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"I would like to think it is," says Dr Keith M Johnston of the University of East Anglia, the author of Science Fiction: A Critical Introduction.
The most stimulating chapters in the academic collection "A Critical Introduction to Mao," edited by Timothy Cheek, discuss Mao's "Sinification" of a European tradition of revolution.
Books include Poverty and Development into the Twenty First Century, by Tim Allen and Alan Thomas; The Follies of Globalisation Theory, by Justin Rosenberg; Globalisation: a critical introduction, by Jan Aart Scholte.
The European Film Academy has joined protests against the Polish national broadcaster TVP's treatment of the Oscar-winning film Ida, directed by Paweł Pawlikowski, when its broadcast on 25 February was preceded by a heavily critical introduction.
In an article to be published in September in the book "African Archaeology: A Critical Introduction," Dr. Neumann says there is an implicit assumption among archaeologists that "agriculture is superior to the foraging of wild plants and that with the invention of agrarian practices, economies based on wild resources are no longer competitive".
For a Nabokov fan, paging through "Fine Lines," which includes a critical introduction and several essayistic evaluations of Nabokov's scientific oeuvre, can feel a bit like reading the second half of "Pale Fire": one is confronted by a content-rich, almost dementedly tangential commentary on an increasingly inscrutable work.
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The Epitome is still one of the best critical introductions to Ptolemy's astronomy.
By 1805, Inchbald had gained such a reputation for acuity that a publisher asked her to write critical introductions for "The British Theater," a 125-volume abcedarium of the staged plays of the time.
The selection in the new Penguin volume Three American Poets: Melville, Tuckerman, Robinson, edited by Jonathan Bean, omits half-a-dozen of the best sonnets, has some dodgy notes, and since the series it is in forbids proper critical introductions, leaves the reader scrambling to piece together the anyway mysterious Tuckerman story.
He'd made connections like Richard Burton and Tony Scott, too; that helped with critical introductions in the U.S.
Maffettone (2011) and Audard (2007) are critical introductions to Rawls's three major works.
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