The Fairy-Tale Vanguard
The fairy tale has long been a laboratory for authors to experiment with literary boundaries. This essay collection adopts a historical approach, offering case studies on English, French, German, and other texts from the 17th to 21st century by authors like Andersen and Coover.
An exhilarating tour through the mesmerizing world of Nobel Prize-winner Orhan Pamuk. This book examines nine novels spanning three decades, detailing the thematics and craft of Turkey’s foremost novelist in a style shorn of dry pedantry and jargon.
This volume addresses phenomenology’s overlooked insights on values, exploring the phenomenology of intersubjectivity. It is distinct for its focus on the ethical and existential dimension, covering thinkers from Husserl and Heidegger to Levinas.
This study explores how Ahlam Mosteghanemi’s novels on the Algerian War’s trauma challenge the myth of a single national story, revealing nationhood as a polyphonic dialogue of competing memories and imagined futures.
This book is a practical guide to developing a crime-prediction model by gathering and analysing big data. It covers text mining, opinion mining, and machine learning to predict rapidly-changing social phenomena and draw creative conclusions.
Exploring Identity in Literature and Life Stories
In an era of globalization and migration, what defines our identity? This collection of essays explores key dimensions—culture, religion, ethnicity, gender—as they appear in international narratives, from literary texts and film to theatre and more.
India is in an era of great upheaval, making a complete break with its past to redefine its role in the world. This collection of essays captures these extraordinary times, chronicling the changes and fault-lines shaping its future and impacting the world around it.
What is gesture? What is multimodality? This volume provides answers through an eclectic set of recent studies. It investigates gesture in relation to speech, language acquisition, the performing arts (music, dance, theatre), and Artificial Intelligence.
Is Nationalism a recent phenomenon? This book argues it is as “old as the hills,” rooted in humanity’s ancient drives for territory, power, and our alienation from others. Though ancient, it became dangerously aggressive in the twentieth century and remains a serious issue.
This collection explores linguistic, cultural, and cognitive diversity. Contributors from linguistics, literary studies, and more offer insights on topics from the relationship between eye contact and mindfulness to the universality of critical thinking.
Traditional Counselling
This book narrows the gaps in the under-researched field of traditional counselling. It articulates a theoretical framework rooted in African sociocultural values and community-based practices, underscoring the relevance of this thought-provoking counselling model.
Inertia of History
This book predicts international changes between 2013-2023. It forecasts China’s rise as a superpower, creating a bipolar world in strategic rivalry with the US. This shift will move the world’s center to East Asia, see the UK withdraw from the EU, and Russia deteriorate.
This volume contains proceedings from the BML Munjal University International Innovation Conference 2016. Featuring discussions between global academicians and industry executives, it will appeal to academics in management, business and economics, and to managers in innovation.
The Wor(l)ds of Neapolitan Arts and Crafts
The terminologies of the numerous trades examined in this bilingual volume—including pizza and pastry making, and the art of presepio (crib), lute-making and coral dealing, among others—represent an important component of the cultural heritage of Naples and the Campania region.
Depictions of the Three Orders and Estates around the Year 1500
This volume highlights the copious depictions of society’s three orders—the oratores, bellatores, and laboratores—in the Late Middle Ages and Early Modern Period. The vast visual material proves this trifunctional division was a widespread ideological foundation.
This book is a contextual analysis of the Romanian rural architectural landscape in the communist and post-communist eras. It examines the legal framework for constructing private houses under the Ceausescu dictatorship and the social actions that transform a house into a home.
This book is the second in a series showcasing outcomes of the Maryvale Institute’s doctoral research programme. It provides an overview of the breadth of work by its students in the UK, Europe, the USA and Africa and their contribution to new knowledge in Catholic studies.
The Cyprus Detention Camps
In 1946, Jewish Holocaust survivors seeking to immigrate to Israel were intercepted and deported to detention camps in Cyprus. This largely inaccessible saga is now brought to light through previously unknown sources, eyewitness interviews, maps, and timelines.
Shattering the myth of an apolitical Nietzsche, this book reveals him as a 19th-century reactionary. It traces his lifelong war on modernity—from feminism to democracy—in his quest to forge a new, counter-revolutionary politics.
This book evaluates financial behaviour in the new economy. As changing technology alters consumer habits, businesses must use innovative methods to survive tough competition and influence financial decisions.
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