Revolving Around India(s)
This book offers a transnational and gender perspective on contemporary India, exploring tradition, diaspora, and political activism. It analyses cultural texts to reveal discourses of equality, fear, and racism, stimulating studies on India’s future.
Family Dispute Resolution from a Cultural Perspective
This book uniquely focuses on how South Sudanese families in Australia resolve family disputes. It makes a vital contribution to our understanding of how the Australian legal system works within the context of legal pluralism, social integration, and family well-being.
We don’t see reality as it is. Instead, your brain uses experience to create a story—your private narrative. This book shows how this narrative enables humans to anticipate the future, engage in complex thought, and communicate, providing a new way of viewing human experience.
Nollywood-Inspired Migrant Filmmaking in Switzerland
Discover the little-known world of Nollywood in Europe. This book reveals how African migrants use film to represent their complex lives, challenging colonial narratives and forging a bold, new transnational cinema.
Nawãr (Savages)
The Syrian revolution was the most complicated of the Arab Spring. This book examines the intellectual and behavioral changes Syrian society experienced under the Assad totalitarian regime and how they reshaped society, influencing the revolution and its outcome.
This is the first critical analysis of the physician as detective. Exploring the similarity between a medical “case study” and a mystery, this book reviews major authors from R. Austin Freeman to Patricia Cornwell. It will appeal to mystery fans and medical professionals alike.
The Philosophy of A.W.H. Adkins
Every society is shaped by the tension between cooperative and competitive values. This book explores this conflict in the ancient Greek world, using a universal model to reveal a culture’s true values. These discussions are not just historical—they speak directly to us today.
Humanity’s planetary superdominance, a product of transgenerational learning, has caused an ecological crisis. We now face an evolutionary choice about the purpose of education: should we double down on humanism, deconstruct the system, or adopt a holistic biological wisdom?
Democracy Education in Schools
This introductory book for teachers and researchers deals with democracy education. It presents a theoretical dimension for primary education, a framework plan to foster democratic attitudes in students, and practical activity examples for classroom implementation.
An expert shares 25 more facts learned from a quarter-century in criminal justice. Covering policing, courts, corrections, and race, each point is backed by research. Though scholarly, the book is written for the layperson in a timely, engaging, “tell it like it is” style.
Breaking the Cycle of Women’s Paid Domestic Work in Brazil
This book portrays the life stories of Brazilian domestic workers and their daughters, who are the first in their families to get a higher education. It explores their social mobility through the mother-daughter bond that transforms trauma into empowerment.
Photography and Modern Icons
At the turn of the 20th century, six cultural icons used photography to build their media image. Exalting the cult of personality and mass communication, they used the photographic portrait to become celebrities and found fashion styles that are still of reference today.
100 Years of Conference Interpreting
Born at Versailles in 1919, conference interpreters made modern diplomacy possible. This volume celebrates one century of this exceptional profession, exploring its milestones and future post-pandemic through a candid discussion with practitioners, researchers, and trainers.
Home Front in the American Heartland
This collection explores World War One’s impact on the American Heartland, a region often overlooked in wartime histories. It uncovers the complexities of the home front experience, from conscription and propaganda to patriotism, class tensions, and gender roles.
Police records from 18th-century Paris reveal the lives of thousands of men who desired men. This is the first book to explore all the archives, examining patterns in their lives and in the surveillance and punishment of same-sex relations across the century.
While Derrida is often portrayed as a critic of logocentrism, this book’s central premise is that he implicitly affirmed its necessity. It explores this affirmation of logocentrism as a stable foundation for meaning that can be revised to create new possibilities.
English Writings from Northeast India
This volume explores English writings from Northeast India, analysing issues of ethnicity, identity, migration, and insurgency born from ongoing conflicts. These are voices from the periphery answering the mainstream and re-examining their own history.
Selahattin Ülkümen, a Turkish diplomat, is the only Muslim designated “Righteous among the Nations” for saving 42 Jews from the Nazis at his own risk. The remarkable story of this hero is an important but little-known aspect of Holocaust history. This book fills that void.
Using ordinary language and facts of experience, Bishop Butler’s philosophy is a guidebook to happiness. This book presents his work as a bridge joining ancient wisdom with modern experience, offering ways to live without the error and distraction that lead to misery.
England’s Response to Hitler in the 1930s
This book analyses the political tactics of the ‘Cliveden Set’, aristocrats in 1930s Britain. Scapegoated for the Appeasement Policy, they used their influence to encourage a foreign policy that supported Hitler’s rearmament and the annexation of Austria and Czechoslovakia.
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