Musical Islands
Islands are imagined as unique places where unexpected treasures can be found. This collection applies this powerful metaphor to musicology, showcasing innovative research from Australia and New Zealand in both established and uncharted territories.
To See the Wizard
Inspired by The Wizard of Oz, this volume interrogates the politics at work in children’s literature. It analyzes how “wizards”—writers, publishers, and others—use stories to shape young readers’ views on race, class, gender, and power.
Counterpoints
Revolving around Edward Said’s theme of “counterpoint,” this book explores his contribution to the humanities. Overshadowed by his political positions, Said’s intellectual achievements should be acknowledged. This book pays tribute to his academic and humanistic legacy.
This book explains magnetohydrodynamics: how magnetic fields create forces in conductive fluids. It covers governing equations, nanofluid heat transfer, and new numerical and analytical methods with applications in engineering, nanotechnology, and materials science.
“The Given Note”
This book examines how traditional Irish music and song have influenced Irish poets. It looks at this influence historically and in contemporary work, focusing on six key poets, including Seamus Heaney, Ciaran Carson, and Nuala Ní Dhomhnaill.
This collection of essays tackles classic questions: What is life? What is consciousness? It explores whether evolution is predetermined, if science and spirituality can harmonize, and if AI is at odds with the human spirit. Each chapter includes science fiction stories on AI.
This book is a comprehensive investigation of the morphosyntax of Tarifit Berber. One of its most significant findings is that Tarifit has undergone a grammatical shift from VSO word order to a topic-prominent system. Novel analyses are also proposed for clitics and causatives.
Learning and Using Multiple Languages
This volume presents the latest research on multilingual language learning. Adopting a multilingual perspective, it analyzes grammatical, social, and affective factors across diverse age groups and global settings. Essential for both researchers and teachers.
Slaves were not passive victims. They used religion with ingenuity to create new cultures, identities, and even resistance. This volume juxtaposes slave religious strategies in Graeco-Roman antiquity and modern Brazil, shedding new light on ancient slaves.
This monograph explores how linguistic categories unify syntax, semantics, and information structure. It places grammaticality at the core, showing how categories link syntactic form with social reference to create meaning, carving out a new landscape of possible human language.
Italian Architects and Builders in the Ottoman Empire and Modern Turkey
This collection covers a complex cultural and political geography spanning from the Danubian principalities to Anatolia and the Aegean region. It explores a rich transcultural field of encounters and interactions, analysed on the basis of hitherto uncovered archival materials.
Islam in the West
This book investigates the construction of Muslim identity in the West, exploring the difficulties of assimilation and integration. It analyzes the symbiotic relationship between Islam and the West and the pursuit of religious nationalism within Western societies.
This collection explores evidentiality—marking the information source in a sentence—in Indo-European, Turkic, and Amerindian languages. Blending theory and discourse analysis, it highlights the overlap of evidential and epistemic values for linguists and social scientists.
Understanding Interactions in Complex Systems
This book explores the complex nature of interactions and the modeling of interactional systems. It shows that all disciplines can be enriched by exploring alternative paradigms, arguing that ignoring the multi-dimensional nature of interactions is not an option.
Spatio-Temporal Narratives
This book explores the merchant networks and maritime trade routes of the First Global Age (16th-18th centuries). Using Geographic Information Systems (GIS), it visualizes the integration of economies, the organization of trade, and the evolution of networks.
This study unearths the singular concept of “parama-mukhya-vṛtti” from the Dvaita Vedānta philosophy of Madhva. Discover the 12th-century thinker’s unique hermeneutical technique used to establish Viṣṇu as the focus of Vedic writings and its relevance for any sacred text.
Master unpredictable English pronunciation. This book demystifies the rules of English sounds for non-native learners, helping you improve your speech. Includes practical exercises with corrections, making it an essential guide for both students and teachers.
The Art of Allusion in Chinese Poetry
This book explores the rhetorical function of allusion in Li Shangyin’s poems, formulating an English taxonomy for the practice in Chinese poetry. It challenges conventional gendered allegory, revealing how Li’s manipulation of history produces metaphorical and ambiguous effects.
Creating Cultural Synergies
This book brings together international researchers from diverse fields to explore how intercultural competence can work in today’s society. The contributors elucidate the challenges and potentials of interculturality and interreligiosity.
The Root Causes of Terrorism
This publication discusses a range of themes related to terrorism, such as religious violence in scriptural monotheism, interpretations of religious texts, militancy and sacrifice, and religious terrorism.
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