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A guide to countries around the world, including facts, travel essentials, and extensive coverage of culture, history, and language.
Series
At the interface/probing the boundaries volume Volume 129
Publisher
Brill Rodopi
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Series
Blackwell philosophy and popculture volume 46
Publisher
John Wiley & Sons, Inc
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
Series
Blackwell philosophy and popculture volume 23
Publisher
John Wiley & Sons, Inc
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
Description
"Philosophy is, if Plato (428-348 BCE) can be trusted, a frenzied passion for the truth, the love of wisdom, the pursuit of answers to fundamental questions, a way of life. The authors of the chapters in this book are all philosophers, most are college professors, and all are teachers of one sort or another. We thought we'd snag a few more students into our webs while writing about our favorite wall-crawler. Sneaky of us, isn't it?"--
Author
Publisher
University Press of Mississippi
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
"Beyond Bombshells analyzes the cultural importance of strong women in a variety of current media forms. Action heroines are now more popular in movies, comic books, television, and literature than they have ever been. Their spectacular presence represents shifting ideas about female agency, power, and sexuality. Beyond Bombshells explores how action heroines reveal and reconfigure perceptions about "how" and "why" women are capable of physically...