Pursuits and Joys
This volume is a collection of updated papers exploring the remarkable Lukis family and their contemporaries. It examines their pioneering work and the evolution of archaeology as a discipline in the nineteenth century across Britain and Europe.
Crossing Cultural Boundaries
What are the consequences of transgression? This collection of essays explores how cultural boundaries are challenged and redefined through the intricacies of taboos, bodies, and identities. Deconstructing boundaries becomes part of the project of redefining the self.
This volume offers an overview of state-of-the-art lexicographical research in Europe, with contributions on historical and synchronic dictionaries for major European languages and the profound effects of information technology on designing and using them.
Migration and Development
This book finds that highly-skilled Ghanaian and Ivorian return migrants can be key development agents. Bringing back financial, human, and social capital, they create new businesses and community initiatives, supporting the idea of ‘brain circulation’.
What is the relation between drama and its critics? Drama is itself a critical genre, showing up the problems of human existence. Plays critique society and themselves, while also spurring critique from the audiences and reviewers who are intrinsic to theatre.
The Jurisprudence of Lord Denning
This definitive trilogy explores the jurisprudence of Lord Denning, the 20th century’s most pivotal judge. It reveals his shaping of the common law, his view of English identity, and his response to an era of immense social change.
Power in the EFL Classroom
Critical Pedagogy is a way of ‘doing’ learning. In these studies, teachers from across the Middle East address questions of power in education, arguing that we must respect students and enable their empowerment by providing space and honoring their dignity.
This volume provides new insights into the dynamic nature of coherence in spoken and written discourse. Combining theoretical insights with practical analyses, it will be of interest to researchers, scholars, and students of English.
Not So Innocent Abroad
Travel and travel writing are never innocent. This book offers a fresh approach, arguing that journeying always occurs within political systems. It reveals the political implications and dissimulated messages in travelogues from the 18th to 21st century.
Dimensions of Social Exclusion
This book revolves around the societal institutions that exclude, discriminate, and deprive groups based on identities such as caste or ethnicity. It examines social exclusion as a complex, multi-dimensional process across a wide spectrum of societies.
Modern John Buchan
This book claims John Buchan as a key interpreter of modernity whose diverse work complicates the divide between “low” and “high” literature. It situates him as an intellectual figure and discusses his most famous work, The Thirty-Nine Steps.
This book explores English phonetics from a wide spectrum of perspectives. As a global language, the very notions of native/non-native and standard/non-standard have changed. This collection covers varieties, L2 teaching, language contact, and change.
PINTER ET CETERA collects essays arguing that Harold Pinter was not merely a unique writer, but an artist influencing and influenced by painters, filmmakers, and poets. This bold volume expands our understanding of Pinter’s importance beyond the absurdist stage.
Of Mice and Men
This collection of essays by international scholars examines human views of animals. Addressing topics from animal rights and ecology to feminism and domestication, the book considers global issues from ancient to contemporary times.
Situating Racism
This book uncovers the complex causes and manifestations of contemporary racism in a globalized world. It analyzes how its boundaries shift, the impact of factors like nationalism and politics, and the challenges of building an anti-racist future.
Afroasiatic Studies in Memory of Robert Hetzron
NACAL is an academic nexus where students rub shoulders with titans of the field. This volume contains sixteen contributions from these scholars, covering a broad cross-section of topics in Afroasiatic linguistics.
Time Images
The “time-image” concept holds broad potential for the historical interpretation of cultural works. This book applies this innovative concept to theory, literature, and cinema, revealing the historical character of works not ordinarily seen as historical.
Anthropology and Development in a Globalized India
This book offers an anthropological and sociological view of sericulture in India, analyzing its emergence as a vital enterprise for rural development and employment. This interdisciplinary study is useful to scholars of Anthropology, Sociology, and Development Studies.
This volume marks a shift in literary semiotics toward methodological pluralism. As the sharp lines of division between dominant approaches dissolve, contributors highlight the communicative functions and representational possibilities of literary texts.
Feminist Insiders-Outsiders
This book examines the Islamic feminism of Nigerian Muslim women. It argues that their struggles are rooted in Islamic texts from the Prophetic era, contrary to stereotypes of patriarchal domination, and shows how they use organizations for feminist changes.