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The Secret History of the Pink Carnation

The Secret History of the Pink Carnation

by Lauren Willig

Nothing ever goes right for Eloise. The day she wears her new suede boots, it rains. When the subway stops short, she's the one thrown into some stranger's lap. And she's had her share of misfortune in the way of love. So, after deciding that romantic heroes must be a thing of the past, Eloise is ready for a fresh start. Setting off for England, Eloise is determined to finish her dissertation on two spies,... (more)

BEOWULF AND THE FIGHT AT FINNSBURG.

by Fr. Klaeber

A Beowulf Handbook (French Modernist Library)

A Beowulf Handbook (French Modernist Library)

The most revered work composed in Old English, Beowulf is one of the landmarks of European literature. This handbook supplies a wealth of insights into all major aspects of this wondrous poem and its scholarly tradition. Each chapter provides a history of the scholarly interest in a particular topic, a synthesis of present knowledge and opinion, and an analysis of scholarly work that remains to be done.... (more)

A Critical Companion to Beowulf

by Andy Orchard

Beowulf is the best known and most closely studied literary work surviving from Anglo-Saxon England, and the modern reader is faced with a bewildering number and variety of interpretations about such basic matters as the date, provenance, and significance of the poem. A Critical Companion to Beowulf addresses these and other issues, reviewing and synthesising previous scholarship, as well as offering fresh... (more)

From Reverence to Rape: The Treatment of Women in the Movies

From Reverence to Rape: The Treatment of Women in the Movies

by Molly Haskell

"An incisive, exceedingly thoughtful look at the distorted lens through which Hollywood has historically viewed women. It is a valuable contribution not just of film criticism but to a society in which the vital role of women is just beginning to emerge."-- Christian Science Monitor

Given Time: I. Counterfeit Money (Given Time)

Given Time: I. Counterfeit Money (Given Time)

by Peggy Kamuf, Jacques Derrida

Is giving possible? Is it possible to give without immediately entering into a circle of exchange that turns the gift into a debt to be returned? This question leads Jacques Derrida to make out an irresolvable paradox at what seems the most fundamental level of the gift's meaning: for the gift to be received as a gift, it must not appear as such, since its mere appearance as gift puts it in the cycle of... (more)

Undressing Cinema

by Stella Bruzzi

From Audrey Hepburn in Givenchy, to sharp suited gangsters in Tarantino movies, clothing is a key element in the construction of cinematic identities. Undressing Cinema , an innovative examination of the significance of clothes in film, proposes new and dynamic links between cinema, fashion and costume history, gender, queer theory and psychoanalysis. Exploring new film noir, the gangster movie and New Black... (more)

The Gender of the Gift: Problems with Women and Problems with Society in Melanesia (Studies in Melanesian Anthropology, Vol. 6)

The Gender of the Gift: Problems with Women and Problems with Society in Melanesia (Studies in Melanesian Anthropology, Vol. 6)

by Marilyn Strathern

In the most original and ambitious synthesis yet undertaken in Melanesian scholarship, Marilyn Strathern argues that gender relations have been a particular casualty of unexamined assumptions held by Western anthropologists and feminist scholars alike. The book treats with equal seriousnessand with equal good humorthe insights of Western social science, feminist politics, and ethnographic... (more)

Visual Habits: Nuns, Feminism, And American Postwar Popular Culture

Visual Habits: Nuns, Feminism, And American Postwar Popular Culture

by Rebecca Sullivan

The 1950s and 60s were times of extraordinary social and political change across North America that re-drew the boundaries between traditional and progressive, conservative and liberal. Nowhere is this more apparent than in the history of Catholic nuns. During these two decades, nuns boldly experimented with their role in the church, removing their habits, rejecting the cloister, and fighting for social justice.... (more)

We Have Never Been Modern

by Bruno Latour

With the rise of science, we moderns believe, the world changed irrevocably, separating us forever from our primitive, premodern ancestors. But if we were to let go of this fond conviction, Bruno Latour asks, what would the world look like? His book, an anthropology of science, shows us how much of modernity is actually a matter of faith. What does it mean to be modern? What difference does the scientific... (more)

MLA Style Manual and Guide to Scholarly Publishing (2d ed)

MLA Style Manual and Guide to Scholarly Publishing (2d ed)

by Joseph Gibaldi

...reviews basics, legal issues, MLA conventions, style for journals, thesis, dissertations, proper citation.

