding of music performance and the inheritance of Indigenous epistemologies and methodologies in Greater Mexico.By examining the audibility of Indigenous ancestry in the negotiation of Mexican subjectivities through danza performance, author Luis Chávez-González amplifies muted Caxcan Indigeneity rooted in the sounds of Regional Mexican music through
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Satan’s Fall and God’s Redemption Story in the Gospel of Luke

by Dr. Chakrita M. Saulina ...

Series series The Library of New Testament Studies
Chakrita M. Saulina offers an extensive examination of Luke's treatment of evil spirits and how they are related to many of Luke's theological agendas, such as his Christology, soteriology, and eschatology. Saulina offers a close reading of the Gospel within a broader view of narrative criticism, implementing a fresh method of character reconstruction to find the overall characterization and the ... Read more

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Chakrita M. Saulina offers an extensive examination of Luke's treatment of evil spirits and how they are related to many of Luke's theological agendas, such as his Christology, soteriology, and eschatology. Saulina offers a close reading of the Gospel within a broader view of narrative criticism, implementing a fresh method of character reconstruction to find the overall characterization and the
... Read more
Exceptional Me, Second Edition

How Donald Trump Exploited the Discourse of American Exceptionalism

by Dr Jason Gilmore, Dr Charles Rowling ...

Revised and Updated Second Edition of the bestselling 2021 title Exceptional Me.Donald Trump has forged a unique relationship with American exceptionalism, parting ways with how American politicians have long communicated this idea to the American public. Through systematic comparative analyses, this book details the various ways that Trump strategically altered and exploited the discourse of ... Read more

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Revised and Updated Second Edition of the bestselling 2021 title Exceptional Me.Donald Trump has forged a unique relationship with American exceptionalism, parting ways with how American politicians have long communicated this idea to the American public. Through systematic comparative analyses, this book details the various ways that Trump strategically altered and exploited the discourse of
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AI Afterlives

Digital Memory and Synthetic Pasts

by Dr Jenny Kidd, Eva Nieto McAvoy ...

Series series Bloomsbury Studies in Digital Cultures
AI Afterlives offers the first empirically informed investigation of how algorithms and automation are being used to 'revive' media fragments from the past, from animating old photographs of our ancestors, to creating deathbots, or using the likeness of deceased actors in films. It draws on a series of unique and innovatively designed datasets to trace the ethical, emotional, mnemonic and ... Read more

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AI Afterlives offers the first empirically informed investigation of how algorithms and automation are being used to 'revive' media fragments from the past, from animating old photographs of our ancestors, to creating deathbots, or using the likeness of deceased actors in films. It draws on a series of unique and innovatively designed datasets to trace the ethical, emotional, mnemonic and
... Read more
Practice

Keywords in Teacher Education

by Professor Katherine Schultz, Dr Rachel Throop ...

Series series Keywords in Teacher Education
Heated debates about teaching often occur around the word practice. When we consider practice as a keyword, it becomes clear that practice is about much more than what teachers do in the classroom. Discourses of practice are used to spread policy ideas, to claim expertise, to empower or disempower teachers, to discredit or support schools of education, and more.In this book, the authors ... Read more

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Heated debates about teaching often occur around the word practice. When we consider practice as a keyword, it becomes clear that practice is about much more than what teachers do in the classroom. Discourses of practice are used to spread policy ideas, to claim expertise, to empower or disempower teachers, to discredit or support schools of education, and more.In this book, the authors
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Authority, History, and Political Theology

Collected Works and Correspondence of Alexandre Kojève and Gaston Fessard

Edited by Dr. Isabel Jacobs, Dr. Jacob Saliba ...

Series series Political Theologies
For the first time, this volume brings together the writings, lectures, and correspondence of two of the most distinctive voices in twentieth-century French thought: Alexandre Kojève (1902–1968) and Gaston Fessard (1897–1978).Kojève is widely regarded as one of the most influential philosophers in France. His Hegel seminars of the 1930s shaped an entire generation of intellectuals, including ... Read more

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For the first time, this volume brings together the writings, lectures, and correspondence of two of the most distinctive voices in twentieth-century French thought: Alexandre Kojève (1902–1968) and Gaston Fessard (1897–1978).Kojève is widely regarded as one of the most influential philosophers in France. His Hegel seminars of the 1930s shaped an entire generation of intellectuals, including
... Read more
The Portrayal of Animals in Disney Culture

Edited by Dr. Kathy Merlock Jackson, Dr. Kathy Shepherd Stolley, Dr. Mark I. West ...

Series series Studies in Disney and Culture
Applying various disciplinary perspectives with overlapping themes, contributors to this volume analyze the intersections of Disney studies and animal studies, demonstrating how common themes and issues transcend the context of Disney culture.Through detailed analyses, contributors examine the roles played by animals in Disney culture, identifying recurring themes – like animal rights advocacy, ... Read more

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Applying various disciplinary perspectives with overlapping themes, contributors to this volume analyze the intersections of Disney studies and animal studies, demonstrating how common themes and issues transcend the context of Disney culture.Through detailed analyses, contributors examine the roles played by animals in Disney culture, identifying recurring themes – like animal rights advocacy,
... Read more
Teaching and Learning in Higher Education in Times of Crisis

Narratives of Transitions and Transformations

Edited by Dr Tanya Hathaway, Dr Namrata Rao, Professor Ian M. Kinchin ...

This edited collection provides personal narratives of the transitions and/or transformations of twelve academics as they encountered and conquered crises to offer a valuable teaching and learning experience to students irrespective of the nature of the crises they may be negotiating.With contributions from Australia, Brazil, China, France, Lebanon, New Zealand, Singapore, South Africa, the UK and ... Read more

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This edited collection provides personal narratives of the transitions and/or transformations of twelve academics as they encountered and conquered crises to offer a valuable teaching and learning experience to students irrespective of the nature of the crises they may be negotiating.With contributions from Australia, Brazil, China, France, Lebanon, New Zealand, Singapore, South Africa, the UK and
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Colorism

The Politics of Skin Tone and How We Get Free

by Dr. Sarah L. Webb ...

The essential primer on colorism, and how each of us has a role in dismantling skin tone bias.Racism is easy to spot these days; we know its script, its favorite media tropes, its legislative tactics, and how it makes us feel. But there is another societal ill hiding in racism’s shadow: colorism. Colorism is a social hierarchy that favors people with lighter skin tones and stigmatizes people with ... Read more

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The essential primer on colorism, and how each of us has a role in dismantling skin tone bias.Racism is easy to spot these days; we know its script, its favorite media tropes, its legislative tactics, and how it makes us feel. But there is another societal ill hiding in racism’s shadow: colorism. Colorism is a social hierarchy that favors people with lighter skin tones and stigmatizes people with
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Satan’s Fall and God’s Redemption Story in the Gospel of Luke

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