Averting a Global Environmental Collapse
Averting environmental catastrophe is a socio-political, not technical, challenge. This volume presents papers from international experts exploring how anthropology and indigenous knowledge can provide solutions for sustainable environments, resource management, and justice.
Conversations in Philosophy
This collection of thoughtful and challenging essays offers a careful examination of knowledge and freedom. It interrogates the social dimensions of knowledge, the relationship between knowledge and truth, and the nature of personal and social liberty.
The Foreignness of Foreigners
This collection examines Britain’s encounters with the Other through literature, art, and politics. It explores how figures of the foreigner were imagined and fabricated, revealing the crucial role Otherness played in fashioning Britain’s national identity.
This book assesses the descriptive and explanatory power of various linguistic theories. It brings together contributions addressing formal theoretical issues and studies that put these theories to the test. For linguists, advanced students, and scholars.
Connections, Mobilities, Urban Prospects and Environmental Threats
This volume provides specialized insights into pressing Mediterranean issues, from climate change and urbanization to tourism and info-communication technologies, offering new perspectives on emerging threats in a region at the interface of many worlds.
Giving Children a Voice
This collection of papers by international experts challenges society to note the seriousness of child abuse and the impact of technology on children. It raises questions on the rights of the child, and the role of parenthood in today’s contexts.
This book is one of the first extensive cross-linguistic investigations on epithets (like “the bastard”). It analyses them from the syntax-semantics-pragmatics interface, arguing they are a type of pronoun subject to restrictions in attitude reports.
Power and Communication
This book explores the relationship between power and the media in Western societies. The media exercise symbolic force, but are also subject to political and economic influence. This relationship is paradoxically as strict as it is opaque.
Photography and Cinema
Visionary filmmaker and photographer Chris Marker blurred the lines between the still and moving image. This volume explores this fusion through his masterpiece La Jetée, analyzing its profound and lasting influence on art and cinema.
Patriarchy in Eclipse
This book examines two types of women in post-Civil War literature and art: the femme fatale and the New Woman. It explores how they challenged patriarchal culture and why they precipitated so much intellectual and artistic angst in their educated male readers.
How to do Philosophy
Why take Wittgenstein seriously today? This text explores the therapeutic conception of philosophy in his later work. Drawing on his writings, including posthumous publications, it clarifies his problem-specific and person-specific philosophical project.
Management Innovation and Entrepreneurship
Authored by scholars worldwide, this book offers a truly global perspective on management innovation, entrepreneurship, and human resource management. It provides scientific evidence and direction for businesses competing in today’s ever-changing environment.
Customary Laws and Social Order in Arab Society
Mahgoub investigates a number of urgent issues in contemporary Egyptian society, brought to light through over fifty years of fieldwork. The subjects covered include folk traditions and customs of the lifecycle; pregnancy and childbirth; and the socialization of boys and girls.
In King Lear, Macbeth, and Antony and Cleopatra, Shakespeare explores political survival at court. This book offers a new perspective on monarchy by distinguishing authority from power, arguing that persuasion is essential to reinforcing royal rule and establishing the monarch.
Global Perspectives on the Holocaust
This volume expands Holocaust coverage beyond its traditional European focus to a worldwide and interdisciplinary perspective. Scholars from five continents explore new research on the history, identity, and profound legacy of the Holocaust.
Towards a New Philosophy of Mental Health
This collection represents a major contribution to the interdisciplinary dialogue in mental health. It uses new tools from neuroscience, psychology, phenomenology, and epistemology to explore mental disorders and critically reappraise current research.
Aesthetics, Metaphysics, Language
Heidegger and Gadamer are among the most influential thinkers of the 20th century. This book addresses their contributions to aesthetics, metaphysics, and language, comparing their views to those of other thinkers like Hannah Arendt and Richard Rorty.
Translation studies has been dominated by Western discourses. This volume calls for new turns in the field by examining how the themes of patronage and agency shape translation and cross-cultural exchange within Eastern intellectual traditions.
Following the Animal
Following the Animal analyses human-animal transformations in modern Nordic literature. It provides insights into the human-animal relationship and offers scholars a transferable strategy for approaching texts from a human-animal studies perspective.
The Weight of the Past
The 1980 Turkish coup was a milestone of transformation, violence, and oppression. This book examines how it is remembered differently by various political groups, focusing on the contest between collective memory, identity, and power.
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