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Cover -- Half Title -- Series -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Introduction -- 1 'The EU isn't much cop but . . .'. Remain supporters' use of coordinative constructions -- 2 Hedging and modality versus strident claims and apparent absence of doubt -- 3 More to imperatives than meets the eye -- 4 Inclusive we, the former City broker as champion of the common man, and good old Bojo: How the pro-Brexit press created the i -- 5 Democracy myths and facts: A double defeat for David Cameron -- 6 'Free': A little word that did a big job for Brexit -- 7 Nominalization, presupposition and naturalization -- 8 The language of racism lite, and not so lite -- 9 Comparison with the Scottish independence referendum of 2014: How Project Fear worked in 2014 but not in 2016 -- 10 Leave's appointment with history and Remain's another day at the office -- 11 Little Englanders or reaching out to the world beyond Europe? Comparison with the 1975 referendum on remaining a member of t -- 12 From 'Up Yours Delors' (1990) to 'Stick it up your Juncker' (2016). Was it The Sun wot won it once again? -- 13 Dirty tricks: Lies, personal attacks and the Queen supports UKIP -- 14 The Day After: How could this happen? -- 15 The issue that would not go away: The general election of 2017 -- The Epilogue So Far -- References

"Brenda Laurel is best known for her work with Purple Moon, the pioneering game company she cofounded in the 1990s. Purple Moon's games were based on years of research Laurel completed in an effort to understand why computer games seemed to be of so little interest to girls. Using diverse archival sources such as trade journals, newspapers, and recorded interviews, alongside Laurel's completed games and own writings and an original interview with Laurel herself, this volume offers insight into both the early development of the games for girls movement of the 1990s and the lasting impact of Laurel's game design breakthroughs. In her work with Purple Moon, Laurel drew on her background in theatre as well as her expertise in human computer interaction and qualitative research. By relying on this interdisciplinary background, Laurel made significant contributions to our understanding of the design and development of games as a medium for emotional rehearsal and storytelling. Additionally, her dedication to research-informed design has had a longstanding impact as companies and designers increasingly rely on audience research and metrics to shape their practices. The newest in Bloomsbury's Influential Video Game Designers series, Carly Kocurek highlights the contributions of a designer whose work has had a profound impact on the development of both games for girls and empathy games"--

"Economics of Banking presents a thorough overview and analysis of the key aspects of financial intermediation necessary to understand this field. Based on the latest theory, and supporting arguments with practical examples, Hans Keiding discusses the problems of competition, risk taking in banks and the irregularities that may occur as a result. Banks in distress and avoiding bank failures through suitable regulation are also treated in a rigorous, yet easy-to-understand way. Economics of Banking: [bullet] treats financial intermediation both from the point of view of the bank itself and from that of society [bullet] covers both microeconomics of banking and risk management in banks [bullet] offers more complicated mathematics as optional A comprehensive advanced undergraduate or master's level textbook for students in banking, economics and finance who need to get to grips with the economic theory of banks"--

"Formed in 1947, the United Nations Economic Commission for Europe (UNECE) was the first postwar international organization dedicated to cooperation in Europe along the boundaries set by the Cold War. Linking the universalism of the UN to European regionalism, both Cold War superpowers, the USA and the Soviet Union, were founding members of the UNECE. This book provides a unique study of this important but hitherto under-researched international organization. Incorporating research on the Cold War, the history of internationalism and European integration, Stinsky weaves these different threads of historical enquiry into a single analytical narrative. Building on the League of Nations' difficult heritage, and in an increasingly challenging political environment, the UNECE's mission was to facilitate European cooperation across the Iron Curtain. With a number of competitor organizations set against it, the UNECE managed to carve out a niche for itself, setting norms and standards that still have an impact on the everyday lives of millions in Europe and beyond today. Working against an overwhelming geopolitical trend, UNECE succeeded in bridging the Cold War divide on several occasions, and maintained a broad system of contacts across the Iron Curtain."

"Making Ukraine Soviet examines the process of cultural sovietisation in Ukraine during the interwar years. Engaging with a wide range of primary and secondary sources, including literary and archival material, Palko grounds her argument in the cases of poet Pavlo Tychna and prosaist Mykola Khyl'ovyi. Through this unique biographical lens, Palko's skilled analysis of cultural construction sheds fresh light on the complex process of establishing the Soviet regime in Ukraine and offers both a timely re-assessment of the Russo-Ukrainian conflict and the relationship between national identity, the arts, and the Soviet state"--

