The first book dedicated to exploring Thomas Jefferson’s mind through his varied personae: lawyer, politician, scientist, farmer, and more. It uncovers the core ideas that connected them all, from human betterment to his belief that beauty was always second to functionality.
The Homeric Citadel is a cosmogonic and philosophical symbol. This enquiry reveals Mycenaean architecture as a scene for psychological transformation, where elements like the column and megaron are archetypal images on the journey towards ‘self-realization’.
Assessing the Language of TV Political Interviews
This book presents a corpus-assisted investigation into the language of British and American TV political interviews. It analyzes interviewers’ and interviewees’ speech to unveil their linguistic strategies and the salient traits distinguishing UK and US styles.
On Theory
This book demystifies theory—the ubiquitous, flawed thing that undergirds humanity’s greatest successes and failures. For anyone studying, writing, critiquing, or applying theory, it unifies the sciences in terms of goals and duties and explains the responsibilities it entails.
An insightful study of the Jewish theologian Martin Buber, this volume combines a review of the unconventional Zionism he proposed with a sensitivity to myth as the basis of an inclusive civil religion. It also discusses how his ideas were applied in practice.
Perspectives on Dance Fusion in the Caribbean and Dance Sustainability
This volume examines fusion in Caribbean dance from socio-cultural-historical perspectives. Chapters on dance fusions in other diasporic locations and the sustainability of dance are also included, offering a sense of its evolution due to globalizing forces.
This book covers innovative grammar teaching for modern EFL/ESL students. It compares traditional and new methods, revealing their advantages and disadvantages, and provides a variety of activities to help teachers practice key grammatical patterns.
Offering a wide range of theory and practice, this text examines the occurrence of manipulation in the translation of British and American press articles into Polish for Forum. Przegląd Prasy Światowej magazine in the People’s Republic of Poland, under preventive censorship.
An Environmental Ethic for the End of the World
Powell investigates Romans 8:19-22 and Paul’s Christological discourse as a source of ecological healing, arguing that Paul’s midrash provides deep insight into the biblical role of humans and their instrumentality in bringing both harm and healing to the world of nature.
Film and the Historian
Films are not just for audiences. A film exposes the attitudes people took for granted. This volume surveys British cinema from the Second World War to the early 1970s, exploring societal change through films from the well-known Odd Man Out to the forgotten It’s Hard to be Good.
Seriality Across Narrations, Languages and Mass Consumption
This volume discusses contemporary audiovisual seriality, analyzing series like Black Mirror, Game of Thrones, and Stranger Things. It reflects on seriality as a process of social, linguistic and gender transformation, exploring reception, authorship, and intertextuality.
Bordered Identities in Language, Literature, and Culture
Cameroon’s complex postcolonial legacy has burdened it with a linguistic and pedagogic culture which has inhibited its national identity. The present volume reflects on this issue and serves to renegotiate its identity beyond the mega-frames of Empire.
World Cities, City Worlds
When living and working in cities, we need to make sense of them in order to get by. We must delve below their surface to understand how we can best engage with them. Solesbury argues that three tropes can help us here: namely, metaphors, icons and perspectives.
An insightful exploration of sensation and synaesthesia in film and new media. These essays examine how cinematic experiences create immersive environments that stimulate our senses and mind, from perception and movement to olfaction, abstract cinema, and interactive art.
Perspectives on Ecocriticism
This volume gathers together papers presented at the conference “Ecocriticism in the Nordic Countries; Yesterday, Today, Tomorrow”. The chapters engage with topics such as the Anthropocene, sustainability, and civilizational critique, as well as dark ecology and animal studies.
Covering a diverse range of linguistic domains and numerous languages, this book presents cutting-edge research on the nature of grammatical systems developed by bilinguals and second language learners, and considers how these grammatical systems are used in processing language.
Mapping Cultural Identities and Intersections
This book applies imagology to film, art, and narratives to explore identity construction. Through interdisciplinary approaches, it examines cultural and ethnic identities—the self and the other—with a focus on literary works as they are translated from one culture to another.
The 21st century demands new skills: media literacy, leadership, critical thinking, and problem solving. However, their relationship with education is not yet fully established. This book discusses these skills through studies in the context of Turkey.
From Glosses to Dictionaries
This book presents the beginnings of lexicography and the first dictionaries across the world. Through case studies from Greek Antiquity to 9th-century Japan, it offers a global, comparative approach to a topic usually studied only within single cultures.
Encountering Entrepreneurs
This monograph probes the daily life of businessmen in a particularly productive area of Northern Italy, Lombardy. It provides insights into their business and entrepreneurialism, offering a different approach to capitalism and reflections on human nature.
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