Our Sacred Dimension
This monograph represents an important contribution to the anthropological, philosophical and psychological consideration of mankind in our era, exploring the role of the Sacred in our lives today.
Out Here
This collection of essays and stories reflects queer concerns in places peripheral to the centers of queer theory. Out here, often within the context of rampant homophobia, queer methodologies prove especially productive. Out here, queer theory is alive and kicking.
Out of Deadlock
Sara Paretsky’s V.I. Warshawski series revolutionized crime fiction with a feminist perspective, raising awareness of social concerns. This collection of academic essays explores her influence on female authors worldwide who adopt a similar stance.
Out of the Burning House
A Marxist historian and a behaviourist psychologist revisit their university days, exploring the overlooked social forces that shaped a generation: Scientific Humanism, The New Left, and precursors of the Women’s Liberation Movement.
Out of the Ordinary
An imaginarium and cultural history, this book finds significance in the minutiae of everyday life. Derham Groves teaches the reader to find stories in overlooked objects, art, and architecture, revealing how unfettered creativity can emerge.
Out of the Ordinary
This book challenges the ordinariness of heterosexuality by exploring the politics of representing LGBT lives. It demonstrates how representation is a battleground for the visibility of ‘non-normative’ voices and a site for fruitful reinvention.
Out of the Shadows
Who was Mary De Morgan? Overshadowed by her family, she was a writer, spiritualist, social reformer, and early feminist. This book reveals a complex “New Woman” and explains why George Bernard Shaw considered her a “devil incarnate.”
Out of the Stream
This book reveals the vitality of Medieval & Renaissance murals from Europe’s periphery, focusing on the link between image, audience, and daily life. From Denmark to Portugal, these studies offer new perspectives on art from Giotto to anonymous painters.
This collection of Charles T. Goodsell’s works on public administration brings together ‘outlandish’ essays inspired by art and public space with more orthodox topics. The author’s methodological biases, placed in full view, assure controversy and encourage new scholars.
Outraged and Amazed
Outraged and Amazed explores how Absalom, Absalom!’s characters resist social limits and wrest control of their identities through storytelling, resulting in a tangled, plausible but unverifiable story of the South that is both fictive and true.
Outside
Artists, scholars, and philosophers explore cloth’s value and impact on society, revealing its potential as a metaphor for consciousness, a carrier of narrative, and a catalyst for community empathy and cohesion.
Outsourcing and Service Work in the New Economy
This book examines outsourcing’s impact on workers in the new economy. Through a study of Mexico City’s call centres, it identifies managerial practices that harm employment conditions, revealing how ‘old economy’ tactics persist in the 21st century.
Over the Edge
The authors in this volume bring new ideas from their research to help us create spaces we can claim as our own. These essays explore culturally produced markers of identity, revealing connections that challenge our perspective of scholarly subjects.
In today’s competitive environment, the manufacturing sector in developing countries must succeed through technological innovation. This book identifies the barriers to implementing technological innovation, paving the way for improved performance in this competitive landscape.
Overcoming Knowledge Sharing Barriers through Communities of Practice
This book analyzes the barriers obstructing knowledge flows and their impact on new product development in an automotive R&D supplier. It uses innovative social network analysis to map collaboration, identify problems, and improve organizational performance.
Overcoming the Corruption Conundrum in Africa
This book takes a socio-legal approach to the corruption conundrum in Africa. It suggests solutions can be found by interrogating how society reacts to it, and argues that the problem endures primarily due to a critical lack of political will.
Overlapping Territories
In a chaotic, interdependent world, traditional categories of identity and culture are called into question. The Asian voices in this book use Western philosophy to find their Asian positions, and Asian reality to problematize the Western framework.
Bulgarian is a pro-drop language, but German is not. This book explores how this cross-linguistic difference affects near-native learners. Because null subject contexts can superficially overlap, L1-Bulgarian speakers of German may face interlanguage deficits.
Overturn Countermeasures for Vehicles
This book describes the century-long battle to protect drivers from crush-related injuries in vehicle rollovers. It argues a key factor in this response was the shift from “blame the victim” to life-saving rollbars, a move driven by epidemiology and engineering.
Oxford Ordinary Language Philosophy, Wittgenstein and the Concept of Mind
Oxford philosophers sparked a revolution by arguing that psychological expressions do not describe internal states. This study details the anti-cognitivist critique, reconstructs the cognitivist objections to it, and shows how Wittgenstein’s later writings help overcome them.
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