This book analyzes land tenure in Papua New Guinea, arguing for replacing the customary system with private individual ownership. It demonstrates the economic advantages of this change and provides answers to cultural, social, and philosophical objections.
Undisciplined Animals
Undisciplined Animals is not a textbook, but a collection of invitations to animal studies. Addressed to emerging scholars, these confessions reveal how unruly animals can vitalize work, transgressing borders between the academic and the personal.
T. S. Eliot greatly enhanced Dante’s profound influence on European literature. The essays in this volume explore what Eliot made of Dante, assessing modernism’s legacy by engaging its roots and covering topics from Eliot’s poetics to European unity.
A Glasgow Voice
This book examines how leading Scottish author James Kelman presents a spoken Glasgow working-class voice in his literature. It analyzes his key textual strategies, showing how he breaks the traditional distinction between speech and writing.
Historical Representation and the Postcolonial Imaginary
This work provides an overview of oral history’s role in empowering marginalized social groups, like the Irish Travellers and Australian Aborigines. It explores how oral history enables such groups to document pasts that were previously ignored.
Bonds and Borders
This collection of essays explores bonds and borders in literature, from colonial times to post-9/11 narratives. Trespassing boundaries to create new ideas, these essays dissect, subvert, and challenge our understandings of identity in an international society.
Irish Childhoods
This book explores how contemporary Irish children’s fiction engages with the past. It reveals how constructions of childhood in novels and films are used to explore complex questions of Irish history, culture, and identity.
Islam in its International Context
Changing attitudes to Islam influence political cultures and national identities. This volume offers in-depth, multi-nation perspectives from Europe, the USA and the Middle East, addressing issues from Muslim radicalism to Islamophobia and Islamic art.
A Cognitive Approach to Adverbial Subordination in European Portuguese
This book challenges the traditional structural analysis of Portuguese adverbial clauses. It argues that the choice between infinitive and finite verb forms is not merely structural, but evokes different meanings determined by context and conceptual content.
The Management of Intercultural Academic Interaction
This book examines how six Japanese exchange students manage intercultural academic interaction at an Australian university. It analyzes the impact of program structures and provides insights on how universities can better support students’ transition between cultures.
Academic Apartheid
A silent majority speaks out. Academic Apartheid is a collection of poignant international essays uncovering the challenges of working on the borders of the ivory tower without job security, adequate wages, or health benefits.
New Social Movements, Class, and the Environment
This history of Greenpeace Canada explores its troubled relationship with the working class. Through its actions against sealing, forestry, and its own workers, it illustrates the historic obstacles to a common labour and environmental agenda.
This book offers practical advice for translators, combining linguistics and natural sciences to address mistranslated nature terminology. It helps find suitable equivalents and shows when overspecification or domestication is justified and when it becomes an error.
For Arguments’ Sake
How can human beings be persuaded by language? This book explores persuasive rhetoric, suggesting that evaluative language plays a crucial role. It analyzes speeches by celebrated rhetors like Malcolm X, Martin Luther King, Barack Obama, and Winston Churchill.
Songs at Twilight
A visually impaired author and thirty contributors explore their experiences of living with a visual impairment and its effect on their identity. Through collaborative narrative, they challenge sighted assumptions about blindness.
Daniel-François-Esprit Auber
19th-century French composer Auber and librettist Scribe formed one of musical history’s most successful partnerships. Their opera *Manon Lescaut* features a unique final scene: a powerfully expressive dramatic symphony of simple grandeur and real emotion.
Daniel-François-Esprit Auber
Auber’s grand opera La Muette de Portici is a key work in operatic history. Set against the 1647 revolt in Naples, its revolutionary tale was so potent that a performance in Brussels on 25 August 1830 sparked the uprising for Belgian independence.
Primogeniture and Entail in England
This book examines the history and literary representation of primogeniture, the English custom making the eldest son sole heir. Denounced as unjust yet fiercely defended, it dominated social life for centuries, sparking a major ideological debate.
Out of the Burning House
A Marxist historian and a behaviourist psychologist revisit their university days, exploring the overlooked social forces that shaped a generation: Scientific Humanism, The New Left, and precursors of the Women’s Liberation Movement.
Jung on Synchronicity and Yijing
Jung’s archetypal theory illuminates the Yijing, defining the experience of the divine as an unconscious process. Yet this Western view, rooted in Plato and Kant, clashes with Yijing cosmology, creating a tension between timeless archetypes and subjective experience.