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Are games worthy of academic attention? Can they be used effectively in the classroom, in the research laboratory, as an innovative design tool, as a persuasive political weapon? Game Mods: Design Theory and Criticism aims to answer these and more questions. It features chapters by authors representing fields as diverse as architecture, ethnography, puppetry, cultural studies, music education, interaction design and industrial design. How can we design, play with and reflect on the contribution of game mods, related tools and techniques, to both game studies and to society as a whole? Are the theoretical issues involved in game mods merely a subset of game design theory, or something else? Should one reference or pay homage to the original game, can a designer display genuine innovation and creativity in the design of a mod? Could the design of game mods, and the design of tools to create game mods, be improved through criticism and theory? Are these toolsets useful and usable in teaching? And can the tools and techniques of game mod design be applied beyond computer games? In the following chapters we touch on many of these issues, but we may well raise more questions than answers.

This essay reflects on the uses of political violence in the contemporary "Resistance" movement against the US far right. In particular, I focus on the figure of "punching Nazis." Neither denouncing nor endorsing the latter, I sketch a dialectical position that might be dubbed "anti-anti-punching Nazis."

This is a study of autobiographical writings of Renaissance soldiers. It outlines the ways in which they reflect Renaissance cultural, political and historical consciousness, with a particular focus on conceptions of war, history, selfhood and identity. A vivid picture of Renaissance military life and military mentality emerges, which sheds light on the attitude of Renaissance soldiers both towards contemporary historical developments such as the rise of the modern state, and towards such issues as comradeship, women, honor, violence, and death. Comparison with similar medieval and twentieth-century material highlights the differences in the Renaissance soldier's understanding of war and of human experience

Contents -- List of Figures -- List of Tables -- Chapter 1 Introduction -- A Brief History of Feminism in the UK -- The Rise of a Second Wave -- A Brief History of Women's Magazines in the UK -- Magazines as Counter-Culture -- A History of Spare Rib -- Book Structure and Chapter Summaries -- References -- Part I Reading Spare Rib: Creating the Sisterhood -- Chapter 2 'What Did It Mean?' A Generational Conversation -- Spare Rib -- Magazines -- 1980s Activism -- Reading Spare Rib Now -- The Spare Rib -- Mushroom Clouds -- Conclusion -- References -- Chapter 3 Feminist Perspectives: North East and National -- Remembering the Women's Liberation Movement and Its Conferences -- The Context of the North East -- Perspectives on the Seventh National Women's Liberation Conference, Newcastle, 1976 -- What Happened -- Perspectives from the North East -- Conclusion -- References -- Chapter 4 Reflections on Reading Spare Rib: Personal and Political -- Personal Becoming Political -- Internationalism -- Intersectionality -- Standpoint -- Concluding Thoughts -- References -- Chapter 5 From Spare Rib to Spare Part: From Overt to Covert Sexism in Education -- Battling Over Education -- Issues in School Curricula and Teaching -- Developments -- Working Women and Their Roles in the Education Sector -- Inequality for Professional Women in Higher Education -- Moving Towards More Macho Values in Education? -- Forwards or Backwards for Women's Equality? -- Conclusion -- References -- Part II Re-reading Spare Rib: Exploring the Sisterhood -- Chapter 6 Workplace: Women's Place? -- Introduction -- Women's Place -- Equality for Women in the Workplace? -- Women at Work Now -- Research Approach -- Participants' Responses to the Spare Rib Extract -- How It Was -- Being Reminded -- Being AcceptingAware -- Being Decorative -- Being Manhandled -- Being Caring

The authors reply to criticisms by Somnath Saha & Allen H. Barton of their "Does Enrollment Diversity Improve University Education?" (all, 2003). Methodological issues cited as problematic by these commentators are defended, & Barton's call for additional data analysis is supported. Saha's allegations of "conflicts of interest" & the authors' "rush to publish" are strongly refuted. 3 References. K. Hyatt Stewart

The first book-length account of the symbolic chains that link remakes and explain their disguises, Film Remakes as Rituals and Disguise is also the first book to explore how and why these stories are told. Anat Zanger focuses on contemporary retellings of three particular tales-Joan of Arc, Carmen, and Psycho-to reveal what she calls the remake's "rituals of disguise." Joan of Arc, Zanger demonstrates, later appears as the tough, androgynous Ripley in the blockbuster Alien III film and the God-ridden Bess in Lars Von Trier's Breaking the Waves. Ultimately, these remake chains offer evidence of the archetypes of our own age, cultural "fingerprints" that are reflective of society's own preferences and politics. Underneath the redundancy of the remake, Zanger shows, lies our collective social memory. Indeed, at its core the lowly remake represents a primal attempt to gain immortality, to triumph over death-playing at movie theatres seven days a week, 365 days a year. Addressing the wider theoretical implications of her argument with sections on contemporary film issues such as trauma, jouissance, and censorship, Zanger offers an insightful addition to current debates in film theory and cinema history

"The present study, for the first time, provides a comparative analysis of the objections raised against Christianity by late antique pagan philosophers (esp. Celsus in Alethes logos, Porphyry in Contra Christianos, and Julian the Apostate in Contra Gali-laeos) and Enlightenment philosophers and freethinkers and examines the impact of pagan thinking on the critique of Christianity in the 16th to 18th centuries - in particular, on discussions concerning the authority of the Bible, biblical exegesis, the Christian concept of faith, religious coercion and the uniformity of faith, the belief in miracles, and the Christ-ian understanding of morality"--