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Michael Silk, Ingo Gildenhard, Rosemary Barrow

The classical tradition—the legacy of Ancient Greece and Rome—is a large, diverse and important field that continues to shape human endeavour and engender wide public interest. The Classical Tradition: Art, Literature, Thought presents an original, coherent and wide-ranging guide to the afterlife of Greco-Roman antiquity in later Western cultures and a ground-breaking reinterpretation of large aspects of Western culture as a whole – English-speaking, French, German and Italian – f...

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Michael Silk

Standard Languages and Language Standards: Greek, Past and Present is a collection of essays with a distinctive focus and an unusual range. It brings together scholars from different disciplines, with a variety of perspectives, linguistic and literary, historical and social, to address issues of control, prescription, planning and perceptions of value over the long history of the Greek language, from the age of Homer to the present day. Under particular scrutiny are the processes of establ...

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Michael Silk

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Routledge Research in Sport, Culture and Society

Much of the writing on the post-9/11 period in the United States has focused on the role of "official" Government rhetoric about 9/11. Those who have focused on the news media have suggested that they played a key role in (re)defining the nation, allowing the citizenry to come to terms with 9/11, in providing ‘official’ understandings and interpretations of the event, and setting the terms for a geo-political-military response (the war on terror). However, strikingly absent from post-9/11 ...

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Michael Silk, Rosemary Barrow

Gender and the Body in Greek and Roman Sculpture offers incisive analysis of selected works of ancient art through a critical use of cutting-edge theory from gender studies, body studies, art history and other related fields. The book raises important questions about ancient sculpture and the contrasting responses that the individual works can be shown to evoke. Rosemary Barrow gives close attention to both original context and modern experience, while directly addressing the question of c...

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Liane Stephan, Silke Rupprecht, Chris Tamdjidi, Michael Mackay Richards

WINNER: Axiom Business Book Award 2025 - Bronze Medal, Digital MediaFINALIST**:** 2025 International Book Awards - Motivational CategoryThe ideal business is productive, collaborative and innovative. But how can you bring these qualities into your organization? The solution is to build a resilient culture.This is a groundbreaking guide to lasting success through practical a...

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Michael Adeniyi Ajayi

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AI Voice Theo Silk

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Angel Or Demon

This audiobook is narrated by an AI Voice.To save his family, London’s celebrated saint must become hell’s deadliest harvester.To London's high society and the British press, James Chambers is the "Angel of Knightsbridge"—a bestselling novelist, devoted family man, and philanthropist rescuing at-risk youth.Beneath the polished façade lies a blood debt.Bound by a three-year infernal pact with the Sovereign of the Acheron Kingdom, James has a single mandate to ...

Digital worlds and cultures—social media, web 2.0, youtube, wearable technologies, health and fitness apps—dominate, if not order, our everyday lives. We are no longer ‘just’ consumers or readers of digital culture but active producers through facebook, twitter, Instagram, youtube and other emerging technologies. This book is predicated on the assumption that out understanding of our everyday lives should be informed by what is taking place in and through emerging technologies given these ...

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Michael Tomasello, Carol Dweck, Joan Silk, Brian Skyrms, Elizabeth S. Spelke

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Boston Review Books

Through experiments with kids and chimpanzees, this cutting-edge theory in developmental psychology reveals how cooperation is a distinctly human combination of innate and learned behavior.“[A] fascinating approach to the question of what makes us human.” —Publishers WeeklyDrop something in front of a 2-year-old, and she’s likely to pick it up for you. This is not a learned behavior, psychologist Michael Tomasello argues. Through o...

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Computer Science (R0)

Design is eminent throughout different disciplines of science, engineering, humanities, and art. However, within these disciplines, the way in which the term design is understood and applied differs significantly. There still is a profound lack of interdisciplinary research on this issue. The same term is not even guaranteed to carry the same meaning as soon as one crosses over to other disciplines. Therefore, related synergies between disciplines remain largely unexplored and unexploited....

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Routledge International Handbooks

Physical cultural studies (PCS) is a dynamic and rapidly developing field of study. This handbook offers the first definitive account of the state of the art in PCS, showcasing the latest research and methodological approaches. It examines the boundaries, preoccupations, theories and politics of PCS, drawing on transdisciplinary expertise from areas as diverse as sport studies, sociology, history, cultural studies, performance studies and anthropology.Featuring chapters written by ...

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Anthony Hirst, Michael Silk

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Publications of the Centre for Hellenic Studies, King's College London

Alexandria, Real and Imagined offers a complex portrait of an extraordinary city, from its foundation in the fourth century BC up to the present day: a city notable for its history of ethnic diversity, for the legacies of its past imperial grandeur - Ottoman and Arab, Byzantine, Roman and Greek - and, not least, for the memorable images of 'Alexandria' constructed both by outsiders and by inhabitants of the city. In this volume of new essays, Alexandria and its many images - the real and t...

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Michael Adeniyi Ajayi

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All Out

This audiobook is narrated by an AI Voice.An elite agent vanishes in a city of secrets. A criminal empire dares the world to come find him.When MI6 agent Ryan Brown is abducted in Shanghai, a ruthless Chinese crime syndicate aims to eliminate the primary threat to their global dominance. As the mastermind behind MI6’s East Asian counter-terrorism, Ryan’s disappearance triggers a frantic international response.The rescue mission quickly turns into a high-stakes race a...