Surface and Deep Histories
This volume positions surface in architecture within the scholarship of critical theory and design-based approaches, and invites academics and designers, and art and architectural historians based in Australia to consider the uses, figurations, scales, and typologies of surfaces.
Land and Landscape in Francographic Literature
As globalization displaces bodies, landscape becomes a potent source for identity. This collection examines how contemporary French literature re-maps post-colonial worlds, exploring dispossession, resistance, and re-appropriation in a constructed literary space.
This book presents the fascinating story of the Pasteur Institute. From pioneering microbiology to identifying HIV-1, it has led the fight against infectious diseases. Discover the lively personalities and outsized passions that give birth to the triumph of world-class research.
Poetics of Indigenismo in Zapatista Discourse
Analysing the writings of Subcomandante Marcos and their relationship to multiple literary genres, this work shows that ,while Marcos employs the iconography of Che Guevara and Zapata et al., he also embodies the aspiration ‘to change the world without taking power’.
After God, with Reason Alone – Saikat Guha Commemorative Volume (Volume 8
Philosopher and physicist Saikat Guha was a metaphysician interested in applying rigorous logic to theology. These five papers reformulate Aquinas’s arguments for God, ask if Ockham’s razor requires atheism, and model the Trinity’s logical consistency.
The Old World and the New
This biography tells the untold story of two British aristocrats. It details the drama of their personal lives and their rule in colonial India and Australia, examining the decline of an upper class and raising questions of Empire and social mobility.
This volume analyses how seventeenth-century English news writers shaped their discourse. Examining corantos, newsbooks, and gazettes, it reveals the strategies they used to inform, persuade, and entertain a news-obsessed readership.
This book examines Adorno’s mode of critique through his aesthetics. It explores how this focus on aesthetics shapes his readings of knowledge, history, culture, and art to reassert his relevance for constructing effective modes of critical thinking.
Migrants and Memory
This volume gives a voice to marginalized communities—the hidden Irish, the migrant, the nomad. Scholars and activists explore ethnicity, identity, and racism, offering a catalyst for new inquiry in Irish, Traveller, Romani, and Migration Studies.
Hungarian Perspectives on the Western Canon
In this collection, Hungarian literature is read together with canonical works of the Western literary tradition. The text scrutinises the distinction between “major” and “minor” literatures, showing that this can highlight previously unknown components of the literary tradition.
Representing Culture
Defying traditional boundaries, these interdisciplinary essays offer new perspectives for cultural criticism. They explore current experience through the intersecting axes of identity politics, visual culture and technology.
Infections in Hematology
With resistance to antibiotics growing and new forms of infectious diseases emerging, the findings of this text—which draws on extensive clinical experience and the results of modern research to identify new directions in the field—are particularly timely.
Francophone Women Coming of Age
These essays explore growing up female in male-dominated Francophone cultures. Spanning Africa, Europe, and North America, the works analyze conflicts of culture and family, sharing a common search for identity and liberation through writing.
Postcolonialism
Can literature recenter postcolonial studies? Through a South African lens, these essays move beyond theory to the subjective power of literary texts, challenging us to see our interconnected worlds anew.
This book explores the spirit of Mesoamerican civilization from pre-history to the 20th century, interpreting its architectural legacy—from symbolic public plazas to the eloquent mural paintings that served as a powerful medium for cultural interaction.
Colin Wilson (1931-2013) was a celebrated English philosopher and polymath. The papers here explore a variety of Wilson-related topics, ranging from Existentialism to the Occult; from Robert Musil to classical music; and from Transpersonal Psychology to Transcendental Evolution.
Where Agnon and Jung Meet
This book uses Carl Jung’s theory to analyze the Jewish archetypes in Nobel laureate S. Y. Agnon’s novel, The Bridal Canopy. It serves as a practical guide to applying psychological theory to a novel, offering a new perspective on the depths of the universal human soul.
This is the first in-depth English analysis of the nine short poems, or romances, by Spanish mystic Saint John of the Cross. Focusing on the Trinity, it explores their literary, theological, and mystical elements, tying them to San Juan’s better-known works.
Technolife 2035
This book explores technology’s future influence on life. It discusses trends in biotech, robotics, and energy, and presents three scenarios showing the possible directions development could take us by the year 2035.
Essays on Education and Popular Culture
This volume is devoted to simple but deep readings of the subtle and not-so-subtle messages in films, and to the interpretation of the silences that are strategically delivered through the mass media. It will serve to promote mass literacy and mutual understanding.