Ken Saro-Wiwa’s Shadow (Expanded Edition)
Ken Saro-Wiwa’s non-violent struggle for democracy, minority rights, and environmental awareness defined the Ogoni crisis of the 1990s. In a context of despotism, he was brutally cut down. This study provides an in-depth analysis of the crisis and its unfolding aftermath.
Reflections on Poetry and the World
This collection brings together 40 years of essays by philosopher Emily Grosholz. She brings poetry into relation with ethics, politics, science, and imagination, admiring all the more the distinct wisdom of poetry. These essays show how poetry deepens our understanding of life.
The Pope and the World
Pope Benedict XVI has long engaged in the dialogue between the sacred and the secular. While many accused him of changing his views, this book tracks his ideas over the years, revealing a profound consistency in directing all spheres—from the Liturgy to politics—towards God.
The Gladiators vs. Spartacus, Volume 2
From blacklisted director Abraham Polonsky, this is the unproduced screenplay for The Gladiators. He transformed Arthur Koestler’s complex novel of an ancient slave rebellion into a script worthy of its bold vision, but due to bad timing, it never went before the cameras.
How can tourism benefit a country inclusively and responsibly? Prominent scholars explore sustainable tourism development in Tanzania, focusing on local food linkages and responsible practices. A valuable source for the tourism industry, policymakers, scholars, and students.
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.
Why have Africa’s two largest oil producers, Angola and Nigeria, experienced such different outcomes? This book reveals how Angola’s leader used oil wealth to consolidate a 38-year autocracy, while in Nigeria, perennial contestation for power created a more competitive system.
The story of Spanish iron workers who migrated to south Wales at the turn of the 20th century. Facing poverty, conflict, and racism, they overcame hurdles to integrate through a new language, rugby, and choir membership, eventually becoming Welsh.
This book guides the switch from traditional source-based optical radiation measurements to more efficient, higher-accuracy detector-based applications. It covers improved standards from the UV to the IR range, enabling low-uncertainty radiometric and photometric measurements.
This book explores how Shakespeare used pagan mythology to reframe the Christian conflicts of his day. It offers a powerful new reading of The Winter’s Tale, one of his most spiritually rich and emotionally demanding plays.
The Gladiators vs. Spartacus, Volume 1
Using unpublished sources, this book documents the intense rivalry between movie productions of The Gladiators and Spartacus. This little-known chapter of Hollywood’s blacklist history was key to Dalton Trumbo’s successful effort to win screen credit.
In a world torn between globalization and nationalism, how are cultural identities defined? Focusing on Central and South-eastern Europe, this book reveals how tourism, education, and literature shape identity in our complex, interconnected society.
This book brings together essays by researchers, artists, and curators exploring themes such as identity, memory, and technology. It features a paper by a V&A curator on photographer Maurice Broomfield and includes color portfolios by Broomfield and Craig Easton.
Aesthetics of Presence
This book re-centers aesthetics on the spectator, replacing the long-dominant artwork as the exclusive focus. It develops an ‘Aesthetics of Presence’ by exploring perceiving, playing, placing, and performing as its theoretical cornerstones.
This book investigates language justice at the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia, where language was a tool of conflict. It reviews the tribunal’s language laws and services to ask whether linguistic justice was truly delivered to all parties.
Police records from 18th-century Paris reveal the lives of thousands of men who desired men. This is the first book to explore all the archives, examining patterns in their lives and in the surveillance and punishment of same-sex relations across the century.
This volume explores the implications of Chinese for linguistic theory and second language acquisition. Selected papers shed light on under-documented topics in theoretical and applied research, unpacking the significance of Chinese for mainstream linguistic theory.
This volume offers insights into warfare, diplomacy, and peacemaking on the Iberian Peninsula during the Middle Ages. The essays emphasize both violent conflict and the brokering of allegiances, from Muslim warlords serving Christian rulers to merchants coping with pirates.
This book expands universal design beyond physical spaces to focus on teaching and learning practice in higher education. Drawing on international expertise, it offers practical solutions for practitioners keen to enhance their practice and, as a consequence, student outcomes.
My Kind of Sound
Music shapes our identity. This book explores music as culture, art, and industry. It examines phenomena from the global rise of Reggaeton to iconic artists like David Bowie and the crucial role of music in TV series, showing how it challenges us to rethink our view of the world.
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