This is one of the first English publications to offer a profound analysis of Russian Constitutional Law. It covers the Constitution, federalism, the President, the court system, and human rights, and is useful for anyone interested in Russia’s system of power.
Maimonides on God and Duns Scotus on Logic and Metaphysics (Volume 12
Moses Maimonides and John Duns Scotus are key figures who bookend a major thirteenth-century philosophical tradition. This volume explores Maimonides’s work on God and creation alongside the revolutionary logic and metaphysics developed by Scotus.
The studies included here stem from the assumption that broadly-understood borderlands, as well as peripheries, are abodes of significant culture-generating forces, and focus on various aspects of borderland art and literature.
Written in response to extremists, this book argues that the present state of violence and injustice has nothing to do with Islam, but with man-made laws. It challenges Muslims to explore the purity of the faith to end hatred, bigotry, and intolerance.
The Challenges of Mobility
This book arose from a shortage of literature on mobility as a tool for learning, dialogue, and artistic exchange. How does mobility alter geographies and create new narratives? This volume provides fresh perspectives on the crucial challenges of mobility.
Language in Use
This collection explores applications of metaphor in a variety of contexts and types of discourse, against a multitude of cultural backgrounds.
Enacting English across Borders
Emergent researchers challenge misconceptions about teaching English in a globalised world. Drawing on Asian contexts, these studies critique existing assumptions, highlight inconsistencies in the field of ELT, and provide suggestions to address these issues.
Religion and Politics in Ukraine
Russia uses an “Orthodox civilization” to justify policies towards Ukraine. This book analyzes the role of religion in Ukrainian political life, focusing on Eastern Christian communities after the USSR’s collapse and the connection to its democratic character.
Exploring (Im)politeness in Specialized and General Corpora
This unique volume advances (im)politeness scholarship using corpus linguistic methods. It showcases studies employing specialized and general corpora, with methodologies ranging from speech act to discourse-analytic traditions, to unite different research streams.
Chowaniec offers the first systematic overview of Poland’s literary and cultural environment since 1989 from the perspective of women’s writing, surveying the political and social transformations of this period through a close reading of prominent Polish female novelists.
Motivated by the dearth of textbooks on speech prosody methodology and data, this volume offers a selection of courses from the School of Prosody. This book will contribute to prosody education in Brazil and have a significant impact in other countries.
Beyond War
The studies gathered here present the necessity of rethinking the concept of “violence” in archaeology, in order to overcome the old conception that limits violence to its most evident expressions in war and intra- or extra-group conflict.
This volume treats travel writing as “foreign correspondence,” a concept oscillating between the private and the public. The essays offer readings of accounts by early modern and more recent travellers, revealing the complex cultural negotiations between them.
The convergence of robotics, informatics, genetics, information technologies, and cognitive sciences will have a significant impact on society in the years to come. This volume provides some of the theoretical tools necessary to tackle the opportunities and risks of the future.
Reinventing Sound
It is undeniable that in today’s audiovisual world, music plays a leading role. As such, the essays gathered here investigate the ways in which it is featured on mobile devices, its impact on new narrative forms, and the new ways of creating music on the Internet.
This title discusses the relevance of the work of Hegel and Marx in today’s world, providing the historical context necessary to understand the relation between them, and putting their relevance for the contemporary reader into perspective.
Peripheral Flows
This volume re-assesses the role of cores and peripheries in shaping modern socio-technical systems. Challenging the traditional concept of a one-way transfer, it reveals a process not of simple adoption, but of complex adaptation in meaning, use, and perception.
Scandinavia and the Balkans
This book explores the cultural interactions between Scandinavia and the Balkans—a topic rarely discussed in academic studies. The articles offered here explore numerous aspects of the transition from Antiquity to the Middle Ages in these two distant regions.
This title will serve to provide the reader with the communicative and language skills necessary to function in modern society. It identifies the descriptive functioning of language, as well as the communicative processes involved in its usage.
Intellectual Property Rights for Geographical Indications
Insights are given here into the potential impacts future Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership agreements could have at national, European and international levels. Policy setting, implications for trade and consumer perception and food safety are also covered.
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