Chinese Migration to Brazil
The first book to explore Chinese migration to Brazil. It analyzes the history, identity formation, and transnational nature of these immigrant communities, as well as their economic status and mobility. An invaluable resource for anyone interested in Chinese migration.
W. L. Mackenzie King was Canada’s longest-serving and most unusual prime minister. The keeper of famous personal diaries, he inspired some 24 biographies—a study in extreme contrasts. This is a critical collective history of those works.
Coleridge and Hinduism
The only comprehensive study of Coleridge’s profound ties to Oriental Tales, revealing how Hindu works, especially the Bhagavadgītā, shaped his poetic imagination and his quest for the “One life.”
Albert A. Michelson and his Interferometer
This book reveals the astonishing connection between modern science and one instrument: Michelson’s Interferometer. It led to Einstein’s relativity and quantum mechanics, technologies like GPS and MRI, and the recent detection of gravitational waves from merging black holes.
The worlds of theatre, law, and psychology all deal with the human soul and its contradictions. This book examines six classic Yiddish plays for the first time from a legal and psychoanalytical perspective, shedding new light on the characters’ universal conflicts.
Human psychological skills are our most precious capital. This book analyzes the organization which incubates this capital: the household. It emphasizes positive psychological aspects, exploring how the family fosters the skills necessary for a successful life and career.
Early Football Professionalism in Sheffield
Professional football’s origins are often linked to Lancashire, but this book reveals the true story of its beginnings in Sheffield. This is the first in-depth study of the early importation and payment of players, told through the lives of the individuals involved.
This innovative study corrects persistent misconceptions about Edward S. Curtis, the influential photographer of American Indians. The author argues that Curtis was keenly aware of the major changes Native Americans faced, providing a reappraisal of his monumental work.
This volume probes the blurred line between victim and victimizer in trauma and how novelists represent issues of justice. Critical studies range from Cambodia’s genocide to analyses of AIDS literature, contemporary American literature, and Indigenous writing in Canada.
This book advocates teaching peace through transformative literary works. It offers original poetry, critiques of fiction and film, and an exploration of peace studies to improve academic skills and foster curiosity, solitude, and self-development through writing.
Macedonian Foreign Policy
This book provides an overview of modern Macedonian political history, with a comprehensive analysis of the 1990s events that led to independence. It also determines the role of the political elite and the foreign policy significant to the creation of the young republic.
The Shi’i Islamic Martyrdom Narratives of Imam al-Ḥusayn
Martyrdom narratives (maqtals) are a prominent Islamic literary genre, largely focused on the tragic Battle of Karbala. The first book-length treatment of this genre in English, this text explores its history from the dawn of Islam and requires little background knowledge.
Gender, Sexuality, and Indian Cinema
This volume explores India’s queer space through its presence in film and the digital arena. Essays from multicultural perspectives depict the plurality and complexity of the Indian scenario, fostering mass acceptance of queerness in a rare scholastic endeavour.
This collection examines Japanese popular culture, including manga, music, and film. Multidisciplinary scholars offer fresh perspectives on the cross-cultural influences between Japan and the West, considering how each has, in turn, influenced the other.
A Hindutva Perspective for an Alternative Global Ideology
For 2000 years, four “isms” have dominated the globe: Christianity, Islam, capitalism, and socialism. None curb the ruthless accumulation of power or steer humanity towards sustainable living. This book suggests a new path through Eastern and First Nations philosophies.
The Life and Work of Percy Aldridge Grainger
Creative genius Percy Grainger documented his life to explore how music can uplift humankind. This book is the first to detail his life and music using his own words, unpublished documents, and musical examples in a study that is both accessible and detailed.
The Limits of the Human Species in the Face of Sustainable Development
This book reveals the link between the COVID-19 epidemic and the environmental catastrophe, confirming that human survival depends on radical change. It offers anthropological, religious, and philosophical tools for understanding the present and future of humanity.
Byzantine Settlements of the Negev Desert
This book synthesizes the newest research on the Byzantine Negev Desert (363-640 AD). Using archaeology, historical sources, and UAV surveys, it challenges earlier theories and reveals a cycle of long settlement expansion followed by sudden breakdowns.
Anglican Ritualism in Colonial South Africa
In the mid-19th century, a controversial wave of ritualism swept through Anglicanism. This book introduces its origins and examines how this movement, after a period of robust antagonism, took root and came to characterize the church’s ethos in colonial South Africa.
This book theorizes the bioregional concept as an ecocritical tool for reading literary works. It highlights the interface between nature and culture, using Aboriginal plays to extend ecocriticism beyond prose and sensitize us to place-based cultural nuances.