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Pierre Bourdieu
This slim volume contains four little-known texts by Pierre Bourdieu on the question of reflexivity, which was a key theme in his work.
For Bourdieu, reflexivity was not an exercise…
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A key feature of those who work for the state, in the legal system and in public services is that they claim to be putting their own personal interests aside…
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"Lectures at the College de France (1983-1984)."
Anonymous
This touching tribute to Peter Fenelon Collier, founder of the popular Collier's Magazine, offers a glimpse into the life and legacy of one of the most important figures in American…
Dr Peter Collier
This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe…
Peter Collier
Sorghum - Its Culture and Manufacture Economically Considered as a Source of Sugar is an unchanged, high-quality reprint of the original edition of 1884. Hansebooks is editor of the literature…
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More than 20 former radicals of the sixties come out of the political closet and look back at the dream that died.
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This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.
This work is in the "public…
This is the first and only biography of Jeane Kirkpatrick, who became an iconic figure in the 1980s as Ronald Reagan’s UN ambassador and the most forceful presence in the…
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This study of Proust’s famous novel A la recherche du temps perdu (Remembrance of Things Past) focuses on Venice, one of the hero’s central obsessions, and shows how a whole…
A general reader’s guide to the mathematics of relativity.
"What's the point of being Irish anyway if you don't think the world will break your heart?" asks Jack Kennedy. He is spellbound by a song about Ireland's neverland of…
Published in collaboration with the Congressional Medal of Honor Foundation.
This volume assesses the importance of border crossings in the evolution of European culture and identity, as reflected in the work of modern European writers and film-makers. Contributors chart the…
Roxana Preda,Peter Collier
Ezra Pound, the poet called the contemporary of our grandchildren, has exercised enormous influence on the development of American poetry and criticism. This impact on the world of letters is…
Arnaud Beaujeu
Toujours en cheminement ( comme freres mineurs vont leur chemin faisant ) vers un insaisissable point,eternel tiersouici-loin , Beckett ne cesse de nous prevenir, comme Pascal en…
Historical and literary scholars have become increasingly interested in women’s roles in and approaches to war. In times of conflict, French and francophone women have made crucial contributions in aid…
Julia Effertz
This interdisciplinary study, situated at the cross-section of music, literature and gender, examines the woman singer and her song as a literary motif in French and German prose fiction from…
Michael Abecassis,Peter Collier
This study is based on an analysis of videos and transcripts of five films
Benedict O'Donohoe
Published on the eve of the philosopher-playwright’s centenary, this study offers a wide-ranging re-appraisal of Sartre’s complete dramatic opus, from the inaugural ‘nativity’ play, Bariona (1940), to the swan-song chorus…
Sam Coombes,Peter Collier
From the middle of the 1940s onwards, Sartre became the personification of the committed intellectual, courageously taking public positions on many of the pressing issues of his time. In the…
Jennifer Murray,Peter Collier
The globalisation of culture and the shifting nature of national identities have propelled the stakes of memory and identity to the forefront of current intellectual debates. In recent years, the…
Maureen A. Ramsden
This book argues that the borders between traditional studies of genre definitions depend on complex issues of epistemology, literary traditions, and social and political constraints. It analyses how literary works…
Entre 1905 et 1925 Francois Mauriac redigea plus de trois cents articles dans divers journaux et revues litteraires et culturelles, souvent mais pas toujours d'inspiration catholique. Au cours de la…
Susan Tridgell
Modern Western biography has become one of the most popular and most controversial forms of literature. Critics have attacked its tendency to rely on a strong narrative drive, its focus…
Jennifer Hatte
Mythes, allegories, metaphores, allusions. Prise dans son ensemble, l'oeuvre de Jean Cocteau regorge de figures qui se repetent et se reorganisent comme des termes d'une langue obscure. Cette langue faite…
Cet ouvrage constitue les actes du Colloque International, ‘Julien Green, Diariste et Essayiste’, qui a eu lieu a la National University of Ireland, Maynooth, en avril 2003, sous l'egide de…
Peter Collier,David Horowitz
Presents a story of an intellectual journey into and out of the radical trenches.
This anthology includes 32 poems by French and francophone poets, each followed by an accessibly written, detailed commentary providing a theoretical framework for the study of modern poetry. An extensive…
Presents the story of three generations of Fords and of the conflict between fathers and sons played out against the backdrop of America’s greatest industrial empire.
En 2003 le prix Goncourt fete son centenaire, veritable evenement dans l'histoire des lettres francaises. Les textes reunis dans ce volume proviennent d'un colloque qui a eu lieu a l'Universite…
A comprehensive history that brings together the complex strains of the story of the Kennedys’ rise and fall.
Includes essays that analyze Noam Chomsky’s intellectual career and the evolution of his anti-Americanism.
Genevieve Shepherd
Simone de Beauvoir’s fiction is a largely unexplored field. This book offers new readings of her whole fictional corpus, using psychoanalysis as a critical lens. Vehemently anti-Freudian at the beginning…
Marcel Proust
Albertine disparue first published in 1925. This English translation first published in Great Britain by Allen Lane The Penguin Press, 2002.
Jean Khalfa
Poetics of the Antilles explores the poetry and thought of four major Francophone Caribbean writers: Perse, Cesaire, Fanon and Glissant. The book portrays the complex history of the negritude movements…
This story is designed and written by Peter Collier for both the reader and the listener. Children will request parents to continuously re-read a story that has caught their imagination…
This is the first of five volumes that will be based on lectures given by Pierre Bourdieu at the College de France in the early 1980s under the title General…
This is the second of five volumes based on the lectures given by Pierre Bourdieu at the College de France in the early 1980s under the title ‘General Sociology’. In…
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This is the fifth and final volume based on the lectures given by Pierre Bourdieu at the College de France in the early 1980s under the title 'General Sociology'. In…
This is the second of five volumes based on the lectures given by Pierre Bourdieu at the College de France in the early 1980s under the title 'General Sociology'. In…
Peter J. Collier
At a time when college completion is a major issue, and there is particular concern about the retention of underserved student populations, peer mentoring programmes offer one solution to promoting…
Victoria Best,Peter Collier
In the first major overview of the latest and most challenging development in French cultural studies, this volume approaches the field of performance theory in its diverse applications. At the…
