This pioneering study explores the new female Muslim identity. Through interdisciplinary essays, it examines the daily struggles, challenges, choices, and rights of Muslim women globally, both within and outside the Muslim world, in the twenty-first century.
“How we’re going about it”
This book connects research and practice by outlining innovative language teaching approaches from real teachers in real classrooms. It synthesizes theory and practice in an accessible way, providing authentic, grass-roots experiences from across the globe.
Canterbury
Since becoming the religious heart of the country in AD 597, Canterbury’s fame has endured. This book explores its history, from illustrious figures like Thomas Becket and Chaucer to the lesser-known people and events that shaped its identity.
Past and Future Vision of Veterinary Research
Based on extensive data research, this book details a new approach to enhancing racehorse welfare. It introduces an integrated technology for monitoring training and biometrics to assess injury risk, optimizing safety, performance, and racing integrity.
Microhistory and the Picaresque Novel
This is the first book to combine scholarship on the picaresque novel with microhistory. This innovative volume brings together expert scholars to reveal how microhistory can shed new light on classic novels and their marginal protagonists.
The Permanence of the Transient
Precariousness in art may be transient, yet it instigates permanent changes. These interdisciplinary essays examine the traces of precariousness in contemporary art, locating it as an undercurrent and connective tissue across diverse areas of knowledge and life.
Impossible Worlds, Impossible Things
These essays draw on a variety of critical approaches for a wide-ranging interdisciplinary discussion of Doctor Who, classic and new, and its spin-offs. This volume is accessible to everyone, from interested academics to the general public.
An [Un]Likely Alliance
This study explores ‘environment’ and ‘ecology’ in the philosophy of Deleuze and Guattari. It is a call to think complexity, evading dualisms like nature vs. culture to conceptualize a radical, non-anthropocentric ecoscience.
This volume discusses the critical views of Polish and Russian women writers from the 19th to 21st centuries. The articles explore constructions of femininity, trauma, body, and sexuality, tracing the parallels and differences in their work.
Women’s Movements and Countermovements
This volume explores women’s movements and their countermovements in Southeast Asia and North Africa. Covering case studies from Egypt, Indonesia, Morocco and Tunisia, it reveals the dominant pattern of Islamist movements countering the goals of women’s movements.
This book explores the personal and environmental factors affecting university students’ entrepreneurial intentions. It provides insights for policymakers, educators, and students on developing entrepreneurial knowledge, skills, and career choices.
Environmental Psychology
This book contains research papers in environment-behaviour studies that address a recurring debate: how can research findings be put into real-world practice? It outlines current views and suggestions on how to more effectively address this ‘research-practice’ relationship.
Daniel-François-Esprit Auber
Auber, one of the 19th century’s most successful French composers, collaborated with librettist Scribe on *Le Serment*. In this tale of love and honor, an oath protects a secret brigand, set to refined music with a brilliant soprano showpiece.
Identity theft is a growing concern in mobile ad-hoc networks. This book presents an innovative framework for identity management that puts users back in control. Using context-awareness and user-centricity, it protects identity and balances privacy with convenience.
Elemental Sculpture
This book explores Elemental Sculpture, a tendency in contemporary art defining a new relationship between sculpture and nature. It examines its development in the works of Hepworth, Moore, and Calder, and includes sculptures from the author’s 35-year career.
History and Narration
This volume explores the relation between narration and history, arguing we must be aware of the rhetorical strategies in historical writing. The essays consider narrativity in authors as diverse as V. Woolf, S. Rushdie, J. M. Coetzee, and A. Ghosh.
The Future of Aesthetic Experience
Dr. Baofu argues that postmodernism is an aesthetic fad and the current debate on beauty is obsolete. He reveals the great transformations of aesthetic experience to come, both here on Earth and later in deep space, based on his new transformative theory.
Demography In Transition
This compilation provides unique insight into complex demographic issues. Demographers examine how race and ethnicity affect access to heath care, the consequences of an aging population, migration patterns, and the implications of changing family structures.
Exploring the body’s role in cultural memory, these essays consider how the body is a canvas for cultural meaning and a mnemonic for a shared past. Required reading for those interested in how bodies, both on stage and in everyday life, ‘perform’ meaning.
Let’s Learn Together, Let’s Work Together
This volume explores global challenges and solutions for transcultural health care. Providing competent care requires knowledgeable, culturally sensitive professionals. Deeply rooted values must be challenged to address unwitting prejudices and stereotyping.
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