Encountering the Impossible

Encountering the ImpossibleThe first academic explanation for how spectators use their imaginations as part of the experience and appreciation of popular fantasy filmmaking. 2022 CHOICE Outstanding Academic Title Shortlisted for the 2022 Best First Monograph Award presented by the British Association of Film, Television and Screen Studies Hollywood fantasy cinema is responsible for some of the most lucrative franchises produced over the past two decades, yet it remains

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and subsequently traces the development of a new genre of women’s writing — the botanical poem with scientific notes

Part 2 assesses advances in production of biofuels from crops such as jatropha

The Invention of Spain explores cultural relations between Britain and Spain during the century 1770-1870

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This is the first volume of a series concerned with new research contributions of the methods of logic in computer science

the book introduces into their complex history the idea that these famous heretics were constructed as an enemy image in the High Middle Ages and then became a myth in modern times

The system of rice intensification (SRI) is a combination of management practices developed in Madagascar some 30 years ago to make the cultivation of irrigated rice more productive

national M&A regulation and the interaction between domestic and pan-European regulation