Making Up
Research in creative writing is not only about the works it produces, but the explorations a creative writer undertakes. Through creative writing, a writer can explore ideas, concepts, and states of mind. This collection shows what this growing field does and more.
Idioms of Ontology
Walt Whitman is a philosophical poet, but this aspect of his work is often neglected. This book throws the Whitmanesque self into a phenomenological context, examining the notion of selfhood against the views of Heidegger, Merleau-Ponty and Levinas.
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.
Mediterráneos
This book analyzes the political, religious, social, and artistic expressions that have flourished and converged in the Mediterranean and Near East, highlighting the scope of this blend of traditions from its earliest stages to the present.
Discourse in Dialogue
This work considers fundamental theological and philosophical perspectives in Catholic-Christian theology. It covers themes like the interrelationship of philosophy and theology, scripture, and Christology. It serves as an introductory text and a guide for deeper reflection.
Life Stories and Sociological Imagination
This book examines music artists Faudel (France) and Adam Tensta (Sweden), revealing how they connect personal struggles to public issues. Their work offers a unique window into how national identity is changing in France, Sweden, and beyond.
“That’s how we do it…we treat them all the same”
With dementia admissions to hospitals rising, this book describes the real experience from the perspectives of patients, carers, and staff. It proposes a model for improving care that is underpinned by a belief in the personhood of staff and patients alike.
This book is relevant to agricultural extension theory and practice. It identifies the background, personal, and environmental factors influencing achievement motivation in the leadership role of extension agents, based on an original study in Iran.
Through interviews with entrepreneurs in post-socialist Europe, this book reveals patterns in business during and after socialism. It challenges the belief that entrepreneurs did not exist under socialism and the idea of post-socialism as its antidote.
Applied Social Sciences
This collection of essays on education covers topics from elementary school to higher education. It will appeal to a wide range of readers, including teachers, researchers, and students, who wish to improve both personally and professionally.
Africa and Beyond
This volume challenges the view that consigns the arts to the periphery of social life. It presents insightful perspectives that ascribe agency to creative products in human development and is highly recommended for specialists and the public at large.
This book analyses Turkey’s economic policies from a dependency perspective, identifying the macroeconomic variables that lead to recurring crises. It proposes an alternative economic policy to develop an independent structure so Turkey can act in her own interests.
Skepticism, Causality and Skepticism about Causality (Volume 10
This volume studies causality and skepticism from medieval to modern philosophy. Essays contrast Aquinas’s idea of a first mover with Hume’s account of successive events, re-evaluating the Aristotelian paradigm against modern science and Cartesian skepticism.
Until now, there has not been a book which examines the syntactic and semantic mechanisms of secondary predication in East Asian languages. Shibagaki’s lucid survey is of great value to those interested in secondary predication, syntax, and semantics.
Ethics and the Philosophy of Culture
Are we to see ethics as a thread in the fabric of human culture, or does it transcend culture? Eleven Wittgenstein scholars explore how ethics is embedded in everyday speech, posing radical questions to the mainstream of philosophy.
The Boundaries of Afghans’ Political Imagination
How does tradition shape Afghan political attitudes? This book explores two concepts of social order: the Pashtunwali tribal code, a “circle” of consensus, and Sufism, a hierarchical “pyramid.” These competing models organize Afghan social and political reality.
This corpus-based study of English and Polish surveying terminology analyzes conceptual differences and indicates translation strategies. It is directed towards terminologists, translators, and specialists seeking equivalents for problematic terms.
Fresche fontanis
Fresche fontanis presents major new research by leading scholars on Scottish culture of the 14th-17th centuries. Essays analyze writers, romances, chronicles, and manuscripts, making a significant contribution to this imaginatively productive period.
A Geography of Horse-Riding
This book explores horse-riding by disabled and non-disabled riders and their horses. It captures moments of horse-human relating, taking the embodied expressions of horses seriously as demonstrative of their individual thoughts and intentions.
Politics of Female Genital Cutting (FGC), Human Rights and the Sierra Leone State
This ethnographic study explores Female Genital Cutting (FGC) within Sierra Leone’s powerful Bondo society. It examines the complex politics and culture sustaining the practice against international condemnation, offering a nuanced view beyond blunt criticism.