Florida Studies
This volume includes essays on Florida literature and history. Of special interest are studies of 19th and 21st-century literature, the contributions of African-American figures like Zora Neale Hurston, and suggestions for teaching Florida Studies.
Mapping Channels between Ganges and Rhein
Explore the centuries-long fascination between India and Germany. This book charts their complex, entangled exchange in literature, philosophy, and politics, providing a vital overview of current research on their shared history.
Recent scholarship challenges Descartes’s role as the founder of modernity. This collection of original papers by leading philosophers explores this debate, bringing together for the first time naturalist and phenomenological schools of thought.
Breakcore
This interdisciplinary ethnography examines interaction and exchange within the ‘bedroom producer’ culture of ‘breakcore’ electronic music. It explores the cultural politics and aesthetics of identity in this environment, highlighting gender, ethnicity, and technology.
“The Given Note”
This book examines how traditional Irish music and song have influenced Irish poets. It looks at this influence historically and in contemporary work, focusing on six key poets, including Seamus Heaney, Ciaran Carson, and Nuala Ní Dhomhnaill.
This book presents a selection of papers from an international conference on Multilingualism and Applied Comparative Linguistics, fostering an exchange of knowledge on cross-linguistic and cross-cultural communication. It covers diverse topics and research perspectives.
Film and Television Stardom examines stars as a social phenomenon from the silent era to today’s reality TV. It provides new insights on the star system, media spectatorship, and analyzes individual stars from James Stewart to Jessica Simpson.
Arthur W. Upfield
Immigrant, soldier, and Bushman, Arthur W. Upfield matured with Australia. He created the famous bi-racial Detective “Bony,” rivaling Sherlock Holmes, and described the Outback to the world. This biography relies on unexplored letters to tell his story.
The Mediterranean Basin, a biodiversity hotspot, has endured 8000 years of human impact. Now facing water shortages and desertification, it is a key example of the “Anthropocene.” This book synthesizes knowledge to throw light on our unpredictable future.
Ludwig Minkus is one of music’s biggest mysteries. An influential composer for Imperial Russia’s ballet, he was scorned by critics. Now his works Don Quixote and La Bayadère are taking the world by surprise. This study discovers the man behind the powerful music.
Popular Media and Communication
This collection of essays explores media and communication across four key areas: the public sphere, professional identity, industry policy, and political communication. It reveals how forces like capital and technology structure communication and produce public meaning.
Reputed scholars offer a critical analysis of strategies for the development of SCs and STs in India. This well-researched volume is an invaluable tool for planners and policymakers seeking to evolve viable strategies for the coming years.
Gender and Displacement
This volume investigates the construction of “home” in Francophone women’s autobiography. Narratives of female identity connect race, gender, colonization, and migration in writers from North Africa, the Caribbean, and immigrant writers in France.
Dangers in the Incommensurability of Globalization
A gap exists between our intentions and their objective consequences, creating a chaos, or incommensurability, that foils human plans. This book explores how this dynamic reveals the tenuous character of our world through global warming, peak oil, and volatile economics.
The Mirror Crack’d
How did Tolkien craft such enduring horror? Scholars reveal how he transformed medieval sources, turning landscapes, dragons, the Undead, and even darkness itself into potent symbols that tap into our most deeply rooted fears.
Soviet repressions against shamanism, a recent surge of interest in the Orthodox church, and a nationalist preoccupation with Christian roots makes research into Georgia’s pagan practices no easy business. This study helps to set the process in motion.
This book provides an engaging overview of how digital media impact informal learning, with a particular focus on young people. International scholars examine these processes and discuss their implications for education, ICT and media.
This memoir is a tale of one man’s survival despite all odds. It is an inspiring story of iron will and hope, enduring Stalin’s purges and WWII. One man’s life becomes the reflection of an entire country that has lived through decades of injustice.
Themata Politica
These political essays focus on Greek/Turkish relations, Cyprus, and the war on terror. Written by a philosopher of Hellenic ancestry, they are characterized by frank talk, fresh ideas, and historical insights that try to discern the future.
Death Becomes Her
From where does our investment in feminine death emerge? These essays analyze women’s deathbed scenes, suicides, murders, and autopsies in American writing, offering fresh insight into the unsettling and highly relevant role of death in feminism.
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