Books published by Continuum Publishing Corporation

Offers an introduction to the context, themes, and influence of one of the most important works of 20th century political philosophy. This book offers guidance on philosophical and historical context; key themes; reading the text; and reception and influence. It is suitable for undergraduate students.

Everyone learns best when they are enjoying an activity - even adults prefer to learn through play! This book gives a wide range of ideas and practical activities to use computer games as learning tools with students aged 11+. You don't need to be a computer whiz to use this book. From the practical aspects of purchasing and setting up equipment to integrating them into a lesson plan - and even using them without playing them - this book will add a new aspect to your subject to make it even more engaging and fascinating to your students. There are sections on: - Integrating games into lessons - Activities for using freely and commonly-available computer games and consoles - Making your own games, and helping students to design computer games themselves - Using games to differentiate for students of varying abilities and learning styles By adding a new dimension to learning and teaching, computer games can be an enjoyable and fun addition to lessons and, as a result, produce lifelong learners.

Investigates spiritual tourism - tourism characterised by an intentional search for spiritual benefit - from a contemporary religious studies perspective. This title provides an important opportunity to comment on the role of tourism in contemporary conceptions of spirituality and spiritual practice in Western society.

Brings Deleuze's writings on cinema into contact with world cinema, drawing on examples ranging from Georges Melies to Michael Mann. This title explores what happens when Deleuze's ideas are brought into contact with the films he did not discuss, those from Europe and the USA (from Georges Melies to Michael Mann) and a range of world cinemas.

Addressing the fervor with which the public has come to view comics as an art form and Americans' fraught but passionate relationship with religion, this title explores the roles of religion in comic books and graphic novels.

A guide that can support professionals to: reflect on the practice and develop skills; evaluate the implications of research for early years practice and provision; promote interdisciplinary teamwork between those who work with and support young children; and support children as they move within and beyond the Early Years Foundation Stage (EYFS).

Provides an examination of issues related to the religious roots of post-1990 European identity, by analyzing the components of European identity, the presence of religion in the development of national identities, manifestation of religious roots in secular society, and the role of religion in further European integration and social inclusion.

Provides an assessment of feminist rejections of rationality and a reconstruction of the concept to meet feminist demands. This book represents a sustained argument for a feminist theory of rationality. It opens by asking the question: is reason inherently masculine?

Examining the global dimensions of Neo-Victorianism, this book explores how the appropriation of Victorian images in contemporary literature and culture has emerged as a critical response to the crises of decolonization and Imperial collapse. It also explores the phenomenon by reading a range of popular and literary Anglophone neo-Victorian texts.

Introducing the work of 6 contemporary satiric novelists through contemporary theory, this book explores the possibility of reading and criticism after postmodernism. It delivers a series of interventions into six key areas of contemporary debate: fear, nihilism, revolution, ethics, enjoyment and feminism.

Presents the study of Samuel Beckett's fascination with the seventeenth-century philosopher Arnold Geulincx (1624-1669). This title documents the extent of the influence Geulincx's philosophy had on Beckett's prose and late drama.

Offers an analysis of speech representation and social identity in narrative. This book investigates direct speech representation in Greek adolescents' storytelling. It examines how narrators present themselves and other characters as interactional protagonists through representational strategies in the stories they produce.

An examination of Deleuze's notion of the diagram from philosophical and aesthetic perspectives that develops the concept into a critical touchstone for contemporary multidisciplinary art. It charts Deleuze's corpus according to aesthetic concepts such as the map, the sketch and the drawing to bring out a comprehensive concept of the diagram.

Inspiring moments in Franciscan life where everything is transformed.

Offers insight into Immanuel Kant's notion of radical evil. This book explores this neglected existential side of Kant's work. It presents radical evil as vacillating between tragic and freedom, at the threshold of humanity. It offers an account of what is widely considered to be an intricate yet urgent problem of philosophy.

Argues for an understanding of religious belief as love of a God of love, thereby over-turning traditional epistemologically based conceptions of religious belief.

Defines 'religion' from theological, ethical, philosophical, ethnological, anthropological, and historical perspectives, exploring the manifold human modes of perception, action and thought in climate change. This book charts the spread from regional case studies to global-scale syntheses.

Examines some of the primary questions for the impassibility debate through the lens of contemporary philosophy of emotion.

An exploration of the broad paradigm of alienation in post-war literature through close readings of nine novels.

Brings together some of the world's most important contemporary writers from such diverse fields as metaethics, epistemology and moral psychology to explore the advanced implications of and challenges to Robert Audi's intuitionism - the idea that human beings have an intuitive sense of right and wrong - in ethics.

A history - and controversial reappraisal - of the world's popular and innovative literary form. It attempts to tell the complete story of our popular literary form. It celebrates the innovators in fiction, tracing a continuum between the premodern experimentalists and their postmodern progeny.

A study of how three important European thinkers - Kierkegaard, Kafka and Blanchot - use the Binding of Isaac to illuminate the sacrificial situation of the literary writer. It shows that literature plays a vital and heretical role in these three writers' highly idiosyncratic accounts of the Akedah.

We have developed into a culture that is over-reliant upon pharmaceutical and recreational drugs; where drugs are incessantly advertised and promoted to us via our mass media. This is a collection of essays highlighting the links between contemporary society's over-reliance on both media and drugs.

Features essays that examine how women actively contribute not only to conflict, but also to peace and social change in diverse contexts around the world. This title includes chapters that cover issues of women waging war, women intervening in war, and women sustaining peace, all substantiated with case studies and first hand accounts.

For most of the twentieth century the exuberant fluency of Elizabeth Barrett Browning's art was not regarded as worthy of serious attention. This title offers an examination of the work of Elizabeth Barrett Browning that connects her creative disposition, mind and mode to Shakespeare.

Using the work of John Milton and his conflict between good and evil, this title shows how we read literary history according to quite specific images of growth, development, progression, flourishing and succession.

What were the principal factors that influenced and shaped the behaviour of the gentry during the Wars of the Roses, from 1455 at the first battle of St Albans to the final encounter at Stoke in 1487? The book offers a definition of the gentry and assesses the relationship between gentry and the political and social world of the late middle ages.

Offers a comprehensive chronological reference for the entire Roman state and its neighbours. This work considers key historiographical questions and concerns of the period. It considers the importance of questioning sources, most notably Livy, and what can be said with any authority.