Journalistic Translation
A breakthrough in the field of journalistic translation between English and Kurdish, this volume painstakingly formulates a composite model of translation procedures that covers both the linguistic and cultural aspects inherent in translation.
Industrial Labour and the Environment
This volume brings the history of the environment together with that of work, bridging a cultural divide. It explores how human work impacts ecosystems, from the fractures between workers and communities to the redevelopment of industrial areas.
Most writing on art is about creation. This volume addresses its relationship with destruction. It brings together distinct areas for enquiry, from artists whose making is driven by breaking down matter to unique approaches to representing mass destruction.
This book highlights the cultures and religions of Mediterranean countries, discussing diversity, minority rights, and interreligious dialogue. It provides a roadmap to manage pluralism, helping different populations live together in harmony, acceptance, and coexistence.
Anáil an Bhéil Bheo
Anáil an Bhéil Bheo explores orality in modern Irish culture through interdisciplinary essays on literature, folklore, and the arts. Includes major contributions by leading scholars Gearóid Ó Crualaoich and Henry Glassie.
Let’s Talk About Sex
Uncovering the hidden desires and public fears of Australia from 1901 to 1961, this history reveals how sex became a battleground of crucial social, cultural, and political importance.
Operetta
From 19th-century Paris to Broadway, this source book surveys operetta’s international schools and principal composers. It offers a chronology, biographical material, selected synopses, a discography, and a comprehensive index.
Thinking of Thinking
This book explores what is exciting about thinking. How we think contributes to developing meaning-in-life and enhances relationships. The quality of our thinking enriches the connection between our inner and external worlds, propelling spiritual development and insight.
Why did Philo of Alexandria avoid the open use of dialectic? Does his interpretation of Abraham’s migration include a hidden political message? This collection of essays investigates these and other questions, exploring the ideological aspects of Philo’s approach to Scripture.
Literature, Theory and the History of Ideas
How do power structures shape our notions of identity, gender, and culture? This collection interrogates these crucial questions across literature, film, and cultural theory, making it a vital resource for scholars and students.
Africa and Beyond
This volume challenges the view that consigns the arts to the periphery of social life. It presents insightful perspectives that ascribe agency to creative products in human development and is highly recommended for specialists and the public at large.
How can a translator recreate the hybrid identity of characters who perform masculinity and ethnicity through non-standard language? Using Gautam Malkani’s novel Londonstani and its Italian translation, this book tackles the challenges of translating vernacular literature.
This book explores an organism’s development in health and disease from the viewpoints of biochemistry, biophysics, and thermodynamics. It offers a broad perspective on the interaction between an organism and its environment and the mechanisms that maintain its internal energy.
“Rapt in Secret Studies”
Inspired by Prospero’s phrase “rapt in secret studies,” this collection of essays from emerging scholars imagines new pathways in Shakespeare Studies, exploring themes of obsession (“rapt”), spies and contagion (“secret”), and authorship (“study”).
The fifteen chapters here look at a variety of popular and folk music from around the world, with examples of British, Slovene, Chinese and American songs, poems and musicals, demonstrating how lyrics set to music can reflect, express and construct collective identities.
This book describes the different forms of aid over the last 65 years and analyses why they changed. As old concepts reappear with new donors, professionals and students will benefit from studying this history. Is the pendulum swinging back?
Digitalization and artificial intelligence are rapidly changing our world, but traditional education fails to prepare us for this new reality. A century ago, Alfred North Whitehead developed a new learning cycle approach. This book investigates his philosophy for our time.
This book explores hypermodern documentary discourse through audiovisual analysis. Drawing on philosopher Gilles Lipovetsky, it provides a new understanding of the theoretical and aesthetic qualities of hypermodern documentaries within film and media studies.
Traditional Sudanese Foods
Traditional Sudanese foods are distinguished by their unique taste and nutritional content. This is the first reference work to focus on their full scope, from composition to preparation and nutritional aspects. This book fills that gap, covering over 43 traditional foods.
This critical study of Hughes’s poetry from 1957 to 1989 explores how his fascination with violence developed into a vision of cosmic energy. It charts his transition from a poet of ‘blood and guts’ into a messiah of ‘bio-centric life’.
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