Mental Condition Defences and the Criminal Justice System
This collection brings together medical and legal conceptions of mental disorder to appraise mental condition defences. It provides invaluable, original insights into a sensitive area of criminal law that has struggled to keep pace with psychiatry.
Radiance and Symbolism in Modern Stained Glass
Written for students and the general public interested in the humanities, literature, history, art history, and new media and popular culture, this publication examines the visual beauty and symbolism of stained-glass windows in Europe and American cultures during the modern era.
Peacemaking Strategies in Cyprus
This book systematically examines all 41 peacemaking initiatives for the Cyprus question since 1955. Based on over 130 interviews with top political leaders, it offers propositions on how peacemaking can succeed in Cyprus and other intractable cases.
Cultural Studies Approaches in the Study of Eastern European Cinema
The “spatial”, the “bodily” and the “memory turn” define this collection’s structure, made of an overview study and 12 case-studies of post-1989 Eastern European film and cinema. Concepts like space representation and construction are explored through national cinemas and films.
The Burning of Byron’s Memoirs
A collection of essays on Byron’s life and work, informed by primary texts. The title essay is hailed as the best-ever documentation of the disgraceful destruction of Byron’s Memoirs. For anyone interested in Byron, this is essential reading.
This work observes vignettes of Montenegro in Anglo-American creative writing and films from the late 18th century until 2016. It follows these vignettes chronologically to point out how their rhetoric dangerously builds a caricature of Montenegro.
This collection leans on the fact that, even in the Cold War era, television could become a cross-border matter. It combines transnational perspectives on convergence zones, observations, collaborations, circulations and interdependencies between Eastern and Western television.
Macedonia
This history of Macedonia moves from the kingdom of Philip II and Alexander, through Roman, Byzantine, and Serbian rule, to the Ottoman conquest. This voyage through time not only documents the Macedonian past but also discovers its rich cultural heritage of art and faith.
Facts and Fantasies
This work analyzes debates on women’s rights in the popular press of 1920s Turkey, following them into obscene literature. In these popular stories, urban women who defied the new patriarchal social order were often depicted as heroines.
Defoe and the Dutch
This first book to examine the presence of references to, and influences of, the Dutch in Defoe’s novels investigates the perceptions of English readers of fiction of the Dutch, in an era during which two Anglo-Dutch wars were fought and a Dutch king took over the English throne.
Arthur S. Eddington, The Nature of the Physical World
Arthur S. Eddington was a prominent scientist famed for confirming Einstein’s theory of relativity and interpreting modern physics for the public. His classic book, The Nature of the Physical World, had a significant influence on the understanding of 20th-century physics.
In Search of Corporate Accountability
Given current debates on corporate social responsibility, Lo uses a theory of interactive (corrective) justice to argue that it is necessary to ensure that responsible persons are accountable under law so as to promote compliance with legal regulations in the corporate context.
Putting Theory into Practice in the Contemporary Classroom
This work emerges from interest in how postmodern theory illuminates the products and ideas of high culture, as well as the ins and outs of everyday life. It helps us to understand troublesome classroom dynamics and specifies pedagogical strategies for dealing with them.
Literature and Geography
Space has now replaced time as the main category of literary analysis, and is considered to be a central metaphor and topos. As such, this book examines the cross-fertilization of geography and literature as disciplines, languages and methodologies.
This volume offers a cross-disciplinary insight into language contact research, bringing together studies on language variation, second language acquisition, and translation. It creates a dialogue between researchers, viewing language contact from a broader perspective.
Culture’s Software
Geert Hofstede defined culture as collective programming of the mind. This volume, Culture’s Software, develops this idea. Born from a debate on cultural communication styles, this book offers a fresh perspective and will inspire further research into this fascinating subject.
This book takes a post-modern approach to Intellectual Capital (IC), exploring it as ‘images’ rather than ‘rules’. Offering different perspectives from academics and practitioners, it analyzes IC in education, business, and the public sector and its impact on a company’s value.
This is the first work in English on the historical grammar of Romanian from a modern theoretical perspective. It addresses key morphological and syntactic issues in Romanian’s development, filling a gap in current research on the Romance languages.
Opera as Anthropology
Kotnik considers the relationship between opera and anthropology. His study rests on the following central arguments: on the one hand, opera is a new and “exotic” topic for anthropologists, while, on the other, anthropology is still seen as an unusual approach to opera.
The Feathers of Condor
López explores why the South American military set up Operation Condor to transnationalize state terrorism beyond South America. He argues they wanted to eliminate any kind of opposition, especially if it was involved in the denunciation of human rights violations.