Abdication of the Sovereign Self
Spano looks at how much of our verbal communication can be considered valid from perspective of the rules of logic. The book is a call for introspection in the hope that the reader will recognise the situation described here reflected in both himself and the society he inhabits.
Describing the Unobserved and Other Essays
The seven essays gathered in this volume are all concerned with the “unspeakable sentences” of fictional narration, using Unspeakable Essays (1982) as a theoretical framework for further exploration into linguistics, philosophy and the analysis of narrative and the novel.
Museums and Communities
This volume brings together seventeen essays critically reflecting on the collaborative work of the contemporary ethnographic museum with diverse communities. It represents an opportunity to think about the roles and values of museums internationally.
Memory, Place and Autobiography
In autobiographical film, the filmmaker—as maker and subject—acts as a cultural guide. This book explores how memory is evoked through hybrid strategies like fictional enactment, and charts the history of British independent filmmaking from the 1970s to the age of new media.
Literature and Psychology
This study explores how psychological messages are portrayed and interpreted in writing. It analyzes the interaction between text and reader, with emphasis on emotion, identity, and trauma, offering an in-depth look at psychology and literature.
Collagen is vital to cell culture and tissue repair. This book describes the journey from pioneering 1950s research on collagen preparations to the massive implications for today’s tissue engineering and personalised medicine.
This volume confronts discourse theory in colonial studies, arguing societies are split vertically by class, not by geography. It claims the radical-sounding rhetoric of ‘post’ movements, far from resisting imperialism, actually greases the mechanisms of finance capital.
This book explores European notions of body and soul, drawn from Judeo-Christian tradition and folklore. It examines the connections between these notions and beliefs about death, the dead, and communication between the human and spirit worlds.
Fertilizing the Universe
The evolution of life is a cosmic attribute, not confined to Earth. Fertilizing the Universe proposes a new and intriguing theory of extra-terrestrial life, striving to empower humankind to co-create as an ally of the cosmic powers of evolution.
The use of music in therapeutic practice in Turkey is not a new phenomenon. In recent years, though, the institutionalization of music therapy as a scientific discipline has begun. This volume explores multifarious perceptions of the discipline and its potential role in Turkey.
Bombay Novels
Walk the streets of Mumbai through the eyes of literary wanderers. Analyzing four novels, this book reveals how the act of flânerie uncovers hidden histories and exposes power relations, offering a transgressive, alternative vision of the city and its people.
Health and Safety for Spirit Seers, Telepaths and Visionaries
While 51 million people in the world are afflicted with schizophrenia, self-help books on the topic are not in ample supply and often very dark in outlook. This extensive study provides a much-needed, positive, hopeful and holistic perspective on how to cope with schizophrenia.
Economic Value Added for Competitive Advantage
How can competitive advantage be measured for Indian companies? This book advocates that Economic Value Added (EVA®) can be used to establish it. Based on an in-depth study, it shows that Indian companies using EVA® have a distinct advantage over competitors.
This collection of essays explores Nigeria’s security challenges since colonial times. It examines their historical roots, why they have escalated, the effectiveness of strategies employed to address them, and the lessons to be learnt from how security matters have been handled.
Destroying Idols
Confusion over the meaning of ‘God’ in biblical texts is at the heart of the divorce between Judaism and Christianity. This book offers a new understanding by re-examining the “two powers in heaven” doctrine, allowing for a renewed messianic interpretation of both faiths.
This collection explores the sacred and magical aspects of ethno-medicine. It connects religious and medical anthropology, focusing on concepts of health and disease, healing rites, and their role in society, folklore, and art across cultures and throughout history.
The genre of chemical biography has enjoyed a revival. But as scientists communicate by email and compose documents on computers, are we facing a modern equivalent of the destruction of the Library of Alexandria? This book explores the emerging questions faced by biographers.
Finding W.D. Fard
Since his arrival in Detroit in 1930, W.D. Fard, also known by over fifty other aliases, has elicited an enormous amount of curiosity. Through meticulous scholarship and a detailed analysis of his teachings, this work provides huge insight into the founder of the Nation of Islam.
Photography as Power
This book explores the relationship between photography and power in Italian history. It examines how photography has been used as an instrument of dominance—from war propaganda to fascism—and as a critical medium to resist hegemonic discourses and create counter-narratives.
This book reassesses the role of sacredness in medieval France and Occitania by exploring the coexistence, convergence, and opposition between the sacred and the secular in Old French and Old Provençal poetry from the ninth to the thirteenth century.
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