Florida Studies
A journey through Florida’s literary and cultural soul. From its storied past to its complex present, these essays reveal a unique sense of place, locating the state within the heart of American political and literary tradition.
This book explores fragments of tragedy in postmodern film. While postmodernism broke the continuous chain of tragedy from Ancient Greece, its aspects persist in films with themes of chaos, violence, paranoia, and alienation.
Learning and Teaching with Geomedia is a practical introduction to the field for secondary education. It provides ready-to-use learning environments that foster spatial citizenship and are easily applied in any school with a web browser or mobile phone.
The Philosophizing Muse
Despite the Romans’ reputation, Latin poetry was deeply permeated by Greek philosophy. This volume of original essays is the first to fully investigate this influence, analysing how poets from the 3rd century BC to the 1st century AD absorbed and transformed their sources.
Enforcing and Eluding Censorship
How is censorship enforced and eluded? This volume explores the different ways of censorship in the Italian and Anglo-American worlds, from institutional control and discourse regulation to textual and ideological manipulation that provide a biased view of reality.
This book offers a compelling critique of John Donne’s poetry, focusing on the intersection of science and Christian eschatology. It examines how references to cartography, physics, and alchemy contribute to conceptualizing the Christian mystery of death.
Multilingualism and Education in Africa
An essential resource for understanding multilingualism and education in Africa. Written by leading authorities, this book examines policies and practices across the continent, combining theoretical, empirical, and personal experiences to show what works.
The concept of “constraint” is used across linguistics, computer science, and psychology. This book builds an extended overview of the use of constraints to model and process language, making it useful for researchers and as a class book for advanced courses.
Learning Accountancy
This book takes a unique approach to accountancy. It starts by simply demonstrating the function of cash flow, profit and loss, and balance sheets before introducing double entry, helping the layman gain valuable insight into the theory and practice of bookkeeping.
The Free Movement of Capital and Financial Services
This book investigates the compliance of financial services legislation in Estonia, Poland, and other EU states with the free movement of capital. It offers recommendations and draws implications for the financial services sector.
From Eastern Partnership to the Association
This book analyzes the legal and political dimensions of the EU’s Eastern Partnership policy. It provides an in-depth analysis of Association Agreements with states like Ukraine, examining human rights, the rule of law, and their geopolitical significance.
Dante and Heterodoxy
This volume explores Dante’s “temptations” by the radical thought of the 13th century. Spurred by new Aristotelian and Greek-Arabic learning, Dante interrogated heterodox ideas, revealing a poet deeply involved in the intellectual debates of his culture.
Religion of Democracy
Incarnations of Material Textuality
Liberature refers to works that integrate text and the material book into an organic whole. This volume collects essays exploring this concept as a literary genre, completed with the seminal writings of its founder, Zenon Fajfer.
Dreaming across Languages and Cultures
This groundbreaking study examines 14 translations of China’s greatest novel, The Dream of the Red Chamber, in five European languages. A monumental work, it reveals the fascinating intricacies of language, translation, and culture.
Acts of Love and Lust
Over six decades, Australia has undergone a sexual revolution. This collection by leading historians explores how sexuality was constructed by the state, law, and media, and how love and lust were experienced by individuals, shaping society and culture.
This is a first-time edition of an autograph letter-writing manual by William Gilpin, a theoretician of the picturesque. Devised for boys and men, it provides models of letters and fictional short stories about soldiers, reformed rakes, and fathers.
Breaking traditional barriers, this collection compares male and female monarchy across the medieval and early modern eras. International scholars demonstrate how the practical expression of power and image revealed more continuity than change over five centuries.
This volume’s ten studies on Greek Conversation Analysis (CA) fill a key gap in Greek linguistics. Topics range from grammar and storytelling to code-switching and mobile talk, offering a vital reference for scholars and students of talk-in-interaction.
This book introduces new contexts and emerging research in business performance measurement and management. It presents a variety of perspectives from global authors across accounting, finance, marketing, and operations management in a single volume.