Interwar Women’s Comic Fiction
This collection of essays examines overlooked women novelists of the interwar period. The essays discuss how they used comic structures to critique the dominant patriarchal structures of their time, offering alternative, subversive views of the world.
Why Organised Violence Thrives in Nigeria
This book investigates the core issues that sustain organised political violence in Nigeria. Focusing on elite political culture and State governance, it examines zero-sum politics and identity politics. An invaluable resource for security scholars and analysts.
Errors in English Pronunciation among Arabic Speakers
This book analyzes Arabs’ errors in English pronunciation, covering consonants, vowels, and word stress. It explains the reasons behind these errors, which stem from applying Arabic rules to English, and presents teaching suggestions for surmounting them.
This study explores representations of mental health in literature, focusing on works by 21st-century French women writers. It situates these portrayals in relation to current attitudes and practices, and discusses the benefit of their translation for an Anglophone readership.
Spoken political and journalistic texts are a rich data source, but their unique features pose significant challenges for processing and translation. This volume proposes strategies for their analysis by humans and by Natural Language Processing applications.
This book’s focus is on philosophical topics—ethics, metaethics, social and political philosophy, and religion. It offers distinctive and original arguments addressing both theory and practical life, sometimes adopting a personal, or Joycean, perspective.
Teacher Self-Care
Teachers give so much. This book is about putting your own oxygen mask on first, with simple, scientific ways to take care of yourself. It provides modern ‘life hacks’ to improve self-care, helping teachers of all levels become more joyful and healthy.
This volume presents papers from the “Methodology and Archaeometry” conference. It covers topics in archaeometry and archaeological methodology, including non-destructive archaeology, artifact analysis, and experimental archaeology, providing new insights and approaches.
Written by a materials engineer for the sculptor, this is a guide to modern materials like steel, plastics, and composites. It covers their strengths, limitations, shaping methods, tools, and safety, using case studies to illustrate processes and costs.
Revolving Around India(s)
This book offers a transnational and gender perspective on contemporary India, exploring tradition, diaspora, and political activism. It analyses cultural texts to reveal discourses of equality, fear, and racism, stimulating studies on India’s future.
Japan’s Military Power
Japan’s leading submariner, Hideki Nakamura, delivers a bestselling insider’s account of the problems facing the Self-Defense Forces. He reveals how legal, political, and operational restrictions dangerously undermine the SDF’s ability to fight and partner with other countries.
The Grenvillites and the British Press
Damned for the Stamp Act which sparked the American Revolution, George Grenville is remembered as one of Britain’s worst prime ministers. This study offers a reappraisal, investigating how he and his followers used the political press to defend a complex vision of empire.
Russia’s leading historians explore the great paradox of 1914-1945: how the desperate desire for peace following World War I could ignite the rise of Hitler and a second, even more devastating, global conflict.
How did the allies of World War II become enemies? This volume unpacks the Cold War (1945-1991), arguing the conflict could have been avoided with pragmatism over ideology. As new rivalries replace old divides, we must be aware of our past to resolve the issues of today.
A World Government in Action
This volume presents a significantly different interpretation of society and international relations. It highlights the route to release the world from its greatest problems, assure the survival of humankind, and germinate life quality and healthcare for all.
In today’s vague and flexible warfare environment, military leaders need to be more versatile, with rapid decision-making capacities. This study explores why high-level commanders must now behave more like diplomats, intellectuals, and academics than ever before.
This book offers insights into the latest research in applied linguistics and language acquisition. For scholars and practitioners, it presents empirical findings from researchers in over 10 countries, reporting on various languages and communities in multilingual contexts.
Swiftian Inspirations
This book analyzes the legacy of Swiftian satire from the Enlightenment to the age of post-truth and Brexit. It explores truth, madness, film adaptations of Gulliver’s Travels, and the politics of language to reveal Swift’s enduring relevance for today’s world.
Neoliberalism, Oligarchy and Politics of the Event
This book shows that today’s oligarchic politics result from the fall of mass movements. The rule is reversed into a cybernetic market where transnational corporations control states, rendering sovereignty an illusion and threatening the very essence of society.
Seeking a Home for Poetry in a Nomadic World
This study explores the trespassing of linguistic borders through poets Joseph Brodsky and Ágnes Lehóczky. In their search for identity, these “nomadic” authors adopt English, confronting the fluid nature of language itself and forging new expressions for our future.
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