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Exposes the flaws of Mel Gibson's cinematic Christ, and lays out assertively the rationale of Jews and Christians, in how to grasp and comprehend the passion and execution of the Christian savior known scripturally as the ""King of the Jews.

Examines how one of imperial Austria's principal ethnic conflicts, that between Czechs and Germans, developed in one of the major cities during the era of industrialization and urban growth. This book shows how the inhabitants of Prague, constructed ethnic group loyalties and social solidarities over the course of the nineteenth century.

Former news anchor and reporter Mark Mathis gives publicity seekers a simple and highly practical formula to follow. Unlike other books, this book explains how to deal with journalists in a systematic way. It establishes 12 rules that cover everything any PR person ever needs to know.

In all organisational settings, managing projects is an ever-increasing necessity. Large corporations have departments that institute procedures for implementing and tracking projects, but smaller organisations can also benefit from becoming aware of the steps undertaken in creating a project so they can maximise planned outcomes.

Provides a tangible and workable philosophical and cultural discourse within which to present an alternative understanding of subjectivity by engaging in a theoretical discussion with the philosophical discourse on potentiality and immanence, of which the writings of Gilles Deleuze and Giorgio Agamben are among the most advanced and innovative examples to date.

Explores the literary, cultural and political relationships of Francisco de Quevedo (1580-1645), one of the major writers of the Spanish Golden Age. This book establishes the birth and development of the first Spanish literary field circa 1600, and then focuses on the relationship between the literary field and the field of power.

Concurrent with the dawn of multiparty politics in 1990, Mirko Pejanovic emerged in Bosnia Herzegovina as the leader of the Socialist Alliance. This memoir, beginning in 1990, tells the story of his experiences as a public and political leader.

Rojas' Celestina (1499) and Delicado's La Lozana andaluza (1530) were written during the height of the Spanish Inquisition. This book shows through textual evidence that these two authors used superficial bawdiness and claims regarding the morality of their respective works as cover to encode attacks against the central dogmas of Christianity.

Provides a systematic study of dog ownership in a Caribbean society by investigating the Bahamian perceptions of 'pet' and 'responsible pet ownership' in the context of both dog overpopulation concerns and how 'image' dogs like Rottweilers and Pit Bulls have interacted with and altered the Potcake population.

This work argues that a feminist ethics, in order to be both feminist and ethical, needs to embrace psychoanalysis. It includes an analysis of two attempts by George Sand to reimagine the sexual relationship where the emphasis is on political injustice and the impossibility of women's desires.

This collection of papers follows the objectives of a work published in ""CLCWeb: Comparative Literature and Culture - a WWWeb Journal"", namely, the publishing of new work in comparative literature, cultural studies and comparative cultural studies.

Criticism of exile literature has tended to analyse these works according to a binary logic where exile either produces creative freedom or traps the writer in restrictive nostalgia. This title offers a theory of exile writing that accounts for the persistance of these dual impulses.

Explores the burst of horticulture interest in the 19th century, and documents its influence on Midwestern domestic landscapes. With its portrayal of ornamental plant use and its examination of 19th-century horticultural advice literature and nursery and seed trades, this book aims to appeal to rural, cultural, and environmental historians.

This work explores the use of the grammatical figure called the chiasmus in the work of Miguel de Unamuno. He explores concepts, usually considered opposites, such as mind and body or spirit and matter. Olson's readings lead to observations on Spanish history and events in Unamuno's life.

In a world of increasing conformity, the modern eccentric can be seen as a contemporary hero and guardian of individualism. This study defines the modern eccentric in 20th-century French literature and compares the notions of the eccentric by tracing its relation to time, space and society.

Anamorphic devices challenge viewers to experience different forms of perceptual oscillation and uncertainty. This title seeks to demonstrate that much of the literature of the Spanish Golden Age is susceptible, and indeed requires, oblique readings.

Signs of Science: Literature, Science, and Spanish Modernity since 1868 traces how Spanish culture represented scientific activity from the mid-nineteenth century onward.

This work examines nation building in Austria and uses the Austrian experience to explore the conceptual foundations of nationhood. A historical interpretation to Austrian nation building gives the Austrian experience special relevance for the larger debate about the nature of history.

Opening with Maraini's own analysis of women's writing, this collection of essays by an international selection of Italianists uses various interpretive perspectives, ranging from semiotics to psychoanalysis, to explore the range of her production as a novelist, playwright, poet and film maker.

In this seminal work, Anna Coreth examines the ways that Catholic beliefs in the power of the Eucharist, the cross, the Virgin Mary and saints were crucial for the Habsburg ruling dynasties in Austria and Spain.

Evidence is mounting that animal abuse, frequently embedded in families scarred by domestic violence and child abuse and neglect, often predicts the potential for other violent acts. In this work, contributors examine research and programmatic issues, and encourage cross-disciplinary interactions.

This volume provides a study of the four key elements of the program planning process: program organization planning, schedule planning, cost planning, and performance planning.

A presentation of historical , philosophical and research sources exploring the maltreatment of animals and interpersonal violence. Among the disciplines represented in the reading are psychology and psychiatry, criminology, veterinary science and anthropology.

Examines historically and critically the dire affects of the process of animalization on both humans and animals. Following the philosophical provenance of the idea of ""animality"", this work explores the practical and ""scientific"" uses of this idea, focusing largely on what Stephen J Gould terms the ""biodeterministic tradition"".