More than an average textbook, this guide combines major theories with culturally-relevant examples and indigenous research from the Middle East. Written by local experts, it helps students understand the relevance of psychology to their own lives and societies.
This book explores the image of Poland as published in The Daily Telegraph from 2007 to 2010. It investigates how one of Britain’s most influential newspapers depicted Polish reality and compares this portrayal to the Polish government’s own PR objectives of that time.
Consciousness, Performing Arts and Literature
Against the background of personal, institutional and cultural trajectories, this collection considers dance, opera, theatre and practice as research from a consciousness studies perspective.
This edited volume analyses shifting notions of self as represented in films and novels written and produced in Spain in the twenty-first century. In doing so, it establishes an international dialogue of multicultural perspectives on trends in contemporary Spain.
Due to a dearth of academic references in the area of English-Arabic audiovisual translation, this monograph represents a unique resource, in that it explores dubbing and subtitling into Arabic, a topic hardly discussed academically both in the Arab world and across the globe.
These essays document a way of life that has now virtually disappeared. Based on anthropological fieldwork in a remote Greek village in the 1970s, they focus on family, kinship, and gender, and the profound transformation of rural society as it was occurring at the time.
Offering an accessible framework for the student and general reader to study the Franco regime, Sangster explores the various views of the Spanish dictator provided by biographers and historians.
PaintingDigitalPhotography
This publication investigates aspects of interconnectivity between painting, the digital and photography in contemporary art practices. It contributes to discourses around networks of associations by examining where syntheses occur, and differences remain, between these media.
Handmaids, Tributes, and Carers
This book studies the role of female figures in dystopian narratives, from fiction to film, addressing how such characters, from all stages of life, are often critical to these narratives, positing females as particularly powerful heroines or catalysts to action.
This textbook covers 15 chapters on food, film, shopping, medical, ghost, and suicide tourism, and introduces students, researchers, educators, and tour operators to the demands of affluent tourists from the newly industrialized countries of East and Southeast Asia.
Charles Edward of Saxe-Coburg
Readers in medicine, law, sociology and history will be interested in this tragic story of a weak-willed, but powerful Nazi leader who facilitated Hitler’s secret program to eliminate the handicapped, even though one of his own relatives died in the “euthanasia” scheme.
This book uses empirical data to explore the Indian tribal economy, focusing on the vital role of minor forest produce. It throws new light on their contribution to tribal income and corroborates the deep dependency between the forest and tribal communities.
This book offers interdiscursivity as a platform for understanding contemporary culture. Re-engaging Foucault, it provides novel theoretical approaches and methodological innovations to scrutinize cultural consumption, from Web 2.0 social movements to micro-celebrities.
Communicating Visually
This publication focuses on the various vectors of visual communication, particularly contemporary brands as social phenomena, culture and the way people communicate and create meanings, from a designer’s perspective.
Reflecting the complexity of the problems of formalization, computation and digitalization of data and resources, this collection of cutting-edge, high-quality papers is a fundamental step towards a better definition of the role the “Digital Humanities” will play in the future.
Most of the previous scholarship on Apulian red-figure pottery has focused on the cataloguing of collections and stylistic matters. Herring takes a different approach by identifying patterns in the decoration of Apulian vases that cast light on the choices made by vase-producers.
Nigeria’s telecommunications industry is fast-growing but legally under-researched. This book bridges that gap by providing an essential analysis of the legal and policy instruments that regulate this dynamic sector, from licensing and competition to consumer protection.
Principles and Practices for Psychodynamic Group Career Counseling
The first manual on psychodynamic group career counseling, this book offers insights into unconscious processes affecting career decisions. It provides a complete intervention with detailed sessions, methodological tools, case illustrations, and scripts for practitioners.
Chen extensively scrutinises visible and under-the-table power struggles with regards to aspects of communities, connections, cultures, and communication related to Chinese language teaching in US higher education in the past two decades.
A chance discovery revealed a unique 1504 globe, hand-engraved on an ostrich egg and linked to Leonardo da Vinci. It shows secret knowledge, riddles, and is the first to name countries like Brazil. This book details 500 years of mystery, scholarship, and forensic testing.
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