Megatrends and How to Survive Them
Behind the headlines, remorseless changes are creating a very different world. This book explores the twelve key megatrends that will shape 2032 and what you, your family, and your organisation can do to survive and thrive. Are you prepared?
Seeing Whole
This anthology explores the ways in which seeing as an embodied process is always a multivalent, ambiguous, and holistic undertaking, and represents an innovative addition to the field of visual culture studies.
Binaries in Battle
Binary opposition – Us vs. Them, good vs. evil – is fundamental to human thinking in peace and war. This wide-ranging anthology explores conflicts from history to the near future, deconstructing black-and-white imageries to reveal softer shades of grey.
This publication raises profound economic, ethical, political, sociological, and psychological questions. It explores our fears and fantasies as it examines a range of fictions, films, and TV programs that speculate about the possibilities of humans in the future.
Harbour cities are revitalizing abandoned port districts to create a new “face”. This book explores the opportunities and challenges of waterfront regeneration, from Western Europe to the Mediterranean, through a wide range of international case studies.
Homelands and Diasporas
This collection of essays on Jewish-related subjects celebrates Emanuela Trevisan Semi’s career and research, and is authored by a number of former students, friends and colleagues on the occasion of her retirement.
On Wolves and Sheep
On Wolves and Sheep explores the methods used in the Spanish Golden Age to voice political opinions. Studying works by Cervantes, Lope de Vega, and others, these original essays reveal critical thoughts concerning Spain’s monarchs and imperial policies.
This volume offers strategies and materials to help teachers guide students in understanding fundamental subjects. Covering key dimensions of teaching, it serves to ensure high academic achievement and is ideal for educators seeking professional development.
The Prophets and the Goddess
Psilopoulos discusses how W. B. Yeats, Aleister Crowley, Ezra Pound and Robert Graves had access to the forbidden knowledge of the Goddess. These four poets experienced a confrontation with their unconscious and let the grace of the Goddess touch their heart strings.
Openness with Roots
With 90% of Irish primary schools under Catholic patronage in an increasingly diverse country, this book explores the debate on denominational religious education, questioning the duties of both the Church and the State.
This volume explores British depictions of Bulgaria as a dystopian land from the 18th century until its 1878 Liberation. In these travel narratives, the Bulgarian nation is an antithesis to the civilised British, until its National Revival comes to question this depiction.
While chiefly a site of popular pleasure and merriment, popular culture also functions as a site and source through which identities are inhabited, brokered and contested. This volume offers theoretical reflections on the significance of particular elements of popular culture.
Negation Raising
This book explores the syntax of negative sentences, addressing the tension between negation’s variable forms and its stable logical meaning. A new mapping operation is proposed to unify its interpretation and explain phenomena like negative concord.
This collection of peer-reviewed papers, from an international conference in Japan, explores the cultural cross-fertilisation between the literatures of East and West. The collection demonstrates the stimulating effect of cross-cultural literary studies.
Authorising History
This book explores the strategies Middle English authors used to authorise their historical works. It investigates the “anglicising” of history around 1300, which gave new audiences access to the past, previously excluded by Latin and French texts.
Questions about the roles teachers’ religious beliefs play in their professional activities have been largely excluded from academic conversations in TESOL. However, Baurain shows here that faith and professional practices can, and do, interact and interrelate in various ways.
The contributions here bear witness to the fact that belonging is a multi-faceted concept that necessitates different and shifting idioms of expression. Informed by current debates, they propose new critical directions in understanding national and transnational belonging.
Categories of Word Formation and Borrowing
Using an onomasiological approach, this book analyzes neoclassical formations in English and Russian medical terms. It argues that what is a system of word formation in English represents only individual borrowings in Russian, solving a key problem in morphological theory.
The Bonds of Trade
How did long-distance trade flourish in a pre-modern world of overwhelming uncertainty? This book explores this paradox, revealing how institutions were created to build trust between distant communities and merchants who did not know one another.
An Insatiable Dialectic
Leading philosophers and cultural critics challenge the view that critique, modernity, and humanism are obsolete. These essays argue that these concepts are crucial in an age where democratic ideals and intercultural understanding are vanishing possibilities.
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