East-West Symbioses
This book explores many facets of the encounters between East and West, including exoticizations and incommensurabilities, creative fusions, and the effect of the West on Asian countries. It will appeal to anyone seeking an understanding of the relationship of the two spheres.
This volume explores the connections between literary figures, artists, and locations of the Victorian era. It covers writers and painters like Charles Dickens and D. G. Rossetti, addresses transatlantic links, and includes influential figures from other periods.
The ‘New’ Documentary Nexus
The rise of digital media has caused paradigm shifts in documentary. This book explores central questions about interactive documentary, developing methods to analyze this dynamic field for documentary theorists, media scholars, and students of media and communication studies.
By focusing on colonial histories and legacies, this edited anthology breaks new ground in studying modernity in Islamicate contexts. From a range of perspectives, the authors probe ‘colonial modernity’ as being introduced into such contexts by European encroachment.
Drawing on contemporary developments in cultural studies, the papers in this anthology cover multiple forms and genres—including novels, films, documentaries, magazines, and commercials— in order to shed light on new sensibilities in postmillennial texts and media.
With distinguished features in its sound system, syntax, and discourse, Chinese is a unique language. This volume presents new advances in Chinese linguistics, drawing on diverse theoretical models valuable to linguists, educators, and students.
The most significant phenomenon occurring around us today is the European crisis, whether in its political, economic, cultural or social manifestations. This volume brings together the contributions of twenty authors in response to this challenge.
Nature Alive
Inspired by the work of Alfred North Whitehead and his metaphysical “lens,” the contributors here bring a multiplicity of philosophical orientations to the table in challenging the mechanistic and reductionistic neo-Darwinian paradigm still dominant today in the life sciences.
Transforming the Colony
Winter investigates the lives of convicts transported to Western Australia, particularly how their presence in the colony served as a form of modernity, fundamentally transforming it in the process.
Arctic Modernities
The modern Arctic is more than melting glaciers; it’s a mix of indigenous tradition and a mundane everyday. This volume examines how heroic images continue to shape our view of the region: as a utopian future, a symbol of modernity, or a mythic, nostalgic past.
The Political History of Muslim Bengal
Though now predominantly Muslim, Bengal was once Buddhist. This book tells the story of successive religious and political transformations shaping Bengali Muslim identity, narrating a history from the Muslim Sultanate to the 1971 liberation war and the present day.
The essays collected here highlight new and exciting explorations of integrative approaches to the creative mind. This allows a unique and fresh look at the concept of creativity, creative cognition, and innovation.
The Failure of Augustus
Though he had a proud and clear aim, in the end, Augustus was defeated by his own persistence. Using contemporaneous sources and Augustus’ own words, Judge’s study explores this downfall. It also argues for the primacy of original sources in historical interpretation.
(Post)Colonial Passages
The essays gathered here discuss postcolonialism as a transdisciplinary field of passages that negotiate among diverse, yet interrelated, cultural fields.
The world’s first Northern Lights observatory is the focus of this account about everyday life and the epoch-making pioneering of geophysical research on Haldde Mountain in Finnmark, Norway. The book builds on private letters and memoirs about daily life and research.
These essays explore the importance of water imagery in the work of George Sand. Discover the complex symbolism of water—encompassing life and death, fluid kinship, and artistic creativity—in her novels, short stories, plays, and even her paintings.
Developing countries are the most vulnerable to climate change impacts, making it a matter of moral ethics. This book explores how concerted global action and traditional knowledge can enable them to adapt to the effects of climate change.
A Charismatic Model of the Church
Lee focuses on Edward Irving’s teaching of the church as the body of Christ in the power of the Holy Spirit and the eschatological community in holiness. He explores Irving’s emphasis upon the exalted humanity of Christ after His resurrection in relation to the church.
This book introduces new approaches to semiotics and metaphysical philosophy. Drawing from over 30 years of research, it shows how mature semiotics leads to new philosophical vistas, with conclusions that differ significantly from currently accepted philosophical views.
Chronology and Evolution within the Mesolithic of North-West Europe
These proceedings focus on the contribution of carbon-14 dates to Mesolithic research in North-West Europe. 40 papers cover themes like lithic industries, settlement patterns, burial practices, human impact on the environment, and neolithisation.
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