Projecting Words, Writing Images
This compilation of essays explores the energetic field of visual cultural studies. Scholars engage with photography, film, television, and literature, re-theorizing the relationship between word and image and their intersections with race, gender, and public spheres.
Challenging the ‘Swedish model’, these essays present new research on forgotten 19th and 20th-century political movements. By examining political outsiders, the authors contribute to a timely rethinking of the roots of contemporary Sweden.
The Internationalisation Maturity of the Firm
The task of determining the impact of business relationships on performance poses a considerable challenge. In this text, business relationships are operationalised by a set of characteristics and determinants which influence a company’s competitive advantage.
This book examines Nigeria’s reform of personal property security law. While the new unitary system is acclaimed for enhancing credit access for small businesses, this text highlights the enactment’s drawbacks, offering lessons for stakeholders within and outside Nigeria.
Language Studies
Language is a cornerstone of human identity and culture. This collection explores its centrality across an array of subjects—from social psychology and forensics to computer science—demonstrating that the study of language offers limitless possibilities to understand our world.
This book presents current developments in Role and Reference Grammar (RRG), investigating controversial areas of linguistic theory in a variety of languages. It also illustrates RRG’s application to sign languages, language acquisition, and machine translation.
In Belfast, a city of contrasts and resilience, tales of real experience and imagination are woven together. Stories of love, conflict, prejudice, and hope paint a vivid, honest portrait of the diverse people who call this ever-evolving city home.
This book penetrates the myths of Roman history, narrating its epic story from the founding of the Republic, through civil wars, to the rise of the Empire. One lesson is learned: Liberty is too valuable to be forsaken for the safety of “bread and circuses.”
Disobedient Histories in Ancient and Modern Times
Tired of Cold War analysis and history as only war? Disobedient Histories breaks tradition by considering alternative international relations theories from societies in Europe, Africa, and Asia, suggesting the UN’s goals for global peace, prosperity, and dignity are viable.
Theories of Affect and Concepts in Generic Skills Education
This book revitalizes the concept of generic skills, which have recently become widespread in universities, but also advocates daring pedagogical practices that invigorate the meaning of, and approach to, teaching and learning in present landscapes of higher education.
Culture, Power, and Security
A diverse group of historians grapples with the notion of “security” across time and geography. Drawing on new sources, these engaging essays offer fresh perspectives on military, political, intelligence, and foreign relations history.
Rethinking the Vanguard
This study re-interprets the historical avant-garde from 1917 to 1962, focusing on the convergence of aesthetics and politics. From the Bolshevik Revolution to decolonizing movements, it reveals the vanguard’s transformation and its relevance today.
Crisis, Rupture and Anxiety
This interdisciplinary collection critically interrogates ‘crisis,’ a defining concept of our times. Leading scholars unsettle common notions by exploring crises across politics, society, and the humanities, examining the roots of our understanding and its representation.
This book shares the untold story of frugal innovations in orthopaedic surgery developed in Pakistan. It is a narrative of how surgeons in low-income countries achieve very high standards in resource-constrained settings, providing a model for others to replicate globally.
The Cinematography of Roger Corman
Adopting a methodology based on auteur theory in its structuralist form, Aleksandrowicz investigates the duality of the work of Roger Corman, straddling the line between “the King of the B’s” and an artist whose works are worthy of the highest cinema awards.
This book links the personal lives and public actions of President Franklin D. Roosevelt and two ambassadors. Their friendly relations turned to bitter enmity over how to confront a rising Nazi Germany, a fascinating tale of egos, intrigue, and lives ending as Greek tragedies.
Culture of Tobacco
This book explores the impact of tobacco cultivation on rural Andhra Pradesh. A comparative study of two villages reveals how this labor-intensive crop creates prosperity and changes social relationships, prompting a re-examination of agricultural policy.
Inspired by the renewed interest in Medieval culture, literature and society evident in recent fictional works, this collection of essays discusses a wide range of issues related to Medieval England, from the Beowulf saga to echoes of Medieval literature in contemporary fiction.
An Introduction to Hanfei’s Political Philosophy
In this first book to make the philosophy of Hanfei available at an introductory level, Schneider introduces key concepts and arguments in his legalist philosophy and contextualizes his thinking within Chinese history and in a comparative approach.
China and the United States
Using the latest economic and business information to show how the business and economic environments of China and the United States are intertwined, this text offers a detailed account of how multinationals from the United States have been incorporated into the Chinese economy.