Celebrating the centenary of Anthony Burgess’s birth, this volume reveals the true relation that the British author had with France. It explores, among other topics, the sizeable French literary and musical heritage that inspired Burgess in his creations and adaptations.
This volume addresses fundamental questions about the interplay between ethics and spirituality. How can love, compassion, and tolerance encounter mistrust, enmity, and violence? And how can spirituality contribute to the newly emerging global ethics?
The papers here provide global and local teaching scenarios, addressing such matters as the need for diagnostic tests and re-examining language policies in Asian countries. They offer valuable information for researchers working in the field of English Language Teaching.
By exploring the nature of book production and changing images of peasants in Livonia and Courland in the 18th and 19th centuries, Daija investigates the complex historical relationship between Latvians and Baltic Germans and the regional specifics of the Baltic Enlightenment.
This collection of essays discusses works of art whose formal qualities, content and spatial interactions expand our idea of creation and commemoration, and brings to light new aspects concerning twentieth and twenty-first century monuments and site-specific sculpture.
A Study on Existence
Bacigalupo develops a deflationist account of existence, suggesting that there is no such thing as a nature of existence awaiting discovery. The authors discussed include Hume, Kant, Frege, the Neo-Meinongians Routley and Parsons, and the free logicians Leonard and Bencivenga.
Eurasian Politics and Society
The authors of this compilation probe the outcomes of regional transformation, the ideology of Turkish Eurasianism, and the Eurasian Economic Union. Issues they look at include the South Caucasus power struggle, Kazakhstan-Russia relations and Russia’s sense of Eurasianism.
Bianaca discusses topics like monist dualism, nomiotic theory of the mind, differences between brain processes and configurations and mind processes and configurations, and the architecture of the mind. He formulates a nomiotic-wave theory of the mind grounded in 6 key aspects.
This title addresses a diverse range of important topics concerning the notion of knowledge, connecting them in a unifying way, and providing answers to a number of key questions concerning this concept.
Forgotten British Film
Gillett exhumes some of the films released in Britain over the last 70 years, including Daybreak (1948), and he probes the reasons for their neglect. He considers the contributions of those involved in the films and examines such issues as the response of critics and audiences.
Indian Agriculture
Population explosions have always pushed India into deep-rooted socio-economic bottlenecks. Nookathoti highlights the causes of and solutions to the prevalence of hunger at the grassroots level, analysing the supply-side background behind the accomplishment of food security.
Louise Lightfoot in Search of India
Sarwal unites Louise Lightfoot’s 33 essays, reflecting her broader worldview as a successful dancer, choreographer, and impresario. Her articles segue into each other and echo her various encounters with India and its diverse cultural conditions, beliefs and philosophies.
Shakespeare’s King Lear
Nagarajan provides this comprehensive edition of King Lear, presenting years of research. He illustrates Shakespeare’s use of language, Elizabethan theatre, history and values of the play, analysis of enigmatic scenes, and glimpses into its performance history.
This book discusses elements of the domestic enforcement of EU competition law, to contextualise further boosting this enforcement exercise. It reflects on topics like the sufficiency of the enforcement toolbox of national competition authorities and domestic bodies’ duties.
This title provides an overview of the role of the media during the attack on Dubrovnik in autumn 1991 by the federal army and Montenegrin reservists, and represents a primary source of information about the propaganda war waged during the conflict between Croatia and Serbia.
Homosexuality, bisexuality, transvestitism and trans-genders represented new ideas and mentalities which shattered nineteenth-century Italy. This book offers a comprehensive overview of this phenomenon and makes a major contribution to Italian studies and modern European history.
Though much has been written on the Grenada Revolution and its untimely demise, the majority of authors have been non-Grenadian. All the contributors here, except one, are Grenadian, giving voice to persons who were active participants, children, teenagers, and young adults.
A Social History of Rural Ireland in the 1950s
Galvin offers a brief history of Crotta Great House, County Kerry, Ireland, where Horatio Herbert Kitchener spent his boyhood years. Part memoir, part social history, it creates a snapshot of a moment in Ireland’s recent past embedded within a broader historical backdrop.
Emblems and Impact Volume II
The study of emblems allows this two-volume work to look back at the collaborative endeavours of creative minds of earlier times. It argues that while the world seeks to come to terms with globalization, emblems allow reflection on strongly shared cultural values and connections.
Emblems and Impact Volume I
The study of emblems allows this two-volume work to look back at the collaborative endeavours of creative minds of earlier times. It argues that while the world seeks to come to terms with globalization, emblems allow reflection on strongly shared cultural values and connections.
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