Writing Out of Limbo
They are Third Culture Kids. While their global lifestyle offers an expanded worldview, it brings recurring losses. In this collection, writers from around the world explore the search for identity, belonging, and a place to call “home.”
African American Humor, Irony and Satire
Essays on Ishmael Reed, George Schuyler, Dave Chappelle, and more reveal how humor, irony, and satire highlight the complexity of African American life and its connections to world cultures.
Shattering the myth of an apolitical Nietzsche, this book reveals him as a 19th-century reactionary. It traces his lifelong war on modernity—from feminism to democracy—in his quest to forge a new, counter-revolutionary politics.
This book tells the stories of eight women from a village in Africa reacting to anthropain—pain inflicted by humans. They weep in “sweet sobs,” turning tears into creative energy that generates resilience, hope, and positive change.
On Taste
This innovative collection offers fresh, never-before published approaches to the idea of taste. Scholars explore how aesthetics interpenetrates discussions of food, political conflict, art, and education, representing a key contribution to the latest research in the field.
History books frequently refer to similarities between the Italian region of Piedmont and the United Kingdom, but neglect the people who contribute to it. Though providing a brief history of this relationship, this work instead focuses on examining it on an individual level.
Workplace Emotions
When John Wilkinson accepts a job in Bahrain, he doesn’t expect a lesson in emotional intelligence. As his team works to upgrade an aluminum plant, he witnesses cultural change in a traditional corporation and learns how EI improves performance.
Legal Issues in the Digital Economy
Artificial Intelligence and the collaborative economy are blurring traditional legal categories and creating new requirements for worker protection. This book analyzes the ongoing changes, challenges, and opportunities from a European Union law perspective.
Theatres of Thought
Theatre and philosophy both make things appear. These essays articulate the fact that they have never been truly apart, exploring theatre’s fascination with transforming thought into spectacle from wide-ranging perspectives and approaches.
Consuming Visions
This collection of essays explores the “consuming visions” that shaped 20th-century American life. Ranging from the anti-chain store movement to the “bling” aesthetic, these innovative works reveal how questions of consumption have always been political.
Concept Map-Based Formative Assessment of Students’ Structural Knowledge
This book shows higher education staff how to develop students’ structural knowledge—a precondition for expert performance. It provides practical scenarios for using concept mapping in formative assessment to build the complex problem-solving skills needed for today’s careers.
A Pessimistic Guide to Anti-aging Research
This book provides an overview of the biology of aging and a critical analysis of past, present, and future anti-aging interventions. It offers a balanced, realistic analysis of the field, discussing the shortcomings and drawbacks of existing strategies.
This volume explores how practitioners respond to current social realities with creative and innovative social work practice. It examines how they can contribute to policy development through their work on dementia, substance use, juvenile reintegration, and more.
Kaaber investigates the exact age of the eponymous prince in Shakespeare’s play, a topic which has been subject to frequent debates. As he shows, Henry Wriothesley, the third Earl of Southampton, once indisputably Shakespeare’s patron, is likely the inspiration for the character.
This first analysis of narratives surrounding China’s popular Overseas Chinese Town theme park sheds a cultural and political light on the “modern pleasure space.” It illustrates in detail the distinctive nature of Chinese theme park development.
Cultural Memory Studies
This overview of cultural memory theories explores how communities establish their identity—a process now challenged by the digital turn. The book presents arguments by the most important memory theorists and describes the most significant forms of cultural memory.
From Ottoman to Turk
This work focuses on the factors that were responsible for the collapse and downfall of the Ottoman Empire. It explores how its society and politics led to the paradigm shift giving rise to the making of the Turkish Republic which emerged out of the empire’s ashes.
Through Other Eyes
This volume investigates how English literary works have been translated and disseminated in Europe since the Renaissance. It explores translators’ intentions, faithfulness to the source text, and why translations are often portrayed in a different light to the original.
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