Archaeology’s objective approach has been revealed as a subjective process. This book considers the question: how does the archaeologist think today? Through personal narratives, archaeologists describe their methods in the process of imagining the past.
Mathew presents six essays, each of which is an invitation to the reader to form an opinion on what care happens to be. Each chapter looks at care in a different setting, and a variety of psychoanalytic frameworks are employed on which to hang arguments.
The papers in this collection consider how nation building is a multi-dimensional process, addressing various components, including perspectives of the country in question. It deals with these inter-linked aspects, and the development of these structures and institutions.
Cracks in the Foundation
Howe offers fresh insights on the hottest topics in modern religious debate, such as Biblical Creation versus scientific evidence, and evil and suffering in God’s world, as well as other issues.
Writing Business Letters Across Languages
A practical guide to cross-cultural business correspondence. Exploring style, tone, and structure, it provides examples from Arabic, English, and French to help professionals write effective letters and understand their counterparts in other languages.
The Truly Infinite Universe
By bringing speculative philosophy into conversation with quantum cosmology, this book develops Hegel’s metaphysics and Hawking’s theory on the origins of spacetime, revealing the universe as a self-generating, self-organizing, self-enclosed whole.
Democracy in the Workplace and at Home
This book explores how democratic concepts like freedom and justice impact our work and home environments. It reveals how a lack of these concepts harms health and well-being, and shows how to create more democratic, healthy, and productive lives.
Representing the proceedings of the inaugural conference of the University of Arizona Center for American Culture and Ideas, these contributions explore the relationship between the high arts and culture in America, considering a range of subjects from dance to philosophy.
This volume provides accessible articles on masters of world cinema whose works explore human spirituality and religious faith. It examines canonical directors like De Sica and Hitchcock alongside contemporary auteurs like Asghar Farhadi and Apichatpong Weerasethakul.
The Chinese Continuum of Self-Cultivation
Christine Hale offers a cross-cultural educational template for the 21st century based on the Neo-Confucian concept of the universal nature of self, which enhances the educational theories of John Dewey, and will interest philosophers, educationalists, and curricula designers.
This book reveals Shakespeare as an early modern materialist inspired by Lucretius. In chapters on six important plays, it demonstrates how he writes an “atomic” poetry of joining and splitting language to explore the art of nature and the nature of art.
This volume represents investigations by linguistics professionals into the challenges of developing communicative competence in future engineers, economists and other such specialists, offering the views of instructors of English for specific professional purposes from Russia.
The Paramilitary Hero on Turkish Television
This book explores nationalism and masculinity in Turkey through the popular television serial, Valley of the Wolves. Drawing on in-depth viewer interviews, it examines the central paramilitary hero and how audiences construct meaning and pleasure from the text.
On the Apocalyptic and Human Agency
Scholars explore the fundamental importance of Augustine and Luther for questions of human identity and destiny. This volume examines Luther’s apocalyptic worldview and how he adapted Augustine’s understanding of the self for a new era.
The House, the World, and the Theatre
Cáffaro departs from three ideologically resonant spatial metaphors to discuss key aspects of nineteenth-century literature and culture, namely the way authors used their prefaces to fashion themselves to cater to ever-expanding audiences and to the new conditions of publishing.
Art and Social Justice
This book explores the connections between art, social justice, and media. With chapters referencing situations in Brazil, Cyprus, Greece and South Africa, it concentrates on how art campaigns for change and mobilizes youth in a world mediated by the Internet.
This volume represents the proceedings of the 4th Weber Graduate Philosophy Conference held in 2014. Contributions include research on Wittgenstein’s Proposition, self-directed irony, and an analysis of metaphors.
Fighting Cane and Canon
This book explores the persistence of Hindi poetry in Mauritius through the work of Abhimanyu Unnuth. His writing captures a postcolonial people’s reevaluation of history, labor, and identity, raising crucial questions about language and canonicity in World Literature.
Despite efforts by ethnographic museums to acknowledge contemporary cultural practices and aesthetic expressions, this book reveals how the institution of the museum as such continues to be haunted by its previous, restrictive ideas of the other while talking about the self.
Privileged Mobilities
Marking an important contribution to the growing school of critical studies of tourism, this title raises questions regarding privileged mobiles from the standpoint of class, gender, ethnicity and citizenship.
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