I Want to Change My Life
Talent shows claim to give ordinary people extraordinary opportunities. But do they deliver? This book shows that few contestants achieve lasting success, revealing that television picks its own stars for a good backstory as much as for their talent.
Dance in Ireland
Dance in Ireland provides an in-depth view of dance during the colonial and post-colonial eras. It presents dance as an integral part of Irish life and a signifier of cultural change. An indispensable resource for academics and artists alike.
Scripture
Scripture is a mysterious, enriched word of God with both human and divine authorship. At once ancient and open to contemporary challenges, it draws people into a fertile divine-human dialogue that transcends cultures and times, destroying isolation.
A collection of essays by international scholars on pluralism and other key concepts for understanding our complex contemporary world. These contributions provide a philosophical analysis of the challenges confronting modern society, politics, and culture.
This collection of essays explores how scholars, critics, and artists have reflected upon and re-imagined Charles Dickens’s texts. It offers a vast array of interdisciplinary approaches—from gender studies to film—attesting to his global appeal.
Confining Spaces, Resistant Subjectivities
This book offers a contemporary re-reading of postcolonial women’s narratives, focusing on female oppression, voice, and agency. An analysis of unconventional spaces of female resistance, such as prison and madness, yields surprising results.
This volume explores the relations between multinational empires and the nation. It analyzes the origins of nation-states, the issue of national minorities after the dissolution of empires, and the role of art and culture in forming national identities.
Fighting Cane and Canon
This book explores the persistence of Hindi poetry in Mauritius through the work of Abhimanyu Unnuth. His writing captures a postcolonial people’s reevaluation of history, labor, and identity, raising crucial questions about language and canonicity in World Literature.
This volume presents original contributions on women’s migration from an interdisciplinary context. The papers examine diverse destinations—including the Italian city of Palermo, Italy and Europe—through a variety of theoretical and geographical perspectives.
Crisis, Globalization and Governance
As globalization challenges old business practices, this book tackles how to reinvent governance at private and public levels. It provides strategies to reorient globalization for a safer future, promoting public interest and social democracy.
From Formal to Non-Formal
Authors from diverse fields—including sociology, philosophy, and history—explore non-formal education, learning, and knowledge. This diversity of approaches offers new findings and a basis for reflection on the varied dimensions of formal and informal learning.
This book provides an overview of recent developments in freedom of religion in Turkey. While progress has been made towards meeting EU norms, many restrictions remain in a country defined as a democratic, secular state, focusing on the most urgent issues.
Re-Inventing Western Civilisation
This book reveals neoliberalism as a transnational tradition carried by a network seeking societies based on individual freedom and a free market, transforming the overall picture of European (neo)liberalisms in the twentieth century.
New Tourism in the 21st Century
This analysis of 21st-century tourism explores culture, heritage, nature, and branding. From urban destinations to pilgrimage routes like the Camino de Santiago, it presents tourism as a slow counterpoint to the frenetic pace of modern life.
Protean Selves
What does it mean to write “I” in a world where technology and globalization have complicated notions of authenticity and selfhood? This collection of essays explores the intricate relations between language, self, and identity through the analysis of the first-person voice.
Still Waiting for Tomorrow
This book is a critical examination of protracted refugee situations. Leading scholars analyze the root causes of these extended crises, from war to statelessness, addressing the political and legal tensions that undermine potential solutions.
This volume shows the preposition over, often regarded as a function word with little semantic content, encodes rich grammatical and semantic information. The study confirms that over encodes a broad range of geometrical and functional relations.
Shakespeare and Tyranny
This book shows Shakespeare as an unwitting commentator on unsettling political events. Essays explore how his plays have been used to reflect, legitimize, or challenge authoritarian rule in Europe, North Africa, South America, and beyond.
William Writes to William
This edition provides a first insight into the personal writings of William Gilpin, an originator of the picturesque. His correspondence with his grandson is teeming with intimate detail on daily life, nature, and the art of being a grand-father.
Shining Humanity
This collection tells the tale of eleven ordinary Bosnian women peace builders who bore witness to horror but chose to live in hope. In the darkness of war, they showed genuine humanity and dared to imagine a life beyond violence and fear.
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