This history of cremation in Romania analyses key periods from 1867 to the present day. It covers the Interwar period, when Romania became the first Orthodox country with a crematorium, provoking a vehement reaction, and the Communist and post-Communist eras.
Archaeological Encounters
This book examines the relationship between British and Spanish archaeology from the 1920s to the 1970s. Based on the letters of archaeologist Luis Pericot, it explores the personal networks that shaped how knowledge was produced, transmitted, and received.
This volume explores the relations between multinational empires and the nation. It analyzes the origins of nation-states, the issue of national minorities after the dissolution of empires, and the role of art and culture in forming national identities.
Holocaust Resistance in Europe and America
Eleven essays are brought together here to investigate different aspects of resistance to the Holocaust, which took many forms, including armed and passive resistance. They analyse resistance to the Nazi regime and motivations to fight against Nazi Germany during World War II.
Work-Life Balance and the Economic Crisis
Contemporary society and international organisations are giving increasing consideration to the issue of reconciling work and private life. Following on from this, these volumes provide a detailed analysis of work-life balance and its regulation in a number of EU countries.
This volume provides new insights into the complex contexts of legal discourse across digital media. It addresses topical issues of web technologies and social media in professional communication, providing a multifaceted overview of ongoing research and knowledge in the field.
Sub-regionalism and International River Basins
This book investigates sub-regional integration by comparing the Mekong and Danube river basins in Southeast Asia and Europe. It offers unique insights into these ‘bottom-up’ processes, evaluating similarities and differences based on local interests and expectations.
Why do some English learners succeed and others fail? This book uncovers the crucial role of culture in shaping attributions and motivation. Essential for researchers and language teachers.
In bringing together examples from different parts of the world, including both Western and Eastern societies, and focusing on separate determinants of individual, communal, political, and national Muslim identities, this edited volume offers a blueprint for identity studies.
Oancea analyses sociolinguistic features of adolescent speech that occur in natural, spontaneous, everyday speech, suggesting that variation is a characteristic of natural language, and that fully understanding language requires grasping the nature and function of variation.
Texts and Textiles
This study illustrates how fiction that makes use of textiles as an essential element utilizes synaesthetic writing and metaphor to create an affective link to, and response in, the reader. These links and responses are assessed using affect theory and work on synaesthesia.
Astrology in Time and Place
These contributions explore astrology across cultures, from China and the ancient Near East to early modern Europe and Mesoamerica. Topics include ritual, magic, science, and time. An essential read on humanity’s long relationship with the cosmos.
A Rhetoric of Meanings
This book presents language as the ultimate tool for survival, a space for telling stories and defining our significance. It explores communicative creativity through four avatars: the learner, the teacher, the translator, and the creator of texts.
This study examines the social and cultural contexts that frame art’s creation and influence its effects. Time is a social river, unpredictable and forever in motion. Art runs in that river, subject to the flow and chance of its inexorable force.
Discourse In and Through the Media
This conference proceedings examines various aspects related to the representation of specialised discourse in and through the media, including argumentative practices and knowledge construction, providing extensive examples of the type of research conducted on these issues.
The Bible as Revelatory Word
This collection looks at a narrative view of the history of Ancient Israel, in stories written in the late Old Testament to reflect on the tribulations of the people in captivity. It illustrates how God’s ways are sought amidst defeat and confusion and amidst fear and hope.
Approaching Cyprus
The chapters within explore aspects of the relationship between the island of Cyprus as an immutable geographical entity and its surrounding sea as an essentially transactional space. They range from the Late Bronze Age to the twentieth century, and from Greece to Egypt.
Capital
The 2008 financial crisis triggered a renewed interest in Marxism. This book looks at Marx’s Capital from an energy perspective, using energy as an analytical tool to provide a fresh look at the physical workings of the capitalist economy.
This monograph explores the emotional conflicts of Aimee Mayne, a woman born in 1872 into a life of apparent privilege and opportunity, providing revealing analysis that includes revelations about women brought up in the late-Victorian period.
Problems, Promises, and Paradoxes of Aid
This interdisciplinary collection investigates the role of aid in African development. Scholars examine where aid has failed and offer new perspectives on how it can be made more effective, addressing critical questions of ownership, need, and performance.
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