In The Canterbury Tales Revisited, diverse international scholars offer 21st-century interpretations. Articles cover new areas like Chaucer and Judaism, Queer studies, and feminism, with an insightful opening piece by eminent Medievalist David Matthews.
Women at the Polls
Since 1980, U.S. elections have been marked by a “gender gap” in which women are more supportive of Democrats. Women at the Polls finds this gap is extensive across demographic groups, based on differing political attitudes on key issues.
Ethnicity and Social Divisions
This anthology explores the intersection of ethnicity, immigration, and social class. Representing a new generation of social scientists from Harvard, Oxford, and Stockholm, the contributors present empirical research on social inequality.
This volume joins authors from academia and practice to offer a multiplicity of issues and methodology in finance. It presents applied and theoretical work on banking, market microstructure, risk, and portfolio selection, useful for both practice and research.
This collection presents a snapshot of current music theory, exploring repertoire from Bach to the avant-garde. Neglected aspects of musical structure like rhythm and meter are given new focus, with many essays centered on the music and ideas of Arnold Schoenberg.
This book explains the political significance of cultural constructions in global-local clashes, identity, and the self. Through diverse case-studies and interdisciplinary perspectives, authors interpret cultural politics and their consequential divides.
Contemporary Phonology in Brazil is a collection of phonological studies in Brazilian Portuguese and Indigenous Brazilian Languages covering Prosodic Phonology, Historical Change, Segmental Phonology, First Language Acquisition and Indigenous Languages.
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.
This collection explores women’s struggle for education from the fourth to the twenty-first century in Europe and the Americas. It demonstrates not only the great strides women have made but also the challenges that have yet to be overcome.
Grace under Pressure
This collection of essays offers a scholarly, critical analysis of the hit series Grey’s Anatomy. Authors examine topics including the show’s creation and marketing, the role of music, and its exploration of gender, family, and morality.
Death Becomes Her
From where does our investment in feminine death emerge? These essays analyze women’s deathbed scenes, suicides, murders, and autopsies in American writing, offering fresh insight into the unsettling and highly relevant role of death in feminism.
Themata Politica
These political essays focus on Greek/Turkish relations, Cyprus, and the war on terror. Written by a philosopher of Hellenic ancestry, they are characterized by frank talk, fresh ideas, and historical insights that try to discern the future.
This memoir is a tale of one man’s survival despite all odds. It is an inspiring story of iron will and hope, enduring Stalin’s purges and WWII. One man’s life becomes the reflection of an entire country that has lived through decades of injustice.
This book provides an engaging overview of how digital media impact informal learning, with a particular focus on young people. International scholars examine these processes and discuss their implications for education, ICT and media.
Soviet repressions against shamanism, a recent surge of interest in the Orthodox church, and a nationalist preoccupation with Christian roots makes research into Georgia’s pagan practices no easy business. This study helps to set the process in motion.
The Mirror Crack’d
How did Tolkien craft such enduring horror? Scholars reveal how he transformed medieval sources, turning landscapes, dragons, the Undead, and even darkness itself into potent symbols that tap into our most deeply rooted fears.
Dangers in the Incommensurability of Globalization
A gap exists between our intentions and their objective consequences, creating a chaos, or incommensurability, that foils human plans. This book explores how this dynamic reveals the tenuous character of our world through global warming, peak oil, and volatile economics.
Gender and Displacement
This volume investigates the construction of “home” in Francophone women’s autobiography. Narratives of female identity connect race, gender, colonization, and migration in writers from North Africa, the Caribbean, and immigrant writers in France.
Reputed scholars offer a critical analysis of strategies for the development of SCs and STs in India. This well-researched volume is an invaluable tool for planners and policymakers seeking to evolve viable strategies for the coming years.
Popular Media and Communication
This collection of essays explores media and communication across four key areas: the public sphere, professional identity, industry policy, and political communication. It reveals how forces like capital and technology structure communication and produce public meaning.