This volume explores the bond between man and nature through literary and visual works by Native and non-Native artists. It re-imagines our outlook on indigenous production, revealing how the non-human provides a key to understanding our world.
How Political Eras End
Is the UK at ‘the end of a political era’? This book analyses the seismic shifts since the 2016 EU Referendum, comparing them with past eras to make a compelling case. It defines what a political era is, exploring vital issues like democracy, identity, and migration.
Transcultural Encounters amongst Women
This collection explores how women from the Hispanic and Lusophone world cross cultural boundaries in literature and film, examining their experiences through the powerful themes of identity, conflict, and values.
While most books on the Olympics focus on economics or management, this collection remains faithful to Coubertin’s original vision of youth, sport and education. Leading academics and young researchers analyse Olympism as a philosophical and educational idea.
The First International Conference on Consciousness, Theatre, Literature, and the Arts brought together 80 delegates from fourteen countries. This book collects 40 papers characteristic of the wide range of topics and disciplines represented at the conference.
Covering a vast range of sex case law, this exhaustive volume will be of particular use in legal research, learning, and argument at any stage of advocacy, politicization, activism, prosecution, defense, and education.
From private chambers to public galleries, this volume explores how princes displayed their collections. Ten essays examine the art of exhibition across European courts from the sixteenth to the early nineteenth century.
Photography and Cinema
Visionary filmmaker and photographer Chris Marker blurred the lines between the still and moving image. This volume explores this fusion through his masterpiece La Jetée, analyzing its profound and lasting influence on art and cinema.
The Post-War Angola
In post-war Angola, political reform is the key challenge. The state controls the ‘public sphere,’ but how do people speak truth to power? This book explores the public’s role, using Foucault’s ideas to look afresh at Angola’s democratic future.
This collection offers an international perspective on evil in contemporary French literature. Essays explore how authors give account of human catastrophes—from genocide to terrorism—investigating the origins of evil and the ethics of writing on suffering.
Yesterday’s Words
Yesterday’s Words explores scholarly issues in historical lexicography and lexicology. Contributions discuss dictionaries of former ages, the vocabulary of the past, current projects, and the modern technology essential for studying yesterday’s words.
Sustainable Tourism in the Global South
Given the importance of the global south in achieving sustainable tourism, this collection brings together a compilation of profound conceptual and empirical research findings from diverse socio-economic and environmental settings in the developing South.
Nominal Syntax at the Interfaces
The contributions to this title discuss the syntax of nominal expressions in various European languages, arguing that articles do not directly and biunivocally realise semantic definiteness.
University Curriculum Transformations in Context
Universities worldwide are transforming curricula for the global knowledge era. This book presents case studies of three Chilean universities enacting a ’21st-century curriculum’ promoting critical thinking, providing ‘food for thought’ for educators internationally.
Cremation, Corpses and Cannibalism
Cremation was not the final rite. The archaeological record shows the dead—flesh and bone—were incorporated in other rituals. Bones leave traces of practices unseen in the contemporary world, including cannibalism. This book fleshes out prehistoric religions in Scandinavia.
This book offers lenses to look at how you speak. It explores your “Speaking Ego”—your approach, emotions, manner, and content. Through flexible lessons, you will build your own “spoken stroke” and improve your speech for any situation, in any language.
Popular and Visual Culture
This book questions the concepts of visual and popular culture, analyzing how iconic productions are outcomes of political, economic, and social circumstances. It explores how visual artefacts are socially built, preserved, and contested as symbolic discourses on values.
Conflict Prevention and Management in Northeast Asia
Leading scholars offer a comparative analysis of two of the world’s most dangerous flashpoints: the Korean Peninsula and the Taiwan Strait. This volume examines new strategies for conflict prevention, identifying lessons that could be transferred between cases.
This book covers production planning and scheduling for high-volume, high-mixture semiconductor manufacturing. It explores topics such as work-in-process management, setup times, techniques of lot batching and splitting, lot sizing, and rescheduling questions.
Intermedial Arts
These essays position intermediality as a way to challenge our notion of art. Writers examine the relations between the arts—reference, combination, or transformation—to help us grasp their changing relationship in our contemporary medial age.
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