Another Black Like Me
This book presents notable scenes from the long history of Blacks in Latin America. It provides a glimpse into their complex struggle to belong in societies where the definition of blackness was flexible, yet full recognition of their rights was denied.
Following the Animal
Following the Animal analyses human-animal transformations in modern Nordic literature. It provides insights into the human-animal relationship and offers scholars a transferable strategy for approaching texts from a human-animal studies perspective.
Christine Brooke-Rose
Experimental writer Christine Brooke-Rose puzzled critics with her fractal identity. This book settles the ambiguities of her work, charting the chameleonic features of her highly experimental novels and their unifying intertextual web.
Departing from Tradition
This book showcases some of the ongoing innovations in the rapidly growing field of English Language Teaching, offering insights into the tremendous changes occurring in secondary and university English language classrooms across Asia.
The thirteen contributions here bring together insights into transnational migration and family issues, offering a renewed theoretical approach to the differing conditions in migration access in origin societies and the scope of social inclusion in the receiving countries.
This volume brings together, for the first time, essays authored by the influential British existential philosopher Colin Wilson on seventeen other philosophers from across the globe, including some of those he met personally to discuss their ideas.
Uses and Abuses of Culture
This monograph investigates the impact of the European crisis on perceptions of Greek identity and cultural memory, focusing on the contradictions between intrinsic components of Greek cultural and national identities and the country’s adopted European identity.
The Foreignness of Foreigners
This collection examines Britain’s encounters with the Other through literature, art, and politics. It explores how figures of the foreigner were imagined and fabricated, revealing the crucial role Otherness played in fashioning Britain’s national identity.
A Serious Genre
This anthology assembles an international team of by scholars and academics to investigate the value and impact of what, since the 19th century, has been called children’s literature from a number of perspectives, including classical Victorian children’s books.
Conceptualizing our Interpersonal Impressions
Psychoanalysis is rich in theory but poor in evidence. This book breaks the mold, clarifying a 70-year-old problem with the first scientific evidence of psychoanalytic phenomena in everyday life—not from the analyst’s couch.
Troubled Legacies
What is being passed on? These essays explore heritage in American minority literatures. From the trauma of the past to new conceptions of ethnicity based on fluidity and performativity, these works question a “post-racial” society and ask: who shall inherit America?
Game-Based Learning and the Power of Play
This edited volume explores the application, potential and challenges of game-based learning and gamification across multiple disciplines and sectors, and provides comprehensive insights into the potential of games for facilitating learning and engagement at every life stage.
This collection addresses the multi-dimensionality of modern moral philosophy. It analyzes agency through historical figures and contemporary issues like oppression and debt, exploring moral reasoning, emotion, responsibility, and what constitutes a moral agent.
Learning Across Borders
Given the growing numbers of students in cross-border spaces, educators have had to revise their curricula and pedagogical approaches. This edited collection contributes to the body of research in international education by examining globalisation’s impact on higher education.
Gender and Work
Given growing scholarly interest in efforts to advance women’s work, this collection explores current research on gendered work environments and all the nuanced meanings of “work” in the context of feminism and gender equality.
Strategic Regions in 21st Century Power Politics
In a world of resource wars and global power shifts, geography still matters. This book addresses the geopolitical “great game” in East and South-East Asia, focusing on the intensifying rivalry between China and the United States in this unstable region.
Out of the London fog, a mysterious stranger seeks lodging, but a horrifying secret lurks behind his gentlemanly façade. Can Mrs Bunting uncover his true nature and avert disaster? This thriller was the first novelization of the “Jack the Ripper” murders.
This book explains the philosophies behind the global trend in riba-free (interest-free) banking. It covers the fundamentals, financial models, risk management, and international institutions related to this system, recognised as “Islamic banking”.
The Future of Italian Teaching
This volume of essays brings together innovative approaches to teaching Italian language, literature, culture and the arts. Featuring diverse perspectives, it proposes language as a tool for social mobility and incorporates trends like social media and technology.
Who is What and What is Who
This book offers an in-depth, micro-parametric analysis of wh-question formation in modern Arabic dialects. The approach is based on the morphology-syntax and syntax-phonology interfaces, placing findings in the context of Universal Grammar.
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