Examines the Italian films of the last two decades of the 20th century which managed to transcend the decline of Italian cinema's prominence within the industry. The author interprets, in detail, a body of work which established an independent profile for the Italian cinema of the 80s and 90s.

Toibin's remarkable insights provide scholars, students, and general readers a fresh encounter with James's well-known texts.

Relations between Europe and America have become contentious, fuelled by the post-9/11 unilateral and pre-emptive tone of US foreign policy and old fears of American hegemony. The author argues that this increasing mistrust prevents constructive dialogue and action and threatens world stability.

Throughout, editor Peter Makin expands upon and annotates the lectures with additional comments drawn from Bunting's writings.

Thoughtful and persuasive, this book urges the medical profession to improve palliative care and develop a more humane response to the complex issues facing those who are terminally ill.

Comic Book Nation is at once a serious study of popular culture and an entertaining look at an enduring American art form.

He then uses the perspective of ergodic aesthetics to reexamine literary theories of narrative, semiotics, and rhetoric and to explore the implications of applying these theories to materials for which they were not intended.

This unique book should be valuable for political leaders, civil society activists, journalists, scholars, and all who want to support democratic transitions.