The Age of Unproductive Capital
This book offers a direct analysis of today’s greatest challenges: reducing inequality, protecting the planet, and mobilizing financial resources from tax havens. It reveals how sensible policies are dismantled by global finance and captured political power.
Writing Imagined Diasporas
This study argues that diasporic South Asian women writers are not merely assimilating to North American culture but actively reshaping it. Their writings of imagined diasporas create new, hybrid identities that challenge “national” discourses.
Romanticism and Parenting
How do parents encode and decode our world? Romantic writers explored what it meant to “parent” in the domestic and political sphere. This collection reveals how the Romantic period has come to profoundly influence our own current constructions of the politics of parenting.
Gaining a Face
This study traces the aspects of Lewis’s romantic thought as it is drawn from MacDonald, Wordsworth and other influences, and details how, beyond his fascination with joy, Lewis constructed a consistent romantic vision that allowed for a balance with reason.
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.
Mechanisms of Cross-Boundary Learning
This book reveals the mechanism of adult learning through boundary-crossing experiences. It empirically analyzes how collaboration across organizations sparks learning and associated job crafting, presenting findings with global applications.
How can we turn the norm of universal democracy and human rights into a fact? This volume applies a political philosophy to key areas like international law, legislation, and global protection mechanisms to show what actions we can take and what instruments we can use.
Claude Duneton was a French writer whose greatest delight was the weekly language articles he wrote for Le Figaro littéraire from 1994 to 2010. The title, Le plaisir des mots, was fitting, since words—their meaning, etymology, and amusing history—were his grande passion.
Pronunciation Instruction for Brazilians
This book helps Brazilian learners overcome English pronunciation difficulties. It connects theory and practice, using empirical data to inform communicative activities. Suitable for classroom or self-study, it includes an answer key and CD.
Darwinism and Natural Theology
Can Christianity be reconciled with Darwin’s theory of evolution? This collection of essays by distinguished scholars explores this question through the lens of natural theology, covering historical, philosophical and theological perspectives.
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.
God’s Radical Grace
Dr. Ellens’ sermons for Ordinary Time disclose the depth and beauty of the scriptures. With the approach of a scholar and the understanding of a pastor, he gives the reader new insights into familiar texts, providing comfort and reason to be grateful.
Lesser Civil Wars
This book explores the cycle where the Memory of war, kept alive by civilians, creates the Will to fight again. It examines these “lesser civil wars”—the battles over memory in the Ohio River Valley that incubate a nation’s will to fight.
This book addresses the blurred lines between magic, religion, and science in Spanish literature and history. It explores the divide between white and black magic, Alfonso X’s court, and a window of quasi-tolerance amidst Muslims, Jews, and Christians.
Thinking is overrated. We perform best when distracted and under pressure. This book challenges the traditional picture of human action, arguing that our habits and skills allow us to be free and fully rational even when we act mindlessly.
Mapping Appetite
This collection of case studies explores the representation of food in cultural texts, from post-colonial fiction to magazines and cookbooks. The essays show how food narratives reveal crucial issues of gender, nation, race, and power in contemporary culture.
The Welfare System and the Social Lifeworld
Is social welfare a mechanism for promoting altruism, or a self-reproducing system of law and politics? This book questions if our understanding can keep pace with the changing economic and political conditions of a neo-liberal global world.
The Beggar’s ‘Children’
No author has looked beyond John Gay’s The Beggar’s Opera to analyze the works it spawned. This insightful study is the first to explore these descendants—the ballad operas, comic operas, and burlettas of the 18th century—with musical examples and plots.
Travellers and Showpeople
This volume explores the “Othering” of Travellers and Gypsies, perennial outsiders living on society’s margins. It brings to surface the hidden histories of these peoples of the road and challenges the stereotypes that have shaped policy and culture.
This book evaluates financial behaviour in the new economy. As changing technology alters consumer habits, businesses must use innovative methods to survive tough competition and influence financial decisions.