Macedonia
This volume traces Macedonia’s turbulent history from Ottoman rule, through the Balkan Wars, Communism, and the collapse of Yugoslavia. It explains how this legacy fuels the modern Republic’s conflicts, especially with Greece over its identity and very existence.
Discourse In and Through the Media
This conference proceedings examines various aspects related to the representation of specialised discourse in and through the media, including argumentative practices and knowledge construction, providing extensive examples of the type of research conducted on these issues.
This publication discusses the main dynamics of political and social change in Muslim societies using specific examples from each country, offering the reader a practical understanding of the historical turning points in the Muslim world in recent years.
The Italian Emigration of Modern Times
Patrizia Famà Stahle investigates diplomatic issues that arose between Italy and the United States over a series of lynchings of Italian immigrant labourers before World War I. The work explores a significant epoch in Italian economic and diplomatic history.
Cliché and Organization
Peters adopts a unique viewpoint on organizations, through his use of film. Juxtaposing philosophers like Deleuze and Heidegger and filmmakers like the Coen Brothers and Cronenberg, he shows why managers in organizations are manipulative and impotent at the same time.
The Bible and Art
Letellier and Mellor explore how the revelation of God’s love in the mystery of the covenant has inspired artists to reflect on the nature of divine interaction with mankind, showing that the Christian world has always sought to use art to aid understanding of biblical texts.
This volume brings together internationally renowned academics, arts practitioners and thinkers to examine the nature of the creative process and its possibilities for social and individual change, challenging common misconceptions about creativity.
Scale, Governance and Change in Zambezi Teak Forests
This monograph provides an in-depth examination of the Zambezi Teak forests of western Zambia which have been exploited for their timber for over 80 years, providing unique insights into problems around land use and governance in south-central Africa.
Global Justice and Consecutive Constructivism
Chung suggests a new approach to the problem of global justice, providing a way of coping with procedural justice at the global level, while also alleviating the problem of structural injustice insofar as it exacerbates procedural injustice.
These twelve essays explore the fundamental role played by punctuation in the two semiotic fields of text and image. By bringing together authors from various fields, they offer new insights into the possibility and nature of the encounter between visual and textual creation.
Living War, Thinking Peace (1914-1924)
This volume offers first-hand accounts from women facing the horrors of war, explores the lives and thought of several key women activists who challenged inequalities, and examines the work of women who saw the outbreak of the First World War as an opportunity for emancipation.
Continental Shifts, Shifts in Perception
A major contribution to the burgeoning subject of African-European Studies as a field of academia, this collection discusses themes ranging from literature and film to urban studies, exile, sport and the experience of African diasporas, adopting a pan-European lens.
By examining a range of military case studies, Krupiy addresses lacunae in current scholarship, putting forward principles which capture how military commanders deliberate while interpreting what the rules of targeting require in particular scenarios.
Biography of a Blunder
Edara proposes a radical departure from the predominant understanding of Marx’s base and superstructure thesis, arguing that the common substitution of Marx’s restricted version with the extended thesis is a blunder and the result of tortuous theoretical developments.
Space and Events
This book offers a new perspective on the syntax and semantics of spatial adpositions, presenting them as Relators in motion events. It provides a syntactic-semantic model and analyses equivalent elements across English, Kurdish and Arabic.
This volume brings together, for the first time, essays authored by the influential British existential philosopher Colin Wilson on seventeen other philosophers from across the globe, including some of those he met personally to discuss their ideas.
Using a case study of the archaeological phenomenon of the Linearbandkeramik as a starting point, this title brings together contributions by international specialists tackling the notion of cultural diversity and its explanatory power in archaeological analysis more generally.
Governing Environment
Sharma comparatively analyses the federal policies and financing of India and Canada, examining the suitability of federalism as a system of governance to deal with various pressing environmental questions.
From Truth and truth
Examining the answers of reason and faith to the question “What is man?”, these essays explore the incomparable depth of dialogue. Given the critical situations in the world, humanity must choose the wealth of dialogue over a polarized, conflictual existence.
McElwee explores the under-representation of the poor rural worker in paintings of the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, showing that depictions of the rural landscape rarely reflected the harsh realities of the life of the labourer.
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