Introduction: Why study games and money? / Mark R Johnson -- From cards to casinos : the material origins of gambling in the Renaissance / Kelli Wood -- Playing games with money : gambling games in the late capitalist cultural milieu / James F Cosgrave -- To skill, perchance to win : how chance and skill have coexisted in gambling history / David Schwartz -- Poker's memory work : Benny Binion, the WSOP, and the nostalgic construction of Las Vegas history / Alex Kupfer -- Poker fictions : possible worlds and the twenty-first century poker novel / Paul Wake -- Be a pal : representations of homosocial poker play on television sitcoms / Danielle Seid -- "Where the action is"? Branded poker and the futures of digital play / Fiona Nicoll, César Albarrán-Torres -- Banking games, speculation, and the normalization of finance / Joyce Goggin -- Pitch and toss : working class cultures of gambling in 19th and early 20th century Britain. / Graham Taylor -- Selves in play : pop-up casinos and discontinuous persons in Greece / Thomas Malaby -- Monte Carlo's wheel of fortune : the social impact of risk, reward, and roulette on visitors to Monaco's legendary Casino, 1863-1914 / Robert W Miller -- What the statistics do not say : the reinvention of casino games in Macau since 2002 / Xavier Paules -- The gambling experience of Monte Carlo in the 19th and 20th centuries / Paul Franke -- Gaming as cultural heritage : the case of Venice / Marta Soligo -- Cultural continuity of gambling : Native American ancestral traditions and contemporary practice on the Columbia Plateau / Laurie Arnold -- On the infrastructure of gaming : the case of Pachinko / Keiji Amano, Geoffrey Rockwell -- Backyard casinos : the expanding gaming landscape in America's neighborhoods / Rex J Rowley -- Filming high stakes poker : geopolitics, bluffing, and the adaptation of 'Casino Royale' / Cynthia Cravens -- The images and places of gambling in popular music / Matias Karekalas -- From parasite to antihero : shifting depictions of the cardsharp / James Banks -- Gambling ladies : the games that Barbara Stanwyck plays / Catherine Russell -- Honorable risks and dishonorable certainties : naiveté and cynicism at play over the card table in imperial Russia / Ian Helfant -- An enchanting witchcraft : masculinity, melancholy, and the pathology of gaming in early modern London / Celeste Chamberland -- The market and the conclave : gambling on political events in Renaissance Italy / John M Hunt.

By re-examining Nietzsche's notion of the "eternal-feminine" and his views on women and feminism, this volume offers new perspectives on some of his key ideas. It brings together a diverse group of scholars to critically engage with Nietzsche's use of late-19th-century gender stereotypes and the ways in which they served his critique of values, including his use of "woman" as a trope for truth. ?Among other subjects, the contributors consider the role of psychology in Nietzsche's thought, his concern with style, self-creation, and advocacy of perfectionism, his views on romantic love and marriage, and his aim of revaluing all values to instigate a distant philosophy of the future. They investigate parallels between Nietzsche's thought and Shaktism, his relation to Goethe and Stendahl, and his influence on Beauvoir, Butler, and Dohm. With the inclusion of two seminal essays on Nietzsche and women by Lawrence J. Hatab and Kelly Oliver, the volume also illustrates some of the ways in which scholarship on these subjects has evolved over the last four decades. Providing fresh insights into these inter-related subjects, Nietzsche on Women and the Eternal-Feminine highlights the enduring relevance of his thought and its still-underappreciated potential for re-thinking both the bases for and aims of feminism and other emancipatory movements

Atrocity. Genocide. War crime. Crime Against Humanity. Such atrocity labels have been popularized among international lawmakers but with little insight offered into how and when these terms are applied and to what effect. What constitutes an event to be termed a genocide or war crime and what role does this play in the application of legal proceedings? Markus P. Beham, through an interdisciplinary and comparative approach, unpicks these terms to uncover their historical genesis and their implications for international criminal law initiatives concerned with atrocity. The book uniquely compares four specific case studies: Belgian colonial exploitation of the Congo, atrocities committed against the Herero and Nama in German South-West Africa, the Armenian genocide and the man-made Ukrainian famine of the 1930s. Encompassing international law, legal history, and discourse analysis, the concept of 'atrocity labelling' is used to capture the meaning underlying the work of international lawyers and prosecutors, historians and sociologists, agenda setters and policy makers

