This two-volume book provides a multifaceted view of major approaches to the study of political discourse. It builds on previous political discourse perspectives and provides new insights into this research area, while combining theoretical and methodological considerations.
Elizabeth I’s controversial marriage proposal angered courtiers Philip Sidney and Edmund Spenser, who used their writing to express their dissent. This book interweaves history and literature to analyze the workings of gender, desire, politics, and poetics in her reign.
Sustainable Tourism in Asia
This collection explores sustainable tourism in Asia, drawing on papers from international conferences. It shares empirical studies and cases, forming a rich reference work for tourism researchers, development leaders, policy-makers, and practitioners.
Studies of Potter tend to see him through the lens of his relationship with his most famous daughter, Beatrice (Webb). In this book, Potter is the subject of study in his own right. The work denotes how he was a new type of businessman: an international corporate capitalist.
New Approaches and Tendencies in Entrepreneurial Management
This volume presents innovative approaches to international management, based on the latest scientific research. It is for management experts, researchers, and students who aspire to use the best practices of organisational leadership and entrepreneurial management.
Trade and Labour Standards
Mega-regional agreements pose one of the most significant challenges to international labour law. This book examines the social dimension of TTP, CETA, and TTIP, arguing that trade liberalisation should be accompanied by progress in the social and labour field.
A Science-Theology Rapprochement
Beyond the “warfare” of science and theology. This book confronts the New Atheist challenge, using the insights of Peirce, Lonergan, and Pannenberg to turn conflict into collaboration and show how Christian creation embraces an evolutionary universe.
News Discourse and Digital Currents
This book investigates the under-researched genre of news tickers. Based on a year-long collection from BBC World News, it uses corpus-based analysis to define tickers as a mixed genre that combines headlines and leads to achieve specific marketization strategies.
This hugely diverse volume reveals the extent to which aural perception influences our spatial awareness. Spanning psychology to geography, and zoology to urban planning, it covers a range of environments in which sounds contribute to forming our sense of space and place.
This title provides leading contemporary thought and research on how to address inequalities in participation in Higher Education across the “student lifecycle”, highlighting a range of practices in widening access, including chapters on financial support and mature students.
Democrats into Nazis
How did middle-class Germans support extreme nationalism? This study of a Bavarian town after WWI shows how devastating crises discredited democracy and handed the initiative to the radical Right, as inhabitants came to see events as part of a broader “European Civil War.”
Latin American Marxisms in Context
In Latin America, governments and popular mobilizations have challenged neoliberalism, sparking a revival of Marxist perspectives. This book provides an insight into the rich diversity of Latin American Marxism, appealing to all interested in the region’s radicalism.
This book discusses how labour law and welfare systems will be affected by the ongoing transformation of work. It considers the impact of demography, the environment, and technology in the context of the Fourth Industrial Revolution to provide a picture of the future of work.
This volume explores linguistic understandings of gender non-conformity and diverse masculinities. Contesting stereotypes and prejudices, it demonstrates that language matters in the everyday experience of gender diversity beyond the traditional binary.
The term “Intermarium” has a long historical tradition and was commonly used to define the area between the Baltic and Black Seas. Its connotations, historical usage, aspects, and its potential, are discussed here from geopolitical, economic and cultural perspectives.
The Mythical Mediterranean Sea
Through an analysis of literature, history, culture and identity, the essays here explore the connections that define the Mediterranean Sea as a symbol of tradition and modernity, deeming it a region capable of congregating, synergizing and transforming cultures.
Living as we do in a world marked by an ‘age apartheid’, films remain the most accessible form of information regarding getting older for the general public. Using current gerontological theory, this volume provides insight into the accuracy of cinematic representations of aging.
Özdemir proposes a new theoretical model, Tritonet, that provides a unique approach to music theory by reintroducing the ‘Circle of Fifths’. It offers additional components that turn the circle into a musical calculator, which can be used to construct musical structures visually.
R.K. Narayan’s Malgudi Milieu
This book presents R.K. Narayan as a writer who addressed his times without giving in to ruling ideologies. It explores his ethical critique of colonial capitalism and positions him as a deceptively simple, yet foremost post-modern writer who depicted the subversion of influence.
Transcultural Screenwriting
This text offers an innovative approach to the study of screenwriting as a creative process by integrating the fields of film and TV production studies, screenwriting studies, narrative studies, rhetorics, transnational cinema studies, and intercultural communication studies.
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