Apocalyptic Projections
Apocalyptic Projections have been pondered since Biblical times. While the concept of apocalypse evokes images of total oblivion, threads of possibility and redemption offer a potential fabric of hope.
In the Iberian Peninsula and Beyond
Beginning with the forced conversion of 16th–17th century Iberian Jews and Muslims, this volume examines the effects on their diasporas, focusing on language, culture, identity discourses, and interchanges between those communities.
Words for Odours
This volume brings together studies on how olfactory experiences are verbalized. Applying pragmatic and theoretical approaches, it investigates the complex cognitive and cultural strategies speakers use to talk about odours in a variety of languages and domains.
From Islamic Revivalism to Islamic Radicalism in Southeast Asia
This ethnography of Jamā‘ah Tablīgh in Malaysia and Indonesia explores its members’ religious lives, revealing a radical yet non-violent vision for a contemporary, mosque-based Islamic caliphate.
What Comes After Occupy?
Occupy Wall Street in NYC received much publicity, but little attention has been given to the hundreds of Occupy groups in other locations. This volume rectifies this, with essays addressing the creative politics of occupation in these different contexts.
Broadcasting in the UK and US in the 1950s
The essays here contribute to research on the medium of television by bringing together work focusing on national developments in both UK and US broadcasting in the 1950s, to allow for reflection on the ways in which the two systems interacted and can be compared.
Enhancing Customer Experience in the Service Industry
The essays included in this text provide a new and definitive overview of customer experience and how it can be managed and enhanced in the service industry. The highly qualified international team of contributors ensures that it adopts a global perspective.
Fostering Culture Through Film
The book highlights the theories and practical applications by which instructors of foreign languages and cultural studies use contemporary film to provide insightful readings on diverse local communities.
English as a Foreign Language for Deaf and Hard-of-Hearing Persons
This volume describes experiences of teaching foreign language to deaf and hard-of-hearing students and presents aspects of empirical research in this field. It discusses mainly the issue of specific methodology for teaching English as a foreign language to these learners.
Negotiating a Presence-Centred Christian Counselling
Kwan navigates between two counselling frameworks: one Eastern, secular, social scientific, and modern; the other Western, Christian, theological, and traditional; negotiating a revised presence-centred form of counselling that is cross-culturally sensitive.
Laughter and War
This book explores the impact of World War One in four countries, and breaks new ground by exploring this through the medium of what their respective populations laughed at, investigating four humorous-satirical magazines of the period.
Constraints and Driving Forces in Economic Systems
The various contributions to this volume have as their central point the forces driving development and the constraints hindering progress in a variety of economic systems and subsystems.
New Horizons in the Study of Motion
Recent studies in lexicalization patterns have attracted attention in fields such as linguistics regarding the online/offline verbalization of motion. These essays depart from such research to offer insights into new ways of applying motion and widening theoretical perspectives.
Offering perspectives from under-discussed linguistic contexts, including Spain and Austria, in addition to more prominent countries such as the UK, this title explores tensions between the local and the global in education, investigating its increasing commodification.
The Representations of Elderly People in the Scenes of Jesus’ Childhood in Tuscan Paintings, 14th-16th Centuries
Adopting an innovative approach, this book leads the reader through early modern Tuscan paintings to discover a new vision of intergenerational relationships. It reveals how old age was perceived at the end of the Middle Ages and the beginning of the Renaissance in Tuscany.
Shifting Visions
This global, interdisciplinary collection explores how gender and language create lived experience. Studies analyze topics from religion and politics to education and sexuality, with scholarship from Britain, Europe, North America, Asia, and Africa.
The Age of Asian Migration
Explore modern Asian migrations through the crucial lenses of women, refugees, and economics. This volume offers fresh insights and compelling new case studies on human movement since WWII.
Make Me Yours
Offering a subjective approach, González discusses the relational and psychodynamic aspects of the encounter between the work of the art and the viewer; one that, when seduction operates, is characterised by interplay, flow and conflict.
Voicing the Text
By using both drama and film, and by exploring the translation between the two, this study shows that voice can be placed in a grid where the subject, body, language and power interconnect in ways that question established ideas concerning voice – what it is and what it can do.
Of Treason, God and Testicles
This monograph analyses in what shape the interplay between widespread political and ideological Cold War convictions and Cold War notions of masculinity found its way onto British and American cinema screens during the early days of the conflict.
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