Introduction: Visual histories of occupation(s) / Jeremy E. Taylor -- The "visual occupation regime" in postwar East Germany, 1945-61 / Alexey Tikhomirov -- "Fagin in Berlin provokes a riot" : David Lean's Oliver Twist and perceptions of Jews in allied-occupied Germany / Emily Oliver -- Cultural memories of occupation in the Japanese cinema theatre, 1945-52 / Jennifer Coates -- Occupation, resistance and collaboration : triangulating Japan, the Philippines and Singapore through Fernando Amorsolo's Defend thy honor / Pearlie Rose S. Baluyut -- Art for security : the weaponizing of Israeli art in times of emergency / Maayan Amir -- Humour in states of occupation : contemporary art and cultural resilience in Palestine, Greece and Australia / Chrisoula Lionis -- Photojournalism as a means of deception in Nazi-occupied Poland, 1939-45 / Miriam Y. Arani -- Re-visualizing Okinawa : gender, race and Cold War US occupation in The Okinawa graphic / Mire Koikari -- An uncanny architecture of cultural heritage : representations of the Japanese Occupation in Harbin, China / Jean Hillier & Shulan Fu -- National narratives of "occupation" in historical museums of the post-Soviet landscape / Katarzyna Jarosz -- Occupying (imagined) landscapes / Noga Stiassny -- Epilogue. "Retrocede Hong Kong!" Towards a comparative study of the visuality of occupation(s) / Jeremy E. Taylor.

"John McDowell's philosophical ideas are both influential and comprehensive, encompassing philosophy of mind, philosophy of language, epistemology, metaphysics and the history of philosophy. This book is a much-needed systematic overview of McDowell's thought that offers a clear and accessible route through the main elements of his philosophy. Arguing that the world and minded human subject are constitutively interdependent, the book examines and critically engages with McDowell's views on naturalism of second nature, the inner space model, intentionality, personhood and practical wisdom. The book presents novel discussions on the debates between McDowell and other key philosophers, including Hubert Dreyfus, Robert Brandom, Hans-Georg Gadamer, Donald Davidson, Maurice Merleau-Ponty and Immanuel Kant, amongst others"--

Prologue : Before the second wave : scholarship on women from the early twentieth century into the 1960s -- Second-wave feminism and the rediscovery of women's history, 1968-1975 -- Feminist historians and the 'new' social history : 1968-1995 -- Is female to male as nature is to culture? : Feminist anthropology and the search for a key to all misogynist mythologies -- Beyond separate spheres : from women's history to gender history -- Gender history, cultural history and the history of masculinity -- Gender, poststructuralism and the 'cultural/linguistic turn' in history -- Gender and history in a postcolonial world -- From separate spheres to the public sphere : gender and the sexual politics of citizenship -- Gender and history in a post-poststructuralist world -- Women's and gender history as a work in progress

"Recent years have seen a disturbing advance in populist and authoritarian styles of rule and, in response, a rise in popular activism. Strongmen, especially since the advent of fascism, have formed their base of power in popular acclaim. But what power do the people have in checking the rise of tyranny? In this book an international team of experts representing several academic disciplines examines the power relationship between peoples and their rulers. It is among the first to study this globally as a problem of nation states. From populism in 19th-century Latin America to eastern Europe since the collapse of communism, to the Arab Spring and contemporary Russia and China, the cases in this book span five continents and twelve nations. Taken together, they reveal how different forms of popular opposition have succeeded or failed in unseating authoritarian regimes and expose the tactics and strategies used by regimes to repress people power and create an image of popular support. Analysing the causes and consequence of the global advance of authoritarianism, The Power of Populism and the People offers a historical comparison of popular protest, opposition and crises over the last century to the recent rise of populist leaders"--

"Experiences of the struggle for housing, ignited by the lack of social and affordable housing, have led to the establishing of shared and self-managed housing areas. In such a context, it becomes crucially important to re-think the need to define common urban worlds "from below". Here, Penny Travlou and Stavros Stavridis trace contemporary practices of urban commoning through which people re-define housing economies. Connecting to a rich literature on the importance of commons and of practices of commoning for the creation of emancipated societies, the authors discuss whether housing struggles and co-habitation experiences may contribute in crucial ways to the development of a commoning culture. The authors explore a variety of urban contexts through global case studies from across the Global North and South, in search of concrete examples that illustrate the potentialities of urban commoning"--

Why is everything that compromises greatness in art coded as 'feminine'? Has the feminist critique of Art History history yet effected real change? With a new preface by Griselda Pollock, this edition of a truly groundbreaking book offers a radical challenge to a women-free Art History. Parker and Pollock's critique of Art History's sexism leads to expanded, inclusive readings of the art of the past. They demonstrate how the changing historical social realities of gender relations and women artists' translation of gendered conditions into their works provide keys to novel understandings of why we might study the art of the past. They go further to show how such knowledge enables us to understand art by contemporary artists who are women and can contribute to the changing self-perception and creative work of artists today. In March 2020 Griselda Pollock was awarded the Holberg Prize in recognition of her outstanding contribution to research and her influence on thinking on gender, ideology, art and visual culture worldwide for over 40 years. Old Mistresses was her first major scholarly publication which has become a classic work of feminist art history