Giacomo Meyerbeer
ARSC Awards for Excellence, 2014. This discography of Giacomo Meyerbeer’s works (1889-1955) testifies to the composer’s once-universal fame. It lists nearly 2000 artists, including legends from the Golden Age of Song, who recorded his music.
This volume explores space as a construct of human activity. Essays cover topics from literature and film to cultural memory and cyberspace, outlining the shifts concerning existence and identity in continuously changing, transitory, in-between spaces.
Everyday Feminist Research Praxis
This volume explores the everyday as a site of micro-political power struggles. By connecting theory with feminist research practice, contributors show how to disentangle daily routines, scrutinize entrenched power relations, and energize new forms of recognition.
The Archbishops of Cyprus in the Modern Age
Cypriot archbishops have long wielded political power. Most remember the nationalist politician and first President, Archbishop Makarios III. But were they all like him? This unique study explores the role of the archbishop-ethnarch.
Conversion in English
This book proposes that conversion in English is a semantic process driven by conceptual mappings. It questions previous interpretations that mistake the effect of conversion for its cause and helps settle long-standing debates on its directionality and productivity.
This compilation of essays examines the nexus between artists, their art, and society. Through a diverse group of artists, it explores important issues like the representation of the Other and the construction of the self, offering fascinating insights.
Periphrasis, Replacement and Renewal
This volume blends synchronic theory and diachronic investigations, offering novel insights on the evolution of English and solutions to persistent analytical problems. It will appeal to linguists interested in language change and grammatical theory.
Global Democracy and Human Self-Transcendence
By examining the dynamics of self-transcendence for both individuals and humanity as a whole, this study illuminates the definitive relationship between self-transcendence and global democracy, describing our transition from personal consciousness to global consciousness.
Mnemosyne and Mars
Explore the enduring cultural legacy of war through its powerful representation in literature, film, theatre, and music.
Bell methodically assesses fear as an emergent property and explores the main principles which lie behind the manifestation of fear. He shows how fear can be contained, how new social forms can arise and how new behaviours and social qualities can mitigate Formations of Terror.
How do organizations learn to face the challenges of our turbulent age? This book dispels uncertainties and provides a better understanding of organisational learning, knowledge, and capabilities, focusing on practice, knowledge transfer, and ambidexterity.
Postfeminist Discourse in Shakespeare’s The Tempest and Warner’s Indigo
A comparative study of Shakespeare’s The Tempest and Marina Warner’s rewriting, Indigo. Focusing on femininity and the other, this analysis explores ambivalence, liminality, and plurality in postfeminist and post-colonial contexts.
The African Human Rights Judicial System
This book examines two forgotten realities of African constitutionalism: the state power to create international courts and the role they play, focusing on the African Court on Human and Peoples’ Rights and its landmark merger.
This collection of essays explores how New Yorkers sought meaning in the 9/11 attacks a decade on. Contributors contest the dominant narrative to focus on local experiences of memory, recovery, and rebuilding, and the challenge of representing the event.
Place as Material Culture
This book explores the relationships between place, materiality, time, and ritual. It challenges traditional norms that have trivialized landscape archaeology by exploring the symbolic meanings and human emotion bound-up in place.
Europe as a Multiple Modernity
Challenging predominant modernity theory, this book argues Europe is a multiple modernity. Essays explore the plurality of religious identities and belonging in the everyday lives of individuals, focusing on their multiple senses of identification.
Networks of Global Governance
This book analyses the relationship between the United Nations and European integration from 1945 to the present. It describes how the dynamic evolved: from UN bodies shaping the integration process to the EU impacting the UN, to today’s complex partnership.
Shakespeare’s Ghosts Live
This book throws new light on many historical case reports from Shakespeare’s time onwards. It raises awareness against the emptiness of a zombie-like existence in today’s society and offers a new approach to life and death, and their deeper meaning.
Relevance Theory
This volume covers topics central to pragmatic research: politeness, communication, metaphor, and humour. Alongside innovative theoretical proposals, it offers interesting analyses and discussions.
This volume discusses the assessment of Second Language Learners with Specific Language Learning Disorders and other disabilities. It explores theoretical models, evaluates accommodation practices, and fills a crucial gap for researchers and professionals.
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