What ought philosophy of religion be? How should it relate to religion today? This collection offers a variety of perspectives on contemporary issues like faith, reason, atheism, and politics, without privileging any single philosophical or religious orientation.
Internet Tomography
This book introduces Internet tomography, from basic principles to applications. It focuses on designing Internet Tomography Measurement Systems to map Internet performance, with uses in network design, wireless networks, and Service Level Agreement compliance.
21st Century China
China is Australia’s ‘life-blood’. Leading academics dissect this complex relationship—from politics and law to Confucianism and ‘green’ cuisine—offering fresh insights for our shared future.
These critical essays explore the representation of sex, gender, and sexual orientation from the early days of cinema to the twenty-first century, investigating the complex relations between film style, sexual politics, and their social ramifications.
This book explores the cultural and social aspects of space in archaeology. Using cutting-edge spatial methods, it reveals how people have used space to subsist, recreate culture, and understand landscape, social relationships, and cultural heritage.
Travellers’ Tales
The experiences of English language teachers are often overlooked. This volume explores the complexity of ELT as global ‘work’ through teacher narratives, revealing the personal, pedagogical, and cultural dimensions of their work in overseas contexts.
Intermedial Arts
These essays position intermediality as a way to challenge our notion of art. Writers examine the relations between the arts—reference, combination, or transformation—to help us grasp their changing relationship in our contemporary medial age.
Beyond the Hijab Debates
Public debates reduce complex issues to simplistic binaries. This collection cuts through the noise, offering incisive analyses and new possibilities for understanding the intersection of gender, race, and religion.
Making a Difference
Discover how applied linguistics makes a difference in a changing world. Leading experts explore language’s role in migration, media, and policy. For students, teachers, and anyone interested in the real-world impact of language.
Family
From the “In Defence of the Family” conference, these papers tackle the global challenges facing children and families. They champion a dialogue across cultures to build a more humane and promising future for humanity.
Daniel-François-Esprit Auber
Auber & Scribe’s opéra-féerique Le Cheval de bronze is one of the composer’s best achievements. Its witty, exotic plot involves a magical horse that transports men to Venus and its sirens. A forgotten gem brimming with invention, fantasy, and comedy.
Leading international victimologists explore practical and theoretical issues in Victimology. This collection describes how a victim’s rights are deprived and offers recommendations to balance the justice system and improve the situation for victims of crime.
The Polyphony of Food
Food is more than a basic need. It satisfies the entire range of human motivations, from feeling safe and secure to affirming cultural identity. It is a vehicle for bonding, love, esteem, and even a means of self-actualization.
This volume addresses the representation of warfare, assessing the veracity of war images and their impact. War images may trigger horror or paradoxically attain sublimity, blurring the narrow margin between ethics and aesthetics, information, and propaganda.
These essays examine the elusive dream of the Irish and Irish Americans. From 19th-century emigrants to contemporary artists, this study explores the conflicted visions of a people striving to come to terms with what it means to be Irish.
Trauma, Media, Art
This collection of essays explores artistic and media representations of traumatic histories from around the world. The authors both apply and critique dominant theories of trauma, exploring their limitations while considering new methodologies.
Empowering Transformations
Alf Prøysen’s classic Mrs Pepperpot stories have received surprisingly little critical attention. This overdue collection of essays by experts explores Prøysen’s heroine through modern theory to deepen the understanding of her enduring popularity.
Orientalism is typically associated with Western scholars. This book presents alternative views from regions like Latin America, also affected by colonialism. Rather than constructing the Orient as an inferior other, these essays attempt to understand the Asian within us.
Post-soviet rural reforms, intended to create a society of family farmers, instead led to the collapse of production and rural communities. This volume analyzes the transformation of post-socialist agriculture and efforts to revitalize rural areas.
Music Research
This book compiles peer-reviewed papers from the conference “Music Research: new directions for a new century.” Papers explore four main themes: Research through Performance, Music and Society, Music and Technology, and Structure and Context.
Processing Your Order
Please wait while we securely process your order.
Do not refresh or leave this page.
You will be redirected shortly to a confirmation page with your order number.