Emerging Water Insecurity in India
This book investigates India’s water crisis, focusing on Punjab. It explores the use and abuse of groundwater, revealing its virtual exportation. It examines water governance, offering lessons for all regions grappling with water scarcity and sustainable development.
Totalitarian (In)Experience in Literary Works and Their Translations
This book explores totalitarianism in 20th century literature through a cross-linguistic analysis of works by Huxley, Orwell, Miłosz, and Konwicki. Using the Natural Semantic Metalanguage framework, it examines how the totalitarian experience shaped their writing.
Victorian Cultures of Liminality
This volume focuses on cross-fertilisation in the arts, liminal spaces, and marginal figures. It contributes to scholarship on Anglo-French exchanges, evoking a sense of temporal shift as nineteenth-century values progress and showing how pictures and texts shape identity.
Modern Legal Interpretation
Legalism depicts judges as merely applying pre-existing rules. But is this theory too naïve? Can such a formalist approach withstand critiques from Dworkinian interpretivism or legal realists? Prominent legal philosophers discuss these and other issues of legal interpretation.
R.K. Narayan’s Malgudi Milieu
This book presents R.K. Narayan as a writer who addressed his times without giving in to ruling ideologies. It explores his ethical critique of colonial capitalism and positions him as a deceptively simple, yet foremost post-modern writer who depicted the subversion of influence.
This collection sets out the needs of social services for dealing with disadvantaged groups, and specifies the social services required for these communities and the role played by religious institutions in providing services to disadvantaged individuals.
Looking for the Ancient Greeks
A response to Antonio Damasio’s work on the feeling brain, this book offers new perspectives on life’s biggest questions. It shows how Ancient Greek culture developed a system to create the integrated psyche that modern neuroscience claims is so vital for us today.
Towards Ethnic Liberation Theology in Nigeria
This book argues that Nigeria’s structures inflict injustice on its minority groups, fueling division. Drawing on liberation theology and an exegesis of Galatians, it forges a powerful and necessary Biblical theology of ethnic liberation.
This multidisciplinary book challenges negative stereotypes of Africa. It presents the continent’s own view of human wellbeing, drawing on culture, identity, and philosophy to offer new theories and policy recommendations for its future growth.
This volume brings together 49 chapters related to the field of education. The main topics explored here include teacher-student interactions, pre-service teachers, early childhood education, digital education, and attitudes of students towards the environment, amongst others.
Costin studies a selection of significant and topical elements from a large amount of Romanian folkloric and mythological material, shedding light on the mythical-ritualistic aspects of three complex calendar holydays.
ESP has accumulated substantial tradition in practice, research and theory, and is a common approach in English Language Teaching among adults today. This text explores research conducted in this field in order to assist its recognition as an autonomous academic discipline.
Meyerbeer’s Le Prophète
Meyerbeer’s Le Prophète was once one of the world’s most famous operas. Based on a tragic Reformation episode, it explores religion, power, and politics with powerful, gripping music. This study examines the opera’s origins, creation, and its astonishing global reception.
The Borders of Integration
This book addresses radical challenges facing Southern European societies, from migration to social cohesion. Refuting the idea that culture alone drives behavior, it focuses on the body as a vector for social policy, suggesting the empowered body can manage conflict and change.
This latest issue of the International Journal of Business Anthropology contains seven articles, including a special section of four papers from Japan, in addition to an editorial commentary providing an introduction to the field of business anthropology in Japan.
Arthur Conan Doyle’s Art of Fiction
This groundbreaking book rescues Arthur Conan Doyle from the sub-literary category of popular fiction. Instead of focusing on Victorian attitudes, this study shifts the emphasis to the neglected art of his stories, demonstrating they can be read as canonical literary fiction.
Polish Theatre after the Fall of Communism
In investigating how Polish theatre has changed since 1989 and the fall of Communism. Śmiechowicz highlights the creativity of Polish contemporary theatre, and details the major points of difference between it and the theatre traditions of many other European countries.
When Hitler ordered a secret program to kill the handicapped, brave citizens spoke out. They claimed the disabled were not “ballast people” but humans who deserved to live. This is the story of those who risked arrest, imprisonment, and execution to protest the immoral killing.
Abiteboul brings together a group of essays on 27 English or American writers contributing to the history of English and American literature, and offers a concise survey of the question of literary understanding.
Literary Nuances
This series of critical pieces is variously structured, with conventional essays, extended meditations, and short analytic notes appealing to differing tastes and offering meticulous close readings of a huge range of authors, from Akhmatova to Yeats.
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