‘I, Me, Mine?’
Skrimsjö reconsiders perceptions of record collecting and collectors, through a discussion of existing stereotypes surrounding such practices, and explores how such collectors view themselves and their practices.
Equestrian Rebels
This collection of essays commemorates the first centenary of Mariano Azuela’s Los de abajo, and traces its impact on twentieth-century autobiographies, memoirs and, more specifically, on the Novel of the Mexican Revolution.
Teaching Literacy across Content Areas
This book answers teachers’ questions about implementing the Common Core State Standards. It contains practical teaching strategies, examples, and illustrations to prepare diverse students for college and career by helping them analyze complex texts and solve real-life problems.
This collection outlines practical approaches to theology’s most intriguing subjects: The Bible, Cultural Identity, and Mission. Contributors blend academic exactness with cultural analogies to explore the core of Christian belief and its missionary imperative.
Dualism, Platonism and Voluntarism
This conference proceedings brings together a host of contemporary thinkers, from Stuart Kauffmann and Ed Vul, on the cognitive side, to Stuart Kauffmann and Henry Stapp. The papers presented here make for a wide-ranging and incisive debate.
Singapore Radio
Freeman and Ramakrishnan track the journey of Singapore radio from its humble beginnings to its advanced modern-day incarnations, detailing economic, political, cultural, and technological aspects of this medium in Singapore along the way.
Slivers of Life
This book proposes a new methodology for underwater archaeology using low-budget digital tech. Discover novel collection methods for volunteer divers to create stunning 2D/3D models and a Virtual Reality museum, promoting archaeology in an age where visualization matters.
Rhetoric in the Twenty-First Century
The result of a symposium held in Oxford to consider the most fruitful trajectories of rhetoric in the 21st century, this collection assesses the various possible futures of the ancient discipline of rhetoric as it responds vitally to the evolving contexts of the new millennium.
Broadcasting in the UK and US in the 1950s
The essays here contribute to research on the medium of television by bringing together work focusing on national developments in both UK and US broadcasting in the 1950s, to allow for reflection on the ways in which the two systems interacted and can be compared.
Knowledge Dissemination in the Long Nineteenth Century
Offering insights into various under-explored phenomena, the studies here deal with literary, cultural and linguistic history in Europe and the US during the nineteenth century, focusing particularly on the numerous advances made during that period.
Taxation and Revenue Collection in Ancient India
In the first book to study taxation and revenue collection through an analysis of public finance and financial administration in four major Indian texts, Sharma shows how Ancient Indian writing can contribute to active knowledge today.
Christian Humanism and Moral Formation in “A World Come of Age”
Does Christian humanism matter in our secular age? This book brings theologian Dietrich Bonhoeffer and writer Marilynne Robinson into conversation with current ethical issues, demonstrating the profound affirmation of human dignity that defines their work.
Education as Jazz
The result of an international event celebrating the second UNESCO International Jazz Day in 2013, this title investigates the issue of improvisation, considered as a multi-faceted concept and practice, seen here as a mix of values and skills fundamental for human development.
Fostering Culture Through Film
The book highlights the theories and practical applications by which instructors of foreign languages and cultural studies use contemporary film to provide insightful readings on diverse local communities.
Gender and Work
Given growing scholarly interest in efforts to advance women’s work, this collection explores current research on gendered work environments and all the nuanced meanings of “work” in the context of feminism and gender equality.
Radical Contra-Diction
This first book-length study of Coleridge’s reactions to the French Revolution examines his trajectory from ‘radical’ to ‘conservative’, and challenges the very notion that these labels can be applied to him.
Glimpsing Modernity
Glimpsing Modernity captures the metamorphosis of military medicine during the First World War in a series of vignettes. These stories provide new interpretations of known themes and examine less well-known, but truly important medical topics.
Private Military and Security Companies
Calazans investigates the application of International Humanitarian Law and International Human Rights Law in addressing the business conduct of Private Military and Security Companies during armed conflicts.
This volume is centred around the idea that the aim of literature is to build bridges, and, as such, focuses on the moral purpose of literature and its tendency to overcome divisive forces, using examples from texts across various geographical and cultural borders.
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