Essays on the Medieval Period and the Renaissance
Spanning three centuries of English literature, from 15th-century texts to Milton, this collection reinterprets tradition with innovative methods. Essays explore genre experiments, contemporary Shakespearean adaptations, and new perspectives on Milton.
Memory, Place and Autobiography
In autobiographical film, the filmmaker—as maker and subject—acts as a cultural guide. This book explores how memory is evoked through hybrid strategies like fictional enactment, and charts the history of British independent filmmaking from the 1970s to the age of new media.
The Effects and Consequences of Migration and Immigration on the Lebanese Economy and Tourism Sector
This book analyses Lebanon’s economy, tourism, migration, and immigration after the Syrian conflict. It provides insight into public and private policies, offering a holistic analysis with recommendations for scholars and practitioners in Middle Eastern politics and economics.
Rethinking Sustainable Development in Terms of Justice
This title explores renewed and distinctive approaches to the sustainability and justice debate, integrating a range of perspectives that include moral philosophy, sociology and law.
Science, Systemic Functional Linguistics and Language Change
This Festschrift honours the work of David Banks. The volume includes papers in the three main fields in which he has published: scientific writing, language change and systemic functional linguistics.
Despite the enduring popularity of the works of Shadhiliyya master Ibn ‘Ata’ Allah, there has been no systematic analysis of his worldview. This book is the first study to highlight the interconnections in his writings, building a new understanding of his Sufism.
Vanishing Voices
This first study bringing together Hopkins, Eliot, and Thomas explores silence in their poetry. Situated at the crossroads of poetics, philosophy, and theology, it shows how the poets sought a new language to talk about the Ineffable God and one’s experience of the divine.
Written from a practical perspective with up-to-date scholarly references, this monograph investigates perspectives on teaching for the tertiary sector. Providing guiding principles and advice for teachers at the tertiary level, it will appeal to both teachers and learners.
Little is known about Mesopotamian houses. This book addresses this gap by analysing houses in the third millennium, a critical period for early urbanization, relating their characteristics to the socio-economical history of the period.
The essays here investigate the reasons why India has fared better than other emerging market economies, and discuss whether other countries can take inspiration from this model and rebuild their own countries based on their national resources and cultural heritage.
Social network analysis is a methodological tool used to investigate collections of individuals and their shared relationships. The book provides an overview of the tool’s growing body of research in sport, and details practical guidance for its application.
Exploring business ethics through history, philosophy, and biology, this book addresses today’s key concerns, from wealth inequality to sustainability. It is an invitation to make the world a better place by engaging in ethical thought.
Developments in Management Science in Engineering 2017
This book identifies the main research categories of Management Science in Engineering (MSE), and evaluates and classifies each MSE journal. It is ideal for scientists, researchers, practitioners, engineers, and graduate students in various engineering fields.
Israel from the Outside and Inside
Exploring Israel’s relations with its friends and foes, in the present and the past, by looking into news media outlets and their effect, this study will appeal to those interested in the fascinating sociological forces that influence the regional geopolitics of the Middle East.
The Visual Politics of War Volume Two
This volume examines the visual politics of war and crisis in today’s hostile media environment. Scholars from around the world explore how images and personas are developed and appropriated by those with their own distinct political agendas.
A reflection is made here on the relationship between language and music, two unique, innate human capacities. The text provides a clear explanation of the centrality of melodies and rhythm to foreign language learning acquisition.
Piety in a Niqab
Women’s lives in black may seem primitive and subordinated. However, as this book shows, the women themselves tell a different story. They build their identities on the Qur’an and sunnah, achieving peace, happiness in this world, and salvation in the afterlife.
This book discusses elements of the domestic enforcement of EU competition law, to contextualise further boosting this enforcement exercise. It reflects on topics like the sufficiency of the enforcement toolbox of national competition authorities and domestic bodies’ duties.
While the destruction of archaeological sites in war often makes the headlines, lesser disputes about local heritage sites go unreported. This book focuses on conflicts between archaeological conservation and religious faiths which use archaeological heritage in their practices.
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.
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