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Zizek and Politics: A Critical Introduction

Zizek and Politics: A Critical Introduction

Matthew Sharpe

The Antinomies of Žižek's Sociopolitical Reason', in Matthew Sharpe, Geoff Boucher and Jason Glynos (eds), Traversing the Fantasy: Critical Responses to Slavoj Žižek. London: Ashgate, pp. 147–68. Sharpe, Matthew (2007). 'De Maistre  ...
Sleuthing the Divine: The Nexus of Science and Spirit

Sleuthing the Divine: The Nexus of Science and Spirit

Kevin Sharpe

Sharpe, a leader in the field, engagingly seeks the reality of God in the world, even as he eschews traditional theological terms and authorities.
Blott On The Landscape

Blott On The Landscape

Tom Sharpe

Tom Sharpe's comedy lies as much in his language and the pace of the dialogue as in the outrageous muddles and confusions of his comic situations' The Times 'This exuberant novel will cheer all those who dislike bureaucracy' Daily Telegraph ...
Friedrich Schiller: Drama, Thought and Politics

Friedrich Schiller: Drama, Thought and Politics

Lesley Sharpe

Lesley Sharpe assesses Schiller's development as a dramatist, poet and thinker against the background of his life.
You Were Wrong: A Novel

You Were Wrong: A Novel

Matthew Sharpe

Matthew Sharpe addresses his heady themes with warmth and charisma. You Were Wrong is a lovingly satiric, intelligent, and deeply enjoyable novel with a voice all its own.
Remember, Remember: A Cultural History of Guy Fawkes Day

Remember, Remember: A Cultural History of Guy Fawkes Day

J. A. Sharpe

James Sharpe teases apart the tangled web of religion and politics that gave rise to the plot and wittily shows how celebration of that fateful night has changed over the centuries.
The Gropes

The Gropes

Tom Sharpe

'This is a romp with many of the staples of Sharpe's bestselling comedy' Daily Mail 'The funniest novelist writing today' The Times 'An immense gift for social satire ... the action is unflagging' Daily Telegraph 'A major craftsman in the ...
Schiller's Aesthetic Essays: Two Centuries of Criticism

Schiller's Aesthetic Essays: Two Centuries of Criticism

Lesley Sharpe

He sums up the eighteenth century while anticipating modern ideas; his notions of the naive and the sentimental, of art as play, and of beauty as semblance, have had a lasting impact on aesthetic speculation.Dr Sharpe's book is the first ...
Indecent Exposure

Indecent Exposure

Tom Sharpe

'Explosively funny, fiendishly inventive' Sunday Times 'What clinches the novel's success is Mr Sharpe's brilliant comic style. his phrasing, his timing, and his extraordinarily deft handling of the minutiae of comic incidents make for real ...
In the Wake: On Blackness and Being

In the Wake: On Blackness and Being

Christina Sharpe

In this original and trenchant work, Christina Sharpe interrogates literary, visual, cinematic, and quotidian representations of Black life that comprise what she calls the "orthography of the wake.
Grantchester Grind: (Porterhouse Blue Series 2)

Grantchester Grind: (Porterhouse Blue Series 2)

Tom Sharpe

'The best of British farce-masters is back' Mail on Sunday 'Has all the ingredients of a classic Sharpe novel - grotesque characters, outlandish plot, scabrous dialogue' The Times 'Dynamic, fertile, knockabout energy' Evening Standard 'A ...
Promise Of Hunters Ridge

Promise Of Hunters Ridge

Sarah Barrie

He thought about that as what was left of Cathy Sharpe was zipped inside a body bag. 'I want to talk to the housemate.' At six o'clock he went to the gym. After spending most of the day working on Cathy Sharpe's murder, Ben needed to work ...
Rebranding Rule: The Restoration and Revolution Monarchy, ...

Rebranding Rule: The Restoration and Revolution Monarchy, ...

Kevin Sharpe

In the climactic part of his three-book series exploring the importance of public image in the Tudor and Stuart monarchies, Kevin Sharpe employs a remarkable interdisciplinary approach that draws on literary studies and art history as well ...
Wilt In Nowhere: (Wilt Series 4)

Wilt In Nowhere: (Wilt Series 4)

Tom Sharpe

'Tom Sharpe is back and he's on cracking form' Daily Mail 'One of the most widely enjoyed comic writers in Britain ... his position at the heart of British comedy is as assured as that of the seaside postcard' Observer ''Our funniest living ...
Transgender Jurisprudence: Dysphoric Bodies of Law

Transgender Jurisprudence: Dysphoric Bodies of Law

Andrew Sharpe

' -Res Publica (Vol 8(3) 2002 pp 275-283 at pp 282-283), Dr Surya Munro of the Department of Law, Keele University '[Sharpe] expresses the hope that the book has made an important contribution ... That it has done so is beyond doubt.
Current Topics in Microbiology and Immunology / Ergebnisse ...

Current Topics in Microbiology and Immunology / Ergebnisse ...

