Mr Justice McCardie (1869-1933)
In this work, Lentin explores the life of Mr Justice McCardie, a highly controversial 20th-century High Court Judge. He describes McCardie’s impact on his peers, both his critics, who called him a ‘rogue judge’, and his admirers, who labelled him ‘a Crusader on the Bench’.
Traditional doctrine finds limitations in doxastic dialectics—the exchange of opinions. This book affirms doxa’s cognitive autonomy, arguing that it opens conditions for an alternative truth and is the exclusive procedure for establishing the fundaments of axiology.
Metaphor is a complex phenomenon whose realizations vary across languages, text genres, and cultures. This book gathers a collection of studies that adopt different theoretical views to explore the uses of metaphors, providing a diversified yet coherent view of current research.
This is the first critical analysis of the physician as detective. Exploring the similarity between a medical “case study” and a mystery, this book reviews major authors from R. Austin Freeman to Patricia Cornwell. It will appeal to mystery fans and medical professionals alike.
Putting Samotherium in its Place
This book explores the rich Miocene mammalian fossils of Samos, from the ancient Greek myths that explained them to the Barnum Brown expeditions. It compares the osteology of the giraffe, okapi, and the extinct giraffid Samotherium, and maps the island’s famous bone quarries.
Recent Scholarship on Japan
This collection of cutting-edge scholarship surveys Japanese literature from classical to contemporary. It explores works from Heian-era female authors to Haruki Murakami, relating them to Japanese society, the global context, and the vital role of translation.
A Cartographic Journey of Race, Gender and Power
This book explores how spatial borders are social constructs used to define hierarchies of race, gender, and power. Through literary narratives from East and West, it follows voices crossing these boundaries to envision a new model for a diverse global identity.
British Culture and Society in the 1970s
This collection of essays explores the revolutionary culture of the 1970s, a period of extraordinary social, sexual and political change. This interdisciplinary account offers an exciting interpretation of a momentous and colourful period in cultural history.
Symbols in Arts, Religion and Culture
Abbaszadeh discusses how we learn about our human nature and how we fit into the larger scheme of life and spirit. She argues that we do this by understanding how our ancestors, through art, symbol and myth, expressed their relationship with the natural world.
The Safe Operating Space Treaty
Traditional law, based on borders, is ecological nonsense. This book redefines our Common Home not as a place, but as a fragile state of the Earth System, arguing for its legal recognition as a Common Natural Heritage for all humankind.
Toward a New Foundationalism
Contemporary philosophy is breached. Its dominant Anglo-American and Continental branches both deny that philosophy has a central foundation. This book proposes a new foundationalism, discovering a hidden “ruling image” that animates the thought of major figures on both sides.
Combining philosophy, science, and literature, Toliver examines lingering misconceptions of world history as a continuing source of international tension, showing beliefs incompatible with natural history continue to intensify nationalism and support terrorist movements.
The discourse of education for sustainability is a self-centred discourse, refusing to acknowledge insights from other fields. It needs a radical paradigm shift to become communal learning in a real place, facing tough questions about its prevailing insularity.
The Communicative Mind
This multifaceted investigation into linguistic meaning argues for the indispensability of dialogue in cognition. Drawing on linguistics, philosophy, and literary studies, it demonstrates the centrality of subjectivity and turn-taking interaction in natural semantics.
Psychology for a Better World
This anthology from World without Anger (WWA) promotes peace. Peer-reviewed papers from an international conference reflect diverse, multidisciplinary perspectives on anger management, emotional intelligence, and cultural harmony.
John Dos Passos
These essays explore Dos Passos’s writings through the lens of biography, aesthetics, and social critique. They examine his innovative literary techniques and his status as a towering figure of American Modernism who chronicled an era that shattered the ‘American Dream’.
Selected Studies on Genre in Middle Eastern Literatures
These 12 case studies by experts in Arabic, Persian, and Turkish literature offer new insights into the intellectual universe of the Middle East. Spanning genres from classical poetry and epics to travelogues and novels, this book creates a new comparative framework.
This book sheds light on how the welfare-states of Scandinavia struggle with diversity, inclusion and citizenship. In Denmark, Norway and Sweden, migration challenges social citizenship, creating new tensions between rights, obligations, and identity.
Jamesian Cultural Anxiety in the East and West
This volume explores the world that shaped Henry James’s work through themes of cultural anxiety. Each chapter offers a new way of reading his work to generate insights, establish intercultural understandings, and define the Jamesian worldview as universal.
The triple bottom line is a framework for achieving economic and social balance while maintaining ecological systems. This volume details the state of the art of this approach, indicating where there is debate, overlooked theory, and unresolved problems.
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