The Bonds of Trade
How did long-distance trade flourish in a pre-modern world of overwhelming uncertainty? This book explores this paradox, revealing how institutions were created to build trust between distant communities and merchants who did not know one another.
To Define and Inform
This path-breaking study advances a radical argument about how learner’s dictionaries are used and should be improved. Supported by comparative research with learners of English, it makes a vital contribution to lexicographical theory and practice.
Arbitration Awards
Is international arbitration being contaminated by litigation, compromising its core principles? This book investigates this hypothesis by analyzing the language of international arbitration awards to identify elements that may provide evidence for this trend.
This book critically assesses renowned theologian Dumitru Stăniloae’s contribution to the interpretation of Gregory Palamas. It analyzes Stăniloae’s studies to trace the chronological development of his influential Neo-Palamite Synthesis.
Social Jane
Christopher Wilkes reveals the sociologist in Jane Austen. Exploring landscape, economics, and fashion, he argues that Austen was a brilliant analyst of the complex social hierarchies of her time.
In post-socialist countries, consumer culture is a “science in the shadows,” studied commercially but neglected by academia. This book creates a counterbalance, exploring consumer behaviour, new theories, and recent criticism from leading scholars.
This book explores the under-researched topic of Social, Emotional and Behaviour Difficulties (SEBD) in the Cypriot education system. Based on original research, it documents educators’ views on good practice to help professionals accommodate pupils’ needs.
Leibniz
Modern scientists and philosophers confront the prophetic legacy of Leibniz, whose 17th-century metaphysics presaged today’s research into relativity, quantum cosmology, complexity theory, and the computer era, revealing his profound impact on science.
Challenging the idea that realism promotes sameness, this volume argues that realist narratives actively create otherness. Essays examine how collisions of class, gender, and nationality reveal the strategies of constructing difference in realist and postmodern texts.
William Rooke Creswell argued that, as an island continent, Australia could not defend itself without a navy. He saw no point in a large army if one enemy battleship could destroy its cities. He was the one constant advocate for an Australian navy.
This collection presents selected papers on the acquisition of Romance languages from a generative perspective. It reflects a diversity of learning contexts, linguistic properties in syntax and phonology, and languages, including comparative studies.
Exchanges and Correspondence
This challenging survey of “feminism-in-the-making” spans from the 18th century to the present, across the globe. A fascinating chorus of voices emerges, throwing light on women’s growing consciousness and the struggle for their rights.
Heimat Goes Mobile
The German concept of Heimat—a feeling of home and belonging—is evolving in a globalized world. This collection of essays explores new, hybrid forms of Heimat in film, literature, and culture, showing how the notion now transcends boundaries of nation and race.
Economy in Changing Society
Within the frame of globalisation and post-socialist transformation, this book analyzes how actors, relations, and institutions drive economic processes. Empirical studies explore transition economies, new markets, consumption, and corporate behavior.
Reappraising the Seicento
Reappraising the Seicento offers new perspectives from emerging scholars. Five essays examine compositional procedure in Italy and the assimilation of Italian music by English composers in the seventeenth century, placing it in a larger historical context.
From Formal to Non-Formal
Authors from diverse fields—including sociology, philosophy, and history—explore non-formal education, learning, and knowledge. This diversity of approaches offers new findings and a basis for reflection on the varied dimensions of formal and informal learning.
Occupying the “Other”
From the occupation of Japan in 1945 to Iraq, Australia has participated in US-led occupations. This collection of essays asks: Can democracy be imposed militarily? Is Australia an independent ally or a meek follower of a global superpower?
Creating Cultural Synergies
This book brings together international researchers from diverse fields to explore how intercultural competence can work in today’s society. The contributors elucidate the challenges and potentials of interculturality and interreligiosity.
Multilingual Trends in a Globalized World
Explore evolving language education trends as globalization shifts the focus to multilingualism. This book presents the latest controversies and case studies from South East Asia and other diverse contexts around the world.
Political institutions are often treated as un-gendered, yet rationality has been ascribed to masculinity. This book explores the interdependence of masculinities and concepts like the state, citizenship, and democracy, shedding light on their construction.
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