This book challenges common views on autism and implicit meaning. Using a novel test with video-based conversational exchanges, this study’s results contradict previous findings, showing that people with ASD can understand non-literal meaning.
The Trajectory of India’s Middle Class
This volume examines the role of India’s middle class not merely as an economic phenomenon, but as a key player in social and political change. It investigates the class’s complex relationship with the state, the market, and marginalized groups.
Common Core
A timely resource for immediate classroom use, this book provides practical approaches and teacher narratives from across the country—offering strategies to create vibrant, relevant instruction that lives beyond the Core.
Writing from the Margins
There is another dimension to the Irish short story tradition that has been overlooked. Led by Samuel Beckett, Aidan Higgins, and Tom Mac Intyre, this marginalized tradition marks an alternative avant-garde movement. This is the first book to highlight it.
Why does representational art thrive in the 21st century? This indispensable book skewers contemporary orthodoxies to provide the answer.
Legacies of the U.S. Occupation of Japan
The consequences of the US occupation of Japan transcended its formal duration. Rich with fresh analyses on mutual influence, memory, and international perspectives, this book provides a greater understanding of the lasting legacies of this crucial 20th-century event.
This source book of comparative literature explores the impact of Aphrodite and Venus. Drawing on sources from art, prose, and verse, it traces the goddess’s allure from the distant past to the present, blending myth with the contemporary.
This book elucidates what happens when people from different cultural backgrounds communicate. It highlights difficulties in conveying messages by examining discourse, power relations, and persuasion, providing a new viewpoint for linguists and students.
Global Perspectives on Research, Theory, and Practice
This volume brings together rich thinking on gestalt therapy from Gestalt!, the pioneering electronic journal of the 1990s. Although the journal no longer exists, this book reclaims its great historical value and still-significant ideas.
How is sexuality socially constructed, confined, and defined? This multidisciplinary collection tackles the major theoretical and methodological problems confronting sexuality studies, exploring masculinities and femininities in relation to power, race, and class.
Tracing their Tracks
Artefacts from Medieval Scandinavia show principles of visual perception used by artists a thousand years earlier than was recognised. This book considers Old Norse culture to understand the development of visual communication, an aspect lacking in literature—until now!
Those Distant Shores
“Distant shores” represent the human yearning for fulfillment that makes us restless. This story follows the life-journeys of three Filipino friends and a young Spaniard whose very different paths intersect, exploring our fundamental restlessness and desire for transcendence.
Many thought riots were an outdated form of protest. They were wrong. This book probes various historical riots—from 18th-century Scotland to a 1930s US police riot—to understand the issues that motivate them and why they still take place today.
Resilient Territories
As recent crises challenge territories, what makes them resilient? This book advances the scientific agenda on regional resilience, innovation, and creativity, informing policy-makers about new modes of development for adapting to external shocks.
Global Climate Change, Environment and Energy
This book covers both sides of the debate on climate change, environment and energy. Articles discuss these issues from a multidimensional perspective, elaborating upon their interdependence and the global challenges and opportunities for sustainability.
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.
Theory and Praxis
This anthology of research papers critically explores contemporary literary theory. It provides a wide spectrum of theories—from postcolonialism to eco-criticism—and applies them to global texts, offering an interdisciplinary inquiry into human existence.
Jamaican Speech Forms in Ethiopia
This first systematic survey of Jamaican English in Ethiopia explores its spread through Rastafarianism and Reggae. It shows how a Creole born from the slavery route has hybridized and is now making its way back to Africa with new, creative speech-forms.
This book covers essential Author Cocitation Analysis (ACA) topics for graduate students and researchers. Learn techniques to delineate the intellectual structure of academic disciplines, compare research traditions, and trace paradigm shifts over time.
Diversities and Interculturality in Textbooks
Textbooks can create biased ideas about the ‘Other’. Using Finland’s top education system as an example, this volume reveals hidden ideologies and stereotyping, and offers concrete tools to develop teachers’ and students’ critical abilities.