These essays feature an international collective of museum professionals, indigenous cultural historians and anthropologists, who address the historical role of weapon collections in ethnographic museums and the value of studying arms in order to write richer cultural histories.
This edited text, gathering established scholars and newer academic voices, offers fresh perspectives on what Romanticism thought itself to be by suggesting spaces in Romanticism studies needing negotiation and elaboration.
Nature Alive
Inspired by the work of Alfred North Whitehead and his metaphysical “lens,” the contributors here bring a multiplicity of philosophical orientations to the table in challenging the mechanistic and reductionistic neo-Darwinian paradigm still dominant today in the life sciences.
Deriving from a symposium held at Cornell University in April 2014, the papers here consider the role of the banking system, the stock market, credit access, external aid, and sovereign wealth funds with regards to the sustainable development of the economy throughout Africa.
Sensual and Sensory Experiences in the Middle Ages
This volume explores the sensory experiences of medieval people, showing how pleasure, pain, desire, and fear appear in conflicting combinations—from the private monastic cell to the bustling market—as conveyed through documents, literary accounts, and religious practices.
Koço investigates the repertory of traditional urban song and music of the Korçë area and the “distinctive” song associated with Korçë city, Albania. He also introduces the Korçare urban song and urban lyric song, introduced during the Ottoman domination of the Balkans.
Coroban investigates the ideology of power in Norway and Iceland as reflected in sources written during the period 1150-1250. His main focus is the way in which Kings’ and chieftains’ power in these countries was idealised in important texts from the 12th and 13th centuries.
This book explores how quality teaching and learning can ensure that discipline and academic performance prevail. It shows that quality teaching can determine discipline and academic performance, particularly now that other disciplinary measures have been seen to be ineffective.
The Orpheus Myth in Milton’s “L’Allegro”, “Il Penseroso”, and “Lycidas”
This study uncovers the Orpheus myth as the key to Milton’s early poems, triggering their opposing voices and framing the profound journey from innocence to enlightenment.
Spatial Minds
To what extent is spatial language connected to conceptualization? This book investigates the similarities and differences in Hungarian, Croatian, and English, analyzing expressions like *in, on,* and *at* to shed light on the relationship between language and the mind.
Paravano investigates the issue of multilingualism in the Caroline age through the lens of Richard Brome’s theatre. She analyses Brome’s multilingual representation of early modern London between 1625 and 1642, a multilingual and cosmopolitan city.
Reflections on Contemporary Values, Beliefs and Behaviours
This book presents important issues that affect us all, from sex and religion to parenting and self-confidence. Illustrated with personal anecdotes and contrasting philosophy with science, it explores why our advanced world still faces unhappiness and conflict.
The Body in Autobiography and Autobiographical Novels
In an analysis of four books by authors with different sexual orientations, Lerro considers the complex relationships between body and mind, discussing the efforts of individuals from various backgrounds to define or to reject the “normal” and to put something else in its place.
This book analyses modern American art education from historical and comparative perspectives. It explores visual culture, social factors, and the transformation of the aesthetic experience in a multicultural milieu, illustrating current pedagogy with references to art museums.
Giacomo Meyerbeer
Once a titan of opera, Giacomo Meyerbeer’s legacy was all but erased. Based on newly recovered private papers, this definitive biography reveals the man behind the myth, charting his downfall and modern rediscovery.
A Syntactic Study of Idioms
Dąbrowska studies idioms referring to psychological states in English from the perspective of syntax, focusing particularly on the syntactic structure of this specific set of verbal psych-idioms, and on the constraints on the way they are built.
Africa and the First World War
This anthology brings together essays written by scholars of African history, society, and military about African experiences of the war. It complements and problematises some key themes on Africa and the First World War, and offers a stimulating historiographical excursion.
Ahmed deals with the new dynamics of Islam in East Africa and its attempt to expand through various missionary activities. He argues that this Islamic awakening is not just about the Salafi or Muslim Brothers, but concerns Shīʿa, Sufi, Muslim Bible Scholars and others alike.
Brazilian History
Machado presents a critical introduction to Brazilian history. Combining a didactic approach with insightful historical analysis, he discusses the main political, cultural, and social developments that took place in the Latin American country from 1500 to 2010.
This title delves into a variety of problems connected to philosophy and philosophy of law. It discusses monism-pluralism in philosophy, philosophy of post-positivism and postmodernism, and dialectics as a methodological basis of scientific cognition and philosophy of law.
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