Nabokov’s Palace
Nabokov’s Palace discovers the sub-texts and inter-textual patterns in his American novels making them an integral part of the Anglo-American literary tradition, revealing his “otherworld” of art and communion with dead poets.
The Future of Post-Human Unconsciousness
Contrary to conventional wisdom, the exploration of anomalous phenomena has tremendous implications for the future of intelligent life. This book focuses on the controversial relationship between the nature of unconsciousness and anomalous experience.
Dislocating Anthropology?
Dislocating Anthropology? explores how fieldwork in bounded places is no longer tenable. This collection of essays sheds light on methodological dislocations relating to locality, identity, and fieldwork, examining relationships that are spatially dynamic.
Friends and Foes Volume II
This volume investigates the relationship between friendship and conflict from political, sociological and psychological perspectives. Scholars examine how friendships are forged in contexts of conflict and how conflict itself can be transformed into friendship.
City Visions
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This collection of fourteen pathbreaking essays treats the panoramic work of Iain Sinclair, one of Britain’s most significant contemporary writers. These multifaceted essays explore his poetry, prose, and filmmaking, and his complex vision of London.END$
Victorian Turns, NeoVictorian Returns
Essays by international scholars explore Victorian writers like Dickens and Eliot in their cultural context. The collection then examines NeoVictorian returns in contemporary literature and film, revealing the era’s ongoing dialogue with the modern world.
Etching Our Own Image
A celebration of Arab American art and identity. In the wake of 9/11, a movement of artists galvanized to define themselves, rather than be defined by others. By telling their own stories, these voices reclaim their image and tell the world who they are.
This book helps students and professionals understand the language of architecture and civil engineering and improve their linguistic skills. It includes practical exercises, a compilation of technical terms, and is written in an accessible yet rigorous style.
Professional Morality and Guilty Bystanding
Professions are riddled with complexities and ethical conflicts that obstruct the goal of meaningful work. This book explores the reflections of spiritual master Thomas Merton, offering the confidence to transcend these challenges and transform workplaces through moral action.
A Different Freedom
Symbolic of freedom and control, the kite lies at the core of the Gujarati way of life. A Different Freedom explores the world of the kite, its history, politics, and the colourful Uttarayan festival, as it travels through the centuries to modern Gujarat.
Toni Morrison’s A Mercy
This first volume of essays on Toni Morrison’s acclaimed novel, A Mercy, presents critical approaches to its richly-layered text. It explores the novel’s setting before slavery was linked to race, illuminating the work for scholars and students.
When the World Turned Upside-Down
This collection of essays explores post-1989 Western perceptions of Eastern Europe. It argues the East-West divide has not vanished, examining portrayals of the region’s transformations in Western fiction, travel writing, theatre, and documentaries.
Art in Motion
International scholars and artists consider screendance from various angles, including historical research, aesthetic analysis, and contemporary practice. This collection explores the choreography of moving images and its role in culture today.
Word and Rite
This book shows how the Bible and Christian tradition intersect the language of Shakespeare. It focuses on how rites illuminate mysteries and how ceremony turns mayhem into mystery. In Shakespeare, word and rite are as inseparable as word and sacrament in worship.
The Marlowe-Shakespeare Continuum
For those who doubt that the actor from Stratford wrote the works of Shakespeare, Christopher Marlowe has always been the leading candidate. This book’s research firmly supports the theory that Marlowe, living on after he supposedly died, was the main hand behind the works.
Movie Time studies temporal mythmaking in American movies. It explores how films make sense of our world by reconstructing pasts like the 1950s, defining the present through the rise of conservatism, and foreseeing alternative futures.
SME’s and the Internationalization of Food Exports
As internationalization grows, firms see expansion as an opportunity for growth. This book identifies the internal and external factors associated with exporting foodstuffs into retail, conceptualising internationalization theory to address its unique problems.
Forty Years of Science and Religion
Celebrating the fortieth anniversary of the UK’s Science and Religion Forum, this collection together leading scientific and theological thinkers to reflect on the last four decades of the science-theology conversation and to chart new directions for its future.
A Queer Eye for Capitalism
This study examines the reality show Queer Eye, revealing how its representations of queer culture reinforce binaries and serve commercial interests. The show transforms “queer” into a commodity, redefines masculinity through wealth, and depicts queerness as asexual.
Mapping Channels between Ganges and Rhein
Explore the centuries-long fascination between India and Germany. This book charts their complex, entangled exchange in literature, philosophy, and politics, providing a vital overview of current research on their shared history.
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