Exploring Space
This collection of original essays on Literature, Linguistics, and Translation by Malaysian academics reflects state-of-the-art, interdisciplinary research. It provides textual and theoretical readings from a variety of traditional and modern perspectives.
Travellers, Gypsies, Roma
This volume explores new areas of enquiry in Irish, Traveller, Romani and Migration Studies. In a rapidly changing Ireland, increased acknowledgement of diversity makes dialogue between mainstream society, older minorities and newer immigrant communities necessary.
The NNEST Lens
The NNEST Lens invites you to re-examine TESOL and applied linguistics using multilingual, multicultural, and multinational perspectives. This volume’s original contributions question theory and share strategies, taking diversity as a starting point for all.
This publication explores phenomenological structural sociology, specifically the use of phenomenological structuralism in an effort to resolve the structure/agency problematic of the social sciences within structurationist sociological theory.
Religion in Early Assam
This volume offers a fresh approach to religion in Early Assam, bringing together archaeology, history, and heritage. It reconstructs the sacred landscape of the Prāgjyotiṣa and Kāmarūpa kingdoms, illustrating implications for Assam’s history and identity.
This interdisciplinary collection explores how early modern texts were appropriated by individuals and groups. Case studies show how a text’s physical form impacts its readership, concluding that texts hold no fixed meaning but are interpreted by each reader.
This book reads the parables of Jesus as language-games. Not abstract truths, these stories illustrate God’s kingdom and call readers to participate in its unfolding, making the parables accessible and removing them from the pedestal of obscurity.
The relationship of mind to matter still eludes understanding. This volume shows how process philosophy can help. Twelve chapters by prominent specialists discuss the link between process thinking and scientific research on the problems of mind and experience.
How can a translator recreate the hybrid identity of characters who perform masculinity and ethnicity through non-standard language? Using Gautam Malkani’s novel Londonstani and its Italian translation, this book tackles the challenges of translating vernacular literature.
Kenya, Zimbabwe, and South Africa traded colonial oppression for corrupt, authoritarian rule. This book contrasts their betrayed revolutions with Tunisia, where a determined civil society forged a path to open democracy against all odds.
This book outlines international business transactions and their associated risks. It details financing mechanisms for the international sale of goods and overseas construction projects, covering documentary credit, project finance, syndicated loans, and export credit insurance.
TOMS shoes disrupted business with its one-for-one model: for every pair sold, another was given to a child in need. The TOMS Effect explores this phenomenon’s influence on corporations and start-ups, and asks if its newest, riskier social campaigns can be sustained.
Triumphant Bodies
This study explores how professional female authors from Aphra Behn to Frances Brooke used a pliant vocabulary of sexuality and politics. This blending of language allowed women to provocatively challenge and rearticulate the terms of power and authority.
Having trouble sleeping after you retired? As we change with age, sleep also changes. Why not encourage it to change for the better? This book provides information and advice, explaining how to recognize telling symptoms and organize a different schedule.
Fundamental Constants
Devoting itself to the calculation of the accuracy of measurements of fundamental physical constants, this book formulates an a priori interaction between the level of a detailed description of a material object and the lowest uncertainty in measuring a physical constant.
These essays on ecofeminist literary criticism highlight the intersections of environment, race, class, and gender oppression. Analyzing authors from Kingsolver to Nwapa, this collection expands the discussion to a global scale and environmental justice.
What kinds of worlds will exist in our future? How will technology shape our cities, homes, and ourselves? This collection of essays explores science fiction’s new spaces—from utopias and dystopias to alien cityscapes—and discusses capitalism, equality, and feminist critique.
Purgatory between Kentucky and Canada
In the purgatory between Kentucky and Canada, ordinary African Americans in Ohio fought to create a space of peace. These histories reveal how individuals in the 19th and 20th centuries used social networks to secure education, voting rights, and liberty.
Servant Leadership
Develop a servant leadership style that builds effective organizations and achieves outstanding results. This book details a holistic leadership approach that builds community through a common mission. It features examples, tips, practices, and questions for self-reflection.