For Arguments’ Sake
How can human beings be persuaded by language? This book explores persuasive rhetoric, suggesting that evaluative language plays a crucial role. It analyzes speeches by celebrated rhetors like Malcolm X, Martin Luther King, Barack Obama, and Winston Churchill.
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.
Alternatives within the Mainstream II
This introduction to queer sexualities on the post-war British stage charts a history from a climate of sexual repressiveness and criminalisation to a period of legal acceptance, covering gay, lesbian, trans and queer British theatres.
Poetry, the Geometry of the Living Substance
The first study in English of modernist Hungarian poet Ágnes Nemes Nagy. Through close readings of her poetry and prose, this book explores the relation between language, trauma, and memory, drawing parallels with thinkers like Rilke and Beckett.
To understand users, one must understand their emotional responses to buying, using, and owning products. This book explores the emotions in human-product relationships and offers techniques to utilise these insights in design practice.
The Black Musketeer
Alexandre Dumas, grandson of a slave, has become a symbol in France’s debates on colonial history, race, and identity. This is the first major work to re-evaluate his life and legacy, providing new ways of interpreting his classics in a francophone context.
With contributions from Slovak, Czech, and Polish authors, this book evaluates media culture in Central Europe. It explores the problems and successes of radio, television, and internet production since 1989 in the face of globalisation.
Performance of Public and Private Mining Firms in India
Are private mining firms in India better than public ones? This book compares their productivity, environmental, and social compliance. It finds private firms are more productive, but both sectors fail to comply with environmental and social regulations.
New Perspectives on Anarchism, Labour and Syndicalism
This collection presents new research on the history of anarchist movements and revolutionary syndicalism in Europe. It revisits national histories through transnational perspectives, exploring cross-border interactions and the fascinating itineraries of individual activists.
This book challenges the wisdom that separates liberal democracies from authoritarian systems. It argues that a liberal democracy not only can be as evil as its counterparts, but can become more authoritarian as it advances—an advanced stage of democracy itself.
The Jewish Experience in Classical Music
Shostakovich, a 20th-century Russian composer under Soviet rule, and Daniel Asia, a contemporary Jewish-American, are two highly dissimilar composers connected by the common thread of Jewish music. This book explores their use of it to express Jewish suffering and faith.
Fandom At The Crossroads
As “aca-fans” of the television show Supernatural, the authors go behind the scenes with fans, writers, and actors. Their intimate examination explores fan psychology, passion, and shame, revealing the passionate relationship between a cult show and its fans.
In Southern Africa, how we belong is tied to the land. These essays probe the tensions between settler modernity and indigenous world-views, exploring the limits and potential of human compassion for the natural world in a post-colonial era.
This volume discusses pluralism and the interplay between religion and politics. As competing religious truths have historically produced violent conflict, and since religion is constitutive of identity, its influence on politics is extremely significant.
Blaze
How has feminism matured? What are today’s pressing agendas for feminists in the arts? This feminist anthology celebrates past victories while charting new directions, featuring artists, critics, and curators working together across differences to inspire activism.
Strange Brew
How did words and music become a magic potion that fueled a cultural revolution? Strange Brew traces psychedelic metaphor from its 1960s roots to its lasting influence, revealing its power to shape the songs that define us.
China and Taiwan are divided by a sovereignty dispute, with the US in a central role. This book analyzes the triangular relations among Beijing, Taipei, and Washington, exploring what causes shifts from tense rivalry to rapprochement and how stable the future is.
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.
Colonial Inventions
This book analyzes how visual art was not just illustrative but constitutive of colonial power in 19th-century Trinidad. It unearths sketches and paintings that created racialized scripts for colonized subjects, nature, and the plantation landscape.
Academic Futures
“This is a book of its time, and one for its time.” This edited collection of new work exposes the diversity of higher education research. Chapters explore complexity, academic identities, and pedagogy, all sharing a rigorous, evidence-based approach.
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