POCA 2007
This multidisciplinary collection of papers on the history and archaeology of Cyprus spans from the prehistoric to the medieval times. It is a significant contribution to archaeological research that will engage scholars and provide the groundwork for future ideas.
Let’s Talk About Sex
Uncovering the hidden desires and public fears of Australia from 1901 to 1961, this history reveals how sex became a battleground of crucial social, cultural, and political importance.
Society Building
This volume presents research by non-Chinese scholars on “society building,” an indigenous concept guiding China’s social development. It tackles topics from infrastructure’s social impact to soft power, offering a unique understanding of China today.
Songs of Innocence and Experience
This book offers insight into Frank Capra’s multidimensional romantic universe. It demonstrates how his films fit the genre of romance by interpreting them as paradisal, purgatorial, and infernal comedies, as inspired by Dante’s Divine Comedy.
The Silk Road of Adaptation
Using the Silk Road as a metaphor for transcultural exchange, this anthology presents adaptation as a continuous process. Essays from diverse disciplines show how adaptation is a transmedial and transnational act with psychological as well as political significance.
This book presents a panorama of language policy in the Mediterranean. It explores international law, bilingual education, language revival, and the issue of feminization in languages like French, Italian, Spanish, and Greek. An excellent source for scholars.
The Work of Avishai Ehrlich
This book is about Avishai Ehrlich’s life’s work in political sociology and his role as a public intellectual. Chapters include his articles, commentaries, and personal memories from distinguished academics, friends, and students who knew his influence well.
Paolo Casalegno was a brilliant and probing philosopher and one of the best minds in a generation. His essays in the philosophy of logic and language are remarkable for their rigour, originality, and fundamental insights.
Reclaiming Home, Remembering Motherhood, Rewriting History
This collection of essays examines how African American and Afro-Caribbean women writers reclaim home, motherhood, and history. Through their female characters, they create more inclusive concepts of community, gender, and history.
While early Twentieth Century London embraced Modernism, in Wales the opposite was true. This study traces the Welsh poets and novelists who found their master in William Wordsworth, illuminating an unexpected flare-up of Romanticism.
Corporate criminal liability is laced with contradictions. This book shows how these may be avoided with an adequate mechanism of imputation, proposing how to aggregate the acts and intents of agents to hold corporations liable for their crimes.
Americanization of History
This collection of essays explores how history and literature are translated into film. From Walt Disney to the Wild West, mobsters to vampire slayers, these articles analyze how movies and TV reflect the time and place of their own creation.
Images of Conflict
Striking aerial views of war and its scarred landscapes are the focus of this unique book. For the first time, military historians, archaeologists, and anthropologists explore the history and technology of military aerial photography to reassess the landscapes of conflict.
In the Mind and across Minds
This collection of papers by international scholars demonstrates the potential of Relevance Theory, which links human communication and cognition. It explores various aspects of communication, including irony, metaphor, context and translation.
This book examines the politics and culture of the Lebanese Diaspora. Essays explore identity formation, political activism, and cultural representation among migrants and their descendants, challenging fixed notions of homeland and identity.
Temporaries and Eternals
Aldous Huxley’s 1922–23 music column offers a snapshot of 1920s musical life and is key to understanding his novels. Huxley’s central theme is how to judge the longevity of composers and their works. This book reproduces all 64 of his articles.
Reflections on Conservatism brings together scholars studying conservatism from different perspectives. The articles cover a wide range of theoretical aspects and focus on conservative movements and thinkers from different countries.
Clusivity
This book develops an original framework for analyzing inclusion and exclusion in political discourse. It proposes a model explaining how speakers create ‘us’ vs. ‘them’ through tactics of association and dissociation to legitimize their power.
The Sochi Predicament
Sochi was an unlikely host for the Winter Olympics, a prestige project for Russia. This book analyzes the profound challenges of identity, security, and ethnic relations from Russian, Georgian, Abkhazian, and Circassian perspectives.
For engineers and students, this volume presents articles by international experts on themes at the interface between engineering and society, including ethics, education, and the future of engineering. Each chapter contrasts distinct perspectives to develop critical thinking.
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