Mythologizing the Vietnam War
As the Vietnam War evolves from memory into history, it has been changed into a set of mythologies. This collection of critical essays explores the cultural legacies of the war, reassessing the role of visual media in its coverage, memorialisation, and memory.
Senior scholars comment on the relevance of Bernard Spolsky’s 1989 classic, *Conditions for Second Language Learning*, for teaching English in Asia. This volume of their talks highlights a major shift from linguistic to sociolinguistic and language policy conditions.
This book provides a profound analysis of creating business entities in Russia. It gives readers an understanding of Russian civil and corporate law, covering the legal system, business organizations, foreign investment, and corporate governance.
A Divided Hungary in Europe
Despite fragmentation and Ottoman pressure, early modern Hungary witnessed a surprising cultural flourishing. This was possible through intense exchange with Europe. This series draws an alternative map of the era, replacing centre-periphery conceptions.
Information Infrastructure(s)
This book explores how information infrastructures enable, but also constrain, cooperation across different groups. It questions the role of the material and immaterial objects connecting us—from devices and networks to society itself.
A Divided Hungary in Europe
Despite fragmentation and Ottoman pressure, early modern Hungary flourished culturally through intense European exchange. These volumes draw an alternative map, replacing centre-periphery models with narratives from the perspective of historical actors.
This volume addresses place, mobility, identity, and community in Transnational and Indigenous Studies. It conceptualizes a comparative paradigm for crossing national boundaries to imagine a shared world of poetics and aesthetics.
A Divided Hungary in Europe
Despite fragmentation and Ottoman pressure, early modern Hungary flourished culturally through intense exchange with Europe. These volumes draw an alternative map of the era, replacing centre-periphery conceptions with new narratives from historical actors.
This collection of articles by musicologists, performers, sound engineers, and educators explores leading ideas in music technologies and the cognition of classical and contemporary music.
The Orthodox Hegel
This book assesses the consequences of Hegelian thought for spirituality, showing how the Christian movement is Spirit itself impelling. Capturing absolute idealism for orthodoxy, it develops themes of logic, Trinity, incarnation, and the absolute.
Bringing Back the Child
This book investigates three older Romanian orphans who experienced extreme deprivation and were effectively without language. It presents a study of their remarkable linguistic progress, which defies the predictions of the Critical Period Hypothesis.
The Birth of a Celestial Light
This book examines Iranian women who are neither conventionally religious nor secular, but explore spirituality. It investigates the feminist potential of the “Inter-universal Mysticism” movement for women seeking to transform their lives and construct their own selves.
This volume provides accessible articles on masters of world cinema whose works explore human spirituality and religious faith. It examines canonical directors like De Sica and Hitchcock alongside contemporary auteurs like Asghar Farhadi and Apichatpong Weerasethakul.
Solway Country
The Solway Country is a little-known world on the Anglo-Scottish border, its identity rooted in landscape and a turbulent history. This book captures its spirit, exploring a hybrid culture of ballads born from the theft and mayhem of the border reivers.
Empires and Nations from the Eighteenth to the Twentieth Century
Scholars analyze the relationship between multinational empires and the idea of the nation from the 18th to the 20th century. Topics include the birth of nation-states, colonialism, the Great War, the Cold War, and concepts of identity and sovereignty.
The philosophical debate on truth has exploded in recent years. Sparked by the struggle over deflationism, the discussion has broadened and deepened. The essays in this book highlight how much is left to explore and how real progress can be achieved.
Contesting Categories, Remapping Boundaries
This book traces the evolution of Tamil Dalit writing from the early twentieth century to the present and explores its impact on academia. It analyses the literary works of Tamil Dalits and explores how students respond to this literature in university curricula.
This book explores the creation of writing systems where dialect variation exists. Authors examine how social and political factors drive standardization and question its value, revealing the conflicts that arise in language planning worldwide.
A Different Germany
A Different Germany looks at film, popular literature, and theatre to show how diverse communities are thriving. The authors argue that Germany is much more than the few tropes that circulate through the Cold War lens in the English-speaking world.
Perception of English
This book examines perceptions of English in Indonesia, the world’s largest Muslim community. Studying universities, it reveals English is viewed as a tool for advancement, yet creates tensions with the Indonesian language and national identity, demanding a new balance.
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