Religion and Revolution
A study of spiritual and political Islām in Ernesto Cardenal, the great Latin American poet, priest, and revolutionary. The work examines his connection to Ṣūfism and details his trip to Iran during the triumph of the Islāmic Revolution.
Disease, Class and Social Change
This history of tuberculosis treatment demonstrates how class shaped responses to the disease. It analyses the conflict between viewing TB as a disease of poverty requiring social reform, and a focus on isolating those deemed to possess an hereditary taint.
Reflexive Poetics
This anthology presents fifteen exemplary poets from Springfield, Illinois, and advances a critical method. We garner much from reading the justly famed alongside the lesser known in our midst, learning to appreciate great poetry relationally.
Slaves were not passive victims. They used religion with ingenuity to create new cultures, identities, and even resistance. This volume juxtaposes slave religious strategies in Graeco-Roman antiquity and modern Brazil, shedding new light on ancient slaves.
Where does today’s passionate intensity come from? To understand modern ideological enmity, this book investigates the propaganda of the past, from Hitler’s enemy images to the Rwandan genocide and the invisible enemies of the future.
Gender Power and Mediation
This book shows how evaluative mediation, rooted in Eastern practices, can provide fair justice for women facing gendered power disparity and family violence. Using verbatim quotes from real sessions, it demonstrates how theories are operationalised in real life.
African Zion
Forged in slavery, exile, and subjugation, some black African and American societies have adopted a Judaic identity. This book explores the historical mosaic of black Judaism, reshaping the standard accounts of their collective religious experience.
Investigating the human side of the UK’s temporary work industry, this study exposes the psychological toll of reduced protection and the fraught power dynamics between workers, agencies, and employers.
The Heroic Female
This re-reading of Vittorio Alfieri’s tragedies challenges traditional analyses that marginalize the female character. It argues that Alfieri undermines traditional gender roles, portraying his heroines as determined, active, and intelligent women.
This book addresses meaning construction, showing how syntax, semantics, and pragmatics converge during interpretation. It explores the link between contextual parameters and stable linguistic systems, valuable to researchers and students of linguistics.
This volume presents new explorations of Tudor literature. The papers cover the mid-Tudor period, from Skelton to the young Shakespeare, with topics ranging from philosophy and social commentary to lyric and tragedy.
Portraying the Other in International Relations
International scholars analyze how “othering” shapes global politics, legitimating behaviour in interstate relations and counterterrorism. This volume explores the dynamics of self-other constructions and presents ways they may be transformed for peace.
This book compiles articles on Spanish grammar, integrating up-to-date research with current theoretical syntax and semantics. It is for linguists, researchers, and students interested in Spanish, Romance languages, and generative grammar.
Language Studies
Language is a cornerstone of human identity and culture. This collection explores its centrality across an array of subjects—from social psychology and forensics to computer science—demonstrating that the study of language offers limitless possibilities to understand our world.
In the Light and Shadow of an Emperor
These essays explore the decisive moments of the Jesuit mission in China during the Kangxi era, focusing on the neglected Tomás Pereira. A musician and diplomat closer to the emperor than any Westerner, his influence was ultimately undermined by a papal legation.
Protection of Minorities
This book critically examines international standards for minority protection and their application in South Asia. It explores why minorities still face deprivation despite compatible domestic laws, and assesses the potential of regional cooperation.
Irony, Misogyny and Interpretation
How do we judge the misogyny of Nietzsche, Kierkegaard, and Schopenhauer when it might be ironic? This book argues that ironic ambiguity is a formative aspect of their texts, not an excuse, and explores the ethical problem this poses for interpretation.
Exploring Travel and Tourism
These essays examine the significance of travel and the tourist experience over the last two hundred years. From Borneo to Cuba to Niagara Falls, the authors unpack the meanings of nationality, postcolonialism, place, gender, and class in travel studies.
Outer Space Development, International Relations and Space Law
The development of outer space is happening now, but few are aware. The vast wealth it generates threatens to create unprecedented inequality. This is a call to action to ensure the final frontier benefits all of humanity, not just a select few.
Philosophy and Education
Are children natural philosophers? This book shows how to build on their inherent curiosity about life’s big questions. It describes models for introducing philosophy into schools using literature, games, and activities to help students develop analytic skills.
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