Why has The Merchant of Venice garnered so much attention? This collection offers readers sundry answers, showcasing disparate approaches from a feminist view to a Manga version, providing students with different critical lenses to interpret the play.
This book presents a broad academic study on the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic. Distinguished experts examine its effect on education, the economy, tourism, banking, work life, international relations, and more, offering a comprehensive look at how the world changed.
Singing for Themselves
This collection offers new conclusions about how female artists have contributed to pop, rock, blues and punk. From Etta James and Patti Smith to Destiny’s Child, these essays suggest new ways to hear music that is already part of our culture.
Communication in Postmodern Urban Fiction
Exploring urban fiction from the 1980s to the early 2000s, this book reveals an anxiety about the loss of self in our digital age. From Auster and Ellis to Palahniuk and DeLillo, it highlights how distanced communication triggers an imagination of violence and destruction.
Genre Studies in Focus
This collection of essays revises genre theory, exploring literary genres in transition. Adopting a cross-cultural and interdisciplinary approach, contributors investigate genre hybridization and evolution, showing that genres are inherently hybrid and flexible.
Public Debts and National Sovereignty from the 12th to the 21st Century
Following a series of crises, the world economy is burdened by high debt and the dramatic costs of fighting climate change. What can we learn from history? Global solidarity is necessary to share the costs, and large multinationals and the wealthy must take on a fair share.
Contested Histories and Politics of People
Subaltern Studies unearths subsumed narratives and subjugated knowledges to counter hegemonic domination. It critiques power manipulated by colonialism and elite nationalists, and challenges the neo-colonial politics that continue to alter history.
Dive into the world of omics sciences. This guide explores the interdisciplinary realm of genomics, proteomics, and metabolomics, revealing their transformative potential in medicine, agriculture, and environmental science to shape the future of science and society.
This book argues that postmodernist historiographic metafiction is not just self-referential, but hetero-referential. Using Peter Ackroyd’s Chatterton, it shows how texts create their own worlds while referring to an external reality, even if that reality is a human construct.
These essays explore women, gender, and disease in 18th-century England and France. Excluded from universities, women nonetheless contributed to anatomy, botany, and medicine, informing literary texts and raising questions about their role in the Enlightenment.
Making a Difference
Discover how applied linguistics makes a difference in a changing world. Leading experts explore language’s role in migration, media, and policy. For students, teachers, and anyone interested in the real-world impact of language.
Neurometabolic disorders are treatable hereditary diseases, but early detection is essential. Delays can cause severe neurological consequences or fatal effects. This atlas is a guide for pediatric specialists to diagnose and treat them successfully.
This book discusses how the COVID-19 pandemic affected working environments, learning, and personal lives. It considers policy making, workplace changes, and the pandemic’s impact on specific groups such as LGBT individuals, people in romantic relationships, and victims of abuse.
Decolonising the Mediterranean
Centring on North African, Maghreb and Mashrek countries’ colonial legacies, this collection investigates borders from a transnational perspective. While the research directions and topics in each chapter are different, they all suggest a specific path for decolonising knowledge.
Quining and Unquining Qualia
This book challenges the claim that qualia—our subjective sensations—are illusions. It proposes that qualia are essential aspects of consciousness that lie beyond science’s reach, and are what distinguish human experience from artificial intelligence.
Just Images
This collection of essays explores the role ethics plays in the study of moving images. Scholars discuss how film engages with history, politics, trauma, and representations of the Other to reshape our thoughts on subjects like terrorism and conflict.
This book focuses on the evolution from Industry 4.0 to the next stage: Industry 5.0. It explores the steps needed to take automation to the next level, improving operational efficiency and causing significant shifts for consumers and manufacturers alike.
Emergent Bilingual Students and Their Academic Performance
Emergent Bilinguals are a fast-growing but underserved subgroup. Based on multiyear studies of their reading and mathematics performance, this book provides educational leaders, researchers, and policymakers with vital pre-pandemic baselines to inform changes in instruction.
Catalytic Strategies for Conscious Social Transformation
This collection of essays examines complex global challenges and advocates for fundamental change. It advances new thinking on human security, human-centered economics, and human rights, proposing integrated knowledge to bridge the divide between theory and social reality.
This book argues that successful alternative farming in Ireland is built not on market logic, but on mutual recognition. It confronts the state-supported push to ‘scale up’, demonstrating how community-based ‘scaling out’ is the fundamental driver of success.
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