The Land of Fertility I
The papers collected in this anthology are based on presentations given at the conference “The Land of Fertility: The South-East Mediterranean from the Bronze Age to the Muslim Conquest”, focused on the processes prevalent in this region after the end of the Stone Age.
Less than Nations
After WWI, the geo-political map of Central-Eastern Europe was redefined. As states and nations rarely coincided, the minority question emerged as one of the most troublesome issues of the interwar period, affecting international relations and many states.
Symbolic Forms as the Metaphysical Groundwork of the Organon of the Cultural Sciences
This work restructures the history of ideas and philosophy of culture through the idea of the organon. It provides a new philosophical foundation for the cultural sciences by extracting their main principles and shaping them as symbolic forms.
A New Hope
Modern physics suggests a predictable future, leaving no room for new hope or miracles. To defend God’s freedom, theologian Wolfhart Pannenberg invoked God’s absolute power over time. But does this create an arms race between God and nature?
This collection explores topical issues in modern linguistics, including cross-cultural communication, lexicography, and terminology. It analyzes cultural aspects of language, dictionary user needs, modern terminology, and new models for reference works.
This book investigates assertions of community identity in the multilingual context of Kashmir. It demonstrates that changes in language roles, motivated by various factors, may lead to the demise of the Kashmiri linguistic-cultural identity in favour of Urdu.
The Nomadic Subject
This book explores the image of the Traveller, nomad, migrant, and outsider amid cultural diaspora and globalisation. With a focus on the experiences of Irish Travellers and Roma, these essays resonate with the hybrid narratives of many Western countries today.
Undisciplined Animals
Undisciplined Animals is not a textbook, but a collection of invitations to animal studies. Addressed to emerging scholars, these confessions reveal how unruly animals can vitalize work, transgressing borders between the academic and the personal.
Time’s Fool
A memorial to the life work of A. Clare Brandabur, this collection presents essays on a wide range of notable writers from James Joyce to Kazuo Ishiguro, Michael Ondaatje, Yaşar Kemal, Cormac McCarthy, Abdulrahman Munif, and many others.
This Is Her Century
This book is the first monograph on Margaret Walker, a writer who slipped to the margins of the African American literary canon. It is an attempt to establish the importance of Walker’s representation of twentieth-century America against its critical obscurity.
A Spiritual Portrait of a Believer
This study seeks to identify the ‘I’ of Romans 7. It finds that the closer a Christian gets to God, the more aware they are of their sinfulness. The ‘I’ is a mature believer, growing closer to God while in ‘pain’ over the remaining effects of sin.
Internalising the Historical Past
This book explores the traumatic effects of broken attachments resulting from the separation of families through slavery. Using attachment theory, it discusses the psychological trauma on descendants of the enslaved and its impact on their lives today.
New Language Technologies and Linguistic Research
This collection of papers from the 11th Corpus Linguistics Symposium will inspire readers interested in Linguistics and motivate further research in the interdisciplinary area of Language Technologies and Linguistic Research.
The first study of Osbern Bokenham since the discovery of his lost magnum opus. It reveals how Bokenham negotiates his marginality to claim poetic authority, countering patriarchal history by asserting an alternative, spiritual matrilineage.
Despite communicative teaching, many EFL university students in the UAE lack adequate communicative competence and critical thinking skills. This book argues for utilising literature, offering an approach to integrate language, literature, and critical thinking.
This volume includes ten essays on American, British and Canadian writers’ biographies and family histories, ranging from Woolf’s Orlando (1928) to Zanganeh’s The Enchanter (2011), analysing the connection between biography and fiction in the light of postmodernism.
Testimony, Witness, Authority
This international, interdisciplinary collection of essays examines how testimony, witness, and authority shape human experience. Scholars and artists explore how stories bear witness to experience through a web of verbal and near-verbal media.
Women in Higher Education in India
This collection explores the role of women in higher education in India, their emergence as a strong force for social change, and the implications on society. It also discusses technology’s impact, constraints, and the issues and challenges for women in the workplace.
Global Mindset
“Think globally, act locally” is harder than it sounds. This work explores how a global mindset allows organizations to become more effective. It shows how members can grow professionally and personally from a global mindset—even if they never step foot on a plane.
This volume explores American Studies today, investigating its capacity to respond to 21st-century challenges in a world of transnational flux. Drawing on a wide range of perspectives, these essays offer a multifaceted image of a complex and rapidly evolving discipline.