http://hdl.handle.net/10453/308 2013-05-25T01:45:51Z 2013-05-25T01:45:51Z Van Dooren Thom http://hdl.handle.net/10453/17730 2012-10-12T03:31:09Z 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

Vulture Van Dooren Thom Simply because they are large scavenging birds, vultures are often viewed as harbingers of death. But, as Thom van Dooren shows in this cultural and natural history, that dominant association leaves us with a very one-dimensional understanding of a group of actually rather fascinating and diverse creatures. Vulture offers an enlightening new history of this much-misunderstood bird. Vultures vary in type and size, and while some have a diet mainly of bone, others are actually almost completely vegetarian. Most interesting, despite its notorious association with death, the vulture very rarely, if ever, kills for itself. In different cultural mythologies, vultures play a role in disposing of the dead and officiating over human sacrifices, but they have often been viewed as courageous and noble creatures as well¿believed to be indispensable in the containment of waste and disease and even to be world creators and divine mothers. Van Dooren explores these many histories, from some of the earliest-known Neolithic sites in which vultures are thought to have consumed the dead to contemporary efforts to reintroduce the bearded vulture into the Alps. Highlighting the rich diversity of vultures and the many ways in which people have understood and lived with them, Vulture invites a new appreciation and wonder for these incredible birds.

2011-01-01T00:00:00Z Pennycook Alastair http://hdl.handle.net/10453/17729 2012-10-12T03:31:09Z 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

Language and Mobility: Unexpected Places Pennycook Alastair This book looks at language in unexpected places. Drawing on a diversity of materials and contexts, including farewell addresses to British workers in colonial India, letters written from parents to their children at home, a Cornish anthem sung in South Australia, a country fair in rural Australia, and a cricket match played in the middle of the 19th century in south India, this book explores many current concerns around language, mobility and place, including native speakers, generic forms, and language maintenance. Using a series of narrative accounts ¿ from a journey to southern India to eating cheese in China, from playing soccer in Germany to observing a student teacher in Sydney ¿ this book asks how it is that language, people and cultures turn up unexpectedly and how our lines of expectation are formed.

2012-01-01T00:00:00Z Angelucci Malcolm http://hdl.handle.net/10453/17732 2012-10-12T03:31:09Z 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

Words Against Words: On the Rhetoric of Carlo Michelstaedter Angelucci Malcolm Words Against Words is the first book to consider the philosophical works of Carlo Michelstaedter (1887-1910) from a stylistic point of view. It focuses on the links between poetic and rhetoric in Michelstaedter¿s major work, La Persuasione e la Rettorica, well known for its original multilingualism, embodiment of subgenres, dialogues, apologues and parables, technical jargons. In the context of the early twentieth century `crisis of language¿ in Central Europe, Carlo Michelstaedter, a young Italian speaking Jew from Gorizia who left the Austro-Hungarian territory to study in Florence, articulates one of the most radical examples of `negative thought¿, while at the same time struggling to define a way to regain freedom from contingency, unity of meaning, and the absolute state of `persuasion¿. Malcolm Angelucci¿s book reads La Persuasione e la Rettorica, against itself, demonstrating how it is in the practice of signification, in the `writing¿ of a philosophy and a poetic, that the challenge against the inadequacy of words is played out, in one of the most interesting examples of Italian speculation of the period. Angelucci¿s post-structuralist approach and analysis of rhetorical figures adopts and reworks the Bakhtinian concept of `dialogism¿, in order to demonstrate the peculiar `loss of centre¿ of Michelstaedter¿s text, and the relativisation of the pretences of the hero/narrator in ways which are coherent with the best examples of early Central European Modernism.

2011-01-01T00:00:00Z Jeffreys Elaine http://hdl.handle.net/10453/17731 2012-10-12T03:31:09Z 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

Prostitution Scandals in China: Policing, Media and Society Jeffreys Elaine Prostitution Scandals in China presents an examination of media coverage of prostitution-related scandals in contemporary China. It demonstrates that the subject of prostitution is not only widely debated, but also that these public discussions have ramifications for some of the key social, legal and political issues affecting citizens of the PRC. Further, this book shows how these public discussions impact on issues as diverse as sexual exploitation, civil rights, government corruption, child and youth protection, policing abuses, and public health

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