The growth of Creative Writing has generated new ways of thinking about the craft. This book presents fresh explorations that treat writing as a dynamic activity, not a static object, offering practical ways to develop your own work.
Linguists of Tomorrow
This collection of papers by established and up-and-coming researchers covers topics from theoretical linguistics to psycholinguistics and applied linguistics. It will appeal to scholars and students interested in current issues in linguistics.
Religion After Kant
After Kant, idealist thinkers like Hegel and Schelling transformed the conceptual framework for considering religion. This volume explores their reconsideration of religion’s place within human self-fashioning, which shaped later thinkers like Kierkegaard and Nietzsche.
Terror Truncated
To distinguish fact from myth, this book traces the crimes and leaders of the widely misunderstood Abu Sayyaf Group. It concludes that the group has been in decline since 2002, and by 2012 existed as fragmented cells rather than an organised entity.
Being Amongst Others
Philosophical reflection helps us understand our world. This volume presents a variety of phenomenological views on everyday life, granting precedent to the first-person perspective to explore consciousness, friendship, and religious or political experiences.
Seeking the Self – Encountering the Other
This collection offers new insights into diasporic experiences. It examines how we can ethically read and interpret encounters with the cultural, sexual, and ethnic other in narratives of displacement, belonging, and exclusion.
Intellect Encounters Faith – A Synthesis
This collection of essays is a tribute to renaissance man Dr. Jay Harold Ellens: a scholar, psychologist, and military chaplain. The volume merges deep scholarship with personal reflections on Psychology, Religious Literature, and Military History.
Niger Delta
Since the 1970s, Nigeria’s Niger Delta has been engulfed by oil-related conflicts. This book explores the complex constraints and pathways to development in the region, bringing to the fore the challenges and options for a sustainable future.
This study explores African/Caribbean boys’ educational experiences in the UK. It contrasts narratives of racial exclusion in mainstream schools with the positive support of supplementary education, highlighting what the former can learn from the latter.
Civic Duty
This study offers a new view on public services in the early modern Low Countries. It explores who provided services between 1500 and 1800, how they were rewarded, and how these responsibilities were shaped by conceptions of citizenship and collective interest.
The House of Fiction as the House of Life
Houses, the silent background to our lives, could many a tale unfold. This collection offers a transdisciplinary look at the paper houses of 18th and 19th century English literature, investigating haunted edifices, gendered spaces, and Gothic fiction.
The boundaries between bodies and technologies are changing how we experience the world. How close are we to a world where machines are indistinguishable from their creators? This book explores the relationship between technology and embodiment.
Challenges of Discourse Processing
This book shows how linguistic analysis and natural language processing can automatically recognize the discourse structures of technical documents. It presents concrete solutions which can be deployed in industrial contexts to improve document quality.
Reveries of Home
Reveries of Home considers understandings of home in a globalized world. A series of case-studies reveals how home-making is an ongoing work, cementing the close connections that remain between home and identity, even in a world of movement.
Evolutionary Theist
The culmination of fifty years of research on American liberal religious thought, this study of Minot J. Savage completes the author’s work on the empirical tradition within the Free Religious Association.
Career Paths for Programmers
Commercial software development requires more than technical skill; it demands communication and collaboration. Based on a three-year study, this book explores the diverse roles and skills needed by senior practitioners, showing the various paths to advance.
European identity is both a problem and an opportunity. This interdisciplinary volume examines its complex facets—from cultural politics to digital media—to clarify and even create a new sense of what it means to be European.
This collection explores monarchy, family, suicide, and sodomy in eighteenth-century France. It argues that the private and public weakness of sovereigns and husbands undermined their legitimacy, challenging simplistic assumptions about absolutism and Revolution.
This collection presents a snapshot of current music theory, exploring repertoire from Bach to the avant-garde. Neglected aspects of musical structure like rhythm and meter are given new focus, with many essays centered on the music and ideas of Arnold Schoenberg.
Living in Liverpool
This collection penetrates the lost world of working-class Liverpool. It reprints a selection of writings from social commentators, chief amongst them journalist Hugh Shimmin, who recorded the habits, housing, and wages of the city’s toiling masses.
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