Afroasiatic Studies in Memory of Robert Hetzron
NACAL is an academic nexus where students rub shoulders with titans of the field. This volume contains sixteen contributions from these scholars, covering a broad cross-section of topics in Afroasiatic linguistics.
This book compiles articles on Spanish grammar, integrating up-to-date research with current theoretical syntax and semantics. It is for linguists, researchers, and students interested in Spanish, Romance languages, and generative grammar.
Berkeley’s Lasting Legacy
Known for his denial of matter, George Berkeley was a far more wide-ranging thinker. This collection by international experts reveals his contributions to metaphysics, science, and economics, showing him as he was: a courageous philosophical innovator.
Applied Social Sciences
This volume provides original essays on philosophy and theology, exploring aesthetics, ethics, postmodernism, and the role of religion in society. Accessible to specialists and a wider public, it offers new ideas for professionals in the socio-humanistic field.
Education and Hegemony
This book examines the globalization of education in India and its impact on social structures like caste, class, and gender. It argues this process creates a market-driven system that hierarchizes knowledge, marginalizing critical reasoning.
New Wests and Post-Wests
This collection offers critical approaches to an American West that never was—a mythic space, not a geographical place. New scholarship explores multiple “New Wests” in film and literature, moving beyond traditional views with unique international perspectives.
Popular Appeal
In a world of urgent social change, young people are devouring fiction about identity and transition. This book examines how popular genres are being redefined to explore today’s key questions about the environment, identity, and our place in a fragile world.
Culture and Media
Culture and Media: Ecocritical Explorations closes a critical gap by applying Indian ecocriticism and tinai theory to visual texts. This volume challenges dominant theories, giving centre stage to a perspective that will shape the future of world cinema.
A definitive reference for the theory and practice of Islamic finance. Explore global banking innovations and understand their vital role in today’s volatile economy.
Horizons North
In Canada’s North, competing cultural paradigms collide. This collection of academic and personal essays investigates Aboriginal justice, challenges of pedagogy, and problems of identity created by Canada’s colonial past, offering insights on social transition.
Grotesque Anatomies
This study defines Menippean satire as a literary version of the grotesque. Through revisionist readings of canonical works from Pope’s Dunciad to Eliot’s The Waste Land, it changes our understanding of them and traces the form to the present day.
Despite communicative teaching, many EFL university students in the UAE lack adequate communicative competence and critical thinking skills. This book argues for utilising literature, offering an approach to integrate language, literature, and critical thinking.
Digging the Seam
The 1984–5 Miners’ Strike was a bitter dispute that divided Britain. While its political consequences have been subject to detailed analysis, its impact on popular culture is less mapped. This book explores that legacy in film, music, theatre, and art.
Edward Thring’s Theory, Practice and Legacy
Edward Thring’s headmastership at Uppingham School from 1853 to 1887 engendered a balanced physical education within a sane but revolutionary educational framework. Tozer provides a history of Thring’s theory and the course of physical education in Britain since 1800.
Discourse in Dialogue
This work considers fundamental theological and philosophical perspectives in Catholic-Christian theology. It covers themes like the interrelationship of philosophy and theology, scripture, and Christology. It serves as an introductory text and a guide for deeper reflection.
Protean Selves
What does it mean to write “I” in a world where technology and globalization have complicated notions of authenticity and selfhood? This collection of essays explores the intricate relations between language, self, and identity through the analysis of the first-person voice.
This volume reveals the important role of cultural stereotypes in how societies adapt to and cope with crises. Through detailed analysis of global case studies, it redefines disasters as any deviation from “normality” in a particular culture.
Idiom Translation in the Financial Press
This book addresses English-Greek idiom translation in the news press. It presents a new, genre-sensitive translation model based on a novel typology from psychology, exploring the strategies and parameters that govern how idioms are translated.
Identity
This book explores how identity is refashioned in our globalized world. It examines the intersection of “who we are” with mass media, the nation, and social practice, from advertising and sports to activism and online life.
Victims of Time, Warriors for Change
This book explores globalization’s impact on Chilean women. While some found new opportunities in wage labor, many more faced limitations and suffering as class differences were exacerbated. These women became both Victims of Time and Warriors for Change.
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