Exploring Turkish Cultures
This groundbreaking collection offers new insights into Turkish cultures, moving beyond traditional binaries. It features the first major interviews in English with prominent actors, directors, and critics, alongside essays on Turkish film and theatre.
Exploring Uttarakhand’s Temples and Divine Paths
This unparalleled book is the first comprehensive exploration of the historical and cultural importance of temples in Uttarakhand. It meticulously categorizes sites like Char Dham and Panch Kedar, detailing the region’s divine paths with a dedicated chapter and an intricate map.
This book defines EU development policy in Africa since the Cold War. It argues the EU fell short of its efforts to export its ‘paradise’ to Africa, limited by its inability to stand as a distinct and leading actor in international development.
This book details the traditional usage of Ardisia humilis Vahl and its systematic validation for treating hepatic manifestations. It covers standardization and studies that uphold folkloric claims for jaundice, serving as a valuable resource for researchers and students.
Expression and Survival
The standard ethical approach to suicide may do more harm than good. In *Expression and Survival*, Craig Greenman develops an aesthetic alternative, arguing that art—making it or experiencing it—can help a person survive. For anyone who has ever struggled with suicide.
The performing arts remain an underexplored territory for aesthetics. This volume collects essays by international scholars who address the core philosophical topic of expression, questioning the roles of the performer, the work, and the spectator.
This volume tackles the concept of fear in a range of time periods in cultural and literary history, from the Archaic Period and Greco-Roman Classical Antiquity to the modern and postmodern periods.
This book articulates the representation of knowledge and values lodged in the diverse knowledge systems in Africa and its diaspora, and highlights the prejudicial assessments which ensure such epistemological systems are denigrated or ignored, even on the African continent.
This volume explores extension—a fundamental, yet largely unexplored, aspect of language. Contributors investigate its regularities, limits, and influence on grammar and meaning, using rich examples from English, French, Polish, Russian, and German.
This study explores the feature inheritance hypothesis, arguing that only the number feature is inherited in the CP phase, and the person feature in the vP phase. Drawing on English and Spanish, it discusses implications for Agree, Case, A-movement, phases, and Transfer.
Given the lack of resources that provide examples as to what English modals could be used when referring to successive clauses, Chartrand develops and discusses a method to extract modal auxiliaries in two consecutive clauses from the British National Corpus 2007 XML edition.
Extraterrestrial Intelligence
What are the implications for human society of a sophisticated extraterrestrial intelligence (ETI) operating on Earth? This book explores this question from a multidisciplinary perspective. Any contact with ETI will be a paradigm changer, and we must prepare for this transition.
Extraterrestrials in the Catholic Imagination
Scientists, theologians, and sci-fi authors join forces to ask: what does alien life mean for Catholicism? Their answer is a radical welcome for extraterrestrials as fellow creatures of God, not a crisis of faith.
Has technology’s ease of manipulation created distrust in photography? Or have we always desired to manipulate the image to satisfy the demand for the “idealised”? This book explores how artists stage reality to help us look more closely at the world.
F.F. Bosworth
F.F. Bosworth (1877-1958) was a Pentecostal pioneer and famous healing evangelist who led over a million people to Christ. While many know his book, Christ the Healer, few know the man. This book is the first critical analysis of his life and ministry.
Fabricating the Body
Fabricating the Body draws on disability, gender, and psychoanalytic studies to situate the body as a site of identity, obligation, and exchange. It stimulates conversation on “indebted” bodies, marginalization, and the ethical costs of societal progress.
Twelve of Italy’s best novelle by literary masters can be read in the original Italian with parallel English translations. This collection, centered on the theme of a woman as the central character, includes biographies and notes on each writer.
Facets of Urbanisation
Increasing urbanisation is a dominant global trend with numerous social and environmental implications. This volume analyzes its various facets, including cultural adaptation, migration, gender, slums, and human rights, from a cross-cultural perspective.
This volume presents original contributions on women’s migration from an interdisciplinary context. The papers examine diverse destinations—including the Italian city of Palermo, Italy and Europe—through a variety of theoretical and geographical perspectives.
Facilitating Interdisciplinary Collaboration among the Intelligence Community, Academy, and Industry
This book analyzes the Laboratory for Analytic Sciences (LAS), a collaboration between intelligence, academia, and industry. It details practical lessons for developing cross-sector partnerships to create innovative solutions to the world’s most challenging problems.
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