Ali Mazrui synthesizes Africa’s political and social thought in this original interpretation of timeless relevance. It covers themes from liberation movements to the convergence of African, Islamic, and Western thought, and the role of religion in politics.
Beyond Buildings
Beyond Buildings demonstrates that designed spaces are as socially influential as speeches or advertisements. This assessment of spaces—from parks and battlefields to cities and interiors—provides insight into their cultural roles and social impact.
The Teacher of the 21st Century
This book contains the best articles from the 2013 ATEE conference, presenting an exchange of ideas between European teacher educators and beyond. It enhances the quality of teacher education and stimulates dialogue among researchers, teachers, and students.
These essays explore women, gender, and disease in 18th-century England and France. Excluded from universities, women nonetheless contributed to anatomy, botany, and medicine, informing literary texts and raising questions about their role in the Enlightenment.
EFL teachers and researchers in Asia share successful teaching techniques and new methodologies. This collection offers practical suggestions for the classroom and unique insights for teaching English where students have limited informal language exposure.
This book studies how Polish students acquire the English article system. Based on studies of beginner to advanced learners, the results prove that L2 acquisition is better in advanced groups, while less advanced groups have tremendous difficulties.
This book analyzes how social economics and entrepreneurship can be successful approaches in social work. It deals with core topics like management and social development, with implications for policy and organizations, appealing to researchers and a wider audience.
Wild Beasts of the Philosophical Desert
Though paranormal experiences are rarely taken seriously, this book demonstrates that to important philosophers—from Kant to Derrida—controversial phenomena like telepathy and clairvoyance were serious topics, thoughtfully interpreted.
Not Far From Here
Hailed as the “American Chekhov,” Raymond Carver’s work has international appeal, yet critical attention has been mostly US-based. This collection of essays by international scholars provides readers with new and multinational insights into his poetry and fiction.
In Search of Agamemnon
Before Schliemann, pioneers and ancients were fascinated by Mycenae. This book brings to life their thoughts and descriptions of the Lion Gate and ‘Treasury of Atreus’—observations that are not only of historical interest, but pure poetry.
Recognition and Enforcement of Foreign Arbitral Awards in Theory and in Practice
This book examines the enforcement of foreign arbitral awards under the New York Convention in common and civil law countries. It analyzes recurring judicial problems, providing solutions and advocating for a more liberal regime to favor enforcement.
This guide to cluster development in Central Europe maps and compares conditions in Poland, Czechia, Slovakia, and Austria. It analyses good practices, proposes a development framework, and explores trends like inter-cluster cooperation and World-Class clusters.
This collection of scholarly articles explores Strindberg on international stages and in translation. Essays analyze performances, translation problems, and postdramatic theatre, posing key questions for modern Strindberg scholars, directors, and enthusiasts.
Social Issues presents the social problems confronting Romanian society after the fall of Communism. Essays analyse national and international migration, the construction of identity in physical and virtual spaces, and the health of vulnerable populations.
Reappraising the Seicento
Reappraising the Seicento offers new perspectives from emerging scholars. Five essays examine compositional procedure in Italy and the assimilation of Italian music by English composers in the seventeenth century, placing it in a larger historical context.
This book argues that language combines symbols with the iconicity of mental events, and that imaginability is central to meaning. It traces this idea through Western thought, from Aristotle’s resemblance relations to Frege, Wittgenstein, and cognitive linguistics.
This book analyzes fraud as a global process from an interdisciplinary, international perspective. It covers financial, tax, and academic fraud, presenting methods for prevention with empirical evidence from Brazil, Canada, France, and Portugal.
This collection of essays explores the complex interaction between the verbal and the visual across literature, painting, film, and comics. Spanning four centuries, these works re-think the very acts of reading and viewing.
Contentious Connections
This multidisciplinary volume analyzes how transnational connections are re-imagining politics, gender, and public culture in South Asia. It explores the relationship between local worlds and global flows, questioning the role of power, the state, and agency.
The “Nation” in War
The Nation in War explores notions of nation and nationalism in Indian military literature and Hindi war cinema. This book examines how these narratives construct the “nation,” create consensus for war, and portray women as national subjects.
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