Connected Minds
This volume explores social cognition from psychological and collective viewpoints. It examines how the human mind processes social information, and how social interactions influence our cognition, shaping everything from stereotypes to entire societies.
Weapons Upon Her Body
This study reinterprets the biblical stories of Lot’s daughters, Tamar, Ruth, and Bathsheba. It finds women who use deception, resolve, and cleverness to their own benefit, saving themselves through pluck and ingenuity. They are a new kind of hero.
The Making of the Modern Artist
This study brings together James Joyce and D. H. Lawrence in their common concern with the modern artist. Examining the fictional artists Stephen Dedalus and Will Brangwen, it shows how Joyce and Lawrence converge on the character and vision of the modern artist.
Ex-changes
This collection of articles explores the transfer of ideas in British and American cultures. Analyzing cultural texts from fiction to film, these essays document shifting definitions of identity, gender, and nationality across various genres, media, and disciplines.
The Digital Learning Revolution in Ireland
This book presents case studies from the Irish National Digital Learning Resources (NDLR) service, showing how Open Educational Resources (OERs) are being promoted in Ireland. The NDLR fosters the sharing of resources across the Higher Education sector.
Meteors that Enlighten the Earth
Napoleon blended Roman and French traditions to honor great men, comparing himself to Caesar and Charlemagne. This book analyzes his ever-changing personal cult of “great men” and his recognition of contemporaries who contributed to human civilization.
Why has The Merchant of Venice garnered so much attention? This collection offers readers sundry answers, showcasing disparate approaches from a feminist view to a Manga version, providing students with different critical lenses to interpret the play.
Meyerbeer’s Robert le Diable
Meyerbeer’s Robert le Diable is a milestone of French grand opéra. This book traces the opera’s history and music, and examines the fascinating iconography generated by its famous scenes, including the legendary Ballet of the Nuns, a touchstone of dark Romanticism.
Britain and Britishness in G. B. Shaw’s Plays
This book offers a fresh insight into G. B. Shaw’s plays by highlighting ethnicity and Britishness as their core structuring elements. Using an innovative, multidisciplinary linguistic approach, it analyses cultural differences in works like Pygmalion.
This volume presents an analysis of English legal genres in academic and professional writing. It offers insights into how writers’ discursive practices shape their membership of the legal community, and is designed for applied linguistic researchers and writing instructors.
Dossier Chris Marker
A study of Chris Marker’s works, focusing on the dynamic interplay of political and subjective agency. It is this very conflict that animates all of Marker’s extensive works, which act as a “mask” or “screen” for forces that reside beyond the frame.
Let’s Learn Together, Let’s Work Together
This volume explores global challenges and solutions for transcultural health care. Providing competent care requires knowledgeable, culturally sensitive professionals. Deeply rooted values must be challenged to address unwitting prejudices and stereotyping.
Steady Air
Must Irish Catholics condemn modern society, or can they help shape it? Leading professionals explore the case for active, faith-informed engagement in civil life.
New Women’s Writing in Russia, Central and Eastern Europe
This book investigates the explosion of women’s writing in post-socialist Russia, Central and Eastern Europe. It explores why this writing has become so prominent, whether writers see their gender as a burden or empowering, and its links to nationality and class.
Everlasting Countdowns
Politics, not demographics, is at the core of censuses. This book argues that there is no objective method for counting social identities. Using studies from Latin America, it shows how ethnic and racial categories are defined by states to serve political goals.
This history of cremation in Romania analyses key periods from 1867 to the present day. It covers the Interwar period, when Romania became the first Orthodox country with a crematorium, provoking a vehement reaction, and the Communist and post-Communist eras.
Sisters of Fate
Tracking the feminine principle in divination over three thousand years, this book explores the psychic vantage point of fate’s sisters. It examines the source of their visions within the Western concept of time, free will, and destiny.
This collection traces themes of authority and gender in chronicles from the Middle Ages to the Renaissance. With contributions from leading specialists, this study spans medieval Europe, drawing on evidence from language, literature, history, and art.
Prominent scholars explore (im)politeness in human communication. This volume reviews the state of the art, analysing politeness in media, the effects of speech acts, and implications for language teaching, offering new perspectives on social interaction.
Inhabited by Stories
This book offers an alternative to intertextuality as influence and appropriation. Grounded in the lived experience of reading, it focuses on the expansion of experience created by telling and retelling stories, which inhabit us and enrich our responses.
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