Decolonising the Mediterranean
Centring on North African, Maghreb and Mashrek countries’ colonial legacies, this collection investigates borders from a transnational perspective. While the research directions and topics in each chapter are different, they all suggest a specific path for decolonising knowledge.
Christian Mind in the Emerging World
In this collection, Christian scholars from around the world explore how faith underpins academic disciplines. Offering a global perspective focused on Asia, these essays illustrate a faith-integrated approach to diverse fields from science to social services and business.
Ecology and Literatures in English
Writers hold out a mirror, arguing that hope lies in our connection to the real world. This book explores how literature, from Shakespeare to detective novels, reveals the fundamental idea that everything is connected, and that this awareness is the key to protecting the planet.
This collection studies processes of creating voices of the past to analyze and to juxtapose, discussing the educational community viewed through feminist theory. It explores facets of language to focus on metaphorical grammatical constructions, specific with form and function.
The Contemporary Art Gallery
Carrier and Jones enliven readers’ latent knowledge of galleries, like architectural motifs, the intended impression conveyed to the visitor, and their human interactions. Much has been written about the art, but the secretive culture of the galleries themselves is now uncovered.
The Intertwining of Culture and Music
Salamone examines various kinds of love and the way music reflects them. His text is about romantic love, ethnic pride and love, love and the media, and various other loves we have, especially love for popular culture.
Giacomo Meyerbeer
Once a titan of opera, Giacomo Meyerbeer’s legacy was all but erased. Based on newly recovered private papers, this definitive biography reveals the man behind the myth, charting his downfall and modern rediscovery.
This monograph presents a survey and evaluation of Cavafy’s poetical work with an emphasis on his historical and didactic poems, examining the relationship between his writing and Aristotle’s Poetics for the first time.
Kassis describes American perceptions of the Nordic countries which contributed to the construction of the 19th-century American national identity. He explores how Nordic unity and the Americanisation of Northern Europe link to Americans’ utopian reflection on Nordic societies.
Art and Book
The place of illustration and innovation is explored in this collection, regarding the relation of image to text in books of the 20th and early 21st centuries. Topics range from the work of Marcel Duchamp and Kazimir Malevich to the design of multimodal works and 3D printing.
The Crisis in the Humanities
This volume advances transdisciplinarity in order to study the place of the humanities in our society, and challenges the ways that issues which form the foci of various disciplines have been addressed in recent theoretical discourses.
Local Governments and the Public Health Delivery System in Kerala
This monograph considers a new public health model in the Indian state Kerala, which is unique in achieving human and social development with a low level of economic development.
Facets of Urbanisation
Increasing urbanisation is a dominant global trend with numerous social and environmental implications. This volume analyzes its various facets, including cultural adaptation, migration, gender, slums, and human rights, from a cross-cultural perspective.
Understanding the Newspaper Business in Nigeria
Bringing together articles on newspaper writing and reporting, this resource book sensitizes would-be journalists to the arts of reporting and writing. In addition, it exposes them to the ways in which newspaper readership can be sustained in the age of online messaging.
Hina evaluates issues regarding the USAID’s Teacher Education Project, a programme aiming to introduce sustainability reforms in Pakistan’s education sector. She assesses the urgent need to recognise teaching professionals in the context of Pakistan’s teacher professionalization.
This monograph is devoted to contemporary Albanian poetry, given the important role it has continuously played in Albanian literature as a whole. It analyses particular literary periods and their representative poets from a comparative perspective.
This work brings together nine papers written within the realms of political science, the humanities, theology and religion, as well as business, economics, and management. They offer unique perspectives to provide a multifaceted take on dissidence in the European context.
A concise guide on how and why the Arab Spring failed, Alfadhel presents a narrative of events in the Arab World. He describes an original investigation into why the Arab Spring cannot be seen as a wave of democratization, due to intolerant Islamist actors’ input in its failure.
Following the recent ‘turn to religion’ that has been so important to English Studies in the 21st century, this monograph builds on many of the recent biographies of Shakespeare that have explored the playwright’s religious views, with a specific focus on his King Lear.
New Cinema in Turkey
Ottone focuses on Turkish cinema that has seen the emergence and consolidation of a strong internationally-recognised authorship. He assesses the last twenty years of the “New Turkish Auteur Cinema” by comparing the so-called “3rd generation” to a 4th generation of directors.