Modern challenges cause stress and poor health. This book develops the concept of ‘emotional health’ as a bio-psycho-socio-cultural balance, bridging medical treatments with alternative therapies to highlight new solutions to these problems.
Explore new trends in Internationalisation at Home (IaH) and the internationalised curriculum. This volume features insights from academics and practitioners across diverse fields, including curriculum development, language teaching, and academic support.
This book interrogates how stigma ‘others’ individuals and groups. Focusing on mental health, disability, and transgender politics, it reveals the progressive and regressive aspects of campaigns to challenge stigma, and warns how they can threaten our political freedom.
Jewish Humor
Explore the evolution of Jewish humor from the Bible to today. Tracing its development across Eastern Europe, the US, and Israel, this book reveals how historical experience, survival, and wisdom created a truly unusual sense of humor.
Quine on Ethics
This first comprehensive treatment of Quine’s foray into ethics defends his infamous challenge to ethical theory: the methodological infirmity of ethics compared with science. The book demonstrates that the challenge is not only valid but valuable for reforming ethical reasoning.
Gaps and the Creation of Ideas
This artist’s book is a portrait of the space between things, from neurons to comic-book frames. Juxtaposing quotations and images from hundreds of sources, it explores the gap as a ubiquitous phenomenon that crosses the boundaries of neuroscience, art, and popular culture.
Culture, Crisis and COVID-19
The pandemic is a priceless opportunity for a Great Reset. Can we re-vision capitalism as a life-preserving phenomenon? We must create an economy that serves all stakeholders, not just shareholders. The true mission of business is to serve humanity with higher goals.
This book sheds light on the modernist short story cycle and its pivotal role in depicting place. Modernist writers found this form suitable for capturing a fragmented world through short, interconnected narratives that reflect an ever-changing attitude towards what place means.
Working Women, 1800-2017
This book examines how women have adapted their dual role as carers and breadwinners, from the industrial revolution to the digital age. Drawing on original fieldwork, this volume sheds new light on gender, family, and labour issues across Europe.
Challenges and Initiatives in Refugee Education
When over 50,000 refugees were stranded in an unprepared Greece, this collection of papers presents educational initiatives for teaching them Greek. The studies highlight challenges and argue for innovative, holistic approaches that empower students through the learning process.
100 Years of Conference Interpreting
Born at Versailles in 1919, conference interpreters made modern diplomacy possible. This volume celebrates one century of this exceptional profession, exploring its milestones and future post-pandemic through a candid discussion with practitioners, researchers, and trainers.
Homecoming Trails in Mexican American Cultural History
Critical essays by specialists from Mexico, Germany, and the US reexamine Mexican American cultural history from a 21st-century global perspective. The jargon-free essays explore biography, nationhood, and globalism, from Imperial Spain to modern US influence in Latin America.
For a generation living longer than ever, retirement is uncharted territory. This volume brings together distinguished psychologists to share their personal journeys. Learn from their stories and explore the idea of “retiring to” something, not just “from” it.
Awakening through Literature and Film
This book, using Zen Buddhism and postmodern ethics, guides you beyond the conventional thematic approach. Learn to catch nondual, spiritual feelings while appreciating a given work, ultimately turning the act of reading or watching into a quest for spiritual enlightenment.
Once the leader of the French school of opera, admired by Wagner and Berlioz, Fromental Halévy is now remembered only for La Juive. This study throws light on this shadowy figure, examining his life, his many popular but forgotten operas, and their place in history.
Granting Our Students an Engaging Learning Experience Online
A practical guide for language teachers to successfully develop and deliver online courses. This book offers strategies to engage students, foster collaborative learning, and improve the online experience, sharing the author’s most successful personal techniques.
Safety Essentials for Business and Leisure Travel
This book blends in-depth research on global risk mitigation with unique perspectives on travel safety. It tackles hard issues like kidnapping and contingency planning, incorporating the real-life experiences of an author who survived torture and abduction. Essential reading.
Media Rhetoric
This volume considers how media alters persuasive communication—how we think, argue, and feel. Focusing on advertising and digital media, scholars from around the world demonstrate how persuasive speech is exerted in, through, and by the media in the 21st century.
Performing Memories
Why is the contemporary world haunted by memory? This collection of essays explores the cultural and artistic tensions in representing the past. Scholars analyze how memory is elaborated, contested, and shared through literature, film, technology, and myth.
Once the leader of the French school, composer Fromental Halévy is now a shadowy figure chiefly remembered for his grand tragic opera La Juive, a work exploring freedom, faith, and tolerance. This study illuminates his life and operas, examining each one’s origin and music.