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  • Buttons, Bolt Cutters & Barricades

    de Jerry Palmer ...
    Buttons, Bolt Cutters and Barricades, Texas Anti-Nuke Actions, is a first-hand account of the historical actions taken in trying to stop or at least slow the construction of nuclear power plants in the United States and the Comanche Peak plant in particular. The strategical use of nonviolent direct action including civil disobedience by the Comanche Peak Life Force activists should be an ... Leer más

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  • Nurse Memoirs from the Great War in Britain, France, and Germany

    de Jerry Palmer ...
    Series series Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
    Nurse Memoirs from the Great War in Britain, France, and Germany examines an understudied corpus of memoirs in English, French, and German stemming from the unprecedented involvement of women in the war effort. Jerry Palmer considers the memoirs in relationship to public opinion, collective memory and other women’s writing about the war. Through close-readings of the memoirs and their contexts, ... Leer más

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  • Media at War

    The Iraq Crisis

    ′Tumber and Palmer have provided an invaluable review of how journalists covered and reported the Iraq war and its aftermath. Their exhaustive research has resulted in an impressive analysis that makes this book essential reading′ -John Owen, Executive Producer of News Xchange and Visiting Professor of Journalism, City University′This is a meticulously researched book that lays bare the way the ... Leer más

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  • Memories from the Frontline

    Memoirs and Meanings of The Great War from Britain, France and Germany

    de Jerry Palmer ...
    Series series Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
    This book analyses soldiers’ memoirs from the Great War of 1914-18 from Britain, France and Germany. It considers both the authors’ composition of the memoirs and the public response to them. It provides contextual analysis through a survey of the different types of contemporary writing about the Great War, through an analysis of changes in the language used to describe combat, and through an ... Leer más

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  • Taking Humour Seriously

    de Jerry Palmer ...
    First published in 1993. When do we laugh? Why do we laugh? What makes us stop? What does ‘humour’ consist of? Listen to any everyday conversation: it is full of the constant interruptions and detours of humour. Look at the TV schedules for any evening—how many of the programmes are comedies or contain a degree of humour? Humour and comedy invite our pleasure at every step we take—they are ... Leer más

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  • Design and Aesthetics

    A Reader

    Edición de Mo Dodson, Jerry Palmer ...
    Design and Aesthetics: A Reader is a comprehensive student reader on design history and aesthetic theory. It includes contributions from many of the writers whose work has been foundational to these two fields, including classic articles by Raymond Williams and Roger Scruton, and newer articles which provide an overview of current concerns and debates.The role of design in the world today has ... Leer más

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  • Potboilers

    Methods, Concepts and Case Studies in Popular Fiction

    de Jerry Palmer ...
    Series series Communication and Society
    Potboilers looks at the many forms of popular narrative - in print, film and TV. It considers the ways in they have been analysed in literary criticism, sociology, communications, media and cultural studies.The book introduces and summarizes two decades of debate about mass-produced fictions and their position within popular culture. It assesses the methods that have been used in these debates, ... Leer más

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    The Great War and the Birth of the Modern Age

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  • Beginning theory

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  • Clausewitz: A Very Short Introduction

    A Very Short Introduction

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    Karl von Clausewitz's study On War was described by the American strategic thinker Bernard Brodie as 'not simply the greatest, but the only great book about war'. It is hard to disagree. Even though he wrote his only major work at a time when the range of firearms was fifty yards, much of what he had to say remains relevant today. Michael Howard explains Clausewitz's ideas in terms both of his ... Leer más

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  • Sites of Memory, Sites of Mourning

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  • An Improbable War?

    The Outbreak of World War I and European Political Culture before 1914

    The First World War has been described as the "primordial catastrophe of the twentieth century." Arguably, Italian Fascism, German National Socialism and Soviet Leninism and Stalinism would not have emerged without the cultural and political shock of World War I. The question why this catastrophe happened therefore preoccupies historians to this day. The focus of this volume is not on the ... Leer más

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