Parliamentary Discourses across Cultures
This volume offers a deeper understanding of the diversity of parliamentary practices across space and time. It highlights the role of local social, historical, and ideological factors in building culture-specific traditions of political institutions.
Salome
Though her name means “peaceful,” Salome is linked to the beheading of John the Baptist. This history describes how the myth of Salome was created through art, literature, and music, and how her image as evil varied according to prevailing cultural myths surrounding women.
The Gift of Consciousness
An engaging overview of Patañjali’s Yoga Sūtras through the prism of Eastern and Western psychology. This clear-eyed approach makes the ancient text relevant to anyone interested in Yoga, integrating its insights into everyday life.
The Shaping of Persian Art
The image of Persian art was not a pure creation of its civilization. It was largely defined by Euro-American collectors, scholars, and dealers who shaped how it should be viewed and displayed. This volume offers novel insight into this process.
Formal Linguistics and the Teaching of Latin
This collection of papers explores comparative linguistics applied to the teaching of Latin. Comparing Latin with other languages, it represents grammar as the product of mental processes for linguists, teachers, and students seeking to update their approach.
Multi-disciplinary Lexicography
This book focuses on burning problems of European, Russian and world lexicography. Topics range from dictionary use and criticism to terminology and projects of new dictionaries. This book will be of interest to theoreticians, practitioners, and students.
The course of world politics is shaped by the decisions of leaders. This book provides a new perspective on international relations by analyzing the subjective, psychological elements in their decision-making to better understand and predict global outcomes.
Visible Exports / Imports
New perspectives on medieval and renaissance art and culture. Essays explore 14th and 15th century European art production, from workshop practice and patronage to the circulation of styles and ideas.
Literature, History, Choice
This study offers a new theory of alternative history. Through a key work by Nobel laureate S.Y. Agnon, it reveals this principle is not just a genre, but fundamental to the very act of reading—shaping plot, character, and imagination.
Hunting the Collectors
Who were the collectors behind Australia’s vast Pacific collections? This volume reveals the complex motivations that shaped these remarkable archives of Oceanic art, a vital contribution to the worldwide renaissance of interest in Pacific cultures.
Multilingual Processing in Eastern and Southern EU Languages
This volume addresses the challenges of multilingual processing for the EU’s ‘less resourced’ languages. It offers specific solutions for translation and information retrieval for languages from south-eastern and central Europe.
Memory, Narrative and Forgiveness
Drawing on South Africa’s TRC and global case studies, scholars explore the themes of memory, narrative, and forgiveness. This book analyzes the path to reconciliation and healing for societies ravaged by mass violence and unspeakable injustice.
Burglars and Bobbies
In 19th-century London, rising crime led to the new Metropolitan Police. This book examines the reality behind crime levels, the police’s true impact versus other factors, and the controversial development of a force that faced public resistance.
A Modest Proposal in the Context of Swift’s Irish Tracts
This work contextualizes Swift’s masterpiece, A Modest Proposal, within his wider writing on Ireland. It analyzes a selection of his Irish Tracts to trace the evolution of his views, providing new insights for a better understanding of the satire.
Dante and Heterodoxy
This volume explores Dante’s “temptations” by the radical thought of the 13th century. Spurred by new Aristotelian and Greek-Arabic learning, Dante interrogated heterodox ideas, revealing a poet deeply involved in the intellectual debates of his culture.
Business Intelligence and Mobile Technology Research
Business intelligence and analytics allow organizations to make informed decisions. This volume presents insightful research papers on the top-priority disruptive IT technologies that help businesses seize digital opportunities to increase growth and reduce costs.
Building on original research, this collection examines the EU’s Internal Security Strategy. Experts from law, politics, and other fields analyze its approach to terrorism, cybercrime, and cross-border crime, and its implications for democracy and human rights.
How does humour work? This book tests Attardo & Raskin’s General Theory of Verbal Humor, proposing a new ‘humorist reading’. By providing the tools to ask ‘why is this humorous?’, it offers a valuable new way to understand any literary text.
One World Periphery Reads the Other
These essays study the decentering interplay between “peripheral” areas and marginalized social groups. They explore rich “South-South” cross-cultural exchanges that disrupt the center-periphery dichotomy, creating multiple centers without Western mediation.
South Sudanese Diaspora in Australia and New Zealand
This collection of contemporary research offers crucial insights into the South Sudanese resettlement experience in Australia and New Zealand. Diverse scholars examine the challenges, opportunities, and successes of one of the region’s fastest-growing communities.
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