The Noun Phrase and the Generative Lexicon
This study delves into how the semantics of words influence the syntax of the noun phrase, using the generative lexicon. The result is a bold proposal for a comprehensive grammar—a useful tool for linguists, applicable to any language.
Embark on a journey into the future of nutrition. This book explores the remarkable potential of millets as the cornerstone of tomorrow’s diet. Discover their role as functional foods, ensuring nutritional security and shaping a healthier, more sustainable future for us all.
The Nuts and Bolts of Arabic-English Translation
This book contrasts Arabic and English beyond traditional grammar, covering stylistics, cohesion, text-typology, and semantics. It develops professional translation competence in students and trainees by providing a wide range of bidirectional practice materials.
The Occidentocentric Fallacy
What is literature? Grbić brings together perspectives from both non-Western cultures and minority cultures within a supposed West, awakening the reader to the fact that, incredibly, literature in its total, all-human realization, is something yet to be discovered.
The Odyssey of Communism
This interdisciplinary volume explores how film has shaped culture and memory. From the Berlin Wall to China, it journeys from the terror of communist prisons to the rosy image of propaganda, arguing that communism, lingering in mentalities, still needs interrogation.
This book explores the roles Nigerian women have played since pre-colonial times in shaping their culture and society. It highlights the effects of patriarchy, colonialism, and industry on women in Africa’s most populous country, making a major contribution to women’s history.
The Waldere fragments reveal the world of migration-era heroes. At its heart, a climactic duel between Walter and Guðhere forces an ethical crisis for Hagen. This new critical edition resolves key textual cruces, unlocking the epic’s power.
The Old World and the New
This biography tells the untold story of two British aristocrats. It details the drama of their personal lives and their rule in colonial India and Australia, examining the decline of an upper class and raising questions of Empire and social mobility.
The Opportunity to Live Well
Traditional success—money, fame, career—won’t provide a good life. So, how can we truly live well? Learn from the lives of Nelson Mandela and others who show that the joyous rewards of living well come from cultivating awareness, passion, empathy, and resilience.
The Oracle of the “tiny finger snap of time”
This unique collection of essays explores the use of time in the novel. Writers analyze novels and one film within specific time cultures, covering concepts from inner, felt, and cosmic time to time running backwards, hinting at the future of the novel.
This book studies how Polish students acquire the English article system. Based on studies of beginner to advanced learners, the results prove that L2 acquisition is better in advanced groups, while less advanced groups have tremendous difficulties.
European fascination with Oriental cultures has found multifaceted manifestations. Music, as an important element of cultural communication, is well suited for such transitions. This collection of essays explores the fascinating influences between Orient and Western music.
The Orient of Europe
Why did German Romantics call Germany “the Orient of Europe”? This book reveals how they used an idealized India as a mirror to forge a national identity based on culture and spirit, not military might, during the Napoleonic Wars.
Öztürk gets to the core of Hardy’s ‘tragic vision’: the destruction of self through the dramatic interplay between character and circumstance. This study brilliantly captures Hardy’s stark statement about life itself, filling the need for newer interpretations.
Bashir Ahmad rescued Indo-Persian miniature painting from the cusp of extinction. This book details his apprenticeship with its last masters, his modernization of the art, and its evolution through his students, including Shahzia Sikander. With color illustrations.
The Origins of the Love Song
This book offers a new perspective on the origins of human sexuality. It reveals that romantic love and exclusive pair-bonds are not our original evolutionary features. Early humans practiced multiple-partner relations until culture restrained their innate sexual nature.
The orphan has turned out to be an extraordinarily versatile literary figure. By juxtaposing diverse fictional representations of orphans, this volume sheds light on the development of cultural concepts such as childhood, family, parental legacy, individualism, and charity.
The Orpheus Myth in Milton’s “L’Allegro”, “Il Penseroso”, and “Lycidas”
This study uncovers the Orpheus myth as the key to Milton’s early poems, triggering their opposing voices and framing the profound journey from innocence to enlightenment.
The Orthodox Hegel
This book assesses the consequences of Hegelian thought for spirituality, showing how the Christian movement is Spirit itself impelling. Capturing absolute idealism for orthodoxy, it develops themes of logic, Trinity, incarnation, and the absolute.
The Other India
This book explores how identities and belonging are constructed in postcolonial India. Examining various texts and movies, it discusses how the nation is plagued by communal politics and terrorism, and offers a cogent alternative for creating solidarity.
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