A Cultural Analysis of Mobile Communities on Board Cruise Ships
This book argues that the pleasures of a cruise have changed little since the nineteenth century. Drawing on travel writing from Mark Twain and the author’s own voyages on cruise and container ships, it examines what passengers do with their time and how that time is controlled.
This book explores the English lexicon as a mirror of cultural identity. Studies show how word contextualization leads to differing interpretations, revealing that language needs the cornerstone of Culture to thrive.
A Culture of Endless Consumption
This provocative book challenges our relationship to possessions, value, and identity. It explores how things have come to define our sense of self and what lies behind our endless consumption, revealing how our material world shapes our well-being and ecological futures.
Piso offers a detailed investigation of the singing technique generally known as “inhaling the voice” technique, and analyses the usage of vowels in spoken and sung variants, offering advice to singers regarding how they can improve their pronunciation of vowels and consonants.
A Dangerous Report
Dr. Ellens cracks open familiar biblical stories, spilling out fresh, life-changing insights about the radical nature of God’s grace. Ideas that have become cliché flower with refreshing new meanings. Preaching has seldom been this engaging and spiritually empowering.
This book examines the education of Uyghur elites in Moscow (1925-1935) at the University of the Workers of the East. Using student biographies, it reveals why this Comintern project to forge a revolution failed and how it could have succeeded against Soviet & Chinese control.
For ten years, researchers tracked a group of adults—their stresses, joys, and changing lives. This book summarizes the results of this unique study, documenting how experiences with relationships, work, and health shape us, offering fascinating insights for the midlife years.
T. S. Eliot’s famous poetry expresses not a rejection of faith, but a struggle with it. This book explores how he and Michelangelo wrestled with the highest meanings of existence, seeking to express a modernist view of mystical awe—the experience of God.
This distinctive dictionary of Persian grammar features entries with a thorough linguistic analysis and literary usage. A valuable three-tiered compilation, it meets the needs of both instructors and students of Persian language and linguistics.
A Different Freedom
Symbolic of freedom and control, the kite lies at the core of the Gujarati way of life. A Different Freedom explores the world of the kite, its history, politics, and the colourful Uttarayan festival, as it travels through the centuries to modern Gujarat.
A Different Germany
A Different Germany looks at film, popular literature, and theatre to show how diverse communities are thriving. The authors argue that Germany is much more than the few tropes that circulate through the Cold War lens in the English-speaking world.
A Different Kind of Black and White
Why should we continue to draw by hand when computers and photography can do it for us? This path-breaking study explores drawing as a way to foster epistemic development and wise thinking skills, dissolving boundaries through the development of visual intelligence.
A Different Society Altogether
What is society? Arguing that sociology has become entrenched in an unwarranted anthropocentrism, this book suggests solutions based on the work of Latour, Deleuze, and Guattari to reinvigorate the discipline and provide better analytical tools.
A Discourse Analysis of the ‘Trumpusconi’ Phenomenon
Is Trump our contemporary Berlusconi? This work analyses the two political figures through discourse analysis to see if their similarities go beyond personality. It confirms the ‘Trumpusconi’ idea, but shows Trump belongs to a different era of infotainment.
A Discourse Perspective on Bunreacht na hÉireann
This book takes a new discourse perspective on the Constitution of Ireland. It explores the charter’s impact on the country’s public sphere, examining how it has been argued by the Irish press and judiciary since its enactment.
This book takes a new angle on Daniel O’Connell, providing a discourse perspective on his oratorical skills and his perception by the press. It examines what rhetorical strategies he used to persuade Catholics and how he was assessed by nationalist and unionist print media.
A Divided Hungary in Europe
Despite fragmentation and Ottoman pressure, early modern Hungary flourished culturally through intense exchange with Europe. These volumes draw an alternative map of the era, replacing centre-periphery conceptions with new narratives from historical actors.
A Divided Hungary in Europe
Despite fragmentation and Ottoman pressure, early modern Hungary flourished through intense cultural exchange. This series draws an alternative map of Hungary, replacing centre-periphery conceptions with new narratives that balance Western-Hungarian relationships.
A Divided Hungary in Europe
Despite fragmentation and Ottoman pressure, early modern Hungary witnessed a surprising cultural flourishing. This was possible through intense exchange with Europe. This series draws an alternative map of the era, replacing centre-periphery conceptions.
A Divided Hungary in Europe
Despite fragmentation and Ottoman pressure, early modern Hungary flourished culturally through intense European exchange. These volumes draw an alternative map, replacing centre-periphery models with narratives from the perspective of historical actors.