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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  ...
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.
Camus, Philosophe: To Return to our Beginnings

Camus, Philosophe: To Return to our Beginnings

Matthew Sharpe

In Camus, Philosophe: To Return to our Beginnings Matthew Sharpe reads Camus as a philosophe in the classical and enlightenment lineages, arguing that his defense of mesure singles him out amidst 20th century French thought and makes him of ...
Nothing Is Terrible: A Novel

Nothing Is Terrible: A Novel

Matthew Sharpe

Like a breakneck sprint through a Manhattan house of mirrors, it offers readers a giddily literate tour of the resourceful mind of a singular young woman. From the Hardcover edition.
Jamestown

Jamestown

Matthew Sharpe

A band of futuristic survivors from the cataclysmic decimation of the Chrysler Building sets out to establish an outpost in southern Virginia with an intention of finding oil and exploiting the region's Native American controllers, an ...
The Sleeping Father

The Sleeping Father

Matthew Sharpe

The Sleeping Father is about the loss of innocence, the disorientating experience of a second childhood and the nature of love and meaning.
Understanding Psychoanalysis

Understanding Psychoanalysis

Matthew Sharpe

Charting pivotal moments in the theorization and reception of psychoanalysis, the book provides a comprehensive account of the concerns and development of Freud's work, as well as his most prominent successors, Melanie Klein and Jacques ...
Stories from the Tube

Stories from the Tube

Matthew Sharpe

In voices that are by turns surreal, hilarious, haunting, and poignant, a debut collection of short fiction presents ten stories that have been inspired by television commercials. 15,000 first printing. Tour.
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.
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 ...
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.
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Matthew: The Christbook, Matthew 1-12

Matthew: The Christbook, Matthew 1-12

Frederick Dale Bruner

Recognized as a masterly commentary on Matthew when it first appeared, this study of the First Gospel is being reissued as a greatly expanded two-volume work.
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 ...
Tired But Wired: How to Overcome Your Sleep Problems: The ...

Tired But Wired: How to Overcome Your Sleep Problems: The ...

Nerina Ramlakhan

... Undoing Depression, Souvenir Press: London, 2010 Simon Wessely, Matthew Hotopf and Michael Sharpe, Chronic Fatigue and its Syndromes, Oxford University Press: Oxford, 1999 Chapter 4 Alyssa Abbey, Stop Making Excuses and Start ...
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 ...
What was Mark for Matthew?: An Examination of Matthew's ...

What was Mark for Matthew?: An Examination of Matthew's ...

J. Andrew Doole

What does Matthew's re-working of the gospel of Mark tell us about his relationship and attitude to this important Christian text?
Matthew: Evangelist and Teacher

Matthew: Evangelist and Teacher

R. T. France

This work by R.T. France is not intended to be a guide to all that has been written in recent years about Matthew. Rather, it is an extended introduction to Matthew designed for a non-specialist readership.
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 ...

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