Jane Austen’s Emma
Combining an academic’s knowledge with a fan’s enthusiasm, this chapter-by-chapter companion to Jane Austen’s Emma offers lucid and surprising interpretations that will illuminate the novel for first-time and experienced readers alike.
Florida Studies
A journey through Florida’s literary and cultural soul. From its storied past to its complex present, these essays reveal a unique sense of place, locating the state within the heart of American political and literary tradition.
Guardians or Oppressors
This book analyzes why militaries in the Middle East and Mediterranean seek a guardianship role and how they react to democratization. It provides a multi-faceted understanding of complex civil-military relations in one of the world’s most unstable regions.
Between the 16th and 19th centuries, towns in Europe and East Asia helped shape individual consciousness. These essays explore how personal writings placed individuals into urban histories, challenging the idea that individualism emerged only in European society.
Beyond Public Engagement
University collections are central to producing knowledge and engaging the public. However, their complexity encompasses a diversity of other issues. This volume discusses the problems, challenges, and opportunities of academic heritage beyond public engagement.
Continental Shifts, Shifts in Perception
A major contribution to the burgeoning subject of African-European Studies as a field of academia, this collection discusses themes ranging from literature and film to urban studies, exile, sport and the experience of African diasporas, adopting a pan-European lens.
Sustainable Development in Mechanical Engineering
Engineers have a responsibility to safeguard the public’s environment, health, and safety. This book proposes sixteen practical cases integrating mechanical engineering with environmental, health, and safety risk management to transfer this essential knowledge.
Survival of the Fittest
This book analyzes sound weakening in Spanish and English, arguing that language change is evolutionary. It frames lenition as ‘natural selection’: a universal tendency for sounds to fade and give way to stronger segments.
Resilience Under Siege
This anthology explores the challenges and solutions experienced within Zimbabwe’s economic and social spheres, with particular reference to the “crisis years” (2000-2008) and the “promising turn” (2009-2012), analysing how individuals and institutions responded to the crisis.
Language Contact
This volume discusses theoretical and methodological models of language contact, focusing on mobility and borders. It explores the social effects of migration on multilingualism, and the relation between language, culture, and identity from different perspectives.
This work analyzes Nabokov’s prefaces to offer a new perspective on authorship. The author, neither dead nor tyrannical, alternates between authoritative apparition and disappearance, deconstructing the myth of Nabokov’s arrogance to unearth his vulnerability.
Questions about the roles teachers’ religious beliefs play in their professional activities have been largely excluded from academic conversations in TESOL. However, Baurain shows here that faith and professional practices can, and do, interact and interrelate in various ways.
40 Years are Nothing
The 1973 coups in Uruguay and Chile ushered in a new kind of dictatorship. Through state terror and ideological genocide, they imposed radical neoliberal systems whose brutal legacies continue to shape both nations today.
Exploring Creative Writing
This volume offers a collection of articles based on presentations given in recent years at the annual Great Writing International Creative Writing conference. Creative writers included here are drawn from around the world, including the USA, Australia, Korea, and Finland.
Distinguished scholar Ali A. Mazrui discusses how Islam shapes identity, differentiating Muslims from non-Muslims and each other. These essays provide context for the challenges of modernity and multiculturalism faced by Muslims in light of current upheaval.
Educational Trends
This textbook of articles and essays assists educational professionals with education and cultural awareness. Designed as a supplemental reading aid for university coursework, it is for teachers, administrators, students, and university personnel.
Bush Telegraph
A “bush telegraph” is an informal communication network. The concept describes what this book provides: a discussion of salient points in English language use. Its 20 chapters teach, analyse, and discuss crucial aspects of English writing culture.
This collection of essays focuses on the relevance of Henry James’s work for understanding current problems. Studies explore his influence on modernist and postmodern writers and his connections to visual and new media, revealing continuities between his era and our own.
Global Justice and Consecutive Constructivism
Chung suggests a new approach to the problem of global justice, providing a way of coping with procedural justice at the global level, while also alleviating the problem of structural injustice insofar as it exacerbates procedural injustice.
Art and money are both given symbolic value, turning a simple object into a commodity. These essays examine this complex relationship across different cultures and historical periods, from Renaissance Italy to contemporary Pop Art.
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