This book charts Europe’s evolution from a theocratic culture to the modern nation-state. It examines the Renaissance, Reformation, Scientific Revolution, and Enlightenment, movements that culminated in the French Revolution and the birth of modern democratic ideas.
Gender and Popular Culture
This collection of essays explores interactions between gender and culture, investigating how popular culture defines, interrogates, and ruptures gender conventions. Topics range from films and mythology to female bodybuilding, corporate challenges, and social movements.
This engaging and extensively researched book details Eva Green’s film career from 2001 to the present. With critical commentary and biographical context, it covers her roles, the making of her films, and their reception.
This work investigates the spectrum of new words connected with the Covid-19 pandemic, from neologisms to new meanings. It offers a multifaceted model of lexical innovation to explain recent developments in English vocabulary and the new terminology of these unprecedented times.
Induced Affect in Psychotherapy and Stress Management Training
For mental health practitioners, this book describes induced affect, a clinical procedure to counter emotional avoidance and build regulation skills. It provides step-by-step instructions, transcripts, and a stress management program to enhance emotional resilience.
This book delves into Einstein’s lesser-known journey to Malaya in 1922 and 1923, with stops in Singapore, Malacca, and Penang. Based on his diary, it unravels the theories he was working on, his insightful interactions with locals, and the tropical wonders that inspired him.
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.
This book identifies grammatical constraints on adverbs, proposing a novel syntactic hierarchy with five distinct classes to explain their distribution. Unlike with adjectives, adverb ordering is not predictable from a single factor, but is connected to meaning and usage.
The most comprehensive review of deaf characters in literature available. Examining 300 years of examples in novels, comics, and film, this work identifies key trends through the lens of deaf education, the use of sign language, and the rise of deaf identity and communities.
Higher Education and Research in the Post-Knowledge Society
How will higher education evolve to underpin sustainable societies? This book explores future scenarios against a background of transformation, including digital advances, globalization, socio-economic inequality, and climate change.
Revolutionize your EFL classroom with educational escape rooms! This book offers nine creative, gamified scenarios inspired by literary works like Sherlock Holmes and Harry Potter. Captivate secondary students while enhancing language skills, teamwork, and critical thinking.
The Paradoxical Situation in Carcinogenesis
This book challenges the view that DNA is solely responsible for cancer. It highlights the often-disregarded role of non-DNA cellular elements in carcinogenesis and considers new prospects for cancer prevention and treatment based on these arguments.
From a quarter century of experience, a criminologist explores twenty-five facts about crime, policing, courts, and the death penalty. Written for the layperson with a “tell it like it is” approach, this scholarly book is funny, interesting, timely, and engaging.
The accepted chronology of Shakespeare’s works rests on flawed methods. This investigation exposes over-reliance on precarious stylometrics and unfounded assumptions, arguing for a startling conclusion: Shakespeare’s works must be radically antedated.
In Belfast, a city of contrasts and resilience, tales of real experience and imagination are woven together. Stories of love, conflict, prejudice, and hope paint a vivid, honest portrait of the diverse people who call this ever-evolving city home.
Tolkien in the 21st Century
Social Sciences, Arts, and Humanities in the Post-Truth Era
This book dissects how post-truth operates in the public sphere and social media. It brings together research from different disciplines to reveal how each field has been affected by the post-truth era and what the intellectual reactions have been.
Despite a 21st-century job market that calls for proficiency in multiple languages, enrollments in university language courses have steadily declined. This timely collection of essays addresses this issue, suitable pedagogical approaches, and lessons from the COVID-19 pandemic.
This book theorizes the bioregional concept as an ecocritical tool for reading literary works. It highlights the interface between nature and culture, using Aboriginal plays to extend ecocriticism beyond prose and sensitize us to place-based cultural nuances.
Prospects and Impediments of Feminist Monolithism
This book reads poetry by British, American, and Sub-Saharan women to argue for feminist monolithism. It finds remarkable consistency in themes of resisting oppression across geographical divides, proposing this as a stable ground for unity without ignoring their differences.
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