A Study in Guilt
Why do some feel the crushing weight of guilt while others feel none? This book investigates the psychology of remorse through harrowing events like WWII and the Jallianwala Bagh massacre, and the literary complicity of Hamlet’s friends, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern.
Matter in Marx
Was Marx truly a “materialist”? This book argues that the more interesting question is what kind he developed. It provides a surprising answer: a materialism without matter. On this basis, new light is shed on the base-superstructure analogy, progress, and political action.
Master the language of academic business research. This essential guide provides clear, jargon-free definitions of key terminology, supported by real-world examples. Covering concepts from methodology to data analysis, it helps students at all levels build confidence and fluency.
Discourses and Practices of Othering
This book investigates how ‘others’ are manufactured and anchored in collective memory. Through analysis of film, news, and social media, it sheds light on the institutional, political, and social forces that form and transform the discourses and practices of othering.
Migration has been a defining element of Jewish life for centuries, becoming the subject of a rich mythology. This volume’s essays interrogate these mythologized narratives, exploring the diverse yet similar “realities” they represent and reveal about the needs of the present.
Digital English as a Lingua Franca
This book investigates the aesthetics of informal online communication. Using sentiment analysis, it demonstrates that the style of these texts is influenced by how we associate emotions and opinions with specific words and syntactic patterns.
This volume explores scientific and technical knowledge in 13th-16th century Europe, with a special focus on the Iberian Peninsula. Drawing on recipe books, technical treatises, and archaeology, it presents a holistic perspective of technical knowledge during the Middle Ages.
The Global and Local Appeal of Kneehigh Theatre Company
This book explores “Brand Kneehigh,” defining how the theatre company’s Cornish identity achieved global appeal. Analyzing key productions, it reveals the tensions between local and global interests and investigates Kneehigh’s unique solution: their performance space, the Asylum.
Language, Culture and Business explores their essential intersection from an international perspective. It provides practical insights into topics like management, marketing, and intercultural communication, making it vital for educators, researchers, and business professionals.
This collection of essays offers new perspectives on female authors of Spanish crime fiction. The studies analyze how their versatile narratives explore gender, sexuality, and social issues while reformulating the crime genre—and sometimes departing from it entirely.
Therapeutic Journalism
This book shows how emotional literacy and clinical psychology can create a therapeutic form of journalism. It presents a new model to analyze information through an emotional lens, empowering students to inform with empathy and see a shattered world with a fresh pair of eyes.
Giorgio Vasari
This book presents Giorgio Vasari as an intellectual and philosopher, exploring how he transformed the artist’s role in 16th-century Italy. Vasari elevated their status from mere artisans to divinely inspired creators whose work conveys profound moral and intellectual messages.
Returning to the Long Revolution
The key to motivating change lies in a radical re-imagining of democratic citizenship. We must reconfigure ourselves from being passive consumers to active citizens, empowered to participate in and take responsibility for remaking the communities in which we live and work.
This essay collection explores inconsistency in the major Latin epics of the Flavian Age. Leading experts demonstrate that inconsistency is often a strategic device, and its careful study yields precious insights into the poets’ artistic, thematic, and ideological agendas.
Teaching Shakespeare in Film and the Arts Today
Explore past, present, and future approaches to Shakespeare on Film. This volume offers practical case-studies for teaching textual analysis through film and the arts—perfect for instructors to adapt or for any reader interested in the field to enjoy.
By reframing the cosmos through entropy and creativity, this book offers a solution to the Fermi paradox, a correction of the Drake equation, and a new definition of singularity, revealing a unique chain of being—from elementary information to all possible worlds.
Film as an Expression of Spirituality
What makes a film ‘spiritually significant’? These essays explore the Arts & Faith Top 100 list, with close readings of films by Dreyer, Kubrick, Scorsese, and others—a foundational introduction for those seeking to understand film as an expression of human spirituality.
Cognition, Emotion and Consciousness in Modernist Storyworlds
This volume explores the representation of minds in literary texts, focusing on modernism. Through cognition and emotion, these essays reveal the nexus between mind and narrative, arguing that experientiality is fundamental to all genres, from poetry to the novel.
Public Health, Mental Health and Human Rights
This book analyzes a project to build culture-sensitive mental health services in Northern Iraq, a region impacted by war and genocide. Focusing on the Yazidi minority, it reviews the challenges encountered and solutions developed, providing guidelines for similar projects.
Teaching the Shoah
This collection of essays and creative pieces showcases new ways to teach the Nazi genocide. Featuring academic contributions, a play, and a short story, it addresses the overarching question: how can and should the Shoah be taught to share its most important lessons?
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