'Thought-provoking and entices the reader to take a discerning look at science.' Claire Garven, MA Senior Lecturer at the University of the West of England, Bristol, UK.[...]
Reviews of the first edition: "...full of sparkling analysis ...an absorbing account of how and why the practice of special education has failed to live up to expectations ...a tour de force ...A challenging, badly needed book likely to be read for many years to come." Dr Caroline Roaf, British Jour[...]
Next to Shakespeare, Ben Jonson is perhaps the most widely studied Renaissance dramatist. Very few students of literature or drama would not encounter Volpone or Bartholomew Fair in the course of their studies, and there has been a recent resurgence of interest in Epicoene , or the Silent Women amo[...]
Do our writings and our utterances reflect or describe our world, or do they intervene in it? Do they, perhaps, help to make it? If so, how? Within what limits, and with what implications? Contemporary theorists have considered the ways in which the languages we speak might be 'performative' in just[...]
This book will constitute an original intervention into longstanding but insistently relevant debates around the significance of notions of a ~performativitya (TM) to the critical analysis of early modern drama. In particular, the book aims to: show how the investigation of performativity can ena[...]
Type is the bridge between writer and reader, between thought and understanding. This book treats typography as a measure of history. It is a guide through the history of letters and a study of their power. From fashion through propaganda and the development of mass literacy, it shows how typography[...]