Discourse in Dialogue
This work considers fundamental theological and philosophical perspectives in Catholic-Christian theology. It covers themes like the interrelationship of philosophy and theology, scripture, and Christology. It serves as an introductory text and a guide for deeper reflection.
Digging the Seam
The 1984–5 Miners’ Strike was a bitter dispute that divided Britain. While its political consequences have been subject to detailed analysis, its impact on popular culture is less mapped. This book explores that legacy in film, music, theatre, and art.
Despite communicative teaching, many EFL university students in the UAE lack adequate communicative competence and critical thinking skills. This book argues for utilising literature, offering an approach to integrate language, literature, and critical thinking.
Grotesque Anatomies
This study defines Menippean satire as a literary version of the grotesque. Through revisionist readings of canonical works from Pope’s Dunciad to Eliot’s The Waste Land, it changes our understanding of them and traces the form to the present day.
Horizons North
In Canada’s North, competing cultural paradigms collide. This collection of academic and personal essays investigates Aboriginal justice, challenges of pedagogy, and problems of identity created by Canada’s colonial past, offering insights on social transition.
A definitive reference for the theory and practice of Islamic finance. Explore global banking innovations and understand their vital role in today’s volatile economy.
Popular Appeal
In a world of urgent social change, young people are devouring fiction about identity and transition. This book examines how popular genres are being redefined to explore today’s key questions about the environment, identity, and our place in a fragile world.
New Wests and Post-Wests
This collection offers critical approaches to an American West that never was—a mythic space, not a geographical place. New scholarship explores multiple “New Wests” in film and literature, moving beyond traditional views with unique international perspectives.
Education and Hegemony
This book examines the globalization of education in India and its impact on social structures like caste, class, and gender. It argues this process creates a market-driven system that hierarchizes knowledge, marginalizing critical reasoning.
Applied Social Sciences
This volume provides original essays on philosophy and theology, exploring aesthetics, ethics, postmodernism, and the role of religion in society. Accessible to specialists and a wider public, it offers new ideas for professionals in the socio-humanistic field.
Berkeley’s Lasting Legacy
Known for his denial of matter, George Berkeley was a far more wide-ranging thinker. This collection by international experts reveals his contributions to metaphysics, science, and economics, showing him as he was: a courageous philosophical innovator.
This book compiles articles on Spanish grammar, integrating up-to-date research with current theoretical syntax and semantics. It is for linguists, researchers, and students interested in Spanish, Romance languages, and generative grammar.
Afroasiatic Studies in Memory of Robert Hetzron
NACAL is an academic nexus where students rub shoulders with titans of the field. This volume contains sixteen contributions from these scholars, covering a broad cross-section of topics in Afroasiatic linguistics.
In a world of unprecedented crises, a shift in thinking is needed. Diverse scholars explore what the Anthropology of Consciousness can contribute, reframing it as an “anthropology of conscience.”
Alfred North Whitehead on Learning and Education
This book explores Alfred North Whitehead’s educational ideas, based on his process philosophy. It presents an alternative framework for learning and shows how these ideas can be applied to different sub-domains, offering a promising alternative to traditional education.
From Critique to Action
This book applies ethical thinking to business, management and computing. Based on the practical experience of researchers and practitioners, it is written in an accessible way with a strong, cross-disciplinary and intercultural flavour.
This unique interdisciplinary volume explores the convergence of linguistics, biology, and computation. Using bio-inspired models to approach formal and natural languages, it offers specialists new ideas, tools, and formalisms to advance their work.
Quantum Theatre
Quantum Theatre uses quantum mechanics to construct a framework for examining performance. This pioneering analysis reveals hidden aspects of the theatrical event, providing a coherent alternative to postmodernism as a theoretical framework for performance.
Our world became engineered, yet remains human. Through the philosophy of engineering, this book explores debates on the future of humankind in an era of robotics, genetic engineering, and nanotechnology, in an attempt to redefine our engineered future.
Language in Action
This volume presents a critical analysis of the relationship between language and action, building on the Vygotskian and Leontievian legacy. It sheds light on human activity and the role language has in mediating what we think, do, and learn.
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