Twins and Deviance
Cusack draws on nearly one thousand cases and anecdotes about twins bending and breaking rules in order to fulfill or flout tenets of twinhood. She challenges and improves previous research by collecting new topics to retool twins and deviance discussions.
Beyond the Book
This collection explores aspects of children’s literature ‘Beyond the Book’.
From woodcuts to e-books, children’s literature is reinterpreted through illustration, pop-ups, film, and stage adaptations, celebrating the creativity that engages young readers.
This ambitious work reclassifies the history of ideas by proposing a new organon for the cultural sciences. To comprehend our vast knowledge, the organon extracts key principles and shapes them into symbolic forms, providing a new foundation for philosophy.
1812 Echoes
The 1812 Constitution of Cadiz was a defining moment for the Spanish-speaking world. Drafted during wartime, it radically redefined ‘the Spanish nation’, dividing Spaniards and questioning Spain’s legitimacy in her American colonies. This volume explores its legacy.
Social Trust and Life Insurance
This book investigates how incomplete knowledge, social trust and risk perceptions influence acceptance of the risks of insurers using genetic test results. It analyzes the consequences for society and explores the difficulties of managing these risks.
Constitutional Cultures
This volume explores constitutions in the Atlantic World, showing their connectedness. To fully understand a constitutional order, it is necessary to analyse not just the legal text, but its implementation, legitimisation, and especially its culture.
Future Directions in Applied Linguistics
This volume explores the future of applied linguistics, showing global directions through local contexts. The papers cover key issues in language teaching and social practice, examining the influence of globalisation and the use of technology.
This collection examines the performance and transmission of post-traumatic memory in the US. Departing from early trauma theory, contributors analyze fiction, memoirs, and films to explore multidirectional memory, autobiography, national commemoration, and 9/11.
Explore European poetry from Sappho to Isou. Each of these thirty-three verse translations is paired with the original poem and an illuminating essay revealing the translator’s art and process.
This volume explores the interface between ecological integrity as a scientific concept and key issues in ethics, international law, and public health. Leading scholars re-examine these dimensions from the viewpoint of global governance.
Countdown to the Global Financial Crisis
This book traces the pattern of crises in US investment banking to a culture established at the birth of the United States. Exploring the humble beginnings of Lehman Brothers, it offers a cautionary tale of how the mighty have fallen.
Mindfulness and Education
This title contributes to the nascent field of mindfulness in education by exploring practical implementations and theoretical concerns within educational contexts. It captures the diverse approaches to research-linked mindfulness programmes being implemented in education.
International Economic Law
Experts assess the past 20 years of international economic law and forecast its future. This book provides vital insights into how to respond to challenges, reform the WTO, and improve multilateral trading governance for the twenty-first century.
Blest Gana via Machiavelli and Cervantes
Vilches reflects on the work of Chilean author Alberto Blest Gana (1830–1920) through the lens of Machiavelli and Cervantes. She delves into Chile’s emergence as a nation, and illustrates conflicts among the political parties and social classes in the early days of independence.
11th Conference on British and American Studies
This volume includes a selection of papers exploring the complex relationship between language and culture. The contributions cover a wide array of topics, from language acquisition and translation to the cultural construction of meaning and identity in literature and art.
From 1959 to 1973, writers B. S. Johnson and Zulfikar Ghose exchanged letters containing detailed analyses of their work. This correspondence offers personal revelations and provides insight into their lives, conjuring a picture of the London literary world of the 1960s.
Joining Complexity Science and Social Simulation for Innovation Policy
This book investigates how complexity science and social simulation can be used to improve and inform policy-making in both research and innovation, and discusses a research initiative funded by the Irish government focusing on innovation policy simulation for economic recovery.
The First World War
The result of an international conference held in Rome 2014 to mark one hundred years since the beginning of the Great War, this volume uses archival documents from various countries to examine ideological debates and contemporary narratives of the war, and the use of propaganda.
Gathering the theoretical grounds for research in Gestalt therapy, this work introduces useful research methods and presents relevant research projects. It fills a void in an area that requires more information by sharing some of the Gestalt research that is emerging.
States of Decadence
This two-part anthology focuses on the literary and cultural phenomenon of decadence, with particular attention given to literature from the end of the 1800s. It goes beyond literary studies too, drawing on a number of the tropes and themes of decadence in the arts and culture.
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