Spiritual and Corporeal Selves in India
This volume explores the union of the corporeal and the spiritual in contemporary India. It offers clues to the East-West encounter and tackles the dualism of mind and body, suggesting a rupture of binary thinking, unlike in Western theory.
Lavinia Fontana’s Mythological Paintings
This volume investigates Lavinia Fontana’s mythological paintings. The first female painter of sixteenth-century Italy to depict female nudes and mythological subjects, Fontana challenged the male tradition of history painting and paved the way for future female artists.
This book explores the connection between information structure and syntax, examining phenomena like topic and focus fronting in English and Spanish. It argues that differences in word order across languages are the consequence of feature inheritance in the sentence periphery.
This book addresses the changing nature of research methodologies in mathematics, science, health and environmental education. It has a singular focus on methodology as something worth considering in itself, bringing methodology to the forefront of educational research.
This volume examines the challenges of social exclusion and inequality facing Western Balkan countries on their path to the EU. It explores how state failures to protect women, young people, and Roma minorities have driven high rates of outward migration.
Master English phrasal verbs. This comprehensive resource provides a list of verbs with easy definitions, usage examples, and exercises. It’s an essential tool for non-native speakers seeking to achieve native-like fluency and master an unpredictable part of the language.
This collection of essays examines dystopian fiction in literature, TV, and games. Capturing the dilemmas of our precarious epoch, it offers new interpretations of classics like Orwell and Atwood and pop culture phenomena like The Hunger Games and Fallout.
Daesoon Jinrihoe in Modern Korea
In an era of hardship, new religious movements (NRMs) emerged in East Asia. This book presents the unique case of Daesoon Jinrihoe, a native Korean NRM which successfully survived and transformed. It offers insight that such groups can thrive in a digital era, not just disappear.
This book describes terahertz radiation’s interaction with materials from dielectrics to metals. It covers all types of terahertz sources and detectors, investigates the “terahertz gap,” and explores means of increasing the working frequency and output power of the devices.
Politics is not only about ideas, but practices. This book reveals how 19th-century exiles created the laboratory for modern politics, circulating not just ideals but the techniques of how to debate, vote, and run a party, resulting in a new political grammar.
These performance texts explore disability, inclusion, and diversity in our 21st-century culture. Offering challenging, evenly divided roles and exciting historical subjects, they provide ample scope for ensemble acting and group production.
Strategic indecision explains the endemic conflicts and geopolitical tensions in the Black Sea. This is the first encyclopaedia dedicated to the region’s geopolitics, written for researchers and any reader interested in international relations, history, and geography.
“God became man that man might become God.” This book shows how Hegel fleshes this thought out, stripping away false materialist interpretations of his philosophy to reveal its continuity with the Biblical belief in “the power to become the sons of God.”
Paganism and Its Discontents
While some use Norse spirituality to promote racist ideologies, many contemporary Heathens reject this thinking. This book delineates between two communities using shared symbols for widely different purposes to help mitigate the rising tide of hate and racialized identity.
The Politics of Culture
This volume examines the impact of popular culture on politics and social issues. Contributions explore diverse topics including ecofeminism, queer identity, socio-political satire, and conservatism, showcasing the interplay between the personal and the political.
How does gender affect music? How did Bowie change performer identity? How sexist is glam metal? Are LGBTQ+ issues reflected in 21st century music? From French opera to metal and rap, these contributions challenge and inform, confirming that music shapes our gendered selves.
A Century of Italian American Economics
This book uses the American Chamber of Commerce in Italy as a privileged observation point for the study of economic relations between Italy and the United States, showing the Chamber’s fundamental role in strengthening cooperation and business between the two countries.
This book offers a biopolitical analysis of the Harry Potter series. Applying the theories of Foucault, Hardt, and Negri, it reveals how the fantasy world both perpetuates power inequalities and provides a dissident perspective on power relations.
This text explores how ideology steers terrorist groups. It argues they are not monolithic, as guiding views influence their tactics, targets, and recruitment. By examining ideological group types with detailed examples, crucial differences among them become clear.
Realising Health
This book examines the Pioneer Health Centre, a world-renowned experiment in health-creation. Forced to close in 1950, its ideas continue to inspire. It investigates why such initiatives struggle against a culture that values cure more than prevention.
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