Legilimens!
Legilimens is the spell to see into another’s mind. This collection brings together anthropologists, theologians, historians, and rhetoricians to see into the Harry Potter texts, deliberating over the greater scholarly significance of these rich works.
The Aesthetics of Failure
This book explores the ethical aspects of Samuel Beckett’s aesthetics of failure through his connection to Maurice Blanchot and Emmanuel Levinas. It traces Beckett’s ‘unwording’ to analyze how inexpressibility is bound with ethical responsibility.
Carers’ Stories
This book shares the stories of six carers, including gay and lesbian partners. They found health and social care services to be a burden, not the person with dementia. Discover the strategies that support people to maintain a sense of identity and wellbeing.
The Unspeakable
This volume explores how trauma, even when silenced, emerges in surprising ways in Francophone literature and art. It examines how expressive forms evoke a terrible reality, tackle ethical responsibility, and can ultimately lead to the process of healing.
Civil Society in Africa
This book examines a human rights ministry in a Nairobi slum. While it improved local democratic values, parishioners were inhibited from holding officials accountable due to fears of retaliation. An important resource for those addressing challenges facing the urban poor.
This book researches three solutions to steel congestion in reinforced concrete: steel fibers, self-consolidating concrete, and headed bars. Based on test results, it proposes new models that provide a basis for future research and improved codes.
About The Boys
To ease tensions in a Bristol school, seven Somali and African Caribbean boys are brought together. Five years later, the author finds them again, uncovering powerful stories of exclusion, ambition, and success as they approach their GCSEs.
Battle and Bloodshed
This volume goes beyond a history of medieval violence to show how pervasive war was, influencing art, architecture, literature, and law. It covers iconic aspects like armour and the Crusades, the justification for war, and the means to re-establish peace.
Beyond Postmodernism
This collection provides an alternative to Postmodernism, arguing it has ruled too long. Contributors utilize critical tools like posthumanism and postcontemporary theory, yielding conclusions beyond its scope. For those seeking something new, join the dialogue.
The Proceedings of the 19th Annual History of Medicine Days Conference 2010
Discover new voices in the history of medicine. This illustrated volume features student research on nursing, public health, psychiatry, eugenics, and more. It also includes the compelling keynote address from the conference.
Russian Émigré Culture
This volume offers a collection of critical articles reflecting current perspectives on Russian émigré culture. Scholars shed new light on cultural diplomacy, literature, art, and music, documenting the diversity and impact of this movement on European life.
Popular Appeal
In a world of urgent social change, young people are devouring fiction about identity and transition. This book examines how popular genres are being redefined to explore today’s key questions about the environment, identity, and our place in a fragile world.
Diasporic Identities and Empire
This volume explores diasporic identities and empire on a global scale. By moving beyond the search for an imperial ‘centre,’ contributions from scholars across four continents show how writing from the peripheries develops a new worldview.
This collection addresses key issues in lexical categories, categorization, and category change. It explores defining categories, the problem of fuzziness, and nominalizations using data from numerous languages. For researchers and advanced students in linguistics.
Less than Nations
After World War I redefined the map of Central-Eastern Europe, states and nations rarely coincided. The minority question emerged as a troublesome issue, affecting international relations and becoming an integral part of the League of Nations system.
Few subjects are more controversial or important to today’s world than the British Empire. Using case studies, this book examines how the Empire ended, how independence was won and resisted, and what its collapse tells us about its legacy.
Beyond the Book
This collection explores aspects of children’s literature ‘Beyond the Book’.
From woodcuts to e-books, children’s literature is reinterpreted through illustration, pop-ups, film, and stage adaptations, celebrating the creativity that engages young readers.
Challenging most historians, this book suggests the struggle to establish a Jewish state was less a response to international challenges and more a struggle for power within the future state, providing new insights into pivotal historic events.
‘Christ’s Sinful Flesh’
This book shows that 19th-century preacher Edward Irving’s theological views formed a coherent system focused on his doctrine of Christ. Irving believed Christ took on a fully human nature, including the propensity to sin, to become the true reconciler of God and humanity.
Thinking and Practicing Reconciliation
This collection asserts that literary representations of conflict offer insights into reconciliation. It charts a course from theory to practice, offering perspectives on storytelling as a way to address human-rights injustices and move from the classroom to the world.
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