Saint John Henry Newman
This volume of essays argues that John Henry Newman’s legacy is a vital resource for believers confronting a secular world and a church in crisis. Noted scholars address faith, knowledge, education, and relationships, offering much to ponder for all readers.
Peace and Conflict Resolution in Africa
This conference proceedings compiles reflections on both historical and contemporary conflicts in Africa, focusing on issues of ethno-religious conflicts, corruption, and land. It also documents areas of progress in legitimizing democracy and conceptualizing social justice.
This book tells the ‘USC story’: the challenges faced and pedagogical enhancements made in embracing new technology to teach social work online. It details how faculty converted traditional courses for a virtual program that grew to over 2,200 students.
Africana Methodology
This volume critically examines the collection, interpretation, and analysis of quantitative and qualitative data from an Afrocentric perspective. It provides readers with a compilation of essays that evaluate the Africana experience from a methodological perspective.
The Inter-Processual Self
How should we understand the self, as well as personal, relational and systemic growth? This volume proposes a radical new way of answering this question, resting on a non-representational theory of knowledge on how to approach and comprehend the self and action more broadly.
Museums and Communities
This volume brings together seventeen essays critically reflecting on the collaborative work of the contemporary ethnographic museum with diverse communities. It represents an opportunity to think about the roles and values of museums internationally.
This multidisciplinary book challenges negative stereotypes of Africa. It presents the continent’s own view of human wellbeing, drawing on culture, identity, and philosophy to offer new theories and policy recommendations for its future growth.
Britten’s music is complex and contradictory. This collection of essays by performers, musicologists, and theorists challenges assumptions about musical constructs, text/music relationships, and the personal influences on his compositional technique.
Beyond the Frontier, Volume II
This compilation presents the latest research in first-year composition, including pedagogy, praxis, debate, and assessment. It will benefit anyone who studies or engages with first-year composition, including graduate students, instructors, and administrators.
Thornton Wilder in Collaboration
Evolving from papers given at the Second International Thornton Wilder Conference, the contributions examine Wilder’s work as both playwright and novelist, focusing upon how he drew on the collaborative mode of creativity required in the theatre, when writing drama and fiction.
Africana Jewish Journeys
Millions of people worldwide are identifying as Jews or converting. In this volume, scholars and practitioners explore this new shaping of modern Jewish identities in Africa, the United States, and India.
The Places of God in an Age of Re-Embodiments
Thomas-Pellicer revisits Western ontological and epistemological assumptions, a necessity in today’s age of ecological decay. She offers a critical analysis of sustainable development and problematically situates it within the ecocidal trajectory of Western metaphysics.
In 2008, corporations were bailed out while millions suffered. This book chronicles government and business fraud throughout US history, from scams by the Founders to the swindles that spawned the Great Depression, and warns that the factors are in place for the next collapse.
Literature and Psychology
This study explores how psychological messages are portrayed and interpreted in writing. It analyzes the interaction between text and reader, with emphasis on emotion, identity, and trauma, offering an in-depth look at psychology and literature.
This book is concerned with the outcomes of the doctoral research programme of the Maryvale Institute (UK) and its contribution to new knowledge in the area of Catholic studies, a wide field including history, literature, philosophy, spirituality, and theology.
Obumselu on African Literature
Ben Obumselu’s (1930 – 2017) highly celebrated work on African literature is here brought together in a single volume for the first time. The originality of his insights, his analytic rigour, and the power and grace of his expression render this compendium compelling.
Pluralism, Pragmatism and American Democracy
Callaway defends democratic individualism against more collectivist and corporatist tendencies in contemporary neo-pragmatism, and draws upon up-to-date political analysis in order to justify America’s long republican tradition.
Proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Human Rights
This publication presents an international dialogue on the right to knowledge and information. Researchers from diverse cultures reflect on difficult human rights issues, exploring the foundations for an equal, knowledge-based society for all.
In the sphere of Indian English literature, Indian English fiction after the end of the 1980s has emerged as a new “canon”. This monograph highlights the process of literary canon formation in Indian universities, and examines such fiction as an alternative literary canon.
This study of Byron’s last complete long poem, the comparatively neglected The Island, is the first to devote a whole book to the examination and contextualization of both the poetry and its poet. It also contains the first-ever published transcript of the holograph of the poem.
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