This collection of scholarship offers an eclectic overview of youth culture. Essays explore unusual minds that question human existence, the evolution of board and video games, magic in fantasy fiction, and consumerism in popular teen book series.
Postcolonial Slavery
Foregrounding the material realities of slavery, these essays explore its legacies and the defiant resistance of runaway slaves, challenging the marginalization of colonial history.
This book discusses the basic tools of mathematical physics for physicists, mathematicians, and engineers. It reveals the indissoluble connection between physical ideas and mathematical concepts, emphasizing the physical origin and flexibility of the equations.
Religion and Politics in Ukraine
Russia uses an “Orthodox civilization” to justify policies towards Ukraine. This book analyzes the role of religion in Ukrainian political life, focusing on Eastern Christian communities after the USSR’s collapse and the connection to its democratic character.
Prenatal screening offers parental choice, but the anomalies it finds are often unfixable. When termination is the only intervention, complex ethical questions arise about which traits are desirable. This book explores these choices and their impact on autonomy.
Applied Social Sciences
Applied Social Sciences focuses on interdisciplinary research in psychology, physical education, and social medicine. This volume offers theoretical and empirical support for professionals, providing profound diagnoses of post-communist Romanian realities.
Lacework or Mirror? This study explores the diary poetics of Frances Burney, Dorothy Wordsworth, and Mary Shelley. It examines their narrative choices and lacunae to illustrate the gradual emergence of the diarists’ individual selves.
As societies face complex challenges like climate change, the role of academics as public intellectuals is vital. This book explores how they make specialized knowledge relevant, discussing historical and contemporary cases from Europe, the US, and beyond.
Weizfeld focuses on the political philosophy and the constitutional transformation of the contradiction between two major nations in one land, namely Palestine-Israel.
This edited volume offers an overview of the complexity of the visual rhetoric of violence, discussing both fictional works, including films and novels, and non-fictional genres, such as news media, showing how such expressions of violence have assumed diverse narrative forms.
Interiors
These essays explore the borderland between interiors and exteriors. Where do we draw dividing lines? Can we afford not to distinguish between the inside and outside, between “us” and “them”? This volume presents a plethora of answers.
For millennia, philosophy has failed to define art. This searching critique reveals why and proposes a new philosophy, demonstrating that art is quintessentially involved in the meaning of life, our impulse for self-knowledge, and understanding the human condition.
This handbook helps psychology professors internationalize their courses and curricula. It offers practical tips and innovative ideas to enrich teaching, with authors from every major geographic region providing a truly global perspective on psychology education.
This volume analyzes the Romance and Germanic translations of influential medieval surgeon Lanfranc of Milan. Including contributions by experts, it uses a comparative approach to study the development of a vernacular surgical tradition throughout late medieval Europe.
Emerging Critical Scholarship in Education
The doctoral journey is fraught with challenges. This book explores the routes of candidates conducting critical research in education, addressing their isolation not as a self-help guide, but by honouring individual stories to highlight broader issues.
Readings in Oriental Literature
This collection of essays is a fresh, lucid, and scholarly exploration of Oriental literature. It connects topics from the Arabian Nights to Coleridge and Tagore, while avoiding jargon to remain accessible for specialists and non-specialist readers alike.
Bodies of Speech
Aristotle was the first to conceive of poetry and oration as written texts. This book reads his Poetics and Rhetoric to reveal a systematic text theory—a profound theory able to hold a fruitful dialogue with modern thinking.
Making the Stage
In an increasingly technological and isolated culture, theatre seems a primitive art form. Yet these essays reveal that theatre not only survives but defines the vital political discussions prohibited by a manipulated media.
Death on the Move
This volume explores the different aspects of the management of death, dying and mortality by migrants in Southern Europe, through deconstructing persistent idiosyncratic beliefs, myths, narratives, silences, and constraints.
Britishness is a challenging term to define. This volume enhances our understanding of modern national identity by exploring historical ideas of Britishness through essays on literature, philosophy, music, art, and design, revealing its rich forging.
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