Books from Peter Lang UK
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The Intuitive Buddhist: Psychological Type As a New Hermeneutic of Buddhist Diversity in the West
By Phra Nicholas ThanissaroPresents hard evidence from hundreds of self-identifying Buddhists in the UK, that the diversity of Buddhists, previously described in terms of ethnic dichotomy, is better explained in terms of Psychological Type preferences.
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Voices of Dissent: Interdisciplinary Approaches to New Italian Popular and Political Music
By Giovanni Pietro VitaliThis book is an interdisciplinary analysis of an art form that is crucial to the understanding of Italian contemporary society: political music from the 1960s to today.
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A Tale of Two Sisters: Life in Early British Colonial MadrasThe Letters of Elizabeth Gwillim and Her Sister Mary Symonds...
By Patrick WheelerIntroduction -- Letters of 1801 and commentary -- Letters of 1802 and commentary -- Letters of 1803 and commentary -- Letters of 1804 and commentary -- Letters of 1805 and commentary -- Letters of 1806 and commentary -- Letters of 1807 and ...
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Power and Primacy: A Recent History of Western Intervention in the Asia-Pacific
By A. B. AbramsThis book undertakes the task of elucidating the complex and little-known history of western intervention in the Asia-Pacific, providing information critical to understanding contemporary developments
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The Caribbean in Translation: Remapping Thresholds of Dislocation
By Laëtitia Saint-LoubertThis book investigates twentieth- and twenty-first-century Caribbean literatures in translation.
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Stanislavski in Ireland: Focus at Fifty
By Steven Dedalus Burch, Brian McAveraThe book comes complete with a chronological list of Productions. It is aimed at students of theatre, actors, directors, academics, as well as the casual reader.
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Thomas Mann's Addresses Delivered at the Library of Congress
By Thomas MannThis collection consists of the lectures he held there, and deals with the following topics: The Theme of the Joseph Novels; The War and the Future; Germany and the Germans; Nietzsche's Philosophy in the Light of Contemporary Events; and, ...
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Pakistan and the New Nuclear Taboo: Regional Deterrence and the International Arms Control Regime
By Rizwana AbbasiThis book examines Pakistan's nuclear behaviour from the 1950s onwards against the background of the emerging global non-proliferation system.
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Language and Identity in Europe: The Multilingual City and Its Citizens
By Lorna Carson, Caroline Smyth, Chung Kam KwokThis book brings together research perspectives on the theme of European linguistic and cultural identity.
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Natasha's Dress: Language of Literature, Language of Fashion
By Paola ColaiacomoThis book explores interconnections between high literary modernism and the revolution in dress design of the early twentieth century.