This original, international work offers new perspectives on leisure studies. For the first time in English, it presents interdisciplinary dialogues from countries like Brazil and Portugal that depart from traditional viewpoints to consider leisure as a political practice.
Issues of Faith-Based Education in the United Kingdom
As state-supported Catholic schools face controversy, this book explains their origins, purpose, and contribution to society. It outlines the Church’s understanding of the primary role of parents in education and the limits of the state, making it a vital read for all involved.
Power and Communication
This book explores the relationship between power and the media in Western societies. The media exercise symbolic force, but are also subject to political and economic influence. This relationship is paradoxically as strict as it is opaque.
This book tackles Hellenism as a global entity through a comparative study of English and American literary, cultural, and artistic trends from the 18th to the 20th centuries. It proves the enduring, intercontinental appeal of Hellenism.
This title enquires into the processes by which certain contemporary women pay testimony to history. It examines the reasons why they recreate the past, whether political, social or artistic, and the strategies employed to establish a comparison with the present.
Stephen King in the New Millennium
This exciting exploration of Stephen King’s digital writing maneuvers and electronic ventures on online platforms unravels the author’s latest writing techniques and justifies his unprecedented success in the new millennium, tracing his shifts from print to the digital.
Looking Back at the Jazz Age
Resulting from the Jazz Age’s prominence in recent popular culture, this title not only deepens the reader’s knowledge of this iconic period, but also provides a better understanding of its persistent presence “in our time.”
This book presents a rigorous, comprehensible mathematical analysis of linear, nonlinear, automatic, and optimal control systems. Offering applicative solutions illustrated with engineering examples, it will appeal to scientists and engineers in research, design, and industry.
Who owns commingled securities? This book tackles property rights uncertainty under English law, showing how trusts can secure title and arguing for a careful shift in legal priority to protect good faith purchasers.
Indonesian Muslims in a Global World
Muslim communities in non-Muslim countries have been an interesting topic in academia recently. Zulfikar serves to enrich previous literature on this important issue, highlighting Indonesian Muslims’ experience of living in between their home and their host society.
East vs. West
This book explores international development, contrasting Eastern and Western experiences. It examines China’s economic rise and India’s architectural journey to show how innovation influences our lives, offering clarity on the directions still to be taken.
This collection of essays on Hispanic literature connects texts, contexts, and genres. Authors offer innovative approaches to the Hispanic world, challenging traditional assumptions about identity, race, and gender while exploring the experience of those on the margin.
“That’s how we do it…we treat them all the same”
With dementia admissions to hospitals rising, this book describes the real experience from the perspectives of patients, carers, and staff. It proposes a model for improving care that is underpinned by a belief in the personhood of staff and patients alike.
Scientists, historians, and philosophers join to examine computer simulations in scientific practice. This volume offers a multi-perspective view, including philosophical studies, case studies, and historical analysis of their potential and limitations.
Art as Adventure
This title gathers insights from artists and art historians about journeys to places and methods of practice that challenge perceived taxonomies. It offers various perspectives on how artist-travelers have embraced and contextualized the experiences encountered on their travels.
Highlighting the growing interest in consciousness studies, these essays explore the relationship between human consciousness and the arts, including theatre, literary studies, film, fine arts and music.
Strategic Regions in 21st Century Power Politics
In a world of resource wars and global power shifts, geography still matters. This book addresses the geopolitical “great game” in East and South-East Asia, focusing on the intensifying rivalry between China and the United States in this unstable region.
This volume offers concise, essential, and up-to-date information on the most common liver masses and lesions. For pathologists, trainees, hepatologists, and clinicians, its checklists provide guidance on initiating the workup and generating the report.
Constructing Legal Discourses and Social Practices
This title looks descriptively and interpretatively at the various existing forms of legal discourse and how these are framed and organised by social practices within distinctive sites of legal communication.
Applications of Finite-State Language Processing
NooJ is a corpus processing tool and linguistic development environment. This volume contains papers from the 2008 International NooJ conference, presenting varied problems in Natural Language Processing (NLP) and new developments in the tool itself.
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