This is the first woman’s travel narrative from late 19th-century colonial India. Krishnabhabini Das defied convention by writing about her life in England to educate fellow Indians on British culture, offering a rare female perspective on the colonial world.
Murdering Ministers
Delve into Macbeth as never before. This guide integrates centuries of criticism and performance to answer enduring questions (Why is the play cursed?), explores its explosive historical context, and reveals the hilarious dramatic irony often missed in the sombre tragedy.
Sub-regionalism and International River Basins
This book investigates sub-regional integration by comparing the Mekong and Danube river basins in Southeast Asia and Europe. It offers unique insights into these ‘bottom-up’ processes, evaluating similarities and differences based on local interests and expectations.
This volume provides new insights into the complex contexts of legal discourse across digital media. It addresses topical issues of web technologies and social media in professional communication, providing a multifaceted overview of ongoing research and knowledge in the field.
The dance floor is the stage of life. This book explores how dance reflects the maps of meaning that structure our lives, from religious to artistic forms, examining performers from Fred Astaire to Michael Jackson and choreographers like Balanchine and Fosse.
Exploring the qualifications that social actors use to support themselves when engaging in common actions, this inquiry highlights the ways in which these actors communalise certain aspects of their life and produce justifications that give sense to their actions.
This book explores the history of migration in India. In contrast to the 19th century’s mass migration of labourers, it investigates the comparative immobility of the people of Andhra, discussing causes including their traditional attachment to their native locale.
Why do we use the terms “left” and “right” in politics? This book is the first to discover that the answer lies in unconscious urges deep within us. It traces the dichotomy from its origin in the French Revolution to modern experiments and even Sophocles’ Antigone.
This book investigates the popularization of economic discourse. Analyzing online newspapers, it explores how specialized knowledge is transformed for a general audience, revealing the realistic vocabulary and professional jargon used in economics today.
Whiteheadian Ethics
These papers explore the ethical and meta-ethical implications of Alfred North Whitehead’s process philosophy. From a major international conference, contributions cover the metaphysics of morals, evaluating moral practices, and ethics and aesthetic values.
The ten articles here investigate the relationship between Chinese wisdom and the practice of modern management. The present-day application of the wisdom hidden within traditional Chinese culture and philosophy provides the study of modern management with fresh ideas.
This book features accessible close readings of modern poetry’s engagement with religious experience. It presents diverse modes of the poetic endeavor to capture the divine, exploring a spectrum of attitudes from Christian faith to the worship of nature as the Force of Life.
Advertising, Values and Social Change
Following the 2008 financial crisis, consumer society has changed. This book analyzes how brands and advertising must adapt, identifying new languages for storytelling that reflect a new global sensibility and a demand for more responsible consumption.
This study examines the work of Edwin Morgan, a poet admired for his experimental writings and diverse output. Chapters cover his vision poems, his use of the grotesque, adaptations of the elegy, and his enterprise of “voicing” the universe.
Global managers need to communicate and connect with many cultures. The new language of business is cultural literacy, which encompasses basic knowledge of business language, culture and the local economy. This work focuses on those aspects in seven countries in the G-20.
Redwood undertakes a close formal analysis of Tarkovsky’s later films. Charting the stylistic and narrative innovations in Mirror, Stalker, Nostalghia and The Sacrifice, he succeeds in shedding new light on these celebrated, but often misunderstood, masterpieces.
The Outback Within
Byrne explores the evolving national mythology of the Australian outback, discussing why narratives of outback journeys are so often suffused with the aura of death. He argues for a more conscious engagement with the process of symbolic death and rebirth in this environment.
The Mirror of Antiquity
This book exposes how 20th-century travel writers’ responses to Greece were conditioned by classical scholarship and history. David Wills shows how, in their hands, Greece became less a modern country and more a mirror of its ancient past.
Teaching C. S. Lewis
This practical guide for C.S. Lewis study groups eliminates weeks of research. Covering his novels, Mere Christianity, and The Screwtape Letters, each chapter includes biographical sketches, chapter summaries, discussion themes, and study questions.
Demand Articulation of Emerging Technologies
In today’s high-tech environment, how do you convert a vague set of wants into well-defined products? Through “demand articulation,” an important competency of market-driving firms. While most firms seek pre-articulated demand, this book analyzes how to create it.