Beyond the Genre
What is the value of travel writing in a digital age? This volume compares printed books and travel blogs to explore how media choices impact writing and travel. Based on interviews with Western and Chinese writers in China, it deconstructs the genre’s traditional ethnocentrism.
Beyond the Hijab Debates
Public debates reduce complex issues to simplistic binaries. This collection cuts through the noise, offering incisive analyses and new possibilities for understanding the intersection of gender, race, and religion.
Beyond the Night
From Beowulf to Buffy, this collection analyzes old and new creatures in popular culture. Beyond the Night offers insights into the monstrous, exploring their significance for society in relation to sexuality, gender, social change, and otherness.
Beyond the Skin
“We are our bodies, we have our bodies, we make our bodies.” In a world of multiplying screens that transforms us into spectators, how do we find our identity? This book explores the boundary between bodies and technology to reclaim the social.
Beyond the Studio
Join noted actor Cynthia Henderson on a journey to the heart of acting. Sharing techniques developed over a lifetime, this profound guide is for beginners and seasoned professionals alike, offering insights into compelling character development and the human condition.
Beyond the World of Titans, and the Remaking of World Order
Contrary to conventional wisdom, U.S. dominance is ending. The world is evolving towards a ‘post-post-Cold War era’—a world of titans and new empires remaking world order. This shift reveals the future emergence of a ‘union of the unions’ on earth and in space.
Beyond War
The studies gathered here present the necessity of rethinking the concept of “violence” in archaeology, in order to overcome the old conception that limits violence to its most evident expressions in war and intra- or extra-group conflict.
Beyond Words
When interpretation no longer applies, the Othering Excursion begins. This book elaborates a new method for reading texts that use disruptive rhetoric and distortion to point beyond cultural norms, finding meaning in zones of literary obscurity.
This volume offers Biblical Theological investigations into God’s righteousness. Scholars explore how the attribute unfolds throughout Scripture’s progressive storyline, providing new research on topics that have not been adequately explored in the past.
This book is a practical guide to developing a crime-prediction model by gathering and analysing big data. It covers text mining, opinion mining, and machine learning to predict rapidly-changing social phenomena and draw creative conclusions.
Bilingualism and Minority Languages in Europe
This collection considers such issues as the cognitive, linguistic and emotional benefits of speaking two languages and concerns relating to identity in minority language areas. It underlines the significance of bilingualism when European minority languages are still spoken.
Bilingualism and Multiculturalism in Greek Education
This book investigates language maintenance among second-generation Albanian and Egyptian migrant pupils in Athens. It explores how ethnolinguistic vitality, family attitudes, and the Greek school system influence whether children remain bilingual.
Biliteracy and Multiliteracies
This volume introduces ongoing research on biliteracy and multiliteracies. It explores where research is heading in view of multilingualism, with chapters discussing these issues in a wide variety of countries, from Brazil and Cyprus to Portugal and the USA.
Binaries in Battle
Binary opposition – Us vs. Them, good vs. evil – is fundamental to human thinking in peace and war. This wide-ranging anthology explores conflicts from history to the near future, deconstructing black-and-white imageries to reveal softer shades of grey.
Binary Oppositions in American Society and Culture
Drawing on semiotics, psychoanalysis, and sociology, this book unpacks the power of binarism, revealing how binary oppositions shape the social, cultural, and political landscape of American society.
Bio-Art and the Environment
In a science-driven society, this book ignites a debate at the intersection of art, biology, and ethics. Can artists create living chimeras? Do we have the right to use them? And should we fund or prohibit the research that makes them possible?
This unique interdisciplinary volume explores the convergence of linguistics, biology, and computation. Using bio-inspired models to approach formal and natural languages, it offers specialists new ideas, tools, and formalisms to advance their work.
Twelve original essays explore the afterlives of nineteenth- and twentieth-century writers in biofiction and the biopic. Featuring case studies on Charlotte Brontë, Henry James, and Virginia Woolf, this volume situates these genres in their cultural and ideological contexts.
BioFutures and the Legacy of Our Past
Our attempts to distance ourselves from nature have come at an immense cost to the planet. The problems which beset us – climate change, pandemics – have their origins in our biology. To survive, solutions must take our evolutionary heritage into account, or they will fail.
This book analyses British biographical plays about artists, arguing that dramatists place them in adverse situations. They emerge as flawed human beings, yet their genius and integrity endure. The book also addresses why so many of these plays exist.
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