Bell methodically assesses fear as an emergent property and explores the main principles which lie behind the manifestation of fear. He shows how fear can be contained, how new social forms can arise and how new behaviours and social qualities can mitigate Formations of Terror.
This anthology focuses on a variety of aspects of foreign language learning and teaching. It explores the multidimensional character of language classes and delineates ways of developing students’ knowledge and skills, according to current educational conceptions and postulates.
Mindfulness and Education
This title contributes to the nascent field of mindfulness in education by exploring practical implementations and theoretical concerns within educational contexts. It captures the diverse approaches to research-linked mindfulness programmes being implemented in education.
A Linguistic Analysis of Diplomatic Discourse
D’Acquisto explores the language used by the United Nations Resolutions on the Question of Palestine. She reviews the English verbal system’s role in relation to modality in the institutional language of the UN and the different pragmatic purposes of its normative text types.
Examples of social practice in the Central European region from the 19th century to the 1950s are presented here. The volume responds to the current economic and social crisis, including the welfare state crisis, which raises the need to seek solutions from the past and present.
This volume probes the intersections between anthropology and film festival studies. It provides a historical reconstruction of most of the main festivals exhibiting ethnographic film, considering the parallel global evolution of programming and organisational practices.
Picart gives a critical legal analysis of how American self-radicalizing terrorists become what they are. She illustrates, through cutting-edge studies on terrorism, how the internet allows a self-activating terrorist to first self-radicalize with an organized terrorist network.
The a priori in the Thought of Descartes
This book offers a clear and historically adequate account of the disputed issue of the exact meaning Descartes associates with the term ‘a priori’, so different from the Aristotelian usage. It will add to a better understanding of fundamental issues in the philosopher’s thought.
This volume probes how space and gaze are tied in with social constructions of gender relations. It considers the gendered body, the queer gaze, the relationship between body and memory, the memory of war, monstrosity, and also domestic and hybrid spaces as key concepts.
Landscapes of Participatory Making, Modding and Hacking
This collection describes maker culture as it is manifested in particular socio-cultural contexts, and describes some of the underlying narratives behind the emergence of such cultures and hackerspaces, approaching this phenomenon from an academic perspective.
This volume incorporates responses to the charge that there is something irrational about believing in God, given all the evil in the world. It critiques the problem of evil, offers a narrative response, and relates the problem of evil to developments in modern analytic theology.
This volume provides a picture of state-of-the-art studies on terminology at the European level. It also discusses the selection of languages and cultural attitudes that characterize European Union countries, challenging and productive as they can be.
TOTalitarian ARTs
This collection represents a tool to broaden our geographical, institutional, and historical understanding of the term totalitarianism. It opens new spaces for debate on the connection between the visual arts and mass-culture in totalitarian societies.
Niestorowicz discusses the creative capabilities of people with simultaneous impairment of sight and hearing. She presents a study of the act of creation performed by deafblind people, which makes it possible to propose a vision of reality as conveyed through their sculptures.
Kozak’s text encompasses all scholarly journals published in Turkey in all fields of science and other disciplines. The reference questions within are grouped under three main categories: the contact and publication information, article evaluation, and publishing information.
Pearce delivers sensible emergent aesthetics, explaining the processes that happen in human minds when we share ideas as works of art. He considers how this skews the orthodoxies of contemporary art with pragmatic wisdom about why representational art thrives in the 21st-century.
13th Conference on British and American Studies
Deriving from a conference on language diversity, this book includes studies for the examination of language-related phenomena. Topics covered include the external and internal catalysts for language change and language as an instrument of power and (self-)communication.
This anthology studies the subject of islands, their essence and identity, their isolation and their relationships in the Ancient world. It researches Greek and Roman concepts of insularity, and their consequences for the political, economic and social life of the Empire.
Giffin explores how Patrick White and his post-war contemporaries all commented on the consequences of God’s death. He shows how they worked with a shared pattern of tropes to search for the light and dark aspects of western consciousness and the civilization it has produced.
Encompassing papers from the 2014 Lisbon Conference on Philosophy and Film, this compilation discusses new aspects and approaches of how philosophy relates to film. It explores film’s nature philosophically and provides new insights for the film philosopher and the filmmaker.
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