Agency in the British Press
This title examines the ways in which the 2011 UK riots were reported by the British press, analysing the linguistic construal of the main participants involved and their agency. In doing so, it reveals the ideological burden affecting power relations within society.
12th Conference on British and American Studies
This publication represents a selection of papers presented at the 12th Conference on British and American Studies. They are grouped in two main theme clusters, “Languages in Contact and Languages in Use” and “Multidisciplinarity and Multiculturalism in Literary Studies”.
Need for Sleep
This book explores the influence of fairytale details and imagery on adult cognition, and will be of interest to scholars concerned with how cognition relates specifically to understanding the subjective experience of daydreaming.
Christians and Platonists
Theodore Sabo examines the distaste towards matter and the body shared by Christians, Gnostics, and Platonists of late antiquity, looking at key terms like ethos, aiōn, and saeculum, and investigating the individual beliefs of each school of philosophy.
Human Development II
This title offers an overview of a wide range of contemporary issues in education and society, including emotional intelligence, family, and personal development, and represents a useful manual for students and the general public interested in the social sciences.
For God and Country
This study on England’s 1944 Education Act examines how politicians and educationalists promoted Christian-civic humanism as the primary educational philosophy in order to shape an education system that promoted a national identity based on ideals of tradition and progress.
Jews in Eastern Europe
This volume presents a detailed analysis of Jewish self-perceptions and attitudes towards other societies and communities living in the same lands, showing that the “methods of assimilation” of eastern European Jews were often rather complicated and multifaceted.
In examining the effects of new media and media uses in fields such as social discourse, transmediality, and aesthetics, the essays in this collection investigate the recent powerful revolutions in our media and media uses initiated by the introduction of a ‘new’ medium.
An Ethics of Reading
Sandra Cox considers how writers of contemporary American fiction represent collective identities by producing literature that bears witness to cultural traumas, and situates novels that explore ethnic identity in conversation with one another.
This text evaluates the effects of the economic reform that began in the 1970s on regional development in Jiangsu province in China, using detailed case studies which clarify several fundamental ideological and institutional concepts that have shaped the nation’s economic reform.
Focusing on the work of three US Cuban writers, this book shows that such writers incorporate Caribbean and Latin American archival sources and interpretive frameworks in order to develop a critical and investigative approach to the politics of Cuban exile historiography.
Challenging Ideas
This volume focuses on how the relationship between past and present informs theory and empirical research. Divided into two parts, it looks at the memory turn in the field of history and the intersections between social science, political theory and the writing of history.
In the first single-authored monograph on Roald Dahl since 1994, Valle focuses on the critical context, texts and paratexts that make up the packaging of “Dahl”, and offers the first thorough overview of the criticism and the language employed to discuss Dahl since the 1970s.
Traditional Chinese Rites and Rituals provides an overview of important social practices. While explaining how these rites are performed, it also introduces the reasons why norms are followed, offering a kaleidoscopic perspective on Chinese culture.
Triune God
The contributions to this collection discuss the importance of the ideas of St Gregory Palamas and his followers in understanding of God in terms of divine energies, and for contemporary approaches to solving perennial problems in science, metaphysics, aesthetics, and ethics.
This journal brings together current research on emotional intelligence, an important factor in the development of emotional competency and cognition. It represents a useful resource for teachers, researchers and students of adolescent psychology, and for mental health workers.
Towards a Sustainable Information Society
This volume represents an important voice in the scientific discourse on what constitutes a sustainable information society, and provides a new comprehensive and forward-looking approach to such a development.
Constraints and Driving Forces in Economic Systems
The various contributions to this volume have as their central point the forces driving development and the constraints hindering progress in a variety of economic systems and subsystems.
The First World War
The result of an international conference held in Rome 2014 to mark one hundred years since the beginning of the Great War, this volume uses archival documents from various countries to examine ideological debates and contemporary narratives of the war, and the use of propaganda.
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