This book is the first complete research on opera theatres across the Middle East and North Africa. Examining many previously undocumented institutions, this work provides scholars and practitioners with the first reference on their evolutionary process.
This text evaluates the effects of the economic reform that began in the 1970s on regional development in Jiangsu province in China, using detailed case studies which clarify several fundamental ideological and institutional concepts that have shaped the nation’s economic reform.
The Evolution of Stars
With anecdotes from 60 years’ experience as a research scientist on the world’s largest telescopes, this book exposes what is often glossed over. It details the basis for our knowledge of the universe, warts and all, and offers insights as to where the science is going.
Sasco provides an in-depth analysis of how industrial relations in Italy’s shipbuilding sector have developed over recent years, taking the leading and most well-known Italian shipbuilding company as a case study.
Applying an innovation systems approach, this book offers a sweeping history of South Africa’s economy from 1916 to the post-apartheid era, opening up a novel engagement with the complex phenomenon of apartheid, its genealogy and its aftermath.
The Evolution of the US Healthcare System
Why does the US spend more on healthcare but get less? This book exposes a system built for the opportunistic motives of powerful corporations and politicians, answering how it became so expensive and hard to use, and why this failing system is a threat to national security.
This book explores wildlife crossings in eastern Australia, their vital role in habitat connectivity and species conservation. It presents 57 iconic sites and is an ideal travel companion for anyone interested in Australian wildlife or how these curious structures evolved.
This book details excavations at Sarakenos Cave, Greece’s largest prehistoric inhabited cave. It explores the cultural sequence from Neanderthals around 40,000 years ago to the Bronze Age, reconstructing the ancient environment based on pollen samples.
This book offers a biopolitical analysis of the Harry Potter series. Applying the theories of Foucault, Hardt, and Negri, it reveals how the fantasy world both perpetuates power inequalities and provides a dissident perspective on power relations.
The Existential Foundations of Political Economy
Economic thought is shaped by deep human anxieties, desires, and fears. To understand the political significance of economic theory, this volume excavates the existential commitments that motivated its seminal thinkers, from Smith and Marx to Hayek.
This unique study shows that the history of TEFLers is different from the history of TEFL. Instead of theories, it explores the experience of being a TEFLer through the ages, using novels, plays, and memoirs to meet Victorian governesses, Berlitz teachers, and iconic figures.
The story of Spanish iron workers who migrated to south Wales at the turn of the 20th century. Facing poverty, conflict, and racism, they overcame hurdles to integrate through a new language, rugby, and choir membership, eventually becoming Welsh.
This text brings together papers, on different hidden and implicit aspects of language and the ways of disclosing and explicating them. Language is interpreted in different ways here, as a cognitive ability, a specific semiotic structure interwoven with culture, and a discourse.
The Exploitation of Raw Materials in Prehistory
This collection presents state-of-the-art approaches to the use of inorganic raw materials in the period known as prehistory. It focuses on stone-tools, adornments, colorants and pottery from Europe, America and Africa.
The Eye and the Beholder
Hannelore Hägele examines the colouring of the eye in late medieval and early modern sculpture. She asks how optics, science, and theology determined how eyes were perceived and represented, arguing it is the beholder who judges the worth of any creative effort.
This trenchant and passionate analysis of Greek life addresses the economic collapse, refugee crisis, and bureaucracy. Believing one cannot love Greece without mourning its flaws, the author presents a selection of his columns, including some a newspaper refused to print.
The Fables of Ulrich Bonerius (ca. 1350)
This book provides the first English translation of Ulrich Bonerius’s The Gemstone, a popular 14th-century collection of fables. Through didactic animal tales in the Aesopian tradition, Bonerius instructs his audience on vices and virtues, warning of human shortcomings.
Has 20th-century theory failed us? In a world of resurgent bigotry, this book seeks new phenomenological ways to understand the Other.
This book explores the personal and environmental factors affecting university students’ entrepreneurial intentions. It provides insights for policymakers, educators, and students on developing entrepreneurial knowledge, skills, and career choices.
The Failed Text
The history of literature is not merely a succession of successful works, but also a concatenation of failed projects and unappreciated innovations. These essays explore exemplary failures, arguing that they are as crucial as successes in literary history.
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