This book introduces Arabic heritage from the post-Abbasid era to the nineteenth century, a period often labelled one of decadence. Exploring topics from Arab history and science to literature and political movements, it is a valuable resource for students and researchers.
Popular Music, Ethnicity and Politics in the Kenya of the 1990s
Okatch Biggy was the single most dominant benga artiste of the 1990s. Mboya analyzes Biggy’s songs as works of art, identifying the aesthetic and rhetorical conventions that are deployed in the songs, and exploring the central messages of the music, and their significance.
This publication explores phenomenological structural sociology, specifically the use of phenomenological structuralism in an effort to resolve the structure/agency problematic of the social sciences within structurationist sociological theory.
Currencies and Cultures
A symbiotic relationship exists between a currency and its culture and society. Currencies and Cultures offers insights into how cultural institutions can strengthen citizens’ values and beliefs and enhance the process of trade and exchange for the betterment of their people.
This text evaluates the promises, myths, and critiques of sustainable consumption from a wide range of perspectives, covering individual consumptive choices and the carbon footprint of cities, as well as resource sharing and environmental entrepreneurism.
The Failure of Augustus
Though he had a proud and clear aim, in the end, Augustus was defeated by his own persistence. Using contemporaneous sources and Augustus’ own words, Judge’s study explores this downfall. It also argues for the primacy of original sources in historical interpretation.
Aboriginal People and Australian Football in the Nineteenth Century
This book will revolutionise the history of Indigenous involvement in Australian football and cricket in the second half of the nineteenth century. Exploring the emergence and the suppression of their sporting talent, it shows how their successors did not come from ‘nowhere’.
Empedocles of Acragas
Empedocles of Acragas is known as a philosopher, healer, excellent orator, miracle-maker, and engineer. Scholars, students and specialists will find in this book an analysis of his revolutionary writings, and confirmation that he was a multi-faceted and important thinker.
Literature’s Contributions to Scientific Knowledge
Interdisciplinary scholarship holds the promise of the unification of all knowledge. Through its wide-ranging analysis, this volume demonstrates, ¬in a careful and original manner, how literary fiction has contributed to the scientific understanding of human nature.
The Historical Origin of the African Economic Crisis
This book answers major questions on African development related to international trade and finance. It explores the economic interaction between Africa and the West (in the past) and China today, considering the continent’s future development in light of its experiences.
The importance of overcoming the urgent issues concerning the sustainability of our planet cannot be overstated. The contributions gathered here highlight these pivotal global issues and their potential long-term resolutions from a number of interrelated perspectives.
This collection of essays challenges patriarchal readings of sacred texts. By redefining key terms in the Bible and Qur’an and reexamining global traditions, it uncovers gender parity and argues that as societies evolve, so must our understanding of faith and gender roles.
Drawing on contemporary developments in cultural studies, the papers in this anthology cover multiple forms and genres—including novels, films, documentaries, magazines, and commercials— in order to shed light on new sensibilities in postmillennial texts and media.
The Legacy of János S. Petőfi
János S. Petőfi was a founder of Text Linguistics. In this volume, his colleagues and disciples discuss his enormous impact on linguistics, literary theory, rhetoric and semiotics. Essays consider topics like coherence and the analysis of literary and multimedial texts.
An insightful exploration of sensation and synaesthesia in film and new media. These essays examine how cinematic experiences create immersive environments that stimulate our senses and mind, from perception and movement to olfaction, abstract cinema, and interactive art.
Hebei Women’s Normal Education Pioneers
The six chapters of this text tap into the best elements of Chinese traditional culture to show respect to the pioneers of Hebei women’s education and its contemporary potential, giving insights into social, cultural, economic and political movements throughout Chinese history.
Virginia Woolf’s Portraits of Russian Writers
Classic Russian fiction was crucial to Virginia Woolf’s vision of British modernism. We follow Woolf as she begins to learn Russian, invents a character for a story by Dostoevsky, ponders over Sophia Tolstoy’s suicide note, and proclaims Chekhov a truly ‘modern’ writer.
Milieus of ReMemory
Milieus of ReMemory concentrates on how people in Lebanon situate and work on memories of violence and trauma, as well as exchange of voices, detailing how memory activism and memory projects constitute emergent milieus of social exchange and ethical responsibility.
The Collectio Avellana is an exceptional documentary collection from antiquity. This volume is the first to reconstruct its history, using a new approach to offer fresh hypotheses on the compilation’s origins, its author, and how it took shape.
This anthology examines artwork and sites in East and Southeast Asia through the lens of eco–art history, exploring the mutual impact of artistic expression and local environments. Case studies range from the Little Ice Age to contemporary responses to climate change.