The Fluid Frame in Cinema
A passionate rendezvous with cinema. These essays offer a close reading of film that looks beyond the frame to its cultural and historical roots, reappraising Indian cinema, classic adaptations, and directors like Hitchcock and Kubrick through a contemporary critical gaze.
Explore the synthesis and application of versatile building blocks in organic synthesis. This book systematically shows how understanding the chemical properties of precursors is essential for preparing a wide range of simple and complex organic compounds.
Awakening through Literature and Film
This book, using Zen Buddhism and postmodern ethics, guides you beyond the conventional thematic approach. Learn to catch nondual, spiritual feelings while appreciating a given work, ultimately turning the act of reading or watching into a quest for spiritual enlightenment.
International Advances in Art Therapy Research and Practice
Art therapists worldwide are advancing socially just and culturally relevant practice. This book highlights innovative research and diverse practices transforming art therapy with new insights for therapists, counsellors, and professionals who use art.
Working with Different Text Types in English and Arabic
An accessible course-book for students and practitioners of Arabic-English-Arabic translation. Incorporating both theory and application, it offers guidance on strategies for various text types, from legal and scientific to media and political, to help develop practical skills.
Scholars have dismissed Rutherford B. Hayes as an ineffective president. This work demolishes that wisdom, showing how Hayes overcame a hostile Congress to restore presidential prerogatives, laying the foundation for the strong executive branch we know today.
Verb and Object Order in the History of English
This study tackles the long-debated question of Verb-Object order in English history. Combining linguistic theory with analysis of Old and Middle English syntax, information structure, and prosody, it sheds new light on language change for scholars, students, and linguists.
Holistic Teacher Education
This collection explores holistic, reconstructionist, and reconceptualist approaches to teacher education that seek to shift the trajectory of society. It serves as an introductory text for the field of holistic curriculum studies, opening it to a wider audience.
Climate change threatens agriculture, and the volatility of international wheat and rice prices will increase. This book shows how agricultural investments play a crucial role in stabilising global markets, decreasing food loss, and alleviating climate change risks.
This book contrasts the American and French Revolutions. While American patriots sought independence to secure life and liberty, French revolutionists aimed to overturn society itself—destroying institutions in the name of a fraternity that exterminated its enemies.
This original work discusses the consequences of the COVID-19 pandemic, a political, social, economic, and philosophical challenge that tested the limits of human nature. The volume brings together diverse approaches, from philosophy and sociology to politics and social work.
Making Meaning, Making Money
The arts are at the heart of policy discussions, but as culture is justified by its commercial value, is its intrinsic worth at risk? Leading thinkers debate the directions cultural policy should take in the future. For artists and policy makers.
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 challenges the ontological unity of music, philosophy, and mathematics, then explores music as social history—probing ideological style debates and the cultural memory of post-Stalinism in the 1950s and 60s.
This book shows why control and happenstance are crucial to methodology and statistics. Control reduces ambiguity, while tests of statistical significance rule out happenstance as an explanation for research results, demonstrating that research impartiality is possible.
First Language Bidialectism in Second Language Interface Acquisition
This book helps separate language difference from disorder in multidialectal L2 learners. It offers empirical and theoretical support for linguists and speech-language pathologists, with valuable implications for teaching, assessment, and clinical practice.
Margaret Atwood’s Dystopian Fiction
Unpacking themes of science, gender, and faith in Atwood’s dystopias, this study reveals their startling relevance. It frames her novels within the urgent social, cultural, and political questions of our contemporary world, connecting her fiction to our reality.
Writing Research Differently
This book challenges the notion of the empirical research article as a neutral form. Analyzing texts from engaged research, it reveals how authors resist scientific conventions and proposes a re-imagined article to advance social and cognitive justice in scholarly communication.
This volume of innovative research in Iberian Studies extends beyond Spain and Portugal to explore transnational connections with Europe, Africa, and the Americas. Its scope ranges from the nineteenth century to the effects of the Catalan independence crisis and Brexit.
This volume confronts discourse theory in colonial studies, arguing societies are split vertically by class, not by geography. It claims the radical-sounding rhetoric of ‘post’ movements, far from resisting imperialism, actually greases the mechanisms of finance capital.
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