Landscape Representations
This volume offers essential insights into emerging perspectives in landscape studies. Instead of focusing only on nature, this book places humans and physical aspects at its centre, combining ecological and geographical information, nature conservation, and the study of society.
This book explores proper names: what they are, why we need them, and how they work. It focuses on the use of names in our thoughts and in communication, as tools we use to single out objects of discourse and convey information about them.
‘Ethnic’ piano rolls are an important part of a still-neglected musical heritage. They encapsulate the musical life of several continents and various ethnic communities based in the USA. This volume represents the latest research on these unique and rare cultural artefacts.
This book offers philosophical reflections on new forms of domination, vulnerability and alienation at work. Following Hannah Arendt, it addresses the crisis of work and loneliness as a political problem of exclusion and meaninglessness.
Edward Burne-Jones on Nature
This study of Edward Burne-Jones’s paintings explores his vision of nature. It reveals how he fused scientific observation with symbolic interpretation to create the fantastical landscapes and magical imagery of his allegorical, fantasy, and dream cycles.
Explore the organization of international rail transport along the Great Silk Road and other major transport corridors. This book details a new methodology for freight traffic using the supranational currency EuroNur. Essential for businesses and transport organizations.
Content and Language Integrated Learning (CLIL) is a frontier of pedagogical research. This volume combines research from international CLIL experts with critical perspectives, deriving theoretical reflections from case studies for both academics and school instructors.
This volume outlines the changing landscape of business and consumer behaviour post-pandemic. It identifies emerging trends—shaped by cultural context and generational belonging—needed to develop digital products and services for an evolving world.
The Odyssey of Communism
This interdisciplinary volume explores how film has shaped culture and memory. From the Berlin Wall to China, it journeys from the terror of communist prisons to the rosy image of propaganda, arguing that communism, lingering in mentalities, still needs interrogation.
Awareness Integration Therapy
This book offers Awareness Integration Therapy (AIT), a multi-modality approach synthesizing cognitive, behavioral, emotional, and body-mind theories. AIT is a must-read for clinicians and coaches who desire to offer deep therapeutic work in a brief period of time.
Challenges at the Syntax-Semantics-Pragmatics Interface
This volume addresses significant issues in linguistic theory and description across a wide range of languages. Using the perspective of Role and Reference Grammar (RRG), these analyses exemplify the theory’s ability to formulate cross-linguistic generalizations.
This comparative study follows modernists Tristan Tzara and Mário de Andrade on parallel creative paths. Emerging from different worlds, their poetics traversed borders, adapting folk traditions while actively criticising cultural imperialism and advocating against hate.
A Cartographic Journey of Race, Gender and Power
This book explores how spatial borders are social constructs used to define hierarchies of race, gender, and power. Through literary narratives from East and West, it follows voices crossing these boundaries to envision a new model for a diverse global identity.
Science and the Wealth of Nations
Idea-based growth theory has been a bust. This volume presents an alternative approach, drawing from classical mechanics and thermodynamics. Consistent with the historical record and data, it explains the 1970s productivity slowdown, the Solow paradox, and policy failures.
Journalism and Politics in Nigeria
This book offers fresh insight into the impact of British colonial rule on contemporary Nigerian politics and journalism. It explores the enduring effects of this inheritance and the unintended consequences that remain problematic more than 100 years later.
Horace’s Odes brought Greek lyric metres to Rome and have been loved for 2000 years. These elegant verse translations recreate the original metres, capturing the poetry’s unique structure and sound. Includes a full introduction, extensive notes, and facing-page Latin text.
This book unifies Freud’s scattered writings on healing to spell out exactly what happens in successful psychotherapy. It clarifies the healing process for neurotic, borderline, and psychotic illnesses, adding a new level of precision to the therapeutic process.
Biliteracy and Multiliteracies
This volume introduces ongoing research on biliteracy and multiliteracies. It explores where research is heading in view of multilingualism, with chapters discussing these issues in a wide variety of countries, from Brazil and Cyprus to Portugal and the USA.
Rituals of Ilé-Ifẹ̀, Nigeria
This book reveals the hidden beauties of six prominent ritual festivals in Ile-Ifẹ̀, the spiritual capital of the Yoruba people. It provides rare information and profound analysis, an important record of enduring cultural legacies for Yoruba cultural studies.
What has Newman to say to a world where religion is mere opinion? This volume shows how he challenges us to think in an integrated way about the self, conscience in political life, and the individual’s relationship with the community and academic disciplines.