This book uses cognitive semantics to analyze the concept of “The Christian Life” in John Henry Newman’s sermons. It identifies metaphorical models, such as “A Journey” and “A Race,” that blend everyday concepts with the domain of Christianity.
Albert Camus’s The Stranger
This collection of critical essays by international experts examines Camus’s The Stranger from both philosophical and literary perspectives. Presenting the first known critical examination in English, this volume sheds new light on the classic novel.
“What is knowledge?” is as much a philosophic question as “What is an image?” Visual epistemology is a new research field exploring this link. This publication gathers approaches by distinguished authors to outline this territory and investigate how images create knowledge.
This volume examines international criminal justice, with a focus on the International Criminal Court. It demands the prosecution of those who escape justice due to their political or military power, arguing that the cycle of impunity must be abolished for all.
Current Research in Applied Linguistics
This volume offers a selection of papers on language and cognition. The book is structured into four parts, covering syntactic studies, word formation, second language acquisition, discourse analysis, and psycholinguistics.
Museums present authorized versions of reality but rarely discuss their priorities or ask “what are the other truths?” This collection of essays highlights contested truths, the truths of the underprivileged, and asks what the consequences for museums should be.
This book recovers the once-eminent but now forgotten Sir Arthur Helps. A prominent Victorian social activist, he was a confidant to Queen Victoria and played a decisive role in refashioning the monarchy’s public image.
How Interculturally Competent am I? An Introductory Thesis Writing Course for International Students
This textbook helps international students develop thesis-writing skills through experiential learning. It guides you through conducting a research project using a diary study to analyze intercultural communication and report on it in a mini-thesis.
Advances in Chinese as a Second Language
This collection of pioneering studies examines the acquisition and processing of Chinese as a second language. Topics cover the acquisition of grammar, learner anxiety, and the processing of tones, characters, and clauses—of interest to students and scholars.
This collection explores enhancing human performance. It examines disparate contexts and the many factors that impinge on performance, revealing the conditions under which it can be improved, from the effects of exercise to national innovation.
This book deconstructs the ‘otherizing’ of the marginalized by offering an alternative reading of the body and desire. It investigates bodies with ‘unnatural’ desires to expose and subvert the subtle political ideologies behind stereotypes.
Auber and Scribe’s Les Diamants de la couronne is a refined fantasy where a Portuguese queen counterfeits the crown jewels to save her nation. The music is brilliant, with variations of the greatest virtuosity. This edition reproduces the Royal Edition vocal score.
This volume assembles studies by prominent scholars on Thebes in the First Millennium BC. It investigates royal and elite monuments of the Libyan, Kushite, and Saite Periods, providing new perspectives on their art, architecture, texts, and conservation.
Shakespeare Studies in Colonial Bengal
This study explores Shakespeare in colonial Bengal, focusing on Hindu College. It highlights the pioneering teachers who accelerated the Bengal Renaissance and exposes distorted readings of Shakespeare, challenging reductive postcolonial theories.
Zen-Life
This multidisciplinary study examines Ikkyū Sōjun, the embodiment of Japan’s Muromachi era. It reconstructs his creative mentality, exploring his art, interpretation of Zen, and religious principles, showing how his rebellious ways were deeply embedded in tradition.
Hegel on Recollection
This collection of essays focuses on Hegel’s concept of recollection (Erinnerung). It provides a detailed examination of the role played by recollection within his system, arguing that it is a privileged key to interpreting Hegel’s philosophy.
Remapping the Future
This collection of essays explores the cross-cultural linkages between Australia and India. From diverse interdisciplinary perspectives, it examines intersections of history, culture and environment, building on a shared history and looking to the future.
Current Latin American post-feminist writers propose a transgressive new social order. This critical text explores how their narratives seek a dignified life for women by overcoming dominant social, political, and cultural structures.
Lambert looks at developing future leaders of further education colleges through a different lens, advocating for leadership development to be located within a sustainable leadership framework which encompasses a range of existing leadership theories.
This analysis of values within Husserlian phenomenology describes our experience of intersubjective values and explores ethics as a practical matter, offering a third phenomenological way beyond the common positivistic and deontological dichotomy.
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