Not So Strange Bedfellows
This volume challenges the dominant orthodoxy of secularity. Its contributors demonstrate that ‘secular’ democracy is not separate from religion, exploring how nation-states infuse politics with religiosity and proving the two remain deeply connected.
For students, researchers, and developers, this book offers a snapshot of ongoing European research and development in cloud computing. It covers the latest hot topics, including services, management, automation, and adoption.
A Body Politic to Govern
This work examines the influence of Italian Renaissance humanism on the political persona of Elizabeth I. To silence critics of a female monarch, Elizabeth used her classical education to defend and assert her right to rule through her letters and speeches.
China
China’s university graduates are its future leaders. A look into their psyche is a window into the future of China, as their thoughts as students will shape their adult attitudes. Here, we present students’ responses on issues of current importance.
Reading, Writing, and Digitizing
Based on psycholinguistics, this book contrasts expert and novice readers and writers. It reveals how experts go beyond the text to create meaning in any medium and offers powerful strategies to support literacy development in others.
This book marks a new direction in Eurasian archaeology, focusing on how people lived in their local environments. It re-images Eurasia as a complex landscape of shifting social boundaries, questioning rigid stereotypes and offering novel interpretations of the past.
Byron and Hobby-O
This is a frank and intimate study of the relationship between Byron and his best friend, John Cam Hobhouse. Initially collaborators and rivals, Byron rapidly outstretched Hobhouse in poetry, while Hobhouse, in the longer term, outstretched Byron in politics.
The Short Life and Violent Times of Preston Smith Brooks
Although a central figure in a seminal event of American history, the “Caning” of Senator Charles Sumner, Preston Brooks remains a largely forgotten figure. This work provides much-needed historical scrutiny on the life, character and motives of this controversial figure.
Transgressing Women
Transgressing Women focuses on the ‘other’ female characters of the noir world, beyond the femme fatale. The book traces these transgressive figures in contemporary novels and films, analyzing their dramatic evolution through feminist and postmodernist theory.
Tourism Marketing
This volume presents the best research from the Advances in Tourism Marketing Conference, focusing on tourist behaviour and managerial strategies. It covers image, satisfaction, ITC, innovation, and competitiveness. A compelling update for researchers and students.
Cinema, Television and History
Rethinking the relationship between cinema, television and history, this collection of essays explores how historical events are interpreted and adapted for the screen, as well as the work of the historian exploring the archive.
Ethics and Poetics
This book explores the ethics of fiction, showing how literariness itself generates ethical communication. Authors investigate how modern narratives refine our understanding of recognition, disclosing how the reading experience can regenerate real social spaces.
Applied Social Sciences
This collection of studies in administration, management, and law explains complex concepts through theoretical and empirical research. It is an educational support for professionals and is accessible to a broader audience interested in an interdisciplinary approach.
An essential resource for scholars, teachers, and students. This collection of articles offers a multicultural reflection on translation and cultural identity from diverse perspectives, fostering the intercultural communication crucial to our “global village”.
Museums present authorized versions of reality but rarely discuss their priorities or ask “what are the other truths?” This collection of essays highlights contested truths, the truths of the underprivileged, and asks what the consequences for museums should be.
Interculturality
In an era of accelerating globalization, intercultural issues are crucial. This book creates a platform for dialogue between practitioners and researchers through concrete case studies to promote constructive understanding and combat racism and xenophobia.
Urban Design
This book defines and analyzes three types of continuity in urban planning and design: urban conservation, cultural tourism, and persistencies of form. It cites international examples from the author’s work, illustrated with numerous original drawings.
African American Women’s Language
This groundbreaking research on African American Women’s Language is long overdue. It expands a literature that has too often focused only on men, exploring the language, discourse, and identity of Black women while finally letting the sistas speak.
This is the first book of academic criticism on the connection between Christianity and the detective story. It covers Chesterton, Sayers, and contemporary TV crime dramas, making the case that mystery writing provides both entertainment and religious insight.
Does literature merely reflect society, or does it create and transform reality? Is it a tool of social power, or a source of pleasure? The essays in this volume explore the complex relations between literature and society from diverse angles and eras.
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