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Timothy Snyder

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Timothy Snyder is one of the world's leading historians, and a prominent public intellectual in the United States and Europe. An expert on eastern Europe and on the Second World War, he has written acclaimed and prize-winning books about twentieth-century European history, as well as political manifestos and analyses about the rise of tyranny in the contemporary world. His work has been translated into more than forty languages, and has inspired protest, art, and music. He serves as the Levin Professor of History and Public Affairs at Yale University and is the faculty advisor of the Fortunoff Archive for Holocaust...

Daniel Chandler

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Daniel Chandler (born 1952) is a British visual semiotician based (since 2001) at the department of Theatre, Film and Television Studies at Aberystwyth University (where he has taught since 1989) . His best-known publication is Semiotics: The Basics (Routledge: 1st edn 2002, 2nd edn 2007) , which is frequently used as a basis for University courses in semiotics,and the online version 'Semiotics for Beginners' (online since 1995) . He has a particular interest in the visual semiotics of gender and advertising. Trained as a schoolteacher at Magdalene College, Cambridge, Chandler began his career teaching...