A political and economic analysis of Muslim countries, exploring striking differences and similarities among them. Because of its broad use of different disciplines, it will be of interest to students of political science, economics, and history.
The Impact of Development on the Environment and Human Rights
Priya charts the developmental policies followed in India since independence and their impact on the environment and human rights. He also presents a view of how sustainable development in the country may be attained by focusing on three contemporary case studies.
Food and Drink Idioms in English
Idioms carry an aura of mystery for all speakers, due to the discrepancy between their literal and non-literal meanings. This monograph clears up some of these ambiguities by examining expressions that have derived from the most instinctive human behaviour: eating and drinking.
To make philosophy relevant, the author argues philosophers must go beyond their specializations to clarify how things hang together. This book has a novel emphasis on public morality, understanding it from an evolutionary perspective to raise moral standards.
This revelatory work argues that the Italian people did more for music than any other. It proves that the first written music, the great musical forms like the opera and symphony, the primary instruments, and the very vocabulary of music are all Italian in origin.
When Italians speak Russian, do they think in Italian or Russian? This research demonstrates that a native speaker’s way of structuring language is much more resistant to change than grammar, revealing how deeply our mother tongue influences the way we think.
This book investigates assertions of community identity in the multilingual context of Kashmir. It demonstrates that changes in language roles, motivated by various factors, may lead to the demise of the Kashmiri linguistic-cultural identity in favour of Urdu.
The publication offers a unique starting point when dealing with linguistic complexity, under the assumption that what is simpler is acquired earlier than what is complex, and allows deeper insight into the factors determining complexity in different populations of acquirers.
This book re-evaluates William Morris by exploring the territories between his art and politics. This “in-between-ness” is his most remarkable quality, securing his unique position and inspiring new insights into a universe that could have no boundaries.
Divided into two sections, this publication focuses, firstly, on theoretical linguistics, addressing issues in such areas as phonology, morphology and syntax. It then investigates the intricacies of language acquisition and discourse analysis, among other topics.
Transnational Landscapes and Postmodern Poetics
How the spatial imagination has informed our postmodern mapping of literature, culture, history, geography and politics, is explored here. The text invites a reappraisal of the value of space in our social, political and historical realities.
Community Practices in India
This ground-breaking collaboration by Indian practitioners and academics presents indigenous knowledge in community organizing. Through case studies of social justice for marginalized communities, it captures locally relevant approaches and engages readers in critical reflection.
This volume gathers international, bilingual contributions on Metaphor and Translation. It explores themes from theory to literature and culture, offering useful conclusions on how metaphor is translated. An essential read for scholars, students, and professional translators.
Humanity at the Heart of Practice
Healthcare is humans caring for other humans. This book on ethical decision-making uses humanity as its organizing structure, exploring values and theoretical ethics to resolve complex dilemmas at the beginning and end of life, and in healthcare as a business.
Music and Sonic Art
This title gathers practitioners and theorists of music and sonic art to discuss a range of historical, artistic, pedagogical and critical issues from multiple perspectives, emphasizing the continuities and links along a broad spectrum of hearing and listening practices.
Hate Crime in Turkey
Göktan considers how hate crime, as a contemporary legal concept, is introduced and represented in Turkish public discourse, addressing how effective the hate crime debate in Turkey has been in identifying bias-motivated violent incidents.
Archaeological Approaches to Shamanism
This anthology delves into both ancient and modern shamanism, demonstrating its longevity and spatial distribution. It discusses the clear associations with this sometimes little-understood ritualised practice, and asks what exactly shamanism is.
This book explores the shifting portrayal of World War II in Hollywood films. Adopting a comparative study, it discusses WWII films made during the Bush administration after 9/11 and those produced during the presidential campaign of Obama.
This publication investigates the challenges faced by Turkey in the last twenty years through case studies of the humanitarian, cultural, economic and political dimensions of its role in a diffuse neighbourhood, in which the country has tried to exert its power in recent decades.
Totalitarian (In)Experience in Literary Works and Their Translations
This book explores totalitarianism in 20th century literature through a cross-linguistic analysis of works by Huxley, Orwell, Miłosz, and Konwicki. Using the Natural Semantic Metalanguage framework, it examines how the totalitarian experience shaped their writing.
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