Preventing Radicalisation and Terrorism in Europe
This book compares the counter-terrorism and counter-radicalisation policies of Belgium, France, Italy, Spain, and the United Kingdom. It offers a critical assessment of their strengths and weaknesses, identifying evolutionary lines and proposing a series of recommendations.
Alpine Refugees
This collection of essays highlights how Alpine territories are facing challenges from migration, and how these can trigger policy innovations with beneficial impacts for both migrants and local inhabitants. It will appeal to practitioners, social scientists, and policy makers.
What kinds of worlds will exist in our future? How will technology shape our cities, homes, and ourselves? This collection of essays explores science fiction’s new spaces—from utopias and dystopias to alien cityscapes—and discusses capitalism, equality, and feminist critique.
This first comprehensive volume explores the concept of the ‘home front’ in Greek and Roman Antiquity. Crossing borders between history, social sciences, and religious studies, it investigates the impact of war on the social and religious spheres of civilian communities.
Victorian Fiction as a Bildungsroman
This book shows that the Victorian Bildungsroman has a unique development history and a thematic and narrative pattern. It details this tradition’s entrance into Victorian literature, scrutinizing novels to question whether their perspectives fit the shape of the genre.
This guide to retiree destinations worldwide is based on research and hands-on testimonies. Hear directly from retirees in Spain, Canada, and Ecuador, and learn what factors to consider. Chapters include destination profiles based on personal interviews with locals.
Polarization, Populism, and the New Politics
From Turkey to the USA, the effect of populism is felt more than ever. This volume considers the role played by conventional and new media in its rise. Investigating countries such as Spain and the UK, it will appeal to readers interested in polarization and post-truth studies.
Critical Engagements on African Literature
This is the first book devoted to Isidore Diala’s award-winning drama and poetry. The essays offer fresh insights on African literary landscapes, exploring themes of national history, ritual aesthetics, postcolonial implosions, oil politics, exile, and gender.
From Glosses to Dictionaries
This book presents the beginnings of lexicography and the first dictionaries across the world. Through case studies from Greek Antiquity to 9th-century Japan, it offers a global, comparative approach to a topic usually studied only within single cultures.
Surveillance and Memory
This book contains secret police reports from the 1948-1950 surveillance of sociologist Anton Golopentia. Including transcriptions of phone conversations and personal declarations, it provides a chilling insight into political repression at the dawn of Romania’s communist regime.
J.S. Bach’s Musical Offering survived as separated sheets, its true structure a puzzle for centuries. This book revises groundbreaking research to present a unique conception of the work’s original design, focusing on the mysterious ordering of its ten canons.
The essays collected here highlight new and exciting explorations of integrative approaches to the creative mind. This allows a unique and fresh look at the concept of creativity, creative cognition, and innovation.
The Americas and the New World Order
Written by leading experts and new scholars, this collection of essays portrays the Americas’ place in the world. Spanning the Colonial Era to the present, it explores vital issues like migration, crime, economics, and relations between Asia and the Americas.
This book analyses the terminology of marine plastic pollution. By observing its use across scientific, informative, and normative texts, it reveals how this specialized language functions in expert-to-expert communication and how its concepts are simplified for other audiences.
Taking Business Ethics Seriously
What is the “good life”? This book presents a passionate argument against the compartmentalization that separates such timeless questions from our professional lives. It makes the case for aligning business with a life worth living and treating people ethically in all realms.
The first book dedicated to exploring Thomas Jefferson’s mind through his varied personae: lawyer, politician, scientist, farmer, and more. It uncovers the core ideas that connected them all, from human betterment to his belief that beauty was always second to functionality.
Perspectives on Dance Fusion in the Caribbean and Dance Sustainability
This volume examines fusion in Caribbean dance from socio-cultural-historical perspectives. Chapters on dance fusions in other diasporic locations and the sustainability of dance are also included, offering a sense of its evolution due to globalizing forces.
Facing Trauma in Contemporary American Literary Discourse
In a culture where trauma breeds fear and aggression, this book turns to literature. Analyzing works by authors like Toni Morrison and Louise Erdrich, it shows how a good story can become a space for curiosity and healing in the face of uncertainty.
Essays by clinicians, parents, and de-transitioners demonstrate how ‘transgender children’ are invented in medical, social, and political contexts. The authors reveal the harms of transgender ideology and show how adults can intervene to protect young people.
The Unknowable in Literature and Material Culture
How do we come to know the hidden, unspoken, and “unknowable”? Inspired by this question, the contributors to this volume explore fin de siècle homosexuality, Émile Zola as a seeker of concealed truths, crises of representation, and the dialogue between self and other.
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