This ground-breaking work explains the power of literary fiction. It expands the field of pragmatics to give due to the three fictional actors—author, character and reader—by bringing together Anglo-American pragmatics and European philosophy.
Can philosophy help people with their personal problems? This volume explores philosophical counseling and its relationship to psychotherapy through readings by prominent philosophers and psychologists, asking if such matters are best left to therapists.
Liberal democracy has enriched lives, but it is under threat from totalitarian regimes and ideological extremes. This book argues that its defence against rising authoritarianism is the great moral imperative of our time, combining legal analysis, history, and philosophy.
Photographing Papua
This innovative study argues that Papua was created as a place through mass-produced photographs. It switches attention from rare prints to thousands of images in early media, exploring colonialism, representation, and the birth of photo-journalism.
Photographs of Interpreters
This book rescues photographs of interpreters: from diplomats trusted by Nixon to indigenous guides making first contact in the Amazon. Each image is analyzed as a performance, a moment expressing geopolitical power, and an act of salvaging lives lost in the sea of history.
Photography and Cinema
Visionary filmmaker and photographer Chris Marker blurred the lines between the still and moving image. This volume explores this fusion through his masterpiece La Jetée, analyzing its profound and lasting influence on art and cinema.
This accessible collection offers a fresh approach to photography and literature. Essays by acknowledged experts consider both key literary figures, from Proust to Sebald, and photographic practitioners to give a commanding, ground-breaking overview of the subject.
Photography and Modern Icons
At the turn of the 20th century, six cultural icons used photography to build their media image. Exalting the cult of personality and mass communication, they used the photographic portrait to become celebrities and found fashion styles that are still of reference today.
Photography as Power
This book explores the relationship between photography and power in Italian history. It examines how photography has been used as an instrument of dominance—from war propaganda to fascism—and as a critical medium to resist hegemonic discourses and create counter-narratives.
PhotographyDigitalPainting
This anthology explores the connections between photography, the digital, and painting in contemporary art. Renowned artists, academics, and theorists investigate medium-fluidity through essays on AI generation, hyperreal photography, and art that synthesises the three mediums.
This book explores the molecular mechanism of phototherapy, studying its effects on blood oxygenation, metabolism, coagulation, and glucose. It considers the laws of blood photomodification and methods for controlling individual patient susceptibility to irradiation.
Master English phrasal verbs. This comprehensive resource provides a list of verbs with easy definitions, usage examples, and exercises. It’s an essential tool for non-native speakers seeking to achieve native-like fluency and master an unpredictable part of the language.
This unique volume presents essays by international specialists in phraseology. It reflects numerous aspects of phraseological research, from semantic, pragmatic, and comparative fields to the practical problems of paremiology and phraseography.
Physicians and Their Literary Work
This book connects medicine and literature, analyzing how the medical profession shaped the work of doctor-authors. It reveals how they built a unique literary identity, changing our perception of the human being. For doctors and literary scholars alike.
While quantum mechanics is probabilistic, classical physics makes definite predictions. This book argues these predictions can be explained by the mathematics of special relativity, and explores the profound philosophical consequences. No advanced math or physics is required.
Physiology of Organisations
Can we imagine organisations as human bodies? Organisational science today is fragmented. This book fills that gap by constructing a physiological theory of organising to treat organisations when they are ill and ensure they work at maximum efficiency.
Pictorialism in Cinema
Valkola extensively explores the unique phenomenon of pictorialism and its connection with other arts in film and media studies, considering a number of theoretical and practical issues of filmic narration.
Picturing Evolution and Extinction
Fears of extinction stretch back to Darwin. This book explores the interplay of degeneration and regeneration in modern visual cultures from 1860-1930, showing how art betrayed anxieties over decline alongside latent hopes of renewal.
This collection of essays explores the complex interaction between the verbal and the visual across literature, painting, film, and comics. Spanning four centuries, these works re-think the very acts of reading and viewing.
Piero Manzoni’s Merda d’artista
A turning point in conceptual art, Manzoni’s “Merda d’artista” is provocative, scandalous, and misunderstood. This first scholarly study uses the latest research to uncover the iconic work’s hidden meanings and profound influence.
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