(Dis)Entangling Darwin
Driven by a childlike curiosity and an appetite for discovery, Charles Darwin dedicated his life to “disentangling confusions.” His legacy remains as controversial and exhilarating today as it was then, challenging scholars and inspiring new research.
Öztürk gets to the core of Hardy’s ‘tragic vision’: the destruction of self through the dramatic interplay between character and circumstance. This study brilliantly captures Hardy’s stark statement about life itself, filling the need for newer interpretations.
Reflection, Change, and Reconstruction in the Context of Educational Reform and Innovation in China
This book explores how reflective teaching transforms the thinking and classroom practice of Chinese university EFL teachers. It offers a new perspective on professional development and is a unique resource for teachers, teacher educators, and researchers.
Incorporeal Heroes
The heroes of the Iliad were not historical figures or artistic creations. They originated as local cult heroes, like saints, with no connection to the Trojan War. This book reveals the sequence in which figures like Achilles were stitched into the epic.
Generative Investigations
This volume is a collection of studies in generative (morpho)syntax and phonology by leading scholars. Drawing on recent advances, these papers test theoretical frameworks against data from languages like Polish, Russian, and English to highlight new facts.
Willing the Good
Science brings new insights into human agency, but can it be reduced to mere scientific facts? This collection of essays explores non-empiricist views, reconciling the scientific and manifest images of the world to reach a stereoscopic vision of reality.
Digging the Seam
The 1984–5 Miners’ Strike was a bitter dispute that divided Britain. While its political consequences have been subject to detailed analysis, its impact on popular culture is less mapped. This book explores that legacy in film, music, theatre, and art.
Philosophy and the Abrahamic Religions
From Greco-Roman Antiquity, philosophy and religious thought were inseparably interwoven. These essays explore how the three Abrahamic religions interacted on the common ground of Greek philosophy, creating similar patterns of thought on crucial concepts.
Europe
EU policy to protect refugees has proven inadequate, failing to guarantee their rights. This study investigates how vague language in the EU’s own legal Directives contributed to this failure to harmonize procedures and protect displaced people.
Economy in Society
This book analyzes classic sociology and economics, exposing their flaws. It then presents a constructive programme, socio-economic structuralism, which offers theoretical innovations that draw on, but move beyond, the achievements of past thinkers.
Is Charity a Choice?
The 1996 welfare reform thrust faith-based organizations into the center of America’s poverty relief efforts. This book examines Protestant evangelicals’ role, questioning whether charity is truly a choice and if faith can solve social welfare.
The Déjà-vu and the Authentic
Viewing culture as a palimpsest, constantly rewritten, these essays explore the political and ethical stakes of creative reuse across literature, music, art, and cinema.
This book explores how French writing, from the Middle Ages to the present, has interrogated extremity. These essays reveal why the extreme—which shocks, excites, and horrifies us—has always fascinated the French literary imagination.
Turkey–EU Relations
This book tells the untold story of the positive aspects of EU–Turkey relations. Because this complex relationship is often misunderstood, and public perceptions are shaped by political leaders, mutual benefits are underestimated. This book fills those gaps.
Shadowlines
Globalization is transforming life for women in Asia. New opportunities for work and migration can be empowering, but also enslaving. How do women experience these changes? This volume places their testimony at the center.
The Development of Conceptual Socialization in International Students
This volume introduces “conceptual socialization,” a new framework for analyzing how L2 learners blend their native culture with a new one. It explores the untold trajectories of long-term international graduate students’ linguistic and social development.
Political Violence in Latin America
Political Violence in Latin America offers an exceptional analysis of social revolutionary conflicts. In a comparison of three case studies—the Argentinean Montoneros, Colombian M-19, and Nicaraguan FSLN—the book brings new details of the conflicts to light.
This book defines EU development policy in Africa since the Cold War. It argues the EU fell short of its efforts to export its ‘paradise’ to Africa, limited by its inability to stand as a distinct and leading actor in international development.
A Hubterranean View of Syntax
Julie Louise Steele explores how patterns in nature are realised in our conversations. The branching of a tree is echoed in a river delta, the spiral of a shell in a tornado—our words dance to the same tune.
“Language is nature and nature is language.”
This volume reveals the important role of cultural stereotypes in how societies adapt to and cope with crises. Through detailed analysis of global case studies, it redefines disasters as any deviation from “normality” in a particular culture.
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