Lemesos
This is the first scholarly work in English on the history of Limassol, Cyprus, from antiquity to the 1570 Ottoman conquest. Six scholars explore Limassol’s political, social, economic, artistic, and cultural history.
To the Right of the Verb
This monograph devises a new approach to the study of clitic doubling in Spanish, considering examples from Argentine, Mexican and Spanish regional variants of the language, and discussing contextual factors contributing to such usage.
A Colourful Presence
This study discusses the representation of women in Iranian cinema since the 1960s, exploring various representative female-centric films, with a focus on their cultural, social and cinematic contexts.
Representing the proceedings of the inaugural conference of the University of Arizona Center for American Culture and Ideas, these contributions explore the relationship between the high arts and culture in America, considering a range of subjects from dance to philosophy.
Mood Spectrum in Graham Greene
Edwards examines the pathology of bipolar disorder through symptoms uniquely expressed in Greene’s novels, an area often ignored by critics, despite Greene often projecting his illness into character-constructs that share his condition, offering a case study of manic depression.
Relevance-Theoretic Lexical Pragmatics
One of the first books to present a comprehensive view of lexical pragmatics, its origins and methodology, Wałaszewska’s study focuses on the approach offered by relevance theory, showing how relevance-theoretic tools can highlight changes to lexically encoded meanings.
Becoming Something Else
This edited collection examines the trends, perspectives and changes witnessed in the previously undocumented communities of India’s northeast, emphasising the continuity and transformations of these societies.
Both Swords and Ploughshares
This collection of essays explores the mythos of America as a place of religious freedom, yet one imbued with a socially-imposed civil religion and underpinned by a presumption of Protestant dominance.
Social Sector in India
This volume explores India’s education and health sectors. Despite considerable progress, glaring failures and wide disparities persist. Eminent Indian scholars examine key social issues, from healthcare disparity to universal education and child labour.
Contested Identities
These essays address the force of literary texts on problematic identities. They explore texts that travel across borders, discovering in difference the very condition for a useful, if paradoxical, sense of personal or textual coherence.
This volume of conference proceedings discusses the role played by choir stalls in the conceptualisation of space within cathedrals, and the formal, stylistic and constructive motifs, models and solutions reflected in such architecture.
Coming to Senses
Archaeology has long neglected the sensory dimension of the material world. The essays in this volume use international case studies and imaginative scenarios to incorporate all the senses, stimulating new ways to conceptualise the past and bring the “self” back to science.
New Horizons in the Study of Motion
Recent studies in lexicalization patterns have attracted attention in fields such as linguistics regarding the online/offline verbalization of motion. These essays depart from such research to offer insights into new ways of applying motion and widening theoretical perspectives.
This collection of research charts 40 years of applied climatology, representing the evolution of the subfield. It provides a framework for appreciating the impacts of climate on society, covering topics from water and energy to agriculture and human health.
Focusing on poverty and welfare in England between the seventeenth and nineteenth centuries, this volume brings together a range of sources to re-evaluate the Old and New Poor Laws, questioning a range of long-standing assumptions about the experience of being poor.
Young Scholars’ Developments in Linguistics
This edited volume brings together young researchers in language processes from Russia, Poland, Spain, Iran, India, Pakistan, Thailand and Ukraine, and showcases current research into linguistic tradition and change in a variety of contexts across the globe.
The Industrial Novels
Providing an historical and theoretical framework for reading three important novels by Charlotte Brontë, Dickens and Gaskell, Balkaya analyses these authors’ strategies for radical reform through improvements in the living and working conditions of the working class.
A New Social Question
Bringing together papers presented at a conference on “Capitalism and Socialism: Utopia, Globalization and Revolution”, this volume provides analyses of how recent events such as the economic crisis have impacted upon societies across the world.
Peace and Social Justice Education on Campus
This volume provides important reflections by peace and social justice educators working on college campuses. Contributions offer critical assessments of institutions, pedagogies, and practices, making visible the spaces in which education and learning occur.
Many philosophers reduce ordinary knowledge to sensory or, more generally, to perceptual knowledge, which refers to entities belonging to the phenomenic world. The papers collected here analyse different aspects of ordinary knowledge and of its epistemology.
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