Beyond the Night
From Beowulf to Buffy, this collection analyzes old and new creatures in popular culture. Beyond the Night offers insights into the monstrous, exploring their significance for society in relation to sexuality, gender, social change, and otherness.
Rewriting Wrongs
The palimpsest, a reused artifact bearing traces of its past, is a fertile metaphor for crime fiction. This collection of essays explores its various manifestations in French crime fiction, where detective discovery often involves rewriting criminal or historical events.
Teaching as a Human Experience
The poems in this collection deal with the real-life worlds of teachers. This volume covers the manifold experiences, perspectives, and epiphanies of being an educator, giving creative voice to teachers and students and empowering readers with inspiration and personal agency.
Most new medical concepts are first named in English. This volume explores the naming strategies adopted, their consequences for the transparency of English terms, and the challenges of their translation and borrowing into other languages.
“We Learned that We are Indivisible”
A first-rate team of scholars examines the Shenandoah Valley’s Civil War story. This collection of essays explores leadership, key battles, the war’s impact on the diverse population, and postwar reconciliation efforts in the “Breadbasket of the Confederacy.”
As Mirrors Are Lonely
This new study investigates how Irish writers since the sixties have responded to a changing world, re-examining their work through the theory of Jacques Lacan. It focuses on John McGahern, Brian Moore and John Broderick, exploring gender and family.
From Truth and truth
Francis Etheredge investigates the interrelationship between reason and sense through a philosophical exploration of “being”, noting that “sense” is subtly sensitive through reason.
This book presents teaching methodologies and skills assessments for the 21st century. It explores how novel platforms and emerging software can provide students with the tools and skills for success in a competitive, global labor market.
European Theories in Former Yugoslavia
Theories are not directly transferred from the centre to the margins, but are borrowed, translated, and reinterpreted. Posed from the perspective of former Yugoslavia, this book explores the tense relationship between original theories and their transformed perspectives.
The Birth of a Celestial Light
This book examines Iranian women who are neither conventionally religious nor secular, but explore spirituality. It investigates the feminist potential of the “Inter-universal Mysticism” movement for women seeking to transform their lives and construct their own selves.
This title gives an interdisciplinary and global perspective on aspects of security and defence, with a special focus on the protection of social infrastructures in the face of various forms of violence, stressing the need to approach the problem from a range of viewpoints.
Love, Family and Friendship
This volume presents current research on love, family, and friendship from a Latin American perspective. It includes studies from Brazil, Chile, Colombia, and Mexico on topics from satisfaction to violence, filling a major gap in relationship research.
Between Memory and Mythology
This volume examines the relationship between myth and memory, exploring how war narratives are used to construct modern identities. These essays show how political elites engage in mythmaking to shape national and cultural self-perception.
Rebuild your physique and keep fit with Traditional Chinese Exercises. This illustrated guide explores Qi-Gong, Taiji, and minor exercises for your daily routine, while also providing valuable insights into the Chinese philosophies embodied in them.
Music on Stage presents papers on opera, the Musical, and performance practice. The collection covers a wide spectrum, from historic works by Wagner to Sondheim, also exploring the gestalt of music and text and the training of the actor-musician.
The Role of Religions in the European Perception of Insular and Mainland Southeast Asia
This collection enhances existing knowledge on travel, travel experiences and travel writing by Europeans in mainland and insular Southeast Asia from the 16th to the 21st centuries, and demonstrates how these travellers perceived religion in Southeast Asia.
Views from the Parish
This collection of essays explores churchwardens’ accounts in a number of parishes in England, Wales and Ireland. These accounts offer an invaluable source of information about the maintenance of the church fabric, and the nature of parish worship and community life in general.
Recruitment Advertising as an Instrument of Employer Branding
This linguistic analysis investigates job advertising as an instrument of employer branding. It demonstrates how job ads constitute a distinct promotional genre, using persuasive language and organisational values to project and reinforce the employer brand.
From Truth and truth
Examining the answers of reason and faith to the question “What is man?”, these essays explore the incomparable depth of dialogue. Given the critical situations in the world, humanity must choose the wealth of dialogue over a polarized, conflictual existence.
Highlights in Anglo-American Drama
The collection of essays represents perspectives on various aspects of modern Anglo-American drama and dramatists from scholars from ex-Yugoslav republics. It will appeal to both the academic and general reader, given the lack of worldwide scholarship on American drama.
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