Surveillance and Memory
This book contains secret police reports from the 1948-1950 surveillance of sociologist Anton Golopentia. Including transcriptions of phone conversations and personal declarations, it provides a chilling insight into political repression at the dawn of Romania’s communist regime.
From Glosses to Dictionaries
This book presents the beginnings of lexicography and the first dictionaries across the world. Through case studies from Greek Antiquity to 9th-century Japan, it offers a global, comparative approach to a topic usually studied only within single cultures.
Critical Engagements on African Literature
This is the first book devoted to Isidore Diala’s award-winning drama and poetry. The essays offer fresh insights on African literary landscapes, exploring themes of national history, ritual aesthetics, postcolonial implosions, oil politics, exile, and gender.
Polarization, Populism, and the New Politics
From Turkey to the USA, the effect of populism is felt more than ever. This volume considers the role played by conventional and new media in its rise. Investigating countries such as Spain and the UK, it will appeal to readers interested in polarization and post-truth studies.
This guide to retiree destinations worldwide is based on research and hands-on testimonies. Hear directly from retirees in Spain, Canada, and Ecuador, and learn what factors to consider. Chapters include destination profiles based on personal interviews with locals.
Victorian Fiction as a Bildungsroman
This book shows that the Victorian Bildungsroman has a unique development history and a thematic and narrative pattern. It details this tradition’s entrance into Victorian literature, scrutinizing novels to question whether their perspectives fit the shape of the genre.
This first comprehensive volume explores the concept of the ‘home front’ in Greek and Roman Antiquity. Crossing borders between history, social sciences, and religious studies, it investigates the impact of war on the social and religious spheres of civilian communities.
What kinds of worlds will exist in our future? How will technology shape our cities, homes, and ourselves? This collection of essays explores science fiction’s new spaces—from utopias and dystopias to alien cityscapes—and discusses capitalism, equality, and feminist critique.
Alpine Refugees
This collection of essays highlights how Alpine territories are facing challenges from migration, and how these can trigger policy innovations with beneficial impacts for both migrants and local inhabitants. It will appeal to practitioners, social scientists, and policy makers.
Preventing Radicalisation and Terrorism in Europe
This book compares the counter-terrorism and counter-radicalisation policies of Belgium, France, Italy, Spain, and the United Kingdom. It offers a critical assessment of their strengths and weaknesses, identifying evolutionary lines and proposing a series of recommendations.
This volume explores words, the building blocks of language, from multifaceted perspectives. Bringing together linguistics, neuroscience, and psycholinguistics, it tackles key questions on how to define, measure, and teach vocabulary.
The 21st century demands new skills: media literacy, leadership, critical thinking, and problem solving. However, their relationship with education is not yet fully established. This book discusses these skills through studies in the context of Turkey.
Innovative Mnemonics in Chemical Education
This book details time-economic, innovative learning techniques to help students grow an interest in chemistry and memorize the subject. It solves the limitations of conventional methods and provides chemical applications, problems, and free educational tools.
Critical Method and Contemporary Film
This volume investigates what film critics do and what ideologies inform their evaluations. It traces changes in critical methodologies, arguing for the emergence of neofuturism over postmodernism, and asks: Who evaluates film, why, and does the system need to change?
This book explores meaning in language, uniting linguistics, semantics, and computer science. It examines the rapid emergence of meaning in the digital world of social media and memes, using authentic corpus data to show why human language understanding is essential today.
African Pentecostalism and Eschatological Expectations
This book investigates the eschatology of African Pentecostalism concerning the second coming of Christ. It critiques literalistic Bible readings and presents a new Pentecostal hermeneutics, offering new ways of thinking to enrich and enlighten the movement’s hope.
The Efficiency and Productivity of Indian Pharmaceutical Companies
This book evaluates the Indian pharmaceutical industry, highlighting the government’s role in its growth from non-existence before the 1970s to one of the largest in the world. It provides an understanding of productivity and efficiency for health administrators and economists.
This book is the first complete research on opera theatres across the Middle East and North Africa. Examining many previously undocumented institutions, this work provides scholars and practitioners with the first reference on their evolutionary process.
Considering Leadership Anew
Traditional leadership recipes are not enough to cope with a chaotic world. This book compiles essays on alternative leadership theory from leading authors who defend unorthodox approaches, exploring leadership from novel lenses from the arts, humanities, and sciences.
Variation is a universal phenomenon permeating language, culture, and worldviews. This book analyses variations in folklore and language—from myths and motifs to dancing and singing—as signifiers of culture, exploring issues of creativity, intertextuality, and transmediality.