Author: Peter S. Groff
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
Keywords: philosophy, islamic
Number of Pages: 224
Published: 2007-05-15
List price: $108.00
ISBN-10: 0748622160
ISBN-13: 9780748622160

A unique introductory guide to the rich, complex and diverse tradition of Islamic philosophy. Islamic Philosophy A-Z comprises over a hundred concise entries, alphabetically ordered and cross-referenced for easy access. All the essential aspects of Islamic philosophy are covered here: key figures, schools, concepts, topics, and issues. Articles on the Peripatetics, Isma’ilis, Illuminationists, Sufis, kalam theologians and later modern thinkers are supplemented by entries on classical Greek influences as well as Jewish philosophers who lived and worked in the Islamic world. Topical entrie

Author: Anthony Carty
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
Keywords: english, dialects, zealand, new
Number of Pages: 160
Published: 2007-12-15
List price: $100.00
ISBN-10: 0748625291
ISBN-13: 9780748625291

This book is a comprehensive but accessible description of English as it is spoken in New Zealand. New Zealand English is one of the youngest native speaker varieties of English, and is the only variety of English where there is recorded evidence of its entire history. It shares some features with other Southern Hemisphere varieties of English such as Australian English and South African English, but is also clearly distinct from these. For the past two decades extensive research has focused on the evolution and ongoing development of the variety. New Zealand English presents the results of th

Author: Sailaja Pingali
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
Keywords: english, dialects, indian
Number of Pages: 160
Published: 2009-02-15
List price: $35.00
ISBN-10: 074862595X
ISBN-13: 9780748625956

Indian English is a second language to most of its speakers, yet during its 400-year history, it has acquired its own character while still looking to native varieties of English for its norms. Pinjali Sailaja discusses the complex nature of Indian English, which is not really a monolithic entity. He distinguishes between standard and non-standard varieties and provides an overview of their salient features.

Authors:Brian Taylor, Brian Taylor,
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
Keywords: parliament, scottish, road
Number of Pages: 224
Published: 2003-03-15
List price: $46.00
ISBN-10: 0748617590
ISBN-13: 9780748617593

This important book provides an invaluable guide to the establishment of Scotland s Parliament. First published in 1999, this revised and updated edition follows the road to devolution -with fresh detail of the obstacles that stood in the way. With his unique insight, gained in twenty five years of covering Scottish politics as a journalist, Taylor offers an analysis of the background to the most monumental political change in Scotland since the Union.

Author: James Fraser
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
Keywords: scotland, history, edinburgh, new, caledonia, pictland
Number of Pages: 352
Published: 2008-08-01
List price: $37.50
ISBN-10: 0748612327
ISBN-13: 9780748612321

From Caledonia to Pictland examines the earliest phases of Scottish history at a time when "Scotland" hadn’t yet come into existence. It charts the transformation of the Celtic-speaking tribes of Iron Age Caledonia into the multi-lingual Christian kingdoms of Early Medieval northern Britain, peopled by Picts, Britons, Angles and Gaels. Major factors in this process include the direct and indirect influence of the Roman Empire, the profound impact of Christianisation, and the influx of Germanic settlers to the east and of Gaelic settlers to the west. Politically, we see the emergence of

Author: Phillip Cole
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
Keywords: exclusion, philosophies
Number of Pages: 256
Published: 2001-02-15
List price: $46.00
ISBN-10: 074861219X
ISBN-13: 9780748612192

This comprehensive overview offers a radical critique of various positions within political philosophy on immigration. Cole argues that there is a serious gap between the legal and social practices of immigration and naturalization in liberal democratic states and the theoretical justification for such practices within the tradition of liberal political philosophy. The book examines various responses to this contradiction, and finds none of them satisfactory, arguing that this has serious implications both for liberal practice and theory.

Author: Stephen Teo
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
Keywords: cinema, traditions, world, tradition, wuxia, arts, chinese, martial
Number of Pages: 256
Published: 2009-03-15
List price: $35.00
ISBN-10: 0748632867
ISBN-13: 9780748632862

The traditional martial arts genre known as wuxia (literally "martial chivalry") became popular the world over through the phenomenal hit Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon (2000). This book unveils the rich layers of the wuxia tradition as it developed in the early Shanghai cinema of the late 1920s and in the Hong Kong and Taiwan film industries of the 1950s and beyond. Stephen Teo follows the tradition from its beginnings in Shanghai cinema to its rise as a serialized form in silent cinema and its prohibition in 1931. He shares the fantastic characteristics of the genre, their relationship to f