This book traces the history of Chinese technical communication, exploring the philosophical traditions and classical texts that shaped it. Discover how these historical roots continue to influence contemporary practice and gain compelling perspectives on the field.
The Naxos Papers, Volume I
This volume synthesizes modern linguistics and traditional scholarship for the study of historical English. It presents studies on Old and Middle English, casting doubt on old antagonisms and making the subject accessible to scholars and students of both backgrounds.
Three German Women
The lives of three intellectual women—a mathematician, a journalist, and an art historian—serve as mirrors to the tumultuous 20th century. Their stories tell of the hardships, struggles, and victories of women whose achievements were overlooked amid the trauma of Nazism.
Waymarking Italy’s Influence on the American Environmental Imagination While on Pilgrimage to Assisi
A 200-kilometre walk from La Verna to Assisi becomes a “deep-travel” journey into Italy’s influence on environmental thought. This study shows how traversing texts and trails reveals the debt owed to the Italian landscape in how we conceive of the natural world.
Verb and Object Order in the History of English
This study tackles the long-debated question of Verb-Object order in English history. Combining linguistic theory with analysis of Old and Middle English syntax, information structure, and prosody, it sheds new light on language change for scholars, students, and linguists.
Cinema and Intermediality (Second, Enlarged Edition)
This ground-breaking book explores the relationship between cinema and other arts. Through case studies of films by auteurs like Hitchcock, Antonioni, Godard, and Varda, it clarifies key ideas of intermediality and offers insightful analyses. Revised and enlarged edition.
Revisiting European Security
The EU faces multiple crises, challenging its rule-based order. Can it still act as a normative international power? This volume re-examines the EU’s influence and values, focusing on its migration policies and its role in neighboring regions, Africa, and China.
Peripheral Europe
This book connects the EU’s mismanagement of the financial and refugee crises to the integration of the post-socialist East. By turning Europe’s social contract into a cultural one, this process has betrayed core democratic values, both East and West.
This book explains how language works, introducing the science of linguistics. Using real-world examples, it discusses linguistic issues scientifically by considering findings from research studies, allowing the reader to understand how they are embedded in real contexts.
Nat Turner in Black and White
This book reveals how writers imagine cautionary Nat Turner-tales, making him a misunderstood and polarizing figure. By locating the Turner Insurrection within historical race trauma, writers expose the lasting impact of slavery and frame rebellion as heroic.
This illustrated book uses cultural studies to analyze the significance of blue jeans, handbags, wrestling, Donald Duck, and other aspects of American pop culture. Written in a lively, accessible style, it is ideal for students and the general reader alike.
Based on 45 years of experience, this book reveals how drugs that inhibit gastric acid lead to a predisposition to gastric cancer. It provides evidence of the pharmaceutical industry’s influence and highlights the danger of ignoring gastric acidity’s role in preventing microbes.
A vital guide for higher education administrators and international students. It blends empirical findings, personal experiences, and cultural insights to enhance global learning and cross-cultural understanding.
These thirteen short stories from great writers help us see the world in new, exciting ways. The book integrates literary competence, communicative competence, and critical thinking skills, equipping the reader to read, write, and communicate more effectively.
Christianity and Islam
Challenging the belief that Christians and Muslims worship the same God, this book shows how the two faiths radically disagree. They present contradictory views on the nature of God, the divinity of Jesus, the crucifixion, human nature, sin, and scripture.
Artists are collaborating with scientists and communities to encourage pro-environmental behavior. This book unites 28 contributors to examine the vital role of the arts in provoking change and making connections to ecology, science, and Indigenous culture.
Death by Appointment
Written by doctors with extensive experience in hands-on medical care, this book examines the controversial issue of ‘assisted dying’. While not neutral—they are unconvinced the law needs change—the authors use an evidence-based approach to bring clarity to this complex subject.
Israeli and Palestinian Collective Narratives in Conflict
In the “social laboratory” of Israeli and Palestinian societies, conflicting collective narratives often create obstacles to peace. This book presents a unique approach that transforms these narratives from barriers into powerful tools for promoting reconciliation.
This book shows how market dominance depends on firm choices and the non-price signals they send to consumers. It presents new market power indices to measure a firm’s influence and considers practical policies for regulating apps and misuse of information in cyberspace.
Creative writing is a response to the world. This book shows how writers use language, genre, and technique to explore themes and subjects. Discover how to produce inventive results that improve your own creative writing and critical understanding.