This book compares images of Du Fu from Chinese and Western perspectives by examining famous biographies and research. It explores the differing perceptions of the poet and their causes, while also discussing his representative poems and their various English translations.
Experimental Geographical Ecology
This book on experimental landscape ecology provides statistical models to understand landscape systems. It presents methods for making ecological forecasts, assessing forest sustainability, and estimating carbon cycle regulation according to modern climate change scenarios.
Shakespeare’s Theory of International Relations
In Shakespeare’s romances, art becomes statecraft. The Bard’s plays explore paths to peace, showing how rival nations can resolve diplomatic crises, restore frayed alliances, and achieve universal well-being.
Africana-Melanated Womanism
Through the Africana Womanist lens, this book tackles contemporary societal ills, including generational wealth for Blacks. It speaks truth to Africana women and their families, offering solutions for combatting racial dominance by prioritizing race, class, and gender.
Bringing together renowned scholars, this volume offers a multi-dimensional view of comparative and world literature. It connects disparate research contexts to illuminate the future of literary studies for scholars and readers interested in a cross-culturized world.
Explore diverse perspectives on online and remote language teaching. Drawing on lessons from the COVID-19 pandemic, its findings can be applied across different levels and languages, making it an essential resource for teachers, researchers, and students.
This book explores the relationship between African American males and the police through their own eyes. It reveals this is not a black or white issue, but a global human problem, and is essential for understanding their realities, fears, and concerns.
America’s project to privatize the world’s resources via the dollar is igniting a nationalist backlash. As these forces clash, the entire global system faces a greater, existential threat: climate change.
Intuitive Instructional Speech in Sufism
This book demystifies the Sufi practice of the sohbet—an ad hoc discourse. Approaching it like improvised music, it reveals how these talks provoke prolonged states of raised awareness in listeners and condition their sympathetic nervous system.
This book argues that Paradise Lost contains the traits of early modern novels, and that Milton’s Satan is a novelistic character par excellence. His modern individualism and complexity prove the novel owes an immense, unintentional debt to Milton’s epic.
Narrative Rewritings and Artistic Praxis in Derek Walcott’s Works
This book moves beyond Derek Walcott’s Nobel Prize-winning poetry to reveal his fundamental contribution to Caribbean theatre and art. Examining key works as postcolonial re-writings of European stories, it uncovers the strategies Walcott used to respond to colonial power.
This book reveals how Bede Griffiths’ images for God are relevant for our times. Led by Christ, Griffiths promoted “the marriage of East and West,” the essential value of the feminine, and interreligious dialogue, all grounded in his motto to “always go beyond.”
This book provides new insights into hybrid place-names in England. It uncovers patterns of formation, investigating the Celtic, Anglo-Saxon, Scandinavian, and Norman French layers of toponymy. It will appeal to historians, linguists, and local history enthusiasts.
A History of Earth’s Biota
Our understanding of life’s evolution has been transformed. The fossil record now extends an astonishing sevenfold, and new genetic evidence reveals the co-evolution of plants and animals. This book presents the wondrous tale of how all life is linked, from microbes to man.
Education in Troubled Times
This volume examines how education operates in troubled times. From the COVID-19 pandemic and political manipulation to conflict situations, it explores serious challenges affecting education and suggests ways to overcome them in their respective contexts.
Analysing Media Discourse
Combining theory with interdisciplinary analysis, this study of media discourse enables readers to understand media communication and provides producers with effective instruments to understand the role of media in social life.
Private Bill Legislation in the Nineteenth Century
The creation of canals, railways, and the infrastructure of Victorian Britain was impossible without private Acts of Parliament. How these Acts were promoted and passed has never been systematically analysed—until now. This book explores over 20,000 Acts from 1797 to 1914.
Teachers cannot stop the wars that create refugees, but they can influence how migrant children are accepted in their classrooms. This book presents a unique model of intercultural education, realized through the commitment of teachers, pupils, parents, and the local community.
Joining, Staying in, and Leaving the European Union
This book explores the legal, political, and economic perspectives of a Member State’s “circle of life” in the EU: accession, participation, and potential exit in the form of withdrawal or expulsion.
This book explores the victimization of women in Canadian and Indian fiction. Using feminist literary criticism, it debates issues of gender, feminism, and eco-feminism, showing literature’s power to transform contemporary gender relations.