This book enhances the reader’s knowledge of globalization’s role in the evolving world of new technologies from a multidisciplinary perspective. It overviews the process from historical, geographical, social, and political-economic contexts.
A Feminist Case Study in Transnational Migration
Although unacknowledged, Anne Jemima Clough laboured fervently for women’s education. This volume compiles her unpublished papers, diaries, and correspondence, providing raw material for scholars studying the women’s movement and Victorian feminism.
Looking at the Broad Picture
This book is the story of how ten Irish software companies evolved their development processes over the last decade. It discusses specific change-processes, the benefits of each, and suggests developments for the future.
Teaching Translation and Interpreting
This book offers an up-to-date overview of current trends in teaching translation. The innovative articles will appeal to students, lecturers, researchers and professionals alike, offering universal conclusions that are applicable worldwide.
Fleshly Things and Spiritual Matters
This book offers fresh insights into medieval bodies from multiple perspectives. Ten essays by renowned scholars explore diverse, interdisciplinary approaches, connecting medieval literature with history, theology, gender studies, and the arts.
Rebuilding Sustainable Communities in Iraq
Current reconstruction in Iraq is failing because a top-down approach cannot succeed. This volume presents expert analysis from an international conference on rebuilding sustainable communities with lessons from across the globe for Iraq.
Current Latin American post-feminist writers propose a transgressive new social order. This critical text explores how their narratives seek a dignified life for women by overcoming dominant social, political, and cultural structures.
The Home Entrepreneur Systems Model
This book chronicles a PhD student’s research into home-based businesses. Using Grounded Theory, it develops the Home Entrepreneur Systems model, a new way to understand how home business meets our needs for security, autonomy, balance, meaning and community.
Design and Cinema
Design and Cinema: Form Follows Film explores the patterns of experience created by the brotherhood of these disciplines. The book is organized in two parts: Discourse, a look at formal categories, and Works, which presents films and workshop examples.
Intonational Meaning in Cameroon English Discourse
This phonetic description of intonation in Cameroon English reveals how speakers make new information prominent and extensively use the falling tone. These findings challenge sociolinguistic theories from native English, which do not always apply in postcolonial settings.
Rethinking the Vanguard
This study re-interprets the historical avant-garde from 1917 to 1962, focusing on the convergence of aesthetics and politics. From the Bolshevik Revolution to decolonizing movements, it reveals the vanguard’s transformation and its relevance today.
These provocative essays examine how blackness has been configured in cultural productions from the modern German-speaking world, tracing crucial shifts from colonial notions of race to the recodification of blackness as American and an entry-point into modernity.
This book is about musical canons and de-canonizing music history. Its main goal is to deconstruct these canons: to analyze and problematize them in their variety through artistic encounters where art meets popular, ethnic meets education, and avantgarde meets mainstream.
Beyond the World of Titans, and the Remaking of World Order
Contrary to conventional wisdom, U.S. dominance is ending. The world is evolving towards a ‘post-post-Cold War era’—a world of titans and new empires remaking world order. This shift reveals the future emergence of a ‘union of the unions’ on earth and in space.
But He Talked of the Temple of Man’s Body
This poetic study is a response to Locke’s philosophy through an analysis of Blake’s linguistic practices. It reads like a narrative of an effort to build, destroy, and rebuild, revealing Blake’s criticism of Locke as a critique of modernity itself.
Nationalism, Ethnicity, Citizenship
Global migration has challenged old certainties about nationalism, ethnicity, and citizenship. This book examines these issues from multiple perspectives, revealing that nationalism remains a dominant ideology and highlighting education’s crucial role.
This book analyzes family diversity across cultures and generations. It reveals the complex connections between individual lives and major social, economic, and demographic shifts, deconstructing myths and exploring changes in gender and generational roles.
Turning Points and Transformations
Turning points and transformations are central to literature, culture, and life. But why are they transformational, and what brings them about? The essays in this volume examine these questions, exploring personal and cultural shifts and how we cope with them.
Mining the Meaning
This innovative study provides a critical introduction to cultural representations of the 1984–5 miners’ strike. Analysing writings, music, and film from strikers and artists, it explores the battle to ‘author’ the conflict and challenges our understanding of this period.
Films With Legs
This book explores how international cinema both erects and tears down borders. It examines how borders are constructed on screen—not just in fences and walls, but also in dialogue, dialect, and even silence.
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