The Language of Art and Cultural Heritage
This book provides an up-to-date overview of digital linguistic resources and research methods to design effective communication strategies for art and cultural heritage. It offers innovative tools for curators, translators, researchers, and heritage management professionals.
English Studies in the 21st Century presents recent academic research on literary, cultural, and language studies. This collection challenges dominant perspectives on tradition while exploring contemporary topics like Neo-Victorianism, the Anthropocene, and posthumanism.
Alexandre Dumas as a French Symbol since 1870
The mixed-race author of *The Three Musketeers*, Alexandre Dumas has long been a controversial symbol in France. This collection explores how his legacy became a battleground for a nation grappling with its colonial past, diversity, and its own identity.
This volume explores rewritings of the Robinson Crusoe desert island myth. It offers a unique historical scope, ranging from medieval precursors to modern cinematic adaptations, and analyzes the genre through themes of colonialism, environmentalism, and industrial progress.
Unlocking the persuasive power of Romantic music. While musical rhetoric is often linked to the Baroque, this book reveals how Romantic composers built powerful arguments into their works, shaping our cognitive responses through musical structure.
Encounters in Greek and Irish Literature
Literary experts and novelists explore the relationships between Greek and Irish writing. Through fiction, self-reflective essays, and discussions, this volume considers two literatures at the edges of Europe. Selected works are presented in both Greek and English.
A pioneering comparative study of Halide Edib Adıvar and Lady Augusta Gregory. It explores how these female activists and anti-imperialists challenged British imperialism, using literature to shape their national identities despite their different cultural backgrounds.
Tea in Australia
Before 1950, Australians were the world’s highest per capita tea consumers. This book tells the story of how tea became the national beverage, exploring its trade, marketing, and the evolution of social rituals like afternoon tea. The first comprehensive account of its kind.
Perspectives on Waste from the Social Sciences and Humanities
Our growing waste problem is typically viewed through a technocratic lens. This book offers vital new perspectives from social scientists and humanists, showing how waste is constituted through relationships, politics, and culture—a necessary step to building a circular economy.
This multidisciplinary collection of essays explores the contemporary British environmentalist movement. It analyzes the politics of climate change, youth activism, and the distinction between environmentalism and political ecology. A must-read for students and researchers.
Pieter Codde (1599-1678)
This is the first complete study of the 17th century Dutch painter Pieter Codde. A contemporary of Rembrandt in Golden Age Amsterdam, this book offers a biography, a stylistic study of his work, and a critical oeuvre catalogue, making a significant contribution to art history.
This book examines critical issues in the intellectual disability field, including the workforce crisis, systematic underfunding, and complex regulations. Challenging economic conditions require a re-examination of our commitment to support such individuals.
Intellectual Developments in Greece and China
This book compares the intellectual developments of ancient Greece and China, presenting a new theoretical model to explain their different trajectories. It offers a superior explanation to outdated studies and provides a sophisticated critique of Eurocentric views.
Iconicity in Language
This book covers all aspects of linguistic iconicity—the similarity between a sign’s form and meaning—in spoken and signed languages. It contains 678 entries and over 8,500 examples from 400 languages, for scholars and students of linguistics, typology, and semiotics.
This book illustrates the role of political, economic and social factors in solving the social problems caused by neoliberalism in Russia, India, and South Africa. It details rational strategies to address gaps in socio-economic development and social policy.
This book explores the future of food and its changing definition. Discover the most cutting-edge developments in the food industry, including lab-meat, nano-engineered foods, vertical agriculture, and Marsfoods, along with future technologies and consumption trends.
Forms of Experienced Environments
Going beyond policies focused on control, this book explores our world through ‘environmental forms’. This largely neglected, form-based approach opens a new perspective on the relationships between people, aesthetics, and environments.
Corporations Have Almost as Many Constitutional Rights as Individuals
This book explains how, over 225 years, US Supreme Court decisions have enshrined corporations with constitutional rights, transforming them from individual freedoms to corporate entitlements used to evade government regulations.
This book provides a scientific formula for social justice. Synthesizing the thinking of Darwin and Marx through a new interpretation of Hegelian thought, it details a law of the development of society, using world history, particularly the collapse of the USSR, to verify it.
This book offers a glimpse into Romanian interaction, a style developed at the crossroads of Eastern and Western cultures. Rooted in oral tradition, it paradoxically blends local specifics with imported acts. Through in-depth analyses, it will appeal to researchers of discourse.
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