Books published by EDINBURGH UNIVERSITY PRESS

Provides an unusual history of an important institution promoting Islamic scholarship in Britain, The Gibb Memorial Trust

Explores the ways in which affect, colonial histories and militarism organise global security workforces within private military and security companies This book locates its analysis with Gurkhas: a group of militarised men from Nepal with over 200-years of military experience with the British and Indian armies and the Singaporean police, who now participate as security contractors in global markets. These men are celebrated in British popular culture for their heroic martial attributes and their broader military service to the United Kingdom. However, less well known, is the fact that many Gurkhas (located in Nepal) and their families are drawn into these markets under often exploitative relations. Drawing upon over a decade of ethnographic fieldwork with unprecedented access to these security communities throughout Nepal and in Afghanistan, the book's motivating questions are: how is security made through these market relations and how is this security experienced by Gurkhas and their families? Amanda Chisholm is Senior Lecturer in the School of Security Studies, King's College London.

This book is the first scholarly edition of the most popular Native American captivity narrative published in eighteenth-century Britain, that of Peter Williamson, known as 'Indian Peter'.

Investigates forms of life which lack proper conceptualisation in the field of modern philosophy This collection reconsiders the notion of life and conceptualizes those forms of life which have been excluded from modern philosophy, such as post-Anthropocene life, the life of non-human animals and the life of inorganic objects. The contributors, who include prominent contemporary philosophers and theorists ask a wide range of questions including: what new forms of subjection can we see with the return of the 'Anthropos'?, what can animals teach us in the Anthropocene?, can we reconstruct the perceptual world of animals and take a look into their 'subjectivity'?, what happens to inorganic matter (waste or digital objects) when no longer used by any subject and can we think about inorganic matter in terms of subjective self-awareness? The first section, Life Beyond the Anthropocene, critically questions Anthropocene theory and outlines alternative scenarios, such as Gaia theory or post-Anthropocene forms of life on Earth and other planets, as well as new forms of subjectivity. The second part, Human and Non-Human Interactions, investigates the obscure boundary, between life and non-life, and between human and non-human animal life forms. The third part, Forms of Life and New Ontologies, concentrates on new ontologies and discusses life in terms of vitalism, new materialism, movement, form-taking activity and plasticity. S. E. Wilmer is Professor Emeritus in Drama and former Head of the School of Drama, Film and Music at Trinity College Dublin. Audrone Zukauskaite is Chief Researcher at the Lithuanian Culture Research Institute.

The first comprehensive study of plastics, from the moment they were invented to the present day

The law governing the Land Register of Scotland is substantially recast by the Land Registration etc (Scotland) Act 2012, which came fully into force on 8 December 2014. In addition, the 2012 Act provides for the phasing out of the Register of Sasines, a register of deeds which has been in continuous use for the last 400 years. The Scottish Government's target is for all titles to have migrated from the Register of Sasines to the Land Register by 2024. These momentous changes are the subjects of the present book. After introductory chapters tracing the history of land registration in Scotland from its beginnings in the sixteenth century until modern times, Professors Reid and Gretton provide a detailed and authoritative guide to the new law as set out in the 2012 Act and in the numerous statutory instruments made under that Act. Among the topics covered are: - the structure and contents of the Land Register - plans and the cadastral map - applications for registration - the completion of the Land Register by 2024 - advance notices - inaccuracies and their rectification - realignment of rights - the Keeper's warranty - liabilities of those using the land registration system - examination of registered titles - positive prescription anda non dominodispositions Kenneth Reid is Professor of Scots Law in the University of Edinburgh and George Gretton is Lord President Reid Professor of Law Emeritus in the University of Edinburgh.

Examines the extensive and diverse oeuvre of American filmmaker William Wyler

Discusses film adaptations of Russian classics since the 1960s

Offers the first edited collection with an explicit documentary focus on fashion icons, events, cultures and industries

Explores the significance of the Islamic-Byzantine border from the rise of Islam to the end of the Crusades

Investigates how leaders in Turkey's political sphere have hindered democratic consolidation

Studies how women writers shaped long-eighteenth-century educational discourse through literature The essays in this volume reveal the complex, various and sometimes contradictory ways in which female literary authors interrogated and advanced educational philosophy and practice during the long eighteenth century. The collection explores how long-eighteenth-century discourses of education shaped what it meant for women to write and how women writers shaped discourses of education, spotlighting the influence of female authors on eighteenth-century debates about education as they are conducted in and through literary form. By identifying a discernible tradition of women's educational literature and restoring female writers to the centre of the stage, this book adds its voice to existing scholarly efforts to correct the ongoing critical tendency to marginalise the contribution of women to the history of educational thought. Jessica Lim recently supervised English Literature at the University of Cambridge where she was a Director of Studies in English at Lucy Cavendish College. Louise Joy is a Fellow, Director of Studies and College Associate Professor in English at Homerton College, University of Cambridge, where she is the Vice-Principal.

A scholarly edition of Lockhart's most intricate and sophisticated contribution to the Scottish historical novel