Oscar Wilde’s Elegant Republic
Using Oscar Wilde as a connecting thread, this monograph navigates the question of Paris’ popularity as a place of both innovation and exile in the late nineteenth century. It uses French, English and American sources to offer an exploration of both the city and its communities.
Truth and Experience
This title meets contemporary challenges posed by experience and truth with a critical openness that allows for the full complexity of these concepts to be investigated through the perspectives of phenomenology and hermeneutics.
The Discourse of Tourism and National Heritage
Stoian studies the field of online tourism promotion, focusing on that of UNESCO World Heritage Sites, looking at two different types of websites—institutional and commercial—from three countries, Romania, Spain and the UK.
The Word made Visible in the Painted Image
This monograph explores the areas of perspective, proportion, witness and theological threshold in the devotional art of the Italian Renaissance, with particular reference to the painted image of Christ.
Mediating Peace
This edited collection examines the role of art, music and film in peace-building and reconciliation in a range of conflict situations. The contributors are composed of prominent scholars and artists, and examine theoretical, professional and practical concerns.
The idea of light and darkness is one of the central ideas of the Symbolist movement, which emphasises contrasts. The contributors here present a range of studies that provide a detailed understanding of this notion and a variety of its Symbolist interpretations.
This collection of essays provides insights into the culturally conditioned structure of Asian societies, questioning Eurocentric views of modernity that assume that Confucianism would have to be abandoned if East Asia wanted to develop a dynamic, modern society.
Human Trafficking
Using the accounts of twenty-six women, Maria De Angelis explores women’s stories of agency in a lived experience of trafficking. This book will be of interest to students undertaking courses in modern slavery, human geography, police studies, social work, and criminology.
‘Intimately Associated for Many Years’
This volume contains the correspondence of Anglican Bishop George Bell and the General Secretary of the World Council of Churches, Willem Visser’t Hooft, and reflects efforts made across the ecumenical movement to unite the Christian churches in an age of international crisis.
Thrice a Stranger
By focusing on the real story of a family against a background of historical events, this book shows how the pseudo-theories of so-called international relations can be demolished, and brings to life some vital aspects of modern European history.
‘Intimately Associated for Many Years’
The letters of Bishop George Bell and Willem Visser’t Hooft mirror efforts by the World Council of Churches to unite Christianity and confront an age of crisis. To mitigate political tensions, they raised their voices to presidents and prime ministers.
Constructing a System of Irregularities
Chee Lay Tan investigates the poetics of three renowned contemporary Chinese poets—Bei Dao, Yang Lian and Duoduo—exiled from China after the 1989 Tiananmen student movement. The author constructs a hermeneutical system that examines the irregularities and polysemy of these poets.
Fundamental Shakespeare
This volume sheds fresh light on, and offers new insights to, a wide range of topics including politics, psychology and discourse, by discussing the work of Shakespeare from an Eastern perspective.
This monograph shows how Neapolitan theatre managed to not only survive, but thrive in an era that saw the disappearance of a number of regional theatre traditions in Italy, with Neapolitan playwrights forcefully proclaiming their roots as a primary source for their work.
This monograph explores the impact of managers’ psychological profiles and life experiences on their financial decisions; as it highlights, having insights into managers’ psychology is essential to understanding their choices and predicting decisions made by competing firms.
The contributions here inform continuing debates concerning the role of ICT in developing communities on the wrong side of all technical and social divides in human societies.
Muge 150th
This publication explores a number of archaeological themes, and is divided into two volumes, with the first focusing on Mesolithic finds in the Muge and Sado valleys. The second volume discusses the general Mesolithic period and its transition to the Neolithic across Europe.
This book explores how persistent states of underdevelopment occur in strategic environments in which players are imitative rather than fully rational. It explains this form of coordination failure as a contest between competing economic agents.
Enhancing Customer Experience in the Service Industry
The essays included in this text provide a new and definitive overview of customer experience and how it can be managed and enhanced in the service industry. The highly qualified international team of contributors ensures that it adopts a global perspective.
Conceptualizations of Childhood, Pedagogy and Educational Research in the Postmodern
This monograph investigates the new sociology of childhood and new directions in pedagogy and research that have been conceptualised as a result of the recent debate between modernism and postmodernism within the social sciences.
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