Migration, Development and Environment
This book explores the pressing linkages between migration, development, and environment. Focusing on environmentally-induced migration and its relation to development, prominent scholars offer answers to today’s most urgent challenges.
Ludwig Minkus
Marius Petipa’s exuberant ballet Don Quixote, with its celebrated score by Ludwig Minkus, is based on the adventures of Kitri and Basilio from Cervantes’s novel. This edition reproduces the piano score of the classic St. Petersburg version.
Bad Pennies and Dead Presidents
This study analyzes the treatment of money in American plays from the Great Depression to the 21st century. Money emerges as an ambivalent force: a malevolent abstraction robbing us of reality, and a powerful metaphor for the American ideal of “self-making.”
How can I improve my writing and be more persuasive? This book answers these and other questions about academic writing. Learn to choose words carefully to communicate complex ideas. A practical guide for students, teachers, and all writers.
Culture and Power
These essays explore the performance of historical plots. Questioning traditional historiography, they analyze the emplotment of history in visual culture, museums, and national identities, arguing that writing history is a performative act.
Life Stories and Sociological Imagination
This book examines music artists Faudel (France) and Adam Tensta (Sweden), revealing how they connect personal struggles to public issues. Their work offers a unique window into how national identity is changing in France, Sweden, and beyond.
War is a terrible disaster, yet it is a universal characteristic of human existence. Why? This multi-disciplinary collection of essays explores the transformation of the war experience into chronicles of hope and despair, from Herodotus up to the present day.
Transnational England
Transnational England sheds light on how England’s encounters with other cultures shaped its identity. Through literature from 1780-1860, these essays reveal how global connections simultaneously fostered and challenged the sovereignty of the English nation.
Co-operatives in a Global Economy
In the global economy, cooperatives face a trade-off between their principles and economic viability. Critics argue they are irrelevant, while advocates see a sustainable, equitable alternative. This collection examines the debate about their future roles.
Cricket’s globalization has followed a unique path. Unlike other sports, non-Western countries have taken control of the game’s economics and politics. Spurred by Twenty20, the game has been transformed and “Indianized” by new business elites.
Global Student Mobility in the Asia Pacific
Millions of students study abroad, facing hostility, poverty, and alienation. This book explores the dilemmas of transnational education, proposing pragmatic approaches and positive responses to the challenges of global student mobility.
This book showcases new approaches to postclassical comedy. The contributions approach New Comedy as theatrical performance and a dynamic player in socio-political discourse, emphasizing its progressiveness and importance for Hellenistic and Roman culture.
Peaceful Surrender
In the 20th century, Spain experienced one of Europe’s most intense processes of rural depopulation. This book explains how the adaptive strategies of rural populations led to a “peaceful surrender” of traditional society, a view distanced from simple nostalgia.
This book is a chorus of practices that use music to build resilience. Academics and practitioners share projects from health, education, and social work, asking: Can music build measurable resilience? Can we replicate these outcomes in diverse groups?
Not Far From Here
Hailed as the “American Chekhov,” Raymond Carver’s work has international appeal, yet critical attention has been mostly US-based. This collection of essays by international scholars provides readers with new and multinational insights into his poetry and fiction.
Dancing the Tao
This book takes an original approach to Ursula K. Le Guin’s work, linking her Taoist upbringing to moral development. It emphasizes her depiction of child abuse and its aftereffects, exploring how morality develops through self-awareness and voice.
This book presents the most important research from an international linguistic conference, covering Historical linguistics, Lexicology, Grammar, Pragmatics, Ethnolinguistics, and Translation. A key resource for philologists, teachers, and students.
The first study of Osbern Bokenham since the discovery of his lost magnum opus. It reveals how Bokenham negotiates his marginality to claim poetic authority, countering patriarchal history by asserting an alternative, spiritual matrilineage.
Cinema is a bastard art, innovative through adulterous relationships and a blurred lineage. This book aims to rehabilitate the shadowy corners of cinematographic creation, providing a new way of using notions like reference, blending, and hybridity.
Rebellion and Revolution
This collection of essays by scholars of history, literature, and film offers new perspectives on key moments of German rebellion. It takes a multidisciplinary approach to analyze events from the 1525 Peasants’ War to the fall of the GDR.
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