This book presents the intertwined relationships between culture, literature, language, and history. More specifically, it investigates the joy of a birth, a funeral ritual, the merriness of a melody, and the taste of a meal as reflected in the texts of Asia.
Piso offers a detailed investigation of the singing technique generally known as “inhaling the voice” technique, and analyses the usage of vowels in spoken and sung variants, offering advice to singers regarding how they can improve their pronunciation of vowels and consonants.
Narrative Framing in Contemporary American Novels
Studniarz studies several doubly-mediated texts published 1968-2014, including John Gardner’s “The King’s Indian” and Paul Auster’s “Travels in the Scriptorium”. He sparks the revival of interest in fictions in parentheses, showing the need for research into more recent novels.
Travel and Intercultural Communication
This conference proceedings brings together texts focusing on going north from several geographical points of departure, from a wide range of genres, and explores a range of intercultural aspects such as issues of identity, othering, and cultural perceptions of the north.
In a world turned upside-down, this essay collection shows the vital role of the humanities. It explores how societies have historically coped with distressing change to address today’s crises—from climate change and racism to the worldwide crisis of democracy.
This title endeavours to create a general aesthetics to face the problem of mimesis and subordination of art, using the ancient concept of continuity. As such, it is of special interest to readers of aesthetic and critical thinking, and literary and sociocultural scholars.
Crisis, Exposure, Imagination
Unprecedented crises expose new ways of understanding. This interdisciplinary volume examines the role of imagination in our response. Lifting the veil between crisis and creativity radically undoes the past, opens us to the future, and provides vision and hope.
Mammadov covers a broad range of issues in the studies of text and discourse, combining a theoretical framework with empirical engagement. In doing so, he brings together various approaches to these two phenomena from the structural, functional and cognitive perspectives.
Not much literature exists on QR (Quick Response) Codes and their applications in the emerging digital society, making this foundational text very important to the field of technology. It spells out their “pros” and “cons”, providing potential challenges to their emergence.
Europe’s Hybrid Threats
Hybrid threats from state and non-state actors pose considerable challenges to EU and NATO allies. This volume presents expert analyses on these transnational security issues and the need for effective Euro-Atlantic cooperation. An essential source for scholars and practitioners.
Since the “cultural turn” in the 1990s, increasing attention has been paid to ideological concerns and gender issues in translation studies. This volume is a further illustration of this trend, offering insights into various cross-cultural, geographical and historical contexts.
Sociothermodynamics
Why do social groups segregate in hard times and mix in affluent ones? This book uses game theory and thermodynamics to show that segregation can be beneficial for all—like sugar separating in cold water. In the long run, however, social evolution leads to a homogeneous mix.
Humanistic Philosophizing
Philosophy is the project of seeking for answers to “the big questions” regarding the condition of man, the nature of Reality, and man’s place within its scheme of things. Against this background, Rescher considers some major areas of philosophical concern.
This volume explores the social, historical and cultural dimensions of medicine. It covers medical knowledge, public health, and the experience of illness, raising ethical and philosophical questions that will open up new vistas of study for the reader.
Land Writings
Arranging itself around a number of journeys in pursuit of the early twentieth century poet and nature writer, this monograph provides a personal and moving tale of encountering literature in landscape, retreading Edward Thomas’s footprints for the last four years of his life.
This introduction to the economics of dentistry applies economic theory to the oral health care sector, showing how everyday decisions are influenced by the laws of economics. It is essential reading for dental professionals, policy makers, and students.
Kılıç re-reads Milton’s Paradise Lost in the light of his political views as reflected in his earlier political pamphlets. He argues that, using his epic poem as a medium of expression, Milton created a political subtext which reflected the social panorama of his England.
In this dictionary, 300 Greek maxims and proverbs are given, accompanied by their counterparts in 8 European languages: English, French, German, Italian, Spanish, Swedish, Dutch, and Russian. Moreover, the introduction relates the history, origin and importance of proverbs.
This book proposes a new explanation for early modern philosophy. It suggests the concept of relation, grounded in causal influence, can illuminate developments concerning causality, sense perception, and substance, showing it is closer to Aristotle than supposed.
For aquatic scientists and students with little fluid dynamics exposure, this is a self-contained introduction to flows at small scales. It explains the effects of flow on processes like nutrient uptake, particle coagulation, and suspension feeding.