Bloomsbury

Questions around 'the body' are central to social theory. Our changing understanding of the body now challenges the ways we conceive power, ideology, subjectivity and social and cultural process. The Body: the key concepts highlights and analyses the debates which make the body central to current sociological, psychological, cultural and...

The metalinguistic dimension refers to the way in which learners bring to bear knowledge about language into their learning of a second language, the "e;L2"e;. This book brings together new research on the metalinguistic dimension, given its increasing importance in the study of L2 acquisition.In applied linguistics it is widely accepted...

Many people find the very notion of silence uncomfortable, even alarming or embarrassing. They are gripped by a kind of agoraphobia of the spirit. Many try to obliterate silence by turning up the volume control of music or television, or the volume of their days.The Power of Silence explores the world of silence--a mysterious and unfathomable...

A must-read for any devotee of Jane Austen, Janet Todd's bodice-ripping reimagining of Austen's epistolary novel Lady Susan will capture your literary imagination and get your heart racing.Austen's only anti-heroine, Lady Susan, is a beautiful, charming widow who has found herself, after the death of her husband, in a position of...

The tranquillity of a rural backwater - SHATTERED!The ancient arts of medicine - EXPOSED!Her darling cleft-chinned doctor - FORCED TO FIGHT FOR HIS LIFE!It was a time of wiping. A time of bandaging. Of patients and their incessant needs. In a world where nurses never wash their hands, and doctors are the lowest of the low, one enormous nurse stands...

The Dark Arts of Cheating in SportFoul Play dissects the age-old subject of cheating in all its absurdity. From plain old doping to claiming a marathon victory despite having driven the middle section of the race, from match-fixing to diving for a penalty - cheating in sport is as old as sport itself. There are plenty of well-known cases of cheats...