Ireland
In 1916, revolutionaries marched in Dublin. In 2010, IMF technocrats arrived to begin Ireland’s re-colonisation. This book explains why resistance had been destroyed and argues that an opportunity now exists to re-imagine and re-invent the nation.
Pangs of Love and Longing
This book explores historic attitudes towards sexuality, pleasure, and bodies as represented in European literature from Antiquity to the Early Modern period. Its aim is to demonstrate the plurality of premodern desire and offer fresh perspectives on our present.
EU reforms promote the US university system as a model for economic growth. This book demonstrates that this contradicts basic European values, ignores the social costs of copying an elite system, and neglects crucial issues of elitism and democracy.
Self-Action Leadership (Volume II)
Self-Action Leadership provides the first comprehensive, secular manual for personal leadership and character education. Rooted in 30 years of extensive research, it introduces an original model that executives, scholars, and teachers alike can universally utilize.
This interdisciplinary volume explores how art, literature, and culture forge “scapes”—from landscapes to mindscapes. It examines how cultural works shape our perception and experience of place, contributing to a deeper understanding of space itself.
Youth Unemployment and Joblessness
Youth unemployment is a major global issue. This book analyzes the school-to-work transition, exploring policies for enabling youth access to the labour market. It seeks a better understanding of causes, consequences, and responses through an interdisciplinary approach.
Minority Languages, Microvariation, Minimalism and Meaning
This volume presents papers on microvariation and the linguistics of the Celtic languages. The essays examine dialect variation, challenge traditional descriptions of Celtic languages, and explore current topics in the formal analysis of syntax and semantics.
The Amerindian Microcosm
Explore the epic history of the Americas, from hunter-gatherers to vast cities. This book uses revolutionary genomic science to trace the past, present, and future of Native peoples, uncovering a story essential to all humankind.
10th Conference on British and American Studies – Crossing Boundaries
This collection of papers explores language, literature, and culture through the overarching notion of Englishness. It provides a snapshot of the multiple vantage points from which these phenomena can be studied, focusing on English-speaking communities.
This book examines the role of the Personal Home Page (PHP) as an information resource, using English professional football as a case study. While rich with unique information, these fan sites are often underused. This study proposes a new blueprint for a communal website.
De-Centring Cultural Studies
This volume proves that cultural studies is blooming, even in Southern and Eastern Europe. These interdisciplinary essays explore the borders between popular and canonical culture, studying film, pop music, and literature from the perspectives of gender and age.
Soft-Shed Kisses
The femme fatale of 19th-century poetry symbolises an intractable mystery and a refusal to be defined. This book interrogates the fatal woman motif in poems by Keats, Shelley, Tennyson, Rossetti and Swinburne, enriched by visual art and cultural background.
Finding the Plot
Plot is basic to our experience, yet criticism has often passed it over. This book redresses this neglect, bringing together international scholars to explore the pleasures of consuming stories across a variety of media. How do plots work and why do they matter?
These essays investigate the influences of 20th-century political and social ideologies on the urban development and architecture of various European cities. Written by European professors, researchers, and practitioners for professionals and students alike.
This book offers interdiscursivity as a platform for understanding contemporary culture. Re-engaging Foucault, it provides novel theoretical approaches and methodological innovations to scrutinize cultural consumption, from Web 2.0 social movements to micro-celebrities.
TRIPS Agreement of the WTO
This book examines how the WTO’s TRIPS agreement impacts agriculture and public health in LDCs like Bangladesh. It argues that its one-size-fits-all approach harms development and shows how LDCs can use TRIPS flexibilities to protect their interests.
Politeness through the Prism of Requests, Apologies and Refusals
This book explores Serbian EFL learners’ pragmatic knowledge of requests, apologies, and refusals. It examines their language strategies and use of intonation, offering insights to researchers of L2 pragmatics and EFL teacher trainers.
Reverberations of Silence
Silence results from oppression, censorship, and trauma. Its provocative nature demands interpretation. This collection of scholarly essays offers answers by reading silence in literature and linguistics, from Renaissance texts to modern speech.
From Here to Diversity
From Here to Diversity sees interculturalism as movement without borders. It examines the dynamics of cultural interaction by amplifying new voices: women, non-occidentals, the non-powerful, and forgotten narratives of a past as intercultural as the present.
This corpus-based study of English and Polish surveying terminology analyzes conceptual differences and indicates translation strategies. It is directed towards terminologists, translators, and specialists seeking equivalents for problematic terms.