W. Arber

Bull. 23, 161–168 (1967) SUBAK-SHARPE, J. H.: The genetics of herpesvirus. Cancer Res. 33, 1385–1392 (1973) SUBAK-SHARPE, J. H., BRow N, S. M., RITCHIE, D. A., TIMBURY, M. C., HALLIBURTON, I. W.: Herpes virus genetics. Advanc.
Ceremony of Innocence: A Memoir

Ceremony of Innocence: A Memoir

Roger Dean Sharpe

In Ceremony of Innocence Roger Sharpe proposes creation of an institute for training small group leaders who would welcome dialogue among participants, invite reconciliation, and encourage the rebuilding of American communities across ...
Petrocultures: Oil, Politics, Culture

Petrocultures: Oil, Politics, Culture

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Notable here is Christina Sharpe's provocative account of slavery's Middle Passage as the forgotten space at the heart of The Forgotten Space. See Christina Sharpe, In the Wake: On Blackness and Being (Durham: Duke University Press, ...
Shifting the Boundaries: Transformation of the Languages of ...

Shifting the Boundaries: Transformation of the Languages of ...

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Transformation of the Languages of Public and Private in the Eighteenth Century Dario Castiglione, Lesley Sharpe. Six Theodor Gottlieb von Hippel: Argumentative Strategies in the Debate on the Rights of Women Lesley Sharpe In his famous ...
The Rise of the Quants: Marschak, Sharpe, Black, Scholes and ...

The Rise of the Quants: Marschak, Sharpe, Black, Scholes and ...

Colin Read

The third book in the Great Minds in Finance series examines the pricing of securities and the risk/reward trade off through the legends, contribution, and legacies of Jacob Marschak, William Sharpe, Fischer Black and Myron Scholes, and ...
Monstrous Intimacies: Making Post-Slavery Subjects

Monstrous Intimacies: Making Post-Slavery Subjects

Christina Sharpe

Arguing that the fundamental, familiar, sexual violence of slavery and racialized subjugation have continued to shape black and white subjectivities into the present, Christina Sharpe interprets African diasporic and Black Atlantic visual ...
The Wilt Inheritance: (Wilt Series 5)

The Wilt Inheritance: (Wilt Series 5)

Tom Sharpe

With Tom Sharpe's famous dark humour in full evidence, and an explosive plot which takes its readers to places they never realised they wanted to visit, The Wilt Inheritance is another instant classic from the British master of farce.
Has Science Displaced the Soul?: Debating Love and Happiness

Has Science Displaced the Soul?: Debating Love and Happiness

Kevin Sharpe

With doctorates in both mathematics and theology, Kevin Sharpe explores these notions and asks the question, Has Science Displaced the Soul?
Massachusetts Reports: Decisions of the Supreme Judicial ...

Massachusetts Reports: Decisions of the Supreme Judicial ...

Massachusetts. Supreme Judicial Court

Sharpe & another. EDwARD C. _WALKER vs. ANDREw SHARPE & another. The estate of a tenant at will, who occupies under an agreement to pay rent monthly, on the 'first day of each month, may be determined by a written notice, given on ...
North Carolina Manual

North Carolina Manual

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ROGER DEAN SHARPE (Democrat—Burke County) (Twenty-fourth Senatorial District—Counties: Avery, Burke, Caldwell, Mitchell, Watauga, and Wilkes. Two Senators.) Roger Dean Sharpe was born in Iredell County on August 29, 1947.
Mechanics of Crack Growth

Mechanics of Crack Growth

J. R. Rice

W. N. Sharpe, Jr.,1 and A. F. Grandt, Jr.2 A Preliminary Study of Fatigue Crack Retardation Using Laser Interferometry to Measure Crack Surface Displacements REFERENCE: Sharpe. W. N., Jr., and Grandt, A. F., Jr., "A Preliminary Study of ...
The Review of Economic Performance and Social Progress: The ...

The Review of Economic Performance and Social Progress: The ...

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The Longest Decade : Canada in the 1990s Keith G. Banting, Keith Banting, Andrew Sharpe, France St-Hilaire ... Andrew. Sharpe. Are we better off? In modern democracies, national systems of social and economic statistics have become a ...
Porterhouse Blue: (Porterhouse Blue Series 1)

Porterhouse Blue: (Porterhouse Blue Series 1)

Tom Sharpe

He is the funniest author to have emerged for years' Observer 'Chuckling good fun, a glorious romp' Sunday Express 'This supremely entertaining book is guaranteed to make you laugh' Books & Bookmen 'Tom Sharpe makes me laugh loud and long .
The Cambridge Companion to Goethe

The Cambridge Companion to Goethe

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Lesley Sharpe. 7. LESLEY SHARPE. Goethe. and. the. Weimar. theatre. Goethe was Director of the Weimar Court Theatre from 1791 to 1817 and steered it from comparative insignificance to national importance, as a theatre where a ...
Body Politics and the Fictional Double

Body Politics and the Fictional Double

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Atsuko Sakaki, 105-55. Armonk, N.Y: M. E. Sharpe, 1998. "Spring Night Dreams." In The Woman with the Flying Head and Other Stories by Kurahashi Yumiho. trans, and ed. Atsuko Sakaki, 67-76. Armonk, New York: M. E. Sharpe, 1998. Lacan ...

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