Subtitling Today
Subtitling now serves many purposes, and comes in various forms. The contributions to this volume discuss these different manifestations, and offer a snapshot of this dynamic field of study, considering various languages, such as Chinese, Finnish, French, Japanese and Polish.
Flowers and Towers
This title explores the meaning and symbolism of the flower motif in the art of women artists, from the nineteenth century to the present day, discussing the changes, and the meaning thereof, in its representation during this period.
Enemies Within
This volume provides historical perspectives on the debate on forms of government and political legitimacy in the Hispanic dimension of the Atlantic world, where modern politics was based on a series of exclusions that were explained as natural and necessary.
Muge 150th
This book brings together papers on the Mesolithic period and its transition to the Neolithic across Europe. Including theoretical discussions, it also ventures outside Europe with case studies on shell middens from Patagonia and the Red Sea.
The Art of Survival
Offering an examination of a period against which development in Zimbabwe is often measured, this title offers insights into how ordinary Zimbabweans battled the odds by making startling innovations in language use to legitimize new survival strategies.
Views from the Parish
This collection of essays explores churchwardens’ accounts in a number of parishes in England, Wales and Ireland. These accounts offer an invaluable source of information about the maintenance of the church fabric, and the nature of parish worship and community life in general.
Staging Ben
This edited volume offers a rebuttal of the mischaracterization of Ben Jonson’s plays as anti-theatrical. Featuring contributions from both Renaissance literature scholars and theatre practitioners, it demonstrates the playwright’s prodigious theatrical imagination.
Culture-blind Shakespeare
This collection of essays offers a plethora of responses to Shakespeare by both Western and Eastern critics, indicating that the Bard crosses all nationalities and deserves to be defined as a global writer.
Authority and Displacement in the English-Speaking World (Volume I
This collection of essays in two volumes examines the concepts of authority and displacement within English language regions. This first volume investigates the European context, exploring authors such as Shakespeare and Thomas Hardy.
This collection of essays focuses on Anglo-American modernist fiction, considering it in the instances in which it transcends itself, moving towards postmodernist self-irony. It follows how these modernist authors’ perspectives on literature evolved with the changing world.
Authority and Displacement in the English-Speaking World (Volume II
This collection of essays in two volumes examines the concepts of authority and displacement within English language regions. This second volume focuses on an American context, with contributions focusing on American and Canadian culture and works by authors of Guyanese origin.
Providing research from scholars from Australia, New Zealand and South Africa, this collection of essays explores how the theological sector of education, drawing upon its scriptural heritage, can come to grips with the digital age.
Work-Life Balance and the Economic Crisis
Contemporary society and international organisations are giving increasing consideration to the issue of reconciling work and private life. Following on from this, these volumes provide a detailed analysis of work-life balance and its regulation in a number of EU countries.
Critical Times, Critical Thoughts
Despite the visibility of the Greek crisis, the media represents only the views of politicians and bureaucrats, leaving the voice of artists unheard. These specially commissioned essays by major Greek writers offer new insights into the crisis, and its causes and ramifications.
In bringing together examples from different parts of the world, including both Western and Eastern societies, and focusing on separate determinants of individual, communal, political, and national Muslim identities, this edited volume offers a blueprint for identity studies.
Creative Learning and MOOCs
This publication showcases papers presented at the 11th Learning and Technology Conference held in Saudi Arabia in 2014, reflecting upon the recent implementation of Massive Open Online Courses, which provide opportunities for learning to large numbers of students at little cost.
Conceptualizations of Childhood, Pedagogy and Educational Research in the Postmodern
This monograph investigates the new sociology of childhood and new directions in pedagogy and research that have been conceptualised as a result of the recent debate between modernism and postmodernism within the social sciences.
Enhancing Customer Experience in the Service Industry
The essays included in this text provide a new and definitive overview of customer experience and how it can be managed and enhanced in the service industry. The highly qualified international team of contributors ensures that it adopts a global perspective.
This book explores how persistent states of underdevelopment occur in strategic environments in which players are imitative rather than fully rational. It explains this form of coordination failure as a contest between competing economic agents.
Muge 150th
This publication explores a number of archaeological themes, and is divided into two volumes, with the first focusing on Mesolithic finds in the Muge and Sado valleys. The second volume discusses the general Mesolithic period and its transition to the Neolithic across Europe.
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