This book advocates teaching peace through transformative literary works. It offers original poetry, critiques of fiction and film, and an exploration of peace studies to improve academic skills and foster curiosity, solitude, and self-development through writing.
This volume probes the blurred line between victim and victimizer in trauma and how novelists represent issues of justice. Critical studies range from Cambodia’s genocide to analyses of AIDS literature, contemporary American literature, and Indigenous writing in Canada.
This innovative study corrects persistent misconceptions about Edward S. Curtis, the influential photographer of American Indians. The author argues that Curtis was keenly aware of the major changes Native Americans faced, providing a reappraisal of his monumental work.
Early Football Professionalism in Sheffield
Professional football’s origins are often linked to Lancashire, but this book reveals the true story of its beginnings in Sheffield. This is the first in-depth study of the early importation and payment of players, told through the lives of the individuals involved.
Human psychological skills are our most precious capital. This book analyzes the organization which incubates this capital: the household. It emphasizes positive psychological aspects, exploring how the family fosters the skills necessary for a successful life and career.
The worlds of theatre, law, and psychology all deal with the human soul and its contradictions. This book examines six classic Yiddish plays for the first time from a legal and psychoanalytical perspective, shedding new light on the characters’ universal conflicts.
Albert A. Michelson and his Interferometer
This book reveals the astonishing connection between modern science and one instrument: Michelson’s Interferometer. It led to Einstein’s relativity and quantum mechanics, technologies like GPS and MRI, and the recent detection of gravitational waves from merging black holes.
Coleridge and Hinduism
The only comprehensive study of Coleridge’s profound ties to Oriental Tales, revealing how Hindu works, especially the Bhagavadgītā, shaped his poetic imagination and his quest for the “One life.”
W. L. Mackenzie King was Canada’s longest-serving and most unusual prime minister. The keeper of famous personal diaries, he inspired some 24 biographies—a study in extreme contrasts. This is a critical collective history of those works.
Chinese Migration to Brazil
The first book to explore Chinese migration to Brazil. It analyzes the history, identity formation, and transnational nature of these immigrant communities, as well as their economic status and mobility. An invaluable resource for anyone interested in Chinese migration.
This book presents a rich international perspective on social justice from educators worldwide. It offers practical classroom strategies and theoretical wisdom, uniquely combining local and global insights for teachers, researchers, and those in higher education.
Legal Machine Translation Explained
This book bridges a gap in the literature with an in-depth analysis of machine translation in legal practice. It explores whether MT is reliable for legal documents and how practitioners can use it as a draft for post-editing, tackle its shortcomings, and supplement the tools.
The Punctuated Evolution of Civilisations
This book explores the relationship between climate and civilization, arguing that history is shaped by societal responses to climate pulsations. This theory helps to explain the clash of civilizations, disclosing the invisible hand behind war and peace.
This book provides vital information on loss and trauma for counselors and therapists. It fills a critical gap in graduate training by offering conceptual frameworks, rich descriptive cases, and a review of interventions for working with traumatized and bereaved clients.
This volume probes the tension between the glory of freedom’s release and a past when freedom was denied. It also argues that modern slavery offers continuing evidence of man’s inhumanity to man—and the resulting absence of freedom for millions.
The Discourse of Well-Being in Late-Modern Ireland
What makes a society happy? This book explores well-being from a new angle by analysing letters to the editor from newspapers in late-modern Ireland. It provides empirical evidence of the major themes of well-being from the public’s viewpoint and sheds light on their concerns.
This collection of doctoral essays in Catholic Studies shines new light on age-old issues and offers opportunities for dialogue with the contemporary world. Inspired by St. John Henry Newman’s vision of faith and reason, these works cover theology, ethics, history, and more.
This book analyzes Zionism, from its origins in European antisemitism to its implantation in historic Palestine. It maps its development since the creation of Israel and examines the consequences: the occupation, the violation of inhabitants’ rights, and Hamas’s response.
The Concept of Fluidity in the Baroque Age
The Baroque world was a flowing one, a realm of presences in constant flux. Everything was in endless motion—space, time, emotions, and the individual itself. This absence of solidity would define the era. This book charts the fluidity of the age, from geographies to souls.
The Psychology of People, Power and Politics
We view the world in increasingly psychological terms, yet the discipline itself has been largely overlooked. In a series of essays covering issues from mental health to war, this book reflects on psychology, questions its relationship to power, and offers new perspectives.
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