Belonging and Exclusion
This is the first cross-cultural analysis of how belonging and exclusion are represented in literature, film and theatre in the context of migration in Australia and Germany. The focus on artistic works offers unique snapshots of these processes.
Remarkable Contributions
This insightful text explores the emergence of women leaders in India’s growing service industry, a topic long unexamined. Grounded in research, it brings their remarkable leadership to life through case studies and surveys that capture their real lives.
Henry Fielding In Our Time
Essays by leading scholars offer a cross-section of current approaches to Henry Fielding’s life and writings. This collection explores his famous novels, journalism, and social pamphlets, appealing to students, academics, and readers interested in the novel.
Cesare Pugni
Cesare Pugni (1802–70) worked with choreographers Jules Perrot and Marius Petipa in Paris, London, and St Petersburg, creating renowned 19th-century ballets. Extremely prolific, he composed over 300 works, delighting audiences with his attractive melodies.
New Voices in Linguistics presents diversified work from a new generation of researchers who question traditional assumptions. This unique book offers a rare glimpse of ongoing projects, an excellent opportunity to be ‘ahead of the curve’ in linguistics.
Memories and Portraits
Philosopher H. G. Callaway blends history and autobiography in a narrative of travel across three continents. He illuminates American thought through fascinating cultural contrasts, merging the formalism of analytic philosophy with American pragmatism.
The Camp
Camps are diverse: from extermination and concentration to refugee and detention. This book explores the universal structure of the camp, analyzing how narratives of internment and exclusion become potential sites of agency and testimony.
This book explores the progress of astronomy and astrophysics in Spain from the late 19th to the early 20th century. The eclipses of 1900 and 1905 were a crucial turning point, connecting Spanish scholars with the international community.
Modernity, Postmodernity, and Posthumanity
Communism has not been defeated, only its immature 20th century form. This text argues for a sophisticated 21st century communism, a task for those who would live dangerously, fitting dialectics within contemporary scientific discoveries like chaos theory.
Trajectories of Memory
This volume offers new perspectives on remembering the Holocaust in history, literature, and theatre. It addresses changing representations across generations and asks: As survivors die, how do we transmit their difficult legacy and respond to the dictum: Never again?
TechKnowledgies
This collection of essays, art, and installations explores how science and technology interact with the arts and humanities. This fusion breaks down disciplinary silos to produce new imaginaries and integrated knowledges—what we call new TechKnowledgies.
International Relations and Islam
This book seeks common ground between International Relations and Islamic Studies. It offers diverse perspectives on topics like the Islamic veil, feminism, Muslim integration, and democracy, with a section specifically examining Turkey’s foreign policy.
Those in favour of an independent Scotland present their fight as a means to a socio-economic end. But is it all really that simple? This text explores the overlooked difficulties, from redefining national solidarity to the delicate issues of state building.
This collection of essays by an international panel breaks new ground in ecopolitical thought. Moving beyond techno-science fixes, these writers use cultural reflection—from poetry to architecture—to bring new understanding to our planet’s ecological crises.
A Study in Legal History Volume III; Freedom under the Law
Hailed as the 20th century’s most important judge, this book explores Lord Denning’s career against the backdrop of the 1960s and 70s, examining his role in the Profumo affair and the controversies that shaped modern Britain.
Not-I/Thou
In these essays, Art and Architecture emerge from the gray areas of cultural production as a type of knowledge with no utilitarian agency. They operate at the edge of authorized systems, quietly validating the shadowy and recondite operations of intellect.
Rhetoric and Politics
This volume offers systematic, theoretically grounded insights into the flow of persuasion that constitutes politics today. Combining various disciplines, the case studies provide an empirically rich account of politics as a persuasive achievement.
This collection of essays explores television’s state of flux. It examines how news packages the ‘real,’ how reality styles have influenced dramas like CSI, and how shows like Big Brother have created a culture of performance and surveillance.
The Nature of Reality and the Reality of Nature
Drawing on unpublished papers, this study unveils a Leibniz of breathtaking boldness, whose ambition was to solve the enigma of existence by uniting physical reality with metaphysical possibility.
Speaking of Endangered Languages
This book provides an overview of endangered indigenous languages, describing local responses to maintaining them. Each chapter presents a case study of a threatened language, examining local grassroots efforts at revival and suggesting a re-examination of retention programs.
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