Postcolonial Borderlands
This volume explores the marginalization of Irish Travellers. Focusing on two autobiographies, it reveals the seminal role of storytelling in creating a sense of nationhood and a legitimate sense of belonging for a people excluded to society’s margins.
Processability Theory (PT) explains the developmental sequences in second language learning, providing insights into what learners are ready to acquire. Taking PT as its point of departure, this book applies, tests, and extends the theory.
Seeing with Different Eyes
These cutting-edge essays on divination and astrology feature authors from diverse academic disciplines. They address divination with critical but sympathetic inquiry, seeking to understand the divinatory act on its own terms across widely varying contexts.
To See the Wizard
Inspired by The Wizard of Oz, this volume interrogates the politics at work in children’s literature. It analyzes how “wizards”—writers, publishers, and others—use stories to shape young readers’ views on race, class, gender, and power.
The Irish Celebrating
This collection of essays explores the dual aspects of celebrating in Ireland—‘the festive’ and ‘the tragic’. Insightful essays examine how feasts, literature, and commemorations have shaped Ireland’s past, present, and national identity.
Corporate Citizenship
As globalization deepens, it is necessary to ensure business activities make a positive contribution to communities. This book underlines the big-picture thinking on the roles business can play in fostering a moral, equitable and ecologically sustainable world.
Multiple Lenses
Spanning 400 years, this essential introduction explores the Black Canadian experience. Through diverse lenses from law to music, leading voices reveal the ongoing struggle and triumph in the quest for identity, justice, and self-definition.
On the Turn
This diverse, challenging collection of essays explores the ‘ethical turn’ in literary studies. Scholars analyze the connections between ethics and fiction, tackling complex topics like race, gender, and the politics of representation. Essential reading.
Tasks in Action
Empirical evidence on Task-based Language Teaching (TBLT) in real classrooms is lacking. This volume fills that gap, compiling studies that describe what learners and teachers actually do, providing valuable new insights into TBLT implementation.
This book examines Adorno’s mode of critique through his aesthetics. It explores how this focus on aesthetics shapes his readings of knowledge, history, culture, and art to reassert his relevance for constructing effective modes of critical thinking.
Narratives of Community
This collection of essays examines short story sequences by women from around the world. Using diverse theoretical models, contributors consider how female identity is negotiated in community, making a major contribution to feminist and genre theory.
This collection of essays on ‘Border Studies’ offers innovative approaches to intercultural encounters, with comparative explorations of American, Latin-American, European, and Post-Colonial literature, as well as Linguistics, History, and Education.
These essays examine the interaction between translation, language and culture. Scholars from countries including Austria, Italy, Russia, and Slovenia offer fascinating insights into the complex phenomenon of cross-cultural communication.
This volume explores the emergence of physics in ancient philosophy, the concept of physical laws from the Middle Ages to the Renaissance, and the mathematization of Natural Philosophy that led to the emergence of the classical sciences.
Sensorium
This book reconfigures art and philosophy by returning to an older meaning of aesthetics: our capacity to receive sensations. Following Deleuze and Lyotard, it frames artists as experimenters with the sensible who extend our perceptual interface with the world.
Sublimer Aspects
How did eighteenth-century aesthetics influence Christian theology and practice? These essays answer this by examining interfaces between literature, aesthetics, and theology from 1715-1885, considering writers from Kant and Coleridge to rediscovered women writers.
Europe and its Regions
As Europe gets closer, understanding its regional data is a major challenge for social sciences. This volume improves insight into the rich stock of European datasets, highlighting socio-economic cross-border studies and powerful analysis tools.
Stories from across cultures deal with shamanic soul loss—the detachment of the psyche from trauma. This book argues for a new genre, the shamanic story, and its sub-genre of soul-loss tales, analysing examples to support this hypothesis.
Participation and Media Production
This volume critically examines media participation. It provides analyses that reconcile the appreciation for digital empowerment with a critical analysis of its boundaries, revealing the restrictions, inequalities, and exclusions that often accompany it.
Language in Action
This volume presents a critical analysis of the relationship between language and action, building on the Vygotskian and Leontievian legacy. It sheds light on human activity and the role language has in mediating what we think, do, and learn.
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