Lesser Civil Wars
This book explores the cycle where the Memory of war, kept alive by civilians, creates the Will to fight again. It examines these “lesser civil wars”—the battles over memory in the Ohio River Valley that incubate a nation’s will to fight.
Pursuing Eudaimonia
This book recovers an ancient, ‘negative’ reason as a spiritual way of life. By investigating the Christian apophatic tradition and its philosophical heritage, it offers a path to rediscovering the wellsprings of human passion, desire and happiness.
Strangers in New Homelands
For immigrants, the concept of “home” evokes confusion, fear, and hope. This collection explores what this concept means for people making new lives in strange environments, examining the challenges of settlement, integration, and adaptation.
Cesare Pugni
Prolific 19th-century composer Cesare Pugni worked with the era’s greatest choreographers to create renowned ballets. His works include Esmeralda, based on Hugo’s Notre-Dame de Paris, and Le Violon du diable, a tale of a violinist given irresistible power.
French Romantic Ballets
This collection presents music from La Sylphide, Giselle, and Le Corsaire—three of the most important scores from the Golden Age of ballet in Paris. Explore tales of fatal love, supernatural spirits, and spectacular drama.
Iraq’s Kurdistan Region is massively contaminated by landmines used by the Baathist government to de-populate the area. This work investigates the landmine problem’s devastating social, health, and economic impacts and the actions taken to rebuild.
Health and Hazard
The nineteenth-century European spa was an intersection of social class and medical ideas. It offers a unique opportunity to study a key shift: the rise of the order-giving physician over the compliant patient, and the turn from liberalism toward authoritarianism.
Teaching Translation and Interpreting
With no strict regulations on who can become a translator, this volume explores a vital question: are translators taught or trained? Contributors examine what current teaching programmes are like and how they can be improved.
In post-socialist countries, consumer culture is a “science in the shadows,” studied commercially but neglected by academia. This book creates a counterbalance, exploring consumer behaviour, new theories, and recent criticism from leading scholars.
The first study of Osbern Bokenham since the discovery of his lost magnum opus. It reveals how Bokenham negotiates his marginality to claim poetic authority, countering patriarchal history by asserting an alternative, spiritual matrilineage.
Enhancing Teaching and Learning in Higher Education in the United Arab Emirates
Professors reflect on enhancing learning opportunities for their students. The authors take a scholarly approach to examine innovative techniques, from active learning to the effect of technology, providing inspiration for teaching excellence in Higher Education worldwide.
Seductive Screens
This book describes the development of children’s media from radio to Facebook, explaining the perfect storm—a collision of economics, psychology, and technology—behind its growth. It explores the influence of Disney, Sesame Street, and Batman in this context.
The Sublime Today
How is the sublime relevant today? As new media changes aesthetic experience, this volume investigates the sublime in contemporary literature, film, and art, connecting historical theories to pressing questions of gender, politics, and terror.
This volume explores the cultural significance of the ‘noughties’ in the Hispanic and Lusophone world, defining a new generation through its film, digital media, theatre, and history.
Film and Morality examines how morality is presented in films and how they serve as a source of moral values. It shows how audiences explore moral issues by following characters who make life-changing decisions and live with the consequences of their choices.
Out of the Shadows
Who was Mary De Morgan? Overshadowed by her family, she was a writer, spiritualist, social reformer, and early feminist. This book reveals a complex “New Woman” and explains why George Bernard Shaw considered her a “devil incarnate.”
Shifting the Compass
The study of Dutch colonial literature has traditionally focused on the motherland, ignoring the global network. This collection of articles shifts the compass of analysis to present new perspectives on the pluricontinental contacts within this vast network.
Constructing Capacities
This book explores how learning helps people build capacities to overcome challenges. Through diverse, researched accounts, it generates new understandings of how capacities can be constructed effectively and sustainably.
Early Modern Communi(cati)ons
This volume demonstrates the connections that bind Elizabethan and Jacobean cultural studies with Shakespearean investigations. Essays explore early modern culture and Shakespeare’s works, from their socio-historical context to present-day interpretations.
The Holocaust and World War II
This interdisciplinary volume explores the connection between World War II and the Holocaust in history and memory. Nineteen articles from prominent scholars, including acclaimed historian Gerhard L. Weinberg, examine presidential decisions, racial hatred, and more.
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