Being Bilingual in Borinquen
In Puerto Rico’s complex linguistic landscape, the voices of its people have been muted. This volume showcases twenty-five personal histories from language professionals, revealing their many routes to bilingualism and why one-size-fits-all policies fail.
Being Doll
This book explores the symbolic relationship between self and object, studying how the mind integrates opposing ideas like “youngness” and “oldness” to expand its understanding of Self through the experience of a “doll” as memory, metaphor, and art.
Being Human Now
In a world of crisis, what does it mean to be human? This volume diagnoses the present by analyzing novels and plays that offer insight into today’s diverse challenges, from the impact of neoliberalism and precarity to environmental catastrophe and the future of humanity.
In dialogue with Plato, Hegel, and Marx, this book forges a 21st communism based on the dance with death—a politics of mortality, responsibility, and love.
Being Quantum
This collection offers perspectives on organizational development inspired by quantum physics. Based on interconnectedness and entanglement, chapters address concepts of time, space, matter, and spirituality to bring quantum storytelling to life.
This book challenges contemporary phenomenology’s denegation of Being. It provides a fruitful alternative through a reassessment of Edith Stein’s ontology, considering Being in Steinian terms of support and safety to overcome this critical impasse.
Being, Goodness and Truth (Volume 16
This volume considers Aquinas’s virtue ethics, exploring the scholarly debate over inconsistencies in his account. It argues that Aquinas’s understanding of human beings as matter-form composites furnishes a robust moral accounting unavailable to reductive materialist accounts.
Modern Chinese literature raises complex questions about life amid changing values and uncertainty. This volume presents ten essays by Chinese and European scholars examining the individual and society, searching beyond national identities for global exchange.
Belle Vue
On the day he completes his first dream interpretation—a revolution in understanding the human mind—Sigmund Freud is a man torn. He is caught in a love affair with his sister-in-law, Minna, and must choose between his love for her and his quest for fame.
Belonging and Exclusion
This is the first cross-cultural analysis of how belonging and exclusion are represented in literature, film and theatre in the context of migration in Australia and Germany. The focus on artistic works offers unique snapshots of these processes.
Belonging and Place-Making in a Neoliberal Waterfront Area
This book explores how privatisation and elite developments transform urban waterfronts into exclusive spaces. It argues these policies affect the distribution of owners and renters and change the meaning of home. Using a case study, it examines the feelings of tenure groups.
This book uses mathematical modeling to increase enterprise efficiency. Instead of devouring competition, it proposes a cooperative ‘win-win’ benchmarking model, proving its advantage through implementation in real companies, banks, and industrial enterprises.
Benedetto Varchi’s L’ Ercolano
The first-ever translation of Benedetto Varchi’s L’Ercolano (1570). In a witty and lively dialogue, this 16th-century treatise tackles timeless questions: Are we the only communicating species? What was the first language? A surprisingly modern and entertaining exploration.
Benefiting by Design
Benefitting by Design challenges the limited presence of women of color in social science. It dislodges their marginalized position by centering their experience and providing models and strategies for research and practice designed for their benefit.
The first study of its kind, this collection explores Beowulf’s extensive impact on contemporary culture. Topics range from film, television, and video games to graphic novels and children’s literature, demonstrating the epic poem’s continuing cultural power.
Beringia
This study explores the migration of cultures from Asia to North America, presenting linguistic evidence connecting the Athabaskan language family to Siberia. It examines the origins of the first Americans through anthropology, archaeology, and folklore.
Berkeley
This book reconstructs Berkeley’s philosophy, arguing his opposition to materialism was not subjective idealism but a common-sense response to the emergence of modern science, offering a fuller, realist portrait of his philosophy of immaterialism.
Jennings traces the theory of Radical Dependence through its various forms in Berkeley’s philosophical works, showing how this idea unifies Berkeley’s various phases of philosophical development.
Berkeley’s Lasting Legacy
Known for his denial of matter, George Berkeley was a far more wide-ranging thinker. This collection by international experts reveals his contributions to metaphysics, science, and economics, showing him as he was: a courageous philosophical innovator.
Berlin Since the Wall’s End
Since the Wall fell, Berlin has confronted the daunting challenges of reunification. This book examines two broad concerns—society and historical memory—casting light on a metropolis scarred, but not destroyed, by the upheavals of recent history.
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