A Dangerous Report
Dr. Ellens cracks open familiar biblical stories, spilling out fresh, life-changing insights about the radical nature of God’s grace. Ideas that have become cliché flower with refreshing new meanings. Preaching has seldom been this engaging and spiritually empowering.
Crime Over Time
Marrying criminology and history, this book offers a unique examination of crime over 200 years of Australian history. It explores how crime has evolved, from colonial bushranging to cybercrime, revealing the historical factors that shape punishment today.
“Talkin’ Different”
This book explores linguistic change among Irish Travellers, focusing on the influence of the educational system. It analyses whether increased school attendance by young Traveller women influences their speech patterns as a strategy for survival.
This book offers valuable insight into the issues managers contend with and serves as a compendium for emerging business theories. Educators will find it a valued tool to help students embrace the theoretical and develop the applied.
Archaeology presents a paradigm of visualised knowledge. However, vision is a partial and politicised way of apprehending the world. Authors address the problems facing the study of the past as realist modes of representation are increasingly open to question.
Rethinking Kant
The Rethinking Kant series bears witness to the richness of Kantian studies. This unique collection garners papers from a whole generation of thinkers, from new PhDs to established scholars. This third volume takes the pulse of current Kantian scholarship.
This book explores A. S. Byatt’s visual and verbal still lifes. It shows how her rich descriptions celebrate realism, textual pleasure, and sexuality, while also revealing character and class, and teasing out the tension between living passion and “cold” artwork.
Postcolonial Odysseys
This study charts Derek Walcott’s postcolonial voyage through Homer’s *Odyssey*. It explores the tension between the outward journey and the homecoming, revealing how a modern master can reclaim and transform an ancient epic.
Rethinking Kant
This collection of essays offers a sample of a whole generation of Kantian thought. Covering controversial themes like freedom, morality, and radical evil, these essays rethink Kant and indicate his importance for current philosophical debates.
An American Voltaire
This collection of essays honors Voltaire scholar J. Patrick Lee. It includes seventeen essays by prominent international scholars on French eighteenth-century studies, covering topics from Voltaire and censorship to satire, opera, art, and the Enlightenment.
This exciting collection of original essays on early modern women’s writing introduces little-known writers and offers new critical strategies. The authors explore diverse genres, integrating literary history with religion, legal issues, and genre questions.
American Literary-Political Engagements
From Poe to James, 19th-century authors confronted their era’s most urgent political questions. This book reveals how they transformed debates on democracy, social justice, and law into powerful and enduring works of literary art.
Investigating Arthur Upfield
This collection of critical essays by international scholars and novelists like Tony Hillerman celebrates Arthur Upfield, creator of Detective Inspector Napoleon Bonaparte. The essays assess his place in the annals of crime fiction and Australian cultural history.
Remapping the Future
This collection of essays explores the cross-cultural linkages between Australia and India. From diverse interdisciplinary perspectives, it examines intersections of history, culture and environment, building on a shared history and looking to the future.
Teaching English in Multilingual Contexts
This collection of innovative papers discusses the teaching of English in multilingual countries. Written by experienced practitioners, it examines how English can be more effectively taught to students in Asia. A powerful resource for language educators.
A Study in Legal History Volume II; The Last of England
Lord Denning’s celebrated judgments were known for their deep ‘Englishness’. As English identity is fiercely debated today, this book considers the role of Englishness in his jurisprudence, from his views on history and race to European law.
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.
This interdisciplinary analysis demonstrates not only how a culture is preserved in a text, but how that text can in turn define its culture, even redefine its history, by exploring how all texts and their contexts are constructs.
Ruskin in Perspective
This vibrant collection of illustrated essays draws John Ruskin’s ideas together around perspective. Offering a new interdisciplinary approach, it examines his legacy and shows how Ruskin can still teach us to read and see.
Uprooting Geographic Thoughts in India
This is the first book on the roots of Indian geographical thought. It explores Indian identity, Gandhian environmentalism, and the meeting of East and West. It reprints lead essays by Spate, Sopher, and Mukerji to assess their challenging message today.
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