Books published by Continuum Publishing Corporation

Deciphers sounds and silences buried within the ghostly horrors of Arthur Machen, Shirley Jackson, Charles Dickens, M R James and Edgar Allen Poe, Dutch genre painting from Rembrandt to Vermeer, artists as diverse as Francis Bacon and Juan Munoz, and the writing of many modernist authors including Virginia Woolf, Samuel Beckett, and James Joyce.

A study of the origins of the New York City punk scene, focusing on Television and their extraordinary debut record.

A study of a pivotal moment in Ween's development, as they became one of the world's most endearing, and enduring, cult bands.

For ten years "Calvin and Hobbes" was one of the world's most beloved comic strips. And then, on the last day of 1995, the strip ended. Its mercurial and reclusive creator, Bill Watterson, not only finished the strip but withdrew entirely from public life. This title traces the life and career of the intensely private man behind Calvin and Hobbes.

There is an unresolved tension in Dostoevsky's novels - a tension between believing and not believing in the existence of God. This book enables us to consider the nature of God in the 21st Century through the lens of Dostoevsky's novels.

An album which distilled a genre from the musical, cultural, and social ether, Portishead's "Dummy" was such a complete artistic achievement that its ubiquitous successes threatened to exhaust its own potential. The author offers an impressionistic investigation of "Dummy" that imitates the cumulative structure of the album itself.

Analyzes a variety of contemporary films replete with psychoanalytic subject matter and styles. This title examines films that present elaborate fantasies and, through them, prompt the viewer to cut across a crippling fundamental fantasy - by enabling a mapping of his or her private fantasy onto the one being played out on the screen.

Argues that anarchism should be considered the first "postmodern" philosophical and political movement and offers a revision of "classical anarchism." This title looks at the place of "classical anarchism" in the postmodern political discourse, claiming that anarchism presents a vision of political postmodernity.

James Joyce stands at the forefront of modernism - a writer whose work has gained a unique status in modern Western culture. This book offers an introduction to reading and studying Joycean texts and surveys the key contexts - literary, historical, political, philosophical and compositional - which shaped and determined them.

Presents Buddhism as a living, practical religion, giving readers an enlightening insight into an often mystifying tradition. This book offers a fascinating perspective on Buddhism, in all its beauty and nobility, though the eyes of a practicing Buddhist born and raised in the tradition that has guided millions of people since its beginnings.

Offers a feminist introduction to Gilles Deleuze's work on cinema that proposes a way of thinking about the cinematic viewing experience by exploring it as a bodily and emotional experience. This book introduces Deleuze and Felix Guattari's concept of the assemblage and uses it to understand the relationship between film and viewer.

Provides a pan-European analysis of pauper narratives, focusing on the experiences of the sick poor in England, France, Germany, Ireland, Luxembourg, Scotland, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland and Wales. This book highlights the value of pauper narratives for exploring the agency, rhetoric and experiences of the poor and sick poor.

Examines the educational experiences of minority groups in different international contexts, from the USA, Finland, Rwanda, India, South Africa, Hungary, China and the UK. This title contains a summary of the key points and issues within each chapter to enable easy navigation, key contemporary questions to encourage active engagement.

Examines the relationship HIV / AIDS has with education in different international contexts, from Sub-Saharan Africa, Southeast Asia, Eastern Europe, the USA, UK, and the Caribbean. This title draws on the international research in numerous countries, including Sub-Saharan Africa, Southeast Asia, Europe, the USA and the Caribbean.

Offers a global exploration of formal and non-formal education provision to refugees and asylum seekers in refugee camps, and in schools and universities of host countries. This book draws on international research in numerous countries, including Thailand, North Korea, Lebenon, Africa, the USA and the UK.

Offers an introduction to one of the most influential French thinkers, exploring Ranciere's ideas on philosophy, aesthetics, and politics. This book explains how Ranciere's ideas allow us to understand art as having a deeper social role than is customarily assigned to it, as well as how political opposition can be revitalized.

