Breakcore
This interdisciplinary ethnography examines interaction and exchange within the ‘bedroom producer’ culture of ‘breakcore’ electronic music. It explores the cultural politics and aesthetics of identity in this environment, highlighting gender, ethnicity, and technology.
The Art and Science of Psychotherapy
This book offers therapists and counsellors fifty crucial themes for renewing their work. From a Psychosynthesis perspective, it provides practical directions to tackle trauma, explore the inner world, and help clients find their own centre, even in the roughest times.
Fashion through History
This book analyzes fashion as a main indicator of social change. It explores issues from economy, copyright, and trademarks to the impact of globalization, new technologies, and social media on the dynamic fashion system in the virtual world.
Music on Stage presents papers on opera, the Musical, and performance practice. The collection covers a wide spectrum, from historic works by Wagner to Sondheim, also exploring the gestalt of music and text and the training of the actor-musician.
On Intangible Heritage Safeguarding Governance
What is governance for intangible cultural heritage (ICH)? This book explores ICH safeguarding through the 2003 Convention, analyzing major issues and the interaction between global and local governance. Case studies provide tools to enhance safeguarding.
This book offers a comparative analysis of pre-trial detention. It considers the philosophical principles, policies, and checks and balances used to protect individual freedoms across countries with differing legal traditions.
Illustrated Glaucoma Case Presentation
Explore the intricate world of glaucoma through captivating cases in this stunning illustrated book. From common scenarios to challenging puzzles, this book provides clinical insights for a deeper understanding of glaucoma’s complexities.
Media Theory and Cultural Technologies
Media theory is now one of the most influential trends in contemporary thinking, namely within cultural studies, the arts and humanities. This anthology examines recent developments in the field brought about by concepts such as “cultural techniques” and “operative ontologies”.
This book uses COVID-19’s essential questions—who, where, when, and why—to challenge the superiority of clinical medicine over epidemiology. It argues epidemiology’s model is more adequate, reframing it as Ecosystem Thinking to explore the geopolitical values in medicine.
As our culture increasingly communicates through images, public theology must engage with this field. The potency of images is an uncharted force compelling us to reassess our interpretation of religion and propelling theology towards a future yet to be discovered.
Miracle Enough
This is the first comparable collection of essays on Mervyn Peake ever published. Selected from an international conference, these papers by scholars and artists take a wide variety of approaches to his work—from the Gormenghast trilogy to his poetry and art.
The first systematic study of Oscar Wilde’s tales in Romanian translation, this book spans over a hundred years to explore the dynamics of retranslation. It offers a coherent template for analyzing translated literature and serves as a tribute to translators.
Nature and Life
Explore contemporary trends in environmental philosophy and applied ethics. An essential reference for researchers and general readers, this book examines the ethical issues transforming our lives, uniquely focusing on both Western and non-Western approaches.
Representing papers delivered at the EURAU2014 Istanbul “Composite Cities” Conference, this text addresses the importance of research on the complexity of today’s cities, while also shedding light on new models of urbanism discussed together with new decision-making actors.
Communication and Work Systems
Pace provides a practical definition and explanation of “communicative behavior” for use in understanding interaction in work settings. He suggests a clear model of the elements of a work system, and describes how to solve both communication and organization problems.
Ancient Epic
This book adopts a broad approach to the Epic, from archaic Greece to imperial Rome, with comparisons to Vedic, Sanskrit, and Medieval poetry. It explores the hero, the bard, and myth, and traces the influence of Homer on authors like Virgil, Ovid, and Seneca.
Women, Pain and Death
This cross-cultural collection explores women and death from the margins of Europe and beyond. Presenting original material from little-known areas, these studies offer new perspectives on cultural change and reveal surprising parallels between diverse societies.
This collection revises subjectivity with postmodern theories, introducing a dynamic subjectivity to minority and colonial/postcolonial texts. Exploring intersubjectivity as a hybrid and flexible space, contributors discuss how different subjectivities negotiate and interrelate.
Land and Landscape in Francographic Literature
As globalization displaces bodies, landscape becomes a potent source for identity. This collection examines how contemporary French literature re-maps post-colonial worlds, exploring dispossession, resistance, and re-appropriation in a constructed literary space.
Literature and Politics
George Orwell argued writers want to change the world. This collection of new work by scholars explores political literature over the last century, from The Communist Manifesto to Oryx and Crake, showing its continuing ability to inform, enrage and engage.
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