In dialogue with Plato, Hegel, and Marx, this book forges a 21st communism based on the dance with death—a politics of mortality, responsibility, and love.
Virgo to Virago
Virgo to Virago offers a study of the formidable Medea in the Silver Age. Examining her portrayal in Ovid, Seneca, and Valerius Flaccus, it explores whether this mighty female character has any claim to sympathy or admiration in these texts.
Language Arts in Asia
This book explores Language Arts as an English-teaching paradigm, focusing on its recent adoption in Asian contexts. Its chapters explore current topics like multiliteracies and critical thinking, strengthening theoretical foundations for teachers and scholars.
Intercultural Communication Competence
Leading international scholars map out a comprehensive, up-to-date picture of intercultural communication competence. This book adopts an interdisciplinary approach and is a useful source for educators, researchers, students, and professionals.
Musical Islands
Islands are imagined as unique places where unexpected treasures can be found. This collection applies this powerful metaphor to musicology, showcasing innovative research from Australia and New Zealand in both established and uncharted territories.
Exploring Turkish Cultures
This groundbreaking collection offers new insights into Turkish cultures, moving beyond traditional binaries. It features the first major interviews in English with prominent actors, directors, and critics, alongside essays on Turkish film and theatre.
Sovereignty and Justice
The ICC’s legitimacy rests on complementing, not violating, national sovereignty. For this to work, states must ensure their trials meet international standards, with support from the ICC and the global community. This book offers recommendations to succeed.
British Music and the French Revolution investigates the little-studied repertoire of concert and theatrical music created in Britain between 1789–1795. It explores how a spirit of patriotism, political turmoil, and war inspired an outpouring of music.
From Eastern Partnership to the Association
This book analyzes the legal and political dimensions of the EU’s Eastern Partnership policy. It provides an in-depth analysis of Association Agreements with states like Ukraine, examining human rights, the rule of law, and their geopolitical significance.
Africa Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow
Authored by emerging African scholars, this book challenges Western notions of ‘progress’ and the view of Africa as a basket case. It rethinks predominant ideas on development, examining the challenges and possibilities of Africa’s sustainable future.
New Directions in Language Acquisition
This volume presents new articles on the acquisition of Romance languages. Under a generative umbrella, it investigates first, second, and bilingual acquisition, as well as attrition, to advance our understanding of how languages are acquired.
Dramatic Interactions
A collection of essays on teaching foreign languages, literatures, and cultures through theater. With innovative approaches and rich examples, this book affirms the effectiveness of using drama to improve communication, intercultural competence, and self-expression.
Straddling various genres, this collection offers an investigation of the conflicting relationship between identity and borders in the contemporary globalized world.
Ludwig Minkus, Don Quixote
Minkus & Petipa’s Don Quixote is one of the most enduring creations of 19th-century Russian ballet. Based on Cervantes’s novel, it tells the love story of Kitri and Basilio with musical buoyancy and melodic verve that have made it a global favorite.
This book analyzes Central Asian economies in transition, covering their economic and political challenges, integration into the global world, international trade, and the energy sector. It offers a comprehensive picture for academics, politicians, and business leaders.
Business Strategies for Economies in Transition
This collection of papers describes business strategies for economies in transition. While focusing on Central and Eastern Europe, the material is relevant to other developing economies facing major change, as many of the problems addressed are universal.
Discourses on Immigration in Times of Economic Crisis
This book examines the discursive and visual elements that reproduce ethnic and racial prejudices in press discourse on immigration, particularly in times of economic crisis when immigrants are often framed as a “people-problem”.
North American Indian Medicine Powers
This book challenges the notion that American Indian medicine powers are mere superstition. Utilizing a recent discovery in quantum mechanics, it explains shamanic ceremony, arguing there is now more evidence to assume these powers are real than to assume they are not.
An Anthology of French and Francophone Singers, from A to Z, 2nd Edition
This richly illustrated mini-dictionary offers portraits of the greatest singers of the French language. Discover how classic and contemporary artists have constructed the musical landscape, influenced the French language, and nourished our collective imagination.
This book presents a soft-sensing technique using spectral data to assess difficult-to-measure process parameters. It’s a practical guide for researchers, engineers, and students who need a modelling method for small sample data to solve real-world control challenges.
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