Narratives of the Therapeutic Encounter
Exploring a vibrant, unexplored corpus, these essays analyze depictions of talking therapy in French literature. Combining psychoanalytic and fictional texts, the volume focuses on the creative potentials and ethical dilemmas that arise in the therapeutic encounter.
An Existentialist Theory of the Human Spirit (Volume 1)
Uncover the links between existentialist thought, sexuality, religion, and art. From Freud and Jung to the tragic genius of van Gogh, this study confronts absurdity and existence, offering a bold new theory of personality.
An Existentialist Theory of the Human Spirit (Volume 2)
From sexuality and religion to quantum physics, this volume traces existentialism’s vast influence. It explores global mysticism, the minds of outcasts like van Gogh and Artaud, and the profound link between the absurd and the cosmos.
This book validates the language in sitcoms and dramas for teaching pragmatics in English. Through transcript analysis of speech acts, politeness, and interactional patterns, it offers results to confirm the usefulness of audiovisual input for developing classroom activities.
A New Approach to Mindfulness
This innovative book uses 100 short stories to approach mindfulness. The stories encourage you to examine your life as you ascend from the ‘Base Camp’ of self-awareness to the ‘Summit’ of new personal and collective understanding.
This unique book unravels the authority and limitations of coast guards in maritime law enforcement. Based on the author’s experience as a Commissioner General, it provides practical insights by examining international law, comparative studies, and key cases.
Insights into Sufism
This book considers a broad range of questions on Sufism, from its history and poetry to its impact on daily life. It challenges the long-held view of Sufism as necessarily peaceful, through a consideration of Sufis engaging in violent Jihad.
The Mysterious and Obvious in American Diplomacy
This book analyses how the Monroe Doctrine established a US policy of interference and preventive strikes. It proves this doctrine remains the basis for American diplomacy, a tool of domination used by presidents from Monroe to Trump.
Essays in Honour of Boris Berić’s Sixty-Fifth Birthday
This collection of essays offers contemporary approaches to literature and linguistics. Exploring genres from fantasy to film, it addresses issues like posthumanism, gender, and identity, making it a valuable resource for students, teachers, and researchers.
Radical Identity Politics
This book argues that radical leftist identity politics organizes arguments around friend/enemy schemes, sacrificing core values and undermining democracy. It proposes a more fruitful approach based on Foucault’s and Rawls’s analyses of free speech and public reason.
Understanding Institutionalized Education
This book opposes defining schools solely by their effectivity. It defends the school as a place that enables young people to become sociable and as a place of self-education, stressing the importance of teachers and curricula for creating social cohesion.
As modern life creates new health challenges, scientific research reveals the benefits of forests. This collection highlights up-to-date findings on the beneficial effects of forests on human health, providing evidence that can be implemented in practice and policy.
A Discourse Perspective on Bunreacht na hÉireann
This book takes a new discourse perspective on the Constitution of Ireland. It explores the charter’s impact on the country’s public sphere, examining how it has been argued by the Irish press and judiciary since its enactment.
Moving Pictures
This book argues that the most illuminating perspective for studying movies is ‘play’. Moving pictures were a major ludenic innovation, becoming a source of human knowledge and an important medium of not only popular entertainment, but also popular enlightenment.
Secret Services, 1918-1939
This book examines the secret services and police of Britain, Russia, and Germany in the interwar years. It compares the development of Britain’s “Gentleman’s Club” MI5 and MI6 to the German Gestapo and the Soviet NKVD, shaped by the emerging signals of another World War.
Literature and the Arts since the 1960s
This collection of essays explores the imaginative wake of the rebellious late 1960s. Focusing on the awakening moment of May 1968, it discusses the impact of the era’s challenges to power and its rich consequences for literature and the arts.
This textbook provides detailed insights into costing methodology for practical application. It fosters critical thinking and highlights traditional and current practices using real examples from the service industry to help you understand relevant costs.
PhotographyDigitalPainting
This anthology explores the connections between photography, the digital, and painting in contemporary art. Renowned artists, academics, and theorists investigate medium-fluidity through essays on AI generation, hyperreal photography, and art that synthesises the three mediums.
The Luo People in South Sudan
Drawing on oral history and literature, this work explores the kinships, lineages, and identity of Luo ethnic groups. It reaffirms their history and migration path, aiming to evoke intellectual curiosity and inspire further research into their ways of life and contributions.
Language through Translation
This book reveals how fantasy characterization is created in an original text and distorted in its Chinese translation. Based on a linguistic analysis of translation shifts, it offers crucial insights for creative writing, translation studies, and critical discourse analysis.
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