This collection of essays explores how New Yorkers sought meaning in the 9/11 attacks a decade on. Contributors contest the dominant narrative to focus on local experiences of memory, recovery, and rebuilding, and the challenge of representing the event.
The African Human Rights Judicial System
This book examines two forgotten realities of African constitutionalism: the state power to create international courts and the role they play, focusing on the African Court on Human and Peoples’ Rights and its landmark merger.
Rediscovering the Hindu Temple
This volume examines the Hindu temple as an architectural and urban form. Going beyond stereotypes, this study reveals the temple as a complex cultural entity: both monumental and modest, historic and modern, and deserving of a far deeper understanding.
Irish religion is being redefined beyond Catholic power and sectarianism. This first-of-its-kind book explores the widespread changes, from new religious movements and migrant religion to the spread of New Age spirituality, in a wide-ranging overview.
Postfeminist Discourse in Shakespeare’s The Tempest and Warner’s Indigo
A comparative study of Shakespeare’s The Tempest and Marina Warner’s rewriting, Indigo. Focusing on femininity and the other, this analysis explores ambivalence, liminality, and plurality in postfeminist and post-colonial contexts.
How do organizations learn to face the challenges of our turbulent age? This book dispels uncertainties and provides a better understanding of organisational learning, knowledge, and capabilities, focusing on practice, knowledge transfer, and ambidexterity.
These essays illustrate the power of gender stereotypes to shape how medicine is practiced and perceived. The chapters investigate gendered perceptions of healers and patients in narratives across fiction, memoir, film, new media, and visual art.
Mnemosyne and Mars
Explore the enduring cultural legacy of war through its powerful representation in literature, film, theatre, and music.
Periphrasis, Replacement and Renewal
This volume blends synchronic theory and diachronic investigations, offering novel insights on the evolution of English and solutions to persistent analytical problems. It will appeal to linguists interested in language change and grammatical theory.
This compilation of essays examines the nexus between artists, their art, and society. Through a diverse group of artists, it explores important issues like the representation of the Other and the construction of the self, offering fascinating insights.
Conversion in English
This book proposes that conversion in English is a semantic process driven by conceptual mappings. It questions previous interpretations that mistake the effect of conversion for its cause and helps settle long-standing debates on its directionality and productivity.
The Archbishops of Cyprus in the Modern Age
Cypriot archbishops have long wielded political power. Most remember the nationalist politician and first President, Archbishop Makarios III. But were they all like him? This unique study explores the role of the archbishop-ethnarch.
Everyday Feminist Research Praxis
This volume explores the everyday as a site of micro-political power struggles. By connecting theory with feminist research practice, contributors show how to disentangle daily routines, scrutinize entrenched power relations, and energize new forms of recognition.
This volume explores space as a construct of human activity. Essays cover topics from literature and film to cultural memory and cyberspace, outlining the shifts concerning existence and identity in continuously changing, transitory, in-between spaces.
Giacomo Meyerbeer
ARSC Awards for Excellence, 2014. This discography of Giacomo Meyerbeer’s works (1889-1955) testifies to the composer’s once-universal fame. It lists nearly 2000 artists, including legends from the Golden Age of Song, who recorded his music.
Language, from a Biological Point of View
This collection of essays explores biolinguistics, the synthesis of linguistics and biology. Chapters offer an overview of forefront research into language structure, development, the brain, and evolution, highlighting both exciting prospects and obstacles.
Applied Social Sciences
Applied Social Sciences: Sociology offers a collection of studies explaining complex phenomena like migration, culture, and identity. This volume provides material for professionals and is accessible to the public interested in interdisciplinary sociological approaches.
Amid rapid economic and political change, this volume investigates the impact of global reality and EU integration on the Balkan and Black Sea countries, and explores the possibilities and perspectives for their economies.
This book is a comprehensive introduction to Proto-Indo-European, Balto-Slavic and Proto-Slavic accentology. It summarizes the major approaches of the last thirty years and traces how accentual patterns developed from the proto-language to modern languages.
The Ballets of Alexander Glazunov
Russian composer Alexander Glazunov was a master of classical ballet. Sharing Tchaikovsky’s passion for melody, his scores for Raymonda and The Seasons are inventive and beautifully orchestrated, reflecting a glamorous, glittering world.
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