The Art of Failure: An Essay on the Pain of Playing Video Games
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We may think of video games as being "fun," but in The Art of Failure, Jesper Juul claims that this...
Music Learning Today: Digital Pedagogy for Creating, Performing, and Responding to Music
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Technology has become increasingly integrated into our daily lives, receiving a great deal of...
Research Methods in Education
Louis Cohen, Lawrence Manion and Keith Morrison
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This rewritten, expanded and updated 7th edition of the long-running bestseller Research Methods in...
Artefacts of Writing: Ideas of the State and Communities of Letters from Matthew Arnold to Xu Bing
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Some forms of literature interfere with the workings of the literate brain, posing a challenge to...
Forms of Astonishment: Greek Myths of Metamorphosis
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In this illustrated study Richard Buxton analyses Greek literary narratives and visual...
Lying in Early Modern English Culture: From the Oath of Supremacy to the Oath of Allegiance
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Lying in Early Modern English Culture is a major study of ideas of truth and falsehood in early...
Moby-Dick: or, the Whale: Or, the Whale
Herman Melville, Tom Quirk and Andrew Delbanco
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The original 'Great American Novel', Herman Melville's Moby-Dick is a masterful study of obsession....
Modern Dystopian Fiction and Political Thought: Narratives of World Politics
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Over the past few years, 'dystopia' has become a word with increasing cultural currency, this book...
Reading the Psychosomatic in Medical and Popular Culture: Something. Nothing. Everything
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Pain. Chronic digestive symptoms. Poor sleep. Neuropathy. Sensory disturbances. Fatigue. Panic....
Rebel Barons: Resisting Royal Power in Medieval Culture
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Ambivalence towards kings, and other sovereign powers, is deep-seated in medieval culture:...