The Safe Operating Space Treaty
Traditional law, based on borders, is ecological nonsense. This book redefines our Common Home not as a place, but as a fragile state of the Earth System, arguing for its legal recognition as a Common Natural Heritage for all humankind.
Going Forward
This collection focuses on the need to address emerging and diverse issues in education. It offers insights into the ways in which higher education continuously evolves and how it has risen to face constant challenges.
Passing the Torch
Passing the Torch explores the mentor-student relationship and how anthropology is passed from one generation to the next. Through personal stories and classical examples, such as Boas’s mentoring of Margaret Mead, this book illuminates how the discipline is passed on.
This book articulates the representation of knowledge and values lodged in the diverse knowledge systems in Africa and its diaspora, and highlights the prejudicial assessments which ensure such epistemological systems are denigrated or ignored, even on the African continent.
The Lute in the Netherlands in the Seventeenth Century
The articles brought together here provide a broad and many-layered overview of the significance of the lute in the seventeenth century Netherlands, highlighting its central role in the rich musical culture of the ‘Golden Age’ of the Dutch Republic.
Children, Young People and Sport
This research-based study explores the motivations of children and young people in playing sport, what it means to them, and how it fits into their everyday lives, capturing the texture, nuances and meanings of participation in sport in Australia, France, Japan and New Zealand.
Words for Odours
This volume brings together studies on how olfactory experiences are verbalized. Applying pragmatic and theoretical approaches, it investigates the complex cognitive and cultural strategies speakers use to talk about odours in a variety of languages and domains.
After the Flight
This title critically addresses a range of topics and employs a variety of qualitative approaches to gain a better understanding of the lived experience of integration for refugees, including the attendant challenges and opportunities encountered during the integration process.
Internationalisation of Cluster Organisations
This book explores how international collaboration increases cluster competitiveness. Focusing on the Czech Republic, its findings and recommendations can enrich cluster development in other countries, serving as a guide for practitioners, policy makers, and academics.
Composed of a series of studies about various trends in stylistics, this compendium serves to bring stylistic analyses closer together, thus demonstrating the potential of stylistics as a research area that can benefit from other disciplines.
Telling and Re-telling Stories
The contributions brought together here offer a comprehensive and authoritative study of literary adaptation to film, providing valuable study cases which suggest both the continuity and variety of adaptation theories.
Engaging Affects, Thinking Feelings
These thought-provoking essays balance critical thinking with creative opportunities. This international, interdisciplinary collection focuses on the vulnerable subjects often overlooked, challenging readers to think beyond rational limits and engaging both intellect and emotion.
The Social Sense of the Human Experience
In a crisis where society is no longer human by definition, the human element must be rediscovered. This book revitalizes the sense of the human—a compass that, though often misunderstood, is now more essential than ever.
Forest and the Water Cycle
Do forests help or harm our water supply? This book unites international experts from forestry and water management to answer this critical question. It offers scientific perspectives and case studies to help protect water resources in forested areas.
Freer and Bell’s volume presents a rich and powerful range of essays by leading and emerging T.S. Eliot and literary modernist scholars, considering the doctrinal, religious, humanist, mythic and secular aspects of Eliot’s poetry.
The Bible as Revelatory Word
An opportunity is provided in this volume to study the Prophets and Wisdom Books of Scripture. The research presents some approaches used in biblical scholarship and encourages reading the texts themselves, developing a sharper perception of language, imagery, genre and style.
Time’s Fool
A memorial to the life work of A. Clare Brandabur, this collection presents essays on a wide range of notable writers from James Joyce to Kazuo Ishiguro, Michael Ondaatje, Yaşar Kemal, Cormac McCarthy, Abdulrahman Munif, and many others.
The Bible as Revelatory Word
This collection looks at a narrative view of the history of Ancient Israel, in stories written in the late Old Testament to reflect on the tribulations of the people in captivity. It illustrates how God’s ways are sought amidst defeat and confusion and amidst fear and hope.
Davis Wood explores James Fenimore Cooper and Cormac McCarthy as engaged in a complex legal and ethical dialogue regarding the disappearance of the nineteenth century frontier despite the centuries that separate their lives and their work.
Authors from eight countries offer research across eight languages on current issues in Translation Studies. The volume covers four key areas: lexicological issues and corpora, quality and translator training, audiovisual translation, and literary translation.
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