Performing, Teaching and Writing Theatre
Drawing on 35 years of experience, this book explores a Delhi theatre group’s practice within the frame of international activist theatre movements. It identifies theatre as a force for changing society, examining a variety of forms from proscenium to street theatre.
This book introduces “postcolonial soliloquies” as a new way to analyze West African literature. Using the theory of “dialogue” to explore history, culture, and identity, it shows how the novels of T. Obinkaram Echewa redraw the boundaries of colonial history.
This book examines the influence of solar activity on the light trapping of insects. Using data from a huge amount of moths from multiple continents, it demonstrates that the Sun has a multifaceted effect on their flight activity—an unprecedented finding.
This book is a critical assessment of philosophy’s history and practice, written for any educated reader. It distils complex philosophical arguments and explains key issues to individuals outside academia, unencumbered by typical academic paraphernalia.
Global Arts Leadership in the Digital Age
Leading voices in the arts discuss how technology—from AI and crypto to the metaverse—is creating today’s most iconic cultural products. Through case studies and expert commentaries, this book offers a manual with tangible tools for all cultural practitioners.
Cognition, Emotion and Consciousness in Modernist Storyworlds
This volume explores the representation of minds in literary texts, focusing on modernism. Through cognition and emotion, these essays reveal the nexus between mind and narrative, arguing that experientiality is fundamental to all genres, from poetry to the novel.
Communication and Interculturality in Higher Education
This book is an academic adventure addressing communication and interculturality in higher education. It unpacks the barriers to intercultural encounters and shows how institutions of higher learning can be a vehicle for building intercultural awareness and competence.
This book offers original, internationally significant contributions from all fields of marine biology. It explores the enigmas of our oceans, from biodiversity and survival to commercial utility, proving beneficial for students, researchers, scientists, and industrialists.
Social Segmentation and Clientelism in the Extreme West
This volume explores the importation of Western institutional models and their effects on social structures, especially in non-Western societies. It focuses on resulting problems like the persistence of clientelism and corruption within official institutions.
This book offers a critical look at the evolution and future of Mind, Brain, and Education science. Drawing from cognitive psychology and neuroscience, it is an essential text for graduate students, policymakers, and neuroscientists in the Learning Sciences.
Margaret Atwood and Social Justice
Margaret Atwood is a writer, not an ideologue. This book traces the evolution of her social justice concerns through her major fiction—from women’s rights and environmentalism to critiques of corporate oppression, right-wing governments, and racial injustice.
This book explores categorization and approximation—two often opposed, yet indissociable, operations. By comparing their expression in different languages, it clarifies the links between them and the cognitive foundations of interpretation for scholars and students.
Implied Irony in Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice
This book presents a new approach to irony in free indirect discourse (FID) through an analytical reading of Pride and Prejudice. It argues that a multistage theory best explains how irony is generated, making this essential reading for scholars of narrative technique.
This book provides the philosophical basis for person-centred healthcare. Drawing on phenomenology, it offers clinicians a practical guide to improving care and promoting autonomy in patients with chronic illness.
The Sustainable Dead
Ecological sustainability is profoundly challenging long-standing death styles. This collection brings together new scholarship on innovative changes to managing the dead from around the world, arguing for a new perspective on the shift to more sustainable death ways.
Dreaming in Auschwitz
This unique book explores the Holocaust through the prism of dreams. Based on descriptions written by former Auschwitz inmates, it reveals truths that remained unconscious, incomprehensible, and unspeakable, opening a new way of thinking and writing about the Holocaust.
Virtual communities are one of the most important factors affecting consumer decisions. This text explains their features and types, arguing that understanding how they change is more relevant than ever for the students and business owners of the future.
The Origins of the Love Song
This book offers a new perspective on the origins of human sexuality. It reveals that romantic love and exclusive pair-bonds are not our original evolutionary features. Early humans practiced multiple-partner relations until culture restrained their innate sexual nature.
Water and Ions as the Conditions Necessary for the Presence of Life
This book explores the intricate interdependence between water and ions. Water is essential for life, but not always sufficient. It pursues an answer to this mystery, showing how metal ions like iron, calcium, and carbon complement water for sustaining life.
Modern Educational Methods and Strategies in Teaching Mathematics
Uncover the building blocks of primary math success and the motivational factors that drive students. This guide connects the development of student identity in secondary school to the critical role mathematical aptitude plays in a society’s economic prosperity.
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