The Odyssey of Communism
This interdisciplinary volume explores how film has shaped culture and memory. From the Berlin Wall to China, it journeys from the terror of communist prisons to the rosy image of propaganda, arguing that communism, lingering in mentalities, still needs interrogation.
This volume outlines the changing landscape of business and consumer behaviour post-pandemic. It identifies emerging trends—shaped by cultural context and generational belonging—needed to develop digital products and services for an evolving world.
Content and Language Integrated Learning (CLIL) is a frontier of pedagogical research. This volume combines research from international CLIL experts with critical perspectives, deriving theoretical reflections from case studies for both academics and school instructors.
Explore the organization of international rail transport along the Great Silk Road and other major transport corridors. This book details a new methodology for freight traffic using the supranational currency EuroNur. Essential for businesses and transport organizations.
Edward Burne-Jones on Nature
This study of Edward Burne-Jones’s paintings explores his vision of nature. It reveals how he fused scientific observation with symbolic interpretation to create the fantastical landscapes and magical imagery of his allegorical, fantasy, and dream cycles.
This book offers philosophical reflections on new forms of domination, vulnerability and alienation at work. Following Hannah Arendt, it addresses the crisis of work and loneliness as a political problem of exclusion and meaninglessness.
This comprehensive collection explores state-of-the-art autoimmunity, its connection to related diseases, current trends, and future developments. A unique resource for medical educators, practitioners, and academics.
‘Ethnic’ piano rolls are an important part of a still-neglected musical heritage. They encapsulate the musical life of several continents and various ethnic communities based in the USA. This volume represents the latest research on these unique and rare cultural artefacts.
This book explores proper names: what they are, why we need them, and how they work. It focuses on the use of names in our thoughts and in communication, as tools we use to single out objects of discourse and convey information about them.
Landscape Representations
This volume offers essential insights into emerging perspectives in landscape studies. Instead of focusing only on nature, this book places humans and physical aspects at its centre, combining ecological and geographical information, nature conservation, and the study of society.
Short Stories by Werner Bergengruen
Long-ignored Nobel nominee Werner Bergengruen is reintroduced in this selection of his best short stories. From learning to smile at death in “Death from Reval” to tales of honor, love, and power, his works offer timeless messages couched in rich historical settings.
Artemis and Diana in Ancient Greece and Italy
This book is a collection of studies about the Greek and Roman goddesses Artemis and Diana, rulers of the wild. Though often treated as equivalent, they held the power of giving birth, health, and death, and were associated with wild animals and the different phases of life.
This handbook guides educators and caregivers in closing the Achievement Gap. It generates support for teaching diverse learners by constructing a learning environment that ensures equity in the classroom for every child.
Creation and Pentecostals
Can Pentecostals reconcile their confession that God is the creator with science? This book explains how Pentecostals can read the Bible and science in a way that resonates God’s grace and glory, providing a biblical perspective on the origins of the universe and evolution.
Fatigue of Sintered Materials
This book details the theoretical background of Powder Metallurgy (PM) and the fatigue phenomenon of dynamically loaded sintered components. It analyses the influence of powder morphology and heat treatment on fatigue strength, and includes a fatigue analysis of sintered gears.
Contemporary Piano Music
This collection addresses performance and musical creation in contemporary piano music. It examines the aesthetic and technical aspects of the 20th century and reflects on 21st-century artistic practices that are redefining the contemporary performative field.
The Fiction of Abdulrazak Gurnah
This insightful work on Abdulrazak Gurnah’s fiction explores themes of oppression, agency, memory, and race. Approaching his work from multiple angles, it takes his fiction beyond the postcolonial perspective into vast new arenas of literary theory.
This volume explores the latest advances in behavioural finance. Using insights from psychology to better understand the decisions made by investors and managers, it sheds new light on several financial puzzles.
This collection revises contemporary trauma theory. Moving beyond Western models, it adopts a cross-cultural approach to discuss trauma in Arab-Maghrebean, Afro-American, and Chinese contexts, and its artistic representation in poetry and drama.
The term ‘border’ has become a ploy for chauvinism and ultra-nationalist bigotry, with notorious coverage in media, cinema, and literature. This volume explores a wide range of literary, linguistic, and media representations of the ‘border.’
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