Language across Languages
Translation has always played a pivotal role in human societies. This volume tackles today’s challenging translation issues from two viewpoints: linguistics and anthropology, exploring translation as a basic cognitive strategy of the human mind.
This book analyzes how postcolonial writers used autobiography to express themselves. By using the ‘I’ and ‘me’ as subjects, not objects, they affirmed their identity and established autobiographical writing as a true art form.
This book offers a compelling critique of John Donne’s poetry, focusing on the intersection of science and Christian eschatology. It examines how references to cartography, physics, and alchemy contribute to conceptualizing the Christian mystery of death.
I Am
I Am: Remix Your Web Identity shows how to regain control of your digital identity. Design a personal website that aggregates your blog and social network posts in one location using RSS, WordPress, PHP, HTML5, and CSS3 to become a true “web author.”
The heroines of ancient myth remain potent today, challenging popular beliefs about the roles of women. This collection of essays examines their legacy from page to stage to screen to understand how they have evolved to retain and increase their power.
This line-by-line commentary on Kant’s B-Transcendental Deduction reveals its argument as the progressive unfolding of the Principle of Apperception. Focusing on this structure settles controversial questions, making it helpful to students and specialists.
Science, Gender and History
This study offers fresh readings of Mary Shelley and Margaret Atwood, comparing Frankenstein and The Last Man with The Handmaid’s Tale and Oryx and Crake to reveal an ongoing critique of oppressive science, gender ideologies, and environmental ruin.
Imagining Home
Tracing the nomadic lives of two exiled writers, this book redefines Romanian and American identity. It offers a crucial new context for Eastern European immigrant narratives.
Staging Ben
This edited volume offers a rebuttal of the mischaracterization of Ben Jonson’s plays as anti-theatrical. Featuring contributions from both Renaissance literature scholars and theatre practitioners, it demonstrates the playwright’s prodigious theatrical imagination.
Philosophical-Political Hecate-isms
Proposing a new conceptual category in philosophical and political discourse resulting from the mechanisms of the rule of three, this publication will appeal to the wider academic community interested in political science, postmodern philosophy, and cultural studies.
Organisational Anatomy
Organisational Anatomy views organisations as live creatures. This biological perspective allows you to intuitively understand your workplace, classify different organisational archetypes, and recognise pathologies to achieve superior business performance.
Using 12 years of research on the US textile industry and the apparel industry in the Latin American and Caribbean regions, Jackson argues that regulated trade agreements allow certain less globally competitive industries to become highly competitive in specific markets.
Thinking Space, Advancing Art
This book highlights the problems of art theory’s current obsession with theories of spectatorship, and argues that individual aesthetic transformations of pictorial structure change one’s experience of space, using the ideas of Ernst Cassirer and Paul Crowther as support.
Spike Lee’s Bamboozled
This analysis of the film *Bamboozled* compares the original screenplay with the Italian dub. Focusing on compliments and insults, it reveals how cultural references and the linguistic traits of African American English are weakened or omitted in translation.
Communication and Information Technology in Society
This book discusses the use of information and communication technologies (ICT) in management, economics, education, and psychology. With an interdisciplinary approach, it answers key questions and contributes to the discussion on the theoretical and practical use of ICT.
Labels and Locations
This book critically examines identity, gender, family, and class in the short narratives of South Asian diaspora writers in Australia. By focusing on this much-neglected group, it fills a crucial gap in the broader critical rubric of diaspora studies.
Open Codes
Challenging the view that technology and society are distinct, this book explores how human action can be re-centered to democratise technology. It focuses on open source as a new participatory model for creatively re-inventing used technologies.
Research Methodology – Contemporary Practices
New researchers confront challenges in research methodology. This book helps scholars gain command of contemporary practices, describing the simple steps for carrying out research, discussing the tools and techniques needed, and offering valuable tips to avoid common mistakes.
Stories of Peace Volume II
The chapters within this collection highlight the importance of creating and sustaining peace, proposing that peace can be created and sustained through people’s actions. They present stories to inspire the reader to work for peace.
The Ethics and Poetics of Alterity
This volume shows that genre literature is not escapist, but a field for ethical reflection. It explores how science fiction and fantasy dramatize encounters with otherness, raising a crucial question: how can human language describe what escapes humanity?
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