Meyerbeer’s Le Prophète
Meyerbeer’s Le Prophète was once one of the world’s most famous operas. Based on a tragic Reformation episode, it explores religion, power, and politics with powerful, gripping music. This study examines the opera’s origins, creation, and its astonishing global reception.
This volume is a collection of studies from the World Kurdish Congress, focusing on improving the quality of life, science, and culture for progress in Kurdistan. Topics cover health, education, politics, and industry, concluding with recommendations to the government.
This book simplifies environmental management for hospitality students and practitioners. It explains how global environmental problems affect the industry and outlines processes for waste management, energy, and water conservation with a global perspective.
This innovative volume will serve to provoke cognitive dissonance and intellectual unease, as it explores cognitive theories and inspires researchers and teachers to update and invigorate some of the theories that have been embedded in their minds since their own school years.
The beauty of game theory is its application to real world problems. This book commemorates the marriage of the theory and practice, not in heaven, but in the real world.
World Governance
Do we need a world government to ensure peace and well-being? While security and sustainability are strong arguments for it, many fear it would become tyrannical. This book explores the necessary components of an effective and just global order.
Gender and Popular Culture
This collection of essays explores interactions between gender and culture, investigating how popular culture defines, interrogates, and ruptures gender conventions. Topics range from films and mythology to female bodybuilding, corporate challenges, and social movements.
Our food system contributes to climate change, social injustice, and a public health crisis where diet is implicated in one in five deaths. We are told it is the consumers’ fault, but this deflects attention from the policies that created the problems. This book examines them.
This volume adopts diverse approaches to pragmatics, comparing a wide selection of languages like English, German, and Japanese. Contributions analyze grammatical expressions, speech acts, and prosody across different social interactions and multicultural environments.
Rethinking Kant
This collection of essays offers a sample of a whole generation of Kantian thought. Covering controversial themes like freedom, morality, and radical evil, these essays rethink Kant and indicate his importance for current philosophical debates.
This study applies postcolonial theory to Eastern Europe, arguing that ideological domination engenders similar forms of cultural resistance. It offers a comparative framework, revealing a shared imaginative space in authors like Milan Kundera and Salman Rushdie.
Dreaming in Auschwitz
This unique book explores the Holocaust through the prism of dreams. Based on descriptions written by former Auschwitz inmates, it reveals truths that remained unconscious, incomprehensible, and unspeakable, opening a new way of thinking and writing about the Holocaust.
Aesthetics of Presence
This book re-centers aesthetics on the spectator, replacing the long-dominant artwork as the exclusive focus. It develops an ‘Aesthetics of Presence’ by exploring perceiving, playing, placing, and performing as its theoretical cornerstones.
Russia’s Visionaries
This book examines Russia’s future through its leading “visionaries.” These thinkers position Russia as a global protector of fairness and a safeguard against world hegemony, arguing it is on its way to becoming a global Noah’s Ark for Western civilization.
Ecuadorian Spanish in the 21st Century
As the first edited volume on Ecuadorian Spanish, this book brings together cutting-edge research on language contact. It explores varieties from the Andes to the Amazon, revealing how indigenous languages have profoundly influenced Spanish at all levels of linguistic inquiry.
This title demonstrates how intuition and psychological insights can be used to design relevant models and decision strategies, and describes how goals can be adequately formed and operationalised. It then integrates these processes in an analytical framework for decision-making.
Jewish Humor
Explore the evolution of Jewish humor from the Bible to today. Tracing its development across Eastern Europe, the US, and Israel, this book reveals how historical experience, survival, and wisdom created a truly unusual sense of humor.
Theatre Noise
This book explores ‘theatre noise’—a concrete sound, a metaphor, and a theoretical thrust. Theatre provides a unique habitat for noise, a place where friction between sound and meaning reveals the aesthetic and political power of performance.
Human Impacts at a Planetary Scale
Our global infrastructure has exceeded planetary boundaries. To protect Earth and ensure our survival, we must transition to lifestyles that restore natural ecosystems. This book explores the systems contributing to species loss and documents the solutions being offered.
Police records from 18th-century Paris reveal the lives of thousands of men who desired men. This is the first book to explore all the archives, examining patterns in their lives and in the surveillance and punishment of same-sex relations across the century.
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