Post Traumatic Survival
Why do some war refugees thrive while others do not? This study of Khmer Rouge survivors reveals how cultural and religious resources were instrumental to their resilience. It proposes a new model to help health workers assist other survivors in their recovery.
Universal Morality Reconsidered
This book bridges the great divide in moral discourse. It argues that universal morality is most successful when grounded in God, and unlike other works, it successfully integrates the newest empirical research from the sciences into a theological framework.
Language Politics under Colonialism
This book explores the interplay between caste power and colonialism in Western India. It offers a nuanced understanding of the collusive role indigenous elites played to preserve their dominance, strengthening the colonial regime without altering existing hierarchies.
The Intelligible World
Understanding Kant’s “pre-critical” philosophy is central to appreciating his three critiques. This early work is a hidden background, where his great cosmology informs the “thing-in-itself” and provides the ontological framework for his later ethics.
The Future of Post-Human Sports
Is winning the only thing? This book offers an alternative way to understand the future of sports. It presents a new theory to go beyond existing approaches and will fundamentally change the way we think about training and winning, with enormous implications.
Emerging from international collaboration, this collection of essays seeks to safeguard the ancient sung narratives of Southeast Asia. It explores the vitality of this Intangible Heritage in today’s changing world through pioneering studies and new technology.
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.
The Central and the Peripheral
The division between secure centres and unknown peripheries is obsolete. How can we find our way in a world where peripheries become centres and centres turn into peripheries? This book explores how this problem is dealt with in literature and culture.
Metaphor in Focus
This philosophical guide on metaphor use bridges the gap between theoretical and empirical research. It analyses the role of metaphor across diverse domains, presenting interdisciplinary connections with linguistics, cognitive science, economics, and more.
Identities, Cultures, Spaces
Globalisation has led to cultural encounters, which can be conflicts or opportunities for dialogue. This volume adopts a multidisciplinary approach to address issues at the confluence of identity and culture, discussing the role of shared spaces in forging identity.
Evolving Transcendentalism in Literature and Architecture
This book shows how architects Frank Furness, Louis Sullivan, and Frank Lloyd Wright read Transcendentalists like Emerson and Whitman and transformed their philosophy into physical substance. It is the first to analyze their iconic work from this perspective.
Encountering Ephemera 1500-1800
This collection redefines ephemera by challenging the opposition between the transitory and the enduring. Essays explore how materials from broadside ballads to performance reveal the dynamic unfixity of early modern and eighteenth-century cultural practices.
The Crowe Memorandum
An “outsider” in the Foreign Office, Sir Eyre Crowe was one of Britain’s most significant public servants. His 1907 Memorandum on Germany had a profound influence on foreign policy for forty years, shaping events from WWI to the eve of WWII.
Things That Liberate
This collection of essays explores objects that changed Australian women’s lives and shaped the feminist movement since 1970. Combining personal narrative and historical analysis, it documents the material culture of liberation, from overalls to kombis.
Ex-centric Writing
This volume of essays examines postcolonial alienation through the anamorphic lens of madness. In fiction from Africa, the Caribbean, Australia, and Asia, the mad character’s vision is a warning against discourses that pass as the natural order of things.
A collection of essays by scholars and artists exploring theatre’s role in political awareness through the voice of the marginalized. It shows how the theatre of differences denounces prejudice and regains its role as the brain and lungs of the community.
Wiltshire Marriage Patterns 1754-1914
This first-of-its-kind study uses English pedigrees to uncover cousin marriage rates among ordinary people, revealing clear links to occupation, geographical mobility, and illegitimacy.
This book presents the idea that reviews can be substantive essays, an art form with its own “shelf-life.” It collects the reviews of scholar Max J. Skidmore, Sr. to illustrate how reviews have a life of their own, evolving beyond the original work.
Interculturality
In an era of accelerating globalization, intercultural issues are crucial. This book creates a platform for dialogue between practitioners and researchers through concrete case studies to promote constructive understanding and combat racism and xenophobia.
Internet Tomography
This book introduces Internet tomography, from basic principles to applications. It focuses on designing Internet Tomography Measurement Systems to map Internet performance, with uses in network design, wireless networks, and Service Level Agreement compliance.
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