The Holocaust and World War II
This interdisciplinary volume explores the connection between World War II and the Holocaust in history and memory. Nineteen articles from prominent scholars, including acclaimed historian Gerhard L. Weinberg, examine presidential decisions, racial hatred, and more.
Mapping Migration
This anthology considers culture and identity in Indian diaspora communities in Southeast Asia and the UK. It shows how cultural practices, including the use of performance, food, and religion, demonstrate how traditions are preserved, as well as adapted, in new contexts.
Operetta
Explore the world of operetta, from Vienna and Paris to London and Broadway. This essential guide profiles the genre’s principal composers with biographies, detailed work lists, and selected synopses of their iconic stage works.
Quantum Theatre
Quantum Theatre uses quantum mechanics to construct a framework for examining performance. This pioneering analysis reveals hidden aspects of the theatrical event, providing a coherent alternative to postmodernism as a theoretical framework for performance.
This book shows the objective beauty of science, from the micro- and macrocosm to the fundamental constants of the universe. It examines the human organism as a system and explores ways to transition from a state of “illness” to a state of “health”.
Research in Second Language Acquisition
This volume provides an overview of current research within the Processability Theory framework. It combines theoretical approaches to extend the theory with studies investigating bilingual language acquisition across typologically different languages and contexts.
On Theory
This book demystifies theory—the ubiquitous, flawed thing that undergirds humanity’s greatest successes and failures. For anyone studying, writing, critiquing, or applying theory, it unifies the sciences in terms of goals and duties and explains the responsibilities it entails.
Identity, Nation, Discourse
This volume explores women’s literary production in Latin America and how their works engage with identity, nationhood, and gender. Prominent scholars examine how women writers carve out space within national discourses and critically re-work literary genres.
Drawing on 31 years of experience, this book guides readers in designing safe and cost-effective structures. It includes numerical examples in both SI and US units for components like beams, columns, slabs, and shear walls, plus considerations for dynamic loads like earthquakes.
Romanticism, Rhetoric and the Search for the Sublime
This book re-contextualizes Romantic rhetorical theory to construct a Neo-Romantic theory for our time. Correcting misconceptions about major Romantic writers, it uniquely links their love of nature to the current environmental crisis.
Music and Sonic Art
This title gathers practitioners and theorists of music and sonic art to discuss a range of historical, artistic, pedagogical and critical issues from multiple perspectives, emphasizing the continuities and links along a broad spectrum of hearing and listening practices.
This collection explores risk-taking as agency in women’s autobiographical narratives in French. Essays discuss courage, resilience, and freedom, examining how women challenge conventions and overcome obstacles to ameliorate their lives.
Tourism Research
This book compiles research on tourism from an interdisciplinary perspective, encompassing fields like geography, architecture, and culture. From a diverse group of international authors, this volume will interest faculty and postgraduate students of tourism.
The first book to apply Bourdieu’s theory to management and innovation. It links his concepts to a practical toolkit of methods, showing researchers and students how to model organisational systems and perform business ethnographies from a Bourdieusian perspective.
Undoing Plessy
Undoing Plessy explores the life of Charles Hamilton Houston, a “social engineer” who used the law to dismantle racial barriers. Houston understood the right to work was necessary for true freedom and built a strategy to win civil rights in the pre-Brown era.
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.
This book argues that incorporating identity and culture is essential for community development globally. Treating culture as an intrinsic asset is beneficial for all community action, from social cohesion to economic development.
This book explores diverse approaches to collaborative writing as critical arts-based inquiry. Not a handbook, but a scrapbook of methods, fragments, and excursions into practices like poetic writing—a gesture against the market-driven academy.
Kitsch
Often dismissed as facile or lowbrow, kitsch is surprisingly complex. The contributors to this collection address how and what kitsch might signify, moving well beyond the simple binaries of good/bad, high/low, or art/kitsch into far more rewarding territory.
T. S. Eliot’s year in Paris was a decisive turning point. This volume reconsiders the deep impact of French and European art and thought on his development, moving beyond accepted narratives to open up new and unexpected veins of inquiry.
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