Trauma, Memory and Identity Crisis
This volume shows the impact of trauma on memory and identity, foregrounding the suffering of the marginalised to give them a voice. It shows how victims confront the past to (re)assert their shattered identity and challenge official history by rewriting the past.
The Rise and Fall of Baby Boomers
The baby boomer generation reshaped the world, but now younger generations blame them for damaging the nation and planet. This fact-based, objective history contextualizes this deep generational divide, a key theme in contemporary American culture.
Can God’s existence be proven with logic? A thousand years ago, Anselm said yes, sparking a debate for the ages. This accessible book explores the arguments and their creators, inviting you to examine the evidence and render your own verdict.
This book argues that postmodernist historiographic metafiction is not just self-referential, but hetero-referential. Using Peter Ackroyd’s Chatterton, it shows how texts create their own worlds while referring to an external reality, even if that reality is a human construct.
This work investigates the spectrum of new words connected with the Covid-19 pandemic, from neologisms to new meanings. It offers a multifaceted model of lexical innovation to explain recent developments in English vocabulary and the new terminology of these unprecedented times.
Perspectives on Contemporary Musical Practices
This volume sheds light on the wide range of perspectives on musical activity today. It discusses the changing contexts of 20th-century compositions, offers in-depth musical analysis connected to performance, and considers technology’s influence on musical creation.
This book explores W. B. Yeats’s mystical experience and how it is exemplified in his poetry. It covers his engagement with the occult, Celtic mysticism, and Rosicrucianism, and discusses his automatic writing experience with his wife and his apocalyptic vision.
Art and the Technosphere
This book investigates contemporary art’s new status. From caves to digital simulations, art no longer just represents ideas—it constructs worlds. The question is no longer “what” art is, but how we determine the difference between the aesthetic object and artificial life.
This book explores the works of Aeschylus, Sophocles, Euripides, and Aristophanes. It considers their principal characters, their motivations, and what their legacies mean to us today, revealing the enduring influence of Classical Greek drama on modern culture.
This is the first book to address the root causes of poor working conditions within global supply chains. From a unique survey of nearly 2,000 suppliers, it presents fresh evidence on how purchasing practices impact wages and identifies changes for more sustainable supply chains.
This volume explores Utopia from diverse, contemporary perspectives. From literature to media and philosophy, its interdisciplinary character is a main asset. As leading authority Lyman Towers Sargent states, “Utopia has universal relevance, but the way it is applied… varies.”
Japan is the world’s third-largest economy, yet surprisingly little-known. This book charts its journey from the rapid modernization of the Meiji Period to its postwar “economic miracle,” and reveals how its growth outpaced the West even during the so-called “lost decade.”
This book discusses how the COVID-19 pandemic affected working environments, learning, and personal lives. It considers policy making, workplace changes, and the pandemic’s impact on specific groups such as LGBT individuals, people in romantic relationships, and victims of abuse.
Maurice Moynihan and the Irish State, 1902-1999
He was the elusive civil servant at the heart of the new Irish State. A former Civil War opponent of Éamon de Valera, Maurice Moynihan became his most trusted advisor, writing the 1937 constitution and wielding immense influence over the government he helped create.
Organ Shortage Today
Society can solve an urgent health crisis: the unjust death of patients waiting for an organ. In this book, leading specialists from 10 countries analyze the medical, ethical, and social problems surrounding organ donation and offer proposals to save lives.
This study engages the Afropolitan debate through the literary flâneur—an aimless city wanderer. Analyzing texts set in African and global cities, it addresses issues of belonging and gestures towards new ways of understanding what it means to be an African in the world today.
These essays explore Claire Messud’s fiction and its complex narration of cosmopolitan entanglements. Foci include emigrant identities, 1960s Pop Art, and 9/11 trauma. This collection also provides an interview with the author.
This volume explores the transformative humanities, a vision for transforming cultures, individuals, and society. Through scholarly essays on topics like posthumanism and film studies, it offers new perspectives to innovate and transform the world we live in.
This book explores non-governmental organisations empowering women in Saudi Arabia. Given the unique cultural context, this empowerment follows unconventional paths, revealing the tactics and negotiation processes used by these organizations and by women in their daily lives.
Labor and Writing
This book highlights the act of writing—humanity’s greatest cultural investment. It is the labor we use to record our past and construct our future. The essays within explore writing’s role at the heart of all enterprise, from identifying things to inventing new realities.