King James and the Theatre of Witches
This book analyzes the “witch plays” of Renaissance England and their response to King James I. Once a fevered witch-hunter and author of *Daemonologie*, the monarch saw his beliefs both catered to and subverted on stage by dramatists like Shakespeare and Jonson.
Ordinary Chondrites from North-East India
A spectroscopic study of meteorites from North-eastern India. This book uses Raman and infrared techniques to analyze silicate minerals in ordinary chondrites. For readers interested in planetary materials, it includes a list of Indian meteorites and a glossary of terms.
Dyslexia and Creativity
This book explores dyslexia from a cognitive and neurological view, outlining a theory that links this learning difference to the creative process. It shows how artists and writers faced the struggles of dyslexia, harnessing its positive traits to fuel their creative success.
This volume explores how meanings of space are created and how they impact identity and belonging. It brings together multiple narratives to shed light on how they emerge from, and reshape, relations of power.
For online programs to succeed, institutions must support course design, communication, and students. This volume investigates these issues and will interest practitioners of online teaching, design, and administration of successful online programs.
This book explores the philosophy of care, arguing for its primacy in human life. It analyzes care of the self through “spiritual practices”—techniques like achieving inner silence and writing—that shape our way of being and form an ethics of the self.
This book illustrates the role of political, economic and social factors in solving the social problems caused by neoliberalism in Russia, India, and South Africa. It details rational strategies to address gaps in socio-economic development and social policy.
The H5N1 Virus
This study reveals the social justice linkages of the H5N1 virus, framed as a veterinary scourge, a public health threat, and a potential bioterrorist weapon. This sparked a dual-use dilemma, pitting security against open science, and obscuring questions of justice.
A Local Perspective on Lexicography
This book explores dictionary-making and research in Romania. Addressing culture-specific topics for theorists, practitioners, and users, it covers paper and online, monolingual and bilingual works, explaining the challenges that have shaped the local dictionary culture.
This volume presents the results of archaeological research at Grotta Mora Cavorso, a cave in central Italy. Covering the Historic and Protohistoric periods, it reveals the cave’s complex, multi-layered use as a burial and ritual place, a hermitage, and even a war refuge.
This book explores early Christian attitudes toward Jews, pagans, and heretics. Based on the Gospel of John, Jude, and The Testaments of the Twelve Patriarchs, it explains their negative feelings and offers surprising new results for anyone interested in Christian origins.
This first book on Naomi Alderman’s work highlights her transcultural recasting of British and Jewish traditions. The analysis focuses on relevant topics including gender and sexual orientation, the rewriting of the Sacred Scriptures, and feminist posthuman dystopias.
For a generation living longer than ever, retirement is uncharted territory. This volume brings together distinguished psychologists to share their personal journeys. Learn from their stories and explore the idea of “retiring to” something, not just “from” it.
This valuable contribution to teaching languages to young learners offers new global perspectives on policy, theory, research, and pedagogy. It covers cognitive learning, teacher education, and classroom practices, making it essential for policymakers, researchers, and teachers.
Nat Turner in Black and White
This book reveals how writers imagine cautionary Nat Turner-tales, making him a misunderstood and polarizing figure. By locating the Turner Insurrection within historical race trauma, writers expose the lasting impact of slavery and frame rebellion as heroic.
Understanding Bollywood
Explore how Bollywood films reveal the cultural politics of India. This book analyses the on-screen evolution of Indian women, charting their journey from subjugation to empowerment and the fight for human rights.
Rethinking Thomas Jefferson’s Writings on Slavery and Race
For decades, Jeffersonian scholarship has uncritically depicted a less-than-human Jefferson: an inveterate hypocrite and racist. This book offers a provocative challenge to these stale revisionist claims, appealing to all who believe it is time to gain fresh insights.
Essays in Narrative and Fictionality
By one of postclassical narrative theory’s preeminent figures, this book reexamines foundational topics from the role of the author to the nature of fiction. It argues for a more expansive conception of narrative theory, making crucial interventions in ongoing critical debates.
This book investigates work from diverse worldviews—cultural, religious, humanist, and Indigenous. Our work lives can be more deeply understood and appreciated when exposed to perspectives different from our own, yielding new insights about relationships and crisis at work.
Issues of Identity Metamorphoses in Transitional Epochs
In our transition to a global society, what happens to our identity? This book explores how collective and individual identity have evolved during major transitional periods, providing real-life examples of change for individuals and social groups.
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