The Greek Church of Cyprus, the Morea and Constantinople during the Frankish Era (1196-1303)
This book examines the Greek Church in Cyprus, Morea and Constantinople during the Frankish Era (1196–1303). It analyses the establishment of the Latin Church and its relations with the Greek clergy and secular authorities.
Outside
Artists, scholars, and philosophers explore cloth’s value and impact on society, revealing its potential as a metaphor for consciousness, a carrier of narrative, and a catalyst for community empathy and cohesion.
Social Issues and Policies in Asia
Across Asia, rapid change creates conflict between family, work, and ageing. This book addresses these social issues by comparing the challenges and interventions in societies like Japan, Korea, and China, providing insight into this dynamic part of the world.
Intellectual Agent, Mediator and Interlocutor
This book critically examines African politics, arguing that many contemporary problems have their roots in the fifteen years prior to independence (1945–1960). This was the incubation period for the dysfunction that has stymied the continent ever since.
Work and the Challenges of Belonging
This book explores the relationship between work and migrant belonging in globalizing economies. It examines how policies create precarious, poorly paid work, and discusses the challenges of exclusion, securitization, and the commodification of migrant labor.
The Image of a Country created by International Media
How does ex-communist Europe come across through the Western media? This book analyzes five years of BBC coverage on Bulgaria, revealing hidden attitudes. Bulgarians are construed as “immigrants,” not “ex-pats,” and associated with CORRUPTION, POOR, and POOREST.
Saharan Crossroads
The Sahara is not a barrier, but a vibrant crossroads. This book explores millennia of historical, cultural, and artistic linkages between North and West Africa, revealing long histories of peaceful coexistence, interdependence, and cooperation.
Transforming From Christianity to Islam
Why would a Western woman convert to Islam and embrace the hijab? These personal accounts explore the complex reality where devotion collides with the immense influence of peer, social, and male pressure on one of life’s biggest decisions.
This book offers a comparative analysis of pre-trial detention. It considers the philosophical principles, policies, and checks and balances used to protect individual freedoms across countries with differing legal traditions.
Unseen Enemy
In colonial Bengal, Europeans faced diseases their medicine failed to treat. This book follows English doctors, backed by the East India Company, in their struggle, culminating in Calcutta’s controversial experimental Mesmeric Hospital.
This book explores the personal and environmental factors affecting university students’ entrepreneurial intentions. It provides insights for policymakers, educators, and students on developing entrepreneurial knowledge, skills, and career choices.
Two Voices in One
This collection of essays by leading scholars opens new horizons by uniting Asian and Translation Studies. Discover why a Chinese garden can be a text, how Aristotle and Mencius are linked by translation, and how computer-aided translation is developing.
From a Heuristic Point of View
How do we get new knowledge? Carlo Cellucci argues that traditional logic is inadequate. We need a new, heuristic logic for generating knowledge. This book is a collection of essays from leading figures who discuss, criticize, and expand on Cellucci’s work.
Design Directions
This book explores how designers and researchers respond to the changing relationship between humans and technology. It presents diverse approaches, from theoretical explorations to practical methods, on topics like emotions, education, and transforming environments.
The Eye and the Beholder
Hannelore Hägele examines the colouring of the eye in late medieval and early modern sculpture. She asks how optics, science, and theology determined how eyes were perceived and represented, arguing it is the beholder who judges the worth of any creative effort.
Revisiting Loss
Loss defines Kazuo Ishiguro’s narrators, whose reconstructions of the past are exercises in misremembering and self-deception. This first book-length study of memory in his novels offers a thoroughly researched, interdisciplinary survey of his entire output.
“What is to be Done?”
This book introduces the meanings and motivations behind public engagement in art and design education. It explores the challenges of measuring and articulating cultural impact for postgraduate students and professionals in Higher Education and the cultural industries.
New Directions in the Acquisition of Romance Languages
This book presents a selection of papers on Language Acquisition with a special focus on Romance varieties. The volume covers a wide array of topics, including L1 and L2 acquisition, typical and atypical development, syntax, semantics, and phonology.
Health, Communication and Multicultural Communities
For healthcare professionals, students, mediators, and interpreters, this is a practical handbook on communicating in multicultural settings. It is not a theoretical book but is oriented towards reflection and practice, drawing from years of experience.
Food is central to children’s literature. This collection examines the uses of food in books from the nineteenth century to modern fantasy, showing how it reflects society and culture and is used by authors to instruct and deliver moral messages.
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