This book presents a model of epistemic stance, showing that questions come from two distinct positions: Unknowing (a lack of knowledge) and Uncertain (a lack of certainty). Uncertain questions range on a continuum from expressing doubt to advancing a supposition.
A foremost expert presents original essays on Lawrence Durrell, author of *The Alexandria Quartet*. This volume explores his private notebooks, early literary connections with Henry Miller and Anaïs Nin, and new insights into his mental states, politics, and sexual orientation.
In reporting violence, the media often construct a negative image of Islam, which reproduces unfounded hostility known as Islamophobia. This book provides a systematic analysis of how non-western online newspapers reproduce Islamophobia in news reporting.
Beyond Capitalism
The digital revolution isn’t just updating capitalism—it’s forging a new system. As profound as the industrial revolution, this transformation is born from the convergence of global crises. This book reveals the world that comes next.
Rhetoric in 2Maccabees
2Maccabees describes the threat of Hellenisation, yet its authors ironically used Greek rhetoric to combat Greek influence. This book presents the latest post-2012 findings from nine prominent scholars, offering essential theological insights for serious Biblical scholars.
Making Sense of Stories
This book is an invaluable guide for the researcher or professional using storytelling as inquiry. Drawing from disciplines like psychology and sociology, its 29 chapters provide a rich compendium of ways to analyse stories and make sense of them.
This book highlights international media education research, topical findings, and educational practices. It explores the use of digital skills from school to higher education and beyond, providing insights for researchers, teachers, and policymakers promoting media education.
This volume investigates how literary texts reflect a Catholic philosophy of life. It demonstrates how literature, by capturing the imagination, evokes human experience related to a Catholic understanding of life.
This book investigates work from diverse worldviews—cultural, religious, humanist, and Indigenous. Our work lives can be more deeply understood and appreciated when exposed to perspectives different from our own, yielding new insights about relationships and crisis at work.
Mindoro and Lingayen Liberated
From Dec 1944 to Jan 1945, two Allied invasions in the Philippines turned the tide against Japan. This book covers the battles of Mindoro Island and Lingayen Gulf, focusing on the devastating Kamikaze attacks on Allied ships and the war crimes of high-ranking Japanese officers.
What did ‘Rome’ mean in antiquity, and what has it meant since? This volume shows that ancient Rome has been recontextualised and remade by successive historical periods. These studies show how Rome and its texts are recast for each new audience through adaptation and critique.
As European society segregates along religious and ethnic lines, static multiculturalism has failed, strengthening religious nationalism. This book presents a message to Europe’s elites: embrace the dynamic principle of interculturalism to build one society for all.
This book presents 15 papers by specialists on Late Antique Egypt. Articles deal with its history, from monasticism to the Arab conquest. Other contributions provide new writings and readings of texts from inscriptions, papyri and ostraca, offering a close-up look at the period.
This book examines the reception of visual arts across cultures and times. It focuses on the migration of images: how they travel from one medium to another, and how they migrate from an artefact into the human body, a process explored through various disciplines.
Ambrose was a protean figure whose motives are not always clear. This interdisciplinary volume investigates his efforts to create social cohesion for Nicaean Christianity against heresy and paganism by fusing Graeco-Roman and Judeo-Christian intellectual traditions.
Child life specialists need research skills, but few resources exist. Combining clinical examples with advice from seasoned researchers, this text guides you from identifying a clinical question to reporting results and improving patient outcomes.
This book addresses sustainable urban development, covering governance, green technology, and the environment. It is a reference for local stakeholders making policy and planning choices to protect the environment and to provide for equitable housing, health, and education.
This book considers the history of stardom through its connections to three media. The first phase, shaped by cinema, created contemporary stardom. The second, linked to television, made the star more intimate, while the third sees outsiders achieve visibility through the web.
Contemporary Crime Fiction
This book presents nine compelling essays on contemporary crime fiction, bringing fresh perspectives to the vibrant genre. Topics range from domestic noir and historical crime to race and ethnicity, examining authors like Gillian Flynn, Ian Rankin, and Tana French.
Feminist Themes in Sevim Burak and Ursula K. Le Guin’s Worlds
Sevim Burak used unconventional writing for realistic worlds; Ursula K. Le Guin used traditional writing for unusual ones. This study shows how both authors explored similar feminist themes and aimed to destroy phallogocentric language in different ways.