The Future of Post-Human Migration
The “melting pot” and “salad bowl” are opposing noble lies. This book offers a new theory—the cyclical progression of migration—to change how we think about Sameness, Otherness, and identity, with enormous implications for the human future.
Pope Gregory’s Letter-Bearers
The first-ever study of Pope Gregory’s letter-bearers. From 590-604, in an age of invasions and peril, a surprising number of men and women—clerics, farmers, widows—made dangerous journeys to carry his 850+ surviving letters across the world.
This study traces the picaresque from its Spanish roots to contemporary novels, arguing it has never left the British literary scene. Postcolonial authors also favour this genre for their own stories of displaced characters and modern-day rogues.
Challenging Change
Challenging Change: Literary and Linguistic Responses is a collection of articles examining change as the need to redefine theories, histories, and language. Authors from around the world respond to this challenge from the perspectives of literary studies and linguistics.
Hume’s Labyrinth
Hume’s Labyrinth explores his famous “bundle theory of the self” and his own critical reservations about it. It argues the theory was not a failed account, but a pragmatic tool intended to help further philosophical investigations into the mind.
Transgressing Women
Transgressing Women focuses on the ‘other’ female characters of the noir world, beyond the femme fatale. The book traces these transgressive figures in contemporary novels and films, analyzing their dramatic evolution through feminist and postmodernist theory.
Future Prospects for Music Education
Inspired by Lucy Green’s groundbreaking work, this anthology offers a critical examination of informal learning pedagogy in music education. An international community of scholars explores future prospects for music education with informal learning as its focal point.
Martyrdom and Ecstasy
This interdisciplinary study explores shahadat (sacrifice and martyrdom), a key concept in Persian culture. The author discusses its origin, evolution, and modern interpretation, showing how it has shaped Iranian identity and social and political attitudes.
Mining the Meaning
This innovative study provides a critical introduction to cultural representations of the 1984–5 miners’ strike. Analysing writings, music, and film from strikers and artists, it explores the battle to ‘author’ the conflict and challenges our understanding of this period.
Running with the Fairies
In the first scholarly account of the Fairy Faith in over a hundred years, a PhD anthropologist interviews educated people in Ireland who have had direct spiritual experiences with fairies, recognizing the reality of nature spirit beings in a Western context.
Outsourcing and Service Work in the New Economy
This book examines outsourcing’s impact on workers in the new economy. Through a study of Mexico City’s call centres, it identifies managerial practices that harm employment conditions, revealing how ‘old economy’ tactics persist in the 21st century.
Cinema is a bastard art, innovative through adulterous relationships and a blurred lineage. This book aims to rehabilitate the shadowy corners of cinematographic creation, providing a new way of using notions like reference, blending, and hybridity.
New Hegelian Essays
These essays show how Hegel’s philosophy overcomes religious dualisms, inserting Christian doctrine into the metaphysical tradition. To read Hegel is to participate in a divine “service,” a spiritual participation to which this text invites the reader.
Death may be the “great equalizer,” but our journeys towards it are not. This interdisciplinary collection addresses the many socio-cultural inequalities surrounding death and the end of life to encourage research and action that can improve the experience for all.
To breach the limits of the acceptable is to define them. But does this understanding still apply today? This collection explores the complex relationship between artistic transgression and the law through essays on cinema, art, philosophy, music, and literature.
Diane Dubois situates Northrop Frye’s work in its biographical and historical context. Illuminating his œuvre as a personal project rooted in the social and religious conditions of his time, this book helps us see the key theorist’s work anew.
Conflict Resolution and the Scholarship of Engagement
To transform entrenched conflicts, theory and practice must unite. This edition connects the Scholarship of Engagement to the work of conflict resolution professionals, exploring examples from genocide prevention to community mediation and transitional justice.
Why are the most common swear words also the most offensive? Based on 500+ real-life utterances, this book decodes the unwritten rules of swearing, challenging what we think we know about profanity, gender, and race.
Agricultural English is a collection of essays analyzing the English of agriculture and related fields from various linguistic points of view. The book will appeal to agriculturists, professors, researchers, students, and translators.
Greek Science in the Long Run
Renowned experts reflect on the prominence of Greek scientific models. This collection of essays revisits how these traditions originated, were transmitted, and received within diverse socio-cultural contexts from the 4th c. BCE to the 17th c. CE.
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