What is church's true foundation? Was the Christian church founded by Jesus, or does 'the Eucharist make the church'? Paul Avis sets out his own answer to these questions. Gathering a wide range of critical scholarship, he argues that there is something solid and dependable at the foundation of the church's life and mission. Avis argues that Jesus wanted a church in a sense, but not as we know it. Christ proclaimed the gospel of the Kingdom and his disciples proclaimed the gospel whose content was Jesus himself, the Kingdom in person. The church is battered and divided, but at its core is a treasure that is indestructible - the gospel of Christ, embodied in word and sacrament. A central theme of the book is the relationship between the church and Christ, the church and the gospel, the church and the Kingdom. Jesus Christ, crucified and risen, is the sole foundation of the church, but he cannot be without his people.

David Bruce (1898-1977) was a prominent American diplomat, who served in France, Germany, and the UK. His work is examined here to provide an in-depth look at the practice of diplomacy and the role of the ambassador as diplomatic actor.This thorough survey aims to investigate the relevance of the resident embassy to modern diplomacy. To do so, it focuses on the ambassador''s daily work as a diplomat, looking at his role in promoting friendly relations, his political reporting, policy advising, as well as the role of his staff and his relations with others in the Foreign Service. It also addresses major issues such as the debate over the ''death of the embassy,'' showing that ambassadors remain vital actors in the relations between major powers.The work integrates theoretical material on diplomatic practice and the case study of a highly regarded diplomat. This unique, readable study will appeal to students in diplomacy, international relations, American politics, as well as to trainee and junior diplomats.

"The concept of spontaneity is central to Kant''s philosophy, yet Kant himself never dealt with it explicitly. Instead it was presented as an insoluble problem concerning human reason. The ambiguity surrounding his approach to this problem is surprising when one considers that he was a philosopher who based his theoretical programme on the critique of the faculties of knowledge, feeling and desire. However, this ambiguity seems to have avoided up to now any possible critique. This highly original book presents the first full-length study of the problem of spontaneity in Kant. Marco Sgarbi demonstrates that spontaneity is a crucial concept in relation to every aspect of Kant''s thought. He begins by reconstructing the history of the concept of spontaneity in the German Enlightenment prior to Kant and goes on to define knowing, thinking, acting and feeling as spontaneous activities of the mind that in turn determine Kant''s logic, ethics and aesthetics. Ultimately Sgarbi shows that the notion of spontaneity is key to understanding both Kant''s theoretical and practical philosophy."

Charts the history of weakness in a selection of canonical works in literature and philosophy. Beginning with Plato and Aristotle, this book explores weakness as it interpreted by Lao Tzu, Nietzsche, the Romantics, Dickens and Modernists. It examines what feminist critics Elaine Showalter and Luce Irigaray make of the figure of the weaker vessel.

Nature and the city have most often functioned as opposites within Western culture, a dichotomy that has been reinforced (and sometimes challenged) by religious images. This book argues that cities and natural environments, however, are both connected and continually affected by one another.

Examines the historical, political and socioeconomic contexts in which indigenous communities in Paraguay are mobilizing for land rights. This book analyzes the sociopolitical mobilization around land rights of the indigenous communities in this country.

The book examines the growth and development of women's activism in Iran since the 1979 Revolution.

Tells the story of the volunteers of the 36th and 16th divisions who fought on the Somme and side-by-side at Messines throughout the First World War. The author also brings in forgotten West Belfast men from throughout the armed forces, from the retreat at Mons to the defeat of Germany and life post-war.

Stanley Melbourne Bruce was at the centre of Imperial politics from the early 1920s until the end of the Second World War. Educated in Melbourne and Cambridge, Bruce, as a businessman, was alive to the importance of international commerce, and Anglo-Australian trade. This title presents Bruce as a consistent internationalist.

Offers a comprehensive survey of the ways in which linguistics is being used by researchers in a range of interdisciplinary areas. This title provides a snapshot of the field of applied linguistics, and illustrates how linguistics is informing and engaging with neighbouring disciplines.

The history of war is inextricably bound to the history of the world. Through a detailed exploration of 'world-scale' issues of warfare, presented within a chronological framework that spans human history, the author skilfully illustrates this fact whilst providing the reader with other astute insights and compelling interpretations of war.

Provides a reference tool for those working in contemporary philosophical ethics. This title offers a guide to a key area of contemporary philosophy.

Discusses how dictatorships work, looking at leaders, elites, and regime dynamics, synthesizing foundational and cutting-edge research on authoritarian politics, and integrating theory with case studies. This title argues that political outcomes in dictatorships are largely a product of leader-elite relations.