Telling Tales
This volume explores how stories in Spanish fiction and film shape the nation’s identity. Examining the impact of events like the Civil War and Franco’s dictatorship, it reveals the close bond between real-world events and fictional stories.
Downscaling Culture
As globalisation makes fixed ideas of culture obsolete, this volume updates intercultural communication theory and practice. It utilises a theory of scales to ‘downscale culture’, showing how it might—or might not—be relevant in any given interaction.
The Buddhist Voyage beyond Death
This book explores the central teachings of Buddha, of the Mahayana and of the Vajrayana. It focuses on memory, time and space, matter and energy and provides an answer to those grappling with their life difficulties.
Eiss explores how Eliot and Michelangelo struggle with the highest meanings of life in their artistic work and express what Rudolph Otto designates the mysterium tremendum. He reveals how Elliott struggled with his Christianity and turned to Michelangelo’s similar endeavour.
This publication brings together original scientific studies on current economic and developmental issues in the Balkan region, analysing the area from a variety of perspectives, including tourism, regional trade, European integration policies, and import-export policies.
Marginal Urbanisms
This collection reflects on urban development strategies that have been implemented recently in Latin American cities. It argues that infrastructural insertions need to be considered as the baseline for urban development, not as its main goal.
Edmund Burke, the Imperatives of Empire and the American Revolution
Edmund Burke advocated for America’s rights yet fiercely criticized the French Revolution. This volume presents his writings on the American Crisis, exploring the core paradox: Was this defender of colonial liberty a friend or a foe of revolution?
Constructing Legal Discourses and Social Practices
This title looks descriptively and interpretatively at the various existing forms of legal discourse and how these are framed and organised by social practices within distinctive sites of legal communication.
The seventeen chapters brought together here provide a selection of papers presented at the International Conference on Bilingualism held in 2015, and offer insights into code-switching, the linguistic landscape, language policy, and bilingual education, among other topics.
Virtual Teacher
Today’s educational system is failing. This book bridges cognitive science, neurobiology, and AI to offer a solution. It shows how to build intelligent tutoring systems that place students in an active role, as opposed to the passive one they have today.
Complex Assemblages, Complex Social Structures
This monograph examines the rural settlements of Late Iron Age and Early Roman Britain through the lens of Cultural Theory in order to provide a picture of a more nuanced and diverse human landscape.
Essays on Moses from Buenos Aires
Deriving from a meeting of the Society of Biblical Literature, this collection is concerned with Moses, helping to understand traditions concerning him. It provides information on the development of learned opinions on the biblical character.
Using extensive unpublished archival material, Bosco principally examines the first eighteen months of the Federal Union, during which time it was able to raise itself to the attention of the general public, and the political class, as the heir of the League of Nations.
This text debates how interpretations of the past served the realization of transitional objectives in various countries. It considers how governments’ remembrance policies made a new citizen, changed a political culture and justified a vision of society promoted by new elites
Given that correctly understanding the nature of perception will help to shed light on many other central philosophical issues, this book discusses the idea that our perceptual experiences represent the world as being a certain way, and so have representational content.
After the Flight
This title critically addresses a range of topics and employs a variety of qualitative approaches to gain a better understanding of the lived experience of integration for refugees, including the attendant challenges and opportunities encountered during the integration process.
Religion and Representation
This book examines the complex relationship between Islam and democracy. Beyond demonstrating compatibility, authors employ theological reasoning and empirical data to explore connections between religious beliefs and political behaviour in diverse contemporary settings.
Jehovah’s Witnesses in Europe
The religious association of Jehovah’s Witnesses has existed for about 150 years in Europe. This volume investigates the effect of the differing circumstances in these various national societies on these religious societies, and the challenges they had to overcome.
This volume addresses language change and standardization in postcolonial settings. Experts discuss the emergence of new varieties of English, illuminating issues of language contact, diversification, and standardization from different perspectives.
This anthology describes the processes of change shaping the Middle East in the post-Arab Spring context, investigating the extent to which these led to the region’s polarisation between states that integrate politically and economically and states that disintegrate internally.
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