Transculturality and Perceptions of the Immigrant Other
In our age of globalization, migration sparks passionate debate. These essays use the concept of transculturality to rethink cultural difference, investigating how migration creates not just conflict, but also negotiation, hybrid identities, and new forms of belonging.
Women and Work
The essays in Women and Work explore how nineteenth- and twentieth-century US and British writers represent the work of being women—encompassing not only paid labor but also the work of performing femininity and domesticity.
This book pioneers corpus design for Setswana lexicography, filling a major research gap in African languages. It explores the crucial question of whether linguistic variability from diverse text types is essential for compiling dictionaries.
British Political Parties and National Identity
This book examines party political debates on Britishness under New Labour (1997–2010). It shows how discussions on devolution, multiculturalism, and globalisation led to a new consensus, while the European Union remained a deep, divisive cleavage.
Menotti Lerro is one of the most interesting poets of modern-day Europe. His poetry is concerned with powerful imagery, the vulnerability of the body, memory, and identity. For the first time, Lerro’s verse is available in English.
Back to the Future
This study opens a fascinating window into Israeli writing of the 1980s and 90s. It links the era’s dramatic social and political transformations to the evolution of key literary genres like Holocaust literature, the Mizrachi novel, and detective fiction.
Hunting the Collectors
Who were the collectors behind Australia’s vast Pacific collections? This volume reveals the complex motivations that shaped these remarkable archives of Oceanic art, a vital contribution to the worldwide renaissance of interest in Pacific cultures.
This unique interdisciplinary volume explores the convergence of linguistics, biology, and computation. Using bio-inspired models to approach formal and natural languages, it offers specialists new ideas, tools, and formalisms to advance their work.
Following the Path from Teaching to Research University
Smaller universities are pressured to join the research race, creating stress and faculty resistance. This book explores the shift from a teaching to a research culture, unveiling the characteristics of productive faculty at private institutions.
Late Antiquity (3rd–7th c.) was a first Renaissance, shaping the Western World. This volume combines diverse methodologies, with leading scholars offering a scientific update on new research in history, archaeology, philosophy, and classical studies.
Looking at the Broad Picture
This book is the story of how ten Irish software companies evolved their development processes over the last decade. It discusses specific change-processes, the benefits of each, and suggests developments for the future.
Computer Processing of Sanskrit Nominal Inflections
Based on the reverse engineering of Panini’s Sanskrit Grammar, this work presents studies in computational linguistics and NLP for parsing Sanskrit nominal inflections. Parsing inflections is the first basic step toward complete analysis for any larger system.
In a world of technology and efficiency, what has become of Happiness? Does it still feature in contemporary fiction? This volume explores the paradoxes and changing forms of Happiness in the novel, from the Holocaust to consumerism and postmodernism.
Britain and the Muslim World
This collection of essays by leading scholars provides a comprehensive synthesis of historical relations between Britain and the Muslim World, from the early-modern period to the present, exploring how these past encounters shape our current situation.
Dolls & Clowns & Things
Through the lens of cognition, this work explores the symbolic relationship between self and object. It studies how objects are vehicles through which cognitive processes transform our understanding of Self as an ongoing, imaginative endeavor.
In today’s crime fiction, women are the criminals, not just the victims. The genre forsakes the simple “whodunnit,” instead exploring the lure of violence and leaving a chilling sense of unrest.
Testing the Boundaries
Progressive movements are challenging how we understand the Divine. In Testing the Boundaries, ten scholars explore faith, our image of Self, our relation to the religious Other, and more, testing the boundaries of traditional theology where possibilities gather.
An in-depth history of Texas, from its occupation by Spain, France, and Mexico, through contemporary accounts of battles like the Alamo, to the establishment of Statehood.
Touching Art
This study follows the Tree of Life, a Mozambican sculpture made from decommissioned weapons. It explores how its meaning changed when exhibited in its original context versus the British Museum, challenging curatorial concepts of African art.
This compendium of thought from pre-Civil War America features the “real” story of Davy Crockett, a novelist praised by Edgar Allen Poe, abolitionist singers, and a tale of a man’s return from the Moon. A concise view of the era, from oceanographers to filibusters.