This collection of essays explores the rhetoric of fiction, showing how authors from Fielding and Austen to Barnes and Ishiguro achieve their effects. It consists of readings that show rhetoric in action—an invitation to the reader to take part in the fun.
This volume’s ten studies analyze Victorian and Neo-Victorian novels. The authors investigate preserved or recycled Victorian themes and discuss how key issues like gender, sexuality, race, and empire are used to update the great tradition for a new age.
In an age of Capitalist cultural crisis, this book studies the relationship between culture and Capitalism to understand the struggle for Socialism—for a society based on a free culture and a free humanity.
This collection of essays on Socialism and Socialist Humanism argues that left-wing ideas are crucial to building a better world.
This trailblazing exploration of Africa’s rich linguistic diversity uniquely combines often-overlooked signed languages with spoken indigenous languages. It offers new perspectives on language preservation, cultural identity, and the lasting spirit of linguistic diversity.
Studies on Karachi
This book, a landmark in scholarship on Karachi, explores the city’s development from a sleepy settlement into a mega-city. It depicts a city that, despite its vibrancy, is afflicted with problems ranging from poor planning to colossal mismanagement.
With increasing demand for Asian languages, this book addresses key issues in teaching Chinese, Russian, Farsi, Japanese, and Malaysian. Contributors from several countries explore future directions in language teaching for the 21st century.
This book provides a profound analysis of creating business entities in Russia. It gives readers an understanding of Russian civil and corporate law, covering the legal system, business organizations, foreign investment, and corporate governance.
Studying at University Level
This book is a companion for entry-level higher education students. Drawing on years of teaching, the authors motivate and build confidence. We make no assumptions, but identify the core academic skills you need to thrive, and show you how to develop them.
This book presents exciting findings on the sources of test score gaps, using powerful DNA-based methods to analyze race, socio-economic status, and ancestry. It also considers the policy question of how these findings should be disseminated to the public.
Studying Language through Literature
This book invites readers to reconsider literary texts for language study. Arguing that literary language is language in its utmost form, it offers insights and suggestions on using fiction, poetry, drama, and translation for your greatest benefit.
Style, Wit and Word-Play
In memory of David Hawkes, pre-eminent translator of The Story of the Stone. This collection of essays by international scholars explores his work and the art of translating Chinese literature into English.
Composed of a series of studies about various trends in stylistics, this compendium serves to bring stylistic analyses closer together, thus demonstrating the potential of stylistics as a research area that can benefit from other disciplines.
Eminent scholars and administrators analyze fiscal federalism, centre-state relations, and decentralization. This collection addresses growing fiscal stress and offers strategies for sustainability for national and sub-national governments in a globalized world.
Sub-regionalism and International River Basins
This book investigates sub-regional integration by comparing the Mekong and Danube river basins in Southeast Asia and Europe. It offers unique insights into these ‘bottom-up’ processes, evaluating similarities and differences based on local interests and expectations.
Sub/versions
An incisive collection of essays exploring subversive texts, with readings of authors such as Kazuo Ishiguro, Neil Gaiman, and Philip Pullman, and filmmakers such as Terry Gilliam and Orson Welles.
Subaltern Vision
This volume offers a stimulating collection of essays on literary representations of subaltern issues by Indian novelists such as Amitav Ghosh, Mahasweta Devi, Kiran Desai, and Rohinton Mistry. Essential reading on the gap between India’s haves and have-nots.
From zoot-suiters to punks and clubbers, style-based subcultures have defined our cultural landscape by blending fashion and music. This book explores their historical and cultural significance, considering global issues of class, gender, identity, and resistance.
Data on gravity reveal a fascinating hidden world, allowing us to “see” under glaciers or beneath desert sands. This book explores subglacial Antarctica, Saharan paleolakes, and ocean-bottom craters, and analyses gravity fields to help find oil and gas with higher probability.
Subject to Reading
Recasting Lacanian psychoanalysis and Freirean literacy as an education in responsible subjecthood, this book intervenes against the global double bind of fanatical certainty and capitalist abstraction to forge a new political theology.
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