Daniel-François-Esprit Auber
The product of one of musical history’s most successful partnerships, Auber and Scribe’s opéra-comique Fra Diavolo is a masterpiece of thrilling plot and brilliant music. Based on a real Italian bandit, it is Auber’s most enduring opera.
New Trends in Italian Cinema
Far from being exhausted, the spirit of Italian Neorealism continues to sustain contemporary artists. The essays in this collection highlight how filmmakers recapture the ethical and moral urgency of the masterpieces of Rossellini, De Sica, and Visconti.
Flawed Institution—Flawless Church
Church scandals have shaken the faith of many. Yet the Church insists it is the Holy Body of Christ. How can these polarities be reconciled? This passionately written book provides a convincing response to challenges from skeptics like Nietzsche, Freud, and Dawkins.
Text, Body and Indeterminacy
This book forges a link between the philosophical self and the literary character. Using neo-pragmatist thought, it assesses Pater and Wilde’s characters, contrasting the textual self with the somatic to reveal the ethical gains of a self rooted in the body.
On the Verge of Tears
Why do stories bring us to tears? This multi-vocal collection of essays offers personal, cultural, and political ruminations on why art, music, and film make us weep, inviting us to imagine tears as a language we can all, in some manner, understand.
In Singapore’s government-controlled economy, pro-business policies are vital. Yet, no comprehensive model exists to predict which firms will succeed or fail. This quantitative book attempts to fill this gap by testing the key factors for success.
Daniel-François-Esprit Auber
In Auber’s comic opera Le Philtre, the young farmhand Guillaume loves the beautiful but aloof Thérèsine. Desperate, he buys a love potion from a charlatan, enlisting in the army to pay for it, unaware that fortune is about to smile on him.
Transformative Power in Motherwork
This book explores Australian mothers (1950-1965) as agents who resisted patriarchal constraints. It argues that the mother-child relationship is a transformative power that empowers both, turning the child into an adult and the mother into a skilled agent.
This collection of essays explores the relation between the military and the spiritual. Without moral or religious justification, war is mere aggression. Analysing war sermons reveals how conflict, its rhetoric, and its representations generate identity.
Afroeurope@n Configurations
This volume explores the African presence across Europe, from Russia to the Canary Islands. These essays offer a wide spectrum of research on contemporary black literatures and identities, providing insights into previously little explored areas.
Daniel-François-Esprit Auber
Auber, one of the 19th century’s most successful French opera composers, partnered with librettist Eugène Scribe for Zerline. Written for the great contralto Marietta Alboni, this tale of maternal love showcases Auber’s elegant and virtuoso art.
Europe and its Regions
As Europe gets closer, understanding its regional data is a major challenge for social sciences. This volume improves insight into the rich stock of European datasets, highlighting socio-economic cross-border studies and powerful analysis tools.
Come Weep With Me
This groundbreaking anthology examines loss and mourning in the work of Caribbean women writers like Jean Rhys, Jamaica Kincaid, and Maryse Condé. These original essays explore slavery, dictatorships, and disaster, challenging customary discourses on loss.
This handbook is the needed bridge between gestalt therapy and psychotherapy research. It provides vital empirical support for the practice—a timely response to the evidence-based movement and the increasing policy call for “what works.”
This collection connects theatre and performance studies with public sphere theory. Essays from prominent scholars explore how performing in public shapes identity, class, and political agency across three centuries and in multiple global contexts.
Ethnicity and Social Divisions
This anthology explores the intersection of ethnicity, immigration, and social class. Representing a new generation of social scientists from Harvard, Oxford, and Stockholm, the contributors present empirical research on social inequality.
An international group of contributors explores privacy’s contours in a series of accessible yet rigorous essays. Themes include the psychology of privacy, social accountability, and the concerns of emerging information technologies.
Locality, History, Memory
This book interrogates how place, history, and memory create the citizen in South Asia. Moving beyond the state, it asks: How does our history enforce or dilute the notion of the citizen? How far does memory strengthen it and what role do faith and religion play?
Constructing Professional Discourse
This book explores the role language plays in professional communities by providing an integrative, multi-perspective approach to domain-specific discourse. It links textual analysis to the social context of its production, offering fresh insights.
Norm-struggles
Norm-Struggles challenges normativity and heteronormativity. Focusing on contradictions and disruptions, the authors explore how norms are produced, subverted, and changed across diverse international settings, from schools to popular culture.
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