Lesbian Nuns: Breaking Silence

by Nancy Manahan

Unprecedented autobiographies of religious life.

Writing Your Dissertation in Fifteen Minutes a Day: A Guide to Starting, Revising, and Finishing Your Doctoral Thesis

Writing Your Dissertation in Fifteen Minutes a Day: A Guide to Starting, Revising, and Finishing Your Doctoral Thesis

by Joan Bolker

Expert writing advice from the editor of the Boston Globe best-seller, The Writer's Home Companion Dissertation writers need strong, practical advice, as well as someone to assure them that their struggles aren't unique. Joan Bolker, midwife to more than one hundred dissertations and co-founder of the Harvard Writing Center, offers invaluable suggestions for the graduate-student writer. Using positive... (more)

Literacy and Power in Anglo-Saxon Literature (Regents Studies in Medieval Culture)Seth Lerer

Literacy and Power in Anglo-Saxon Literature (Regents Studies in Medieval Culture)

by Seth Lerer

At the close of the ninth century Alfred the Great lamented the decay of teaming in England and proposed a program of official translations and scholarly study to set his country back on the path of intellectual inquiry. In his Preface to Pope Gregory's Pastoral Care, Alfred equated a knowledge of texts with the right governance of self and state. That document, rich in the history of Anglo-Saxon England and... (more)

Doing a Literature Review: Releasing the Social Science Research Imagination

Doing a Literature Review: Releasing the Social Science Research Imagination

by Chris Hart

Reviewing the literature for a research project can seem a daunting, even overwhelming task. New researchers, in particular, wonder: Where do I start? What do I do? How do I do it? Doing a Literature Review can help. This accessible text offers advice on how to: { search out existing knowledge on a topic; { analyze arguments and ideas; { map ideas, arguments and perspectives; { produce a literature... (more)

Outline of a Theory of Practice (Cambridge Studies in Social and Cultural Anthropology)

Outline of a Theory of Practice (Cambridge Studies in Social and Cultural Anthropology)

by Pierre Bourdieu

Outline of a theory of practice is recognized as a major theoretical text on the foundations of anthropology and sociology. Pierre Bourdieu, a distinguished French anthropologist, develops a theory of practice which is simultaneously a critique of the methods and postures of social science and a general account of how human action should be understood. With his central concept of the habitus, the principle which... (more)

The Craft of Research (Chicago Guides to Writing, Editing, and Publishing)

The Craft of Research (Chicago Guides to Writing, Editing, and Publishing)

by Wayne C. Booth, Gregory G. Colomb

Since 1995, more than 150,000 students and researchers have turned to The Craft of Research for clear and helpful guidance on how to conduct research and report it effectively . Now, master teachers Wayne C. Booth, Gregory G. Colomb, and Joseph M. Williams present a completely revised and updated version of their classic handbook. Like its predecessor, this new edition reflects the way researchers actually... (more)

The Enigma of the Gift

by Maurice Godelier

When we think of giving gifts, we think of exchanging objects that carry with them economic or symbolic value. But is every valuable thing a potentially exchangeable item, whose value can be transferred? In The Enigma of the Gift , the distinguished French anthropologist Maurice Godelier reassesses the significance of gifts in social life by focusing on sacred objects, which are never exchanged despite the value... (more)

The Gift (Routledge Classics S.)

by Marcel Mauss

Since its first publication in English in 1954, The Gift , Marcel Mauss's groundbreaking study of the relation between forms of exchange and social structure, has been acclaimed as a classic among anthropology texts.

Authoring a PhD Thesis: How to Plan, Draft, Write and Finish a Doctoral Dissertation

Authoring a PhD Thesis: How to Plan, Draft, Write and Finish a Doctoral Dissertation

by Patrick Dunleavy

Authoring a Ph.D. Thesis involves having creative ideas, working out how to organize them, writing up from plans, upgrading text, and finishing it speedily and to a good standard. It also involves being examined and getting work published. This book provides a huge range of ideas and suggestions to help Ph.D. candidates cope with both the intellectual issues involved and the practical difficulties of organizing... (more)

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