The Willow’s Whisper
The Willow’s Whisper brings poets from Irish and Native American communities together. In this collection, mother-earth comes to life, reawakening our senses. Reconnect with the part of you linked to nature and hear a whisper of hope.
Cultural Migrations and Gendered Subjects
This collection explores women’s identities as migrant subjects. The essays examine the female body as a site of violence, fighting stereotypes and analyzing contemporary issues of race and gender through the lens of the colonial past.
Carver Across the Curriculum
Carver Across the Curriculum presents innovative, interdisciplinary approaches to teaching Raymond Carver’s work. Drawing on international scholars, this collection is a guide and inspiration for instructors, offering new insights into his fiction and poetry.
Le biographique n’est pas épuisé : il déborde la biographie. Cet ouvrage propose un état de la réflexion sur le sujet, au croisement des sciences sociales et de la littérature, au point de rencontre entre science et fiction.
To Define and Inform
This path-breaking study advances a radical argument about how learner’s dictionaries are used and should be improved. Supported by comparative research with learners of English, it makes a vital contribution to lexicographical theory and practice.
This book affords an in-depth history of Arizona from the Paleographical era up until Statehood. The book examines the early roots of the indigenous people, together with contemporary accounts of early settlers.
Daniel-François-Esprit Auber
The product of one of musical history’s most successful partnerships, Auber and Scribe’s opéra-comique Fra Diavolo is a masterpiece of thrilling plot and brilliant music. Based on a real Italian bandit, it is Auber’s most enduring opera.
This history of New Mexico covers early Pueblo societies, Spanish incursions, and the fortitude of indigenous people as they faced conquistadors and American “Frontier” soldiers.
Rethinking the Racial Moment
This collection of essays re-energises the debate on race by focusing on its intersections with colonialism. It shifts our historical understanding, offering invigorating new approaches to cultural encounters via the interpretive frame of ‘the moment.’
The unifying factor of these essays is ambiguity. The volume explores this essential feature of the postmodern age—its definition, purpose, and historical use by writers—and its appearance not only in literature, but in wider social issues.
Armenia has long been a cultural bridge in the Southern Caucasus. While preserving its unique identity, it has been shaped by its neighbors. This volume offers an interdisciplinary view of the linguistic and cultural properties Armenians share with them.
This book challenges contemporary phenomenology’s denegation of Being. It provides a fruitful alternative through a reassessment of Edith Stein’s ontology, considering Being in Steinian terms of support and safety to overcome this critical impasse.
Judicial Activism in Bangladesh
This book reframes judicial activism as a balance between over-assertion and passivity. With particular reference to Bangladesh, it reveals judicial under-activism and argues that pragmatic intervention is critical for good governance and social justice.
Italian Women and Autobiography
These essays examine identity and ideology in Italian female autobiography from the Fascist era to our time. The collection explores how women writers challenge gender roles and traditional boundaries, experimenting with new forms of self-representation.
This comprehensive study of Byron’s eclectic attitude to religion concludes he was never the atheist of cliché, but a man whose profound need for a faith always clashed with an equally profound scepticism.
Names play pivotal roles in unlocking early Christianity, revealing theological positions and triggering the suggestion of a nameless god. This book is a primer for those who value objective observation over orthodoxy, offering a fresh, positive view of agnostic thought.
This book presents research on knowledge and language in Middle Eastern societies, examining their role in politics, conflict, identity, and religion. Spanning diverse languages, faiths, and periods, these studies highlight the substantial commonalities that unite the region.
Heroes, Monsters and Values
This anthology of essays on 1970s sci-fi films from Alien to Zardoz explores what it means to be human. Challenging our ideas on heroism, technology, and morality, this is an enlightening work for science fiction and film enthusiasts.
A practical introduction to discourse analysis for undergraduates or any reader interested in how texts function. This book offers theoretical concepts, tools for analysing texts, practical activities, and authentic texts to develop critical thinking skills.
Stepney
A vivid history of Stepney, an iconic East End borough. From the murders of Jack the Ripper and the Blitz to the Battle of Cable Street, this ground-breaking book charts the rise and fall of the docks, waves of immigration, and the struggles of its people.