Mapping the Tribal Economy
India’s tribes have been marginalised, their way of life transformed. This book examines the critical issues of land alienation and labour exploitation, focusing on tribal mobilisation and the fight for justice and restoration in Andhra Pradesh.
James Bond in World and Popular Culture
The most comprehensive study of the James Bond phenomena ever published. 40 original essays provide new insights into the Bond girl, video games, music, fashion, and Ian Fleming himself, showing how this cultural icon has changed the world.
Eastern Orthodox Christianity and Animal Suffering
This is the first Eastern Orthodox work on animal suffering and human salvation. Using Biblical teachings and contemporary science, it argues that animal suffering is against God’s Will and that indifference to it has negative consequences for human salvation.
Mazzi suggests, linguistically, that the study of reasoned argument is likely to have many potential applications in the context of Irish public discourse. He tackles the issue of the construction of argumentation in the judiciary and in the politics of the Irish Republic.
Romanesque Architecture and its Artistry in Central Europe, 900-1300
This book surveys Romanesque architecture in Central Europe, from palaces and castles to its major churches. It focuses on the artistic ornamentation—from portals to capitals—that transformed these monumental fortresses of God into powerful sermons in stone.
This volume is the first to address the position of Cognitive Linguistics between universality and variability. The state-of-the-art contributions point to innovative avenues for future research, making this volume particularly valuable.
– Günter Radden
Lake Garda
D. H. Lawrence’s life was a journey to the sun, a quest that began in Gargnano. This unique book explores his “sun search” through a stimulating combination of literature, music, and painting. A book that any Laurentian cannot possibly miss.
World English(es) and the Multilingual Turn
Bonomo considers the social value of communication as the basis of multilingualism and of the evolution of language systems. Her data show English as being in the middle of the double “listening” of cultural mediation and the imperfect “magnifying” glass of translation.
A significant contribution to the phonetics-phonology debate. International researchers analyze phenomena in various languages, juxtaposing different theoretical approaches to shed new light on the sound structure of human language.
This book features papers on the latest developments in corpus-based translation studies, contrastive studies, parallel corpus development, and bilingual lexicography. It is a useful resource for researchers and postgraduates in translation and linguistics.
Life and Mind
This provocative book argues that life and mind elude purely materialistic explanations. It posits intelligence as a precondition for organic existence, a serious challenge to modern science, and culminates in a philosophical proof of the mind system.
Through interviews with entrepreneurs in post-socialist Europe, this book reveals patterns in business during and after socialism. It challenges the belief that entrepreneurs did not exist under socialism and the idea of post-socialism as its antidote.
Twins and Deviance
Cusack draws on nearly one thousand cases and anecdotes about twins bending and breaking rules in order to fulfill or flout tenets of twinhood. She challenges and improves previous research by collecting new topics to retool twins and deviance discussions.
Beyond the Book
This collection explores aspects of children’s literature ‘Beyond the Book’.
From woodcuts to e-books, children’s literature is reinterpreted through illustration, pop-ups, film, and stage adaptations, celebrating the creativity that engages young readers.
This ambitious work reclassifies the history of ideas by proposing a new organon for the cultural sciences. To comprehend our vast knowledge, the organon extracts key principles and shapes them into symbolic forms, providing a new foundation for philosophy.
1812 Echoes
The 1812 Constitution of Cadiz was a defining moment for the Spanish-speaking world. Drafted during wartime, it radically redefined ‘the Spanish nation’, dividing Spaniards and questioning Spain’s legitimacy in her American colonies. This volume explores its legacy.
Social Trust and Life Insurance
This book investigates how incomplete knowledge, social trust and risk perceptions influence acceptance of the risks of insurers using genetic test results. It analyzes the consequences for society and explores the difficulties of managing these risks.
Constitutional Cultures
This volume explores constitutions in the Atlantic World, showing their connectedness. To fully understand a constitutional order, it is necessary to analyse not just the legal text, but its implementation, legitimisation, and especially its culture.
Future Directions in Applied Linguistics
This volume explores the future of applied linguistics, showing global directions through local contexts. The papers cover key issues in language teaching and social practice, examining the influence of globalisation and the use of technology.
This collection examines the performance and transmission of post-traumatic memory in the US. Departing from early trauma theory, contributors analyze fiction, memoirs, and films to explore multidirectional memory, autobiography, national commemoration, and 9/11.