This collection of thirteen essays built around the question ‘what is the supernatural, and how, and why, has it changed over time?’ gives rise to a clear, comparative and diachronic study of the main characteristics of supernatural phenomena.
Symbols and Models in the Mediterranean
This anthology spans a vast chronology and territory, ranging from Old Kingdom Egypt to modern-day Slovenia. Each essay serves as a micro-study that demonstrates the many ways in which Mediterranean communities have co-opted, appropriated, and adapted symbols from one another.
Aspects of Entrepreneurship
Gathering unique perspectives on developments in the field of entrepreneurship, the essays here present insights that unravel the mysteries of what lies behind the term ‘entrepreneurship’ that propels societies forward.
This thought-provoking collection presents many voices exploring themes of female and trans* masculinities, gender equality, and the lives and activism of LGBT*IQ artists. It travels across time telling gender-crossing stories of creative resistance for readers of queer culture.
The Influence of Translation on the Arabic Language
Siddig Abdalla explores the influence of the translation of English idioms by journalists working at Arabic satellite TV stations, using a mixed-method approach. His results will serve to guide media translators and lexicographers’ choice in the usage of idioms.
The Familiar Essay, Romantic Affect and Metropolitan Culture
Through close readings of texts by Lamb, De Quincey and Poe, among others, Hull argues that the familiar essay in the Romantic period embodies a quintessentially metropolitan mode of affect, and that its generic traits predispose it to the expression of a detached state of mind.
Ágnes Heller and Hannah Arendt
This book reconstructs a timely conversation between Hannah Arendt and Ágnes Heller on the malaises of modernity. Two great thinkers enlighten the great moral and political problems of our time, from the demise of totalitarianism to the perennial problems of this century.
This title addresses the challenges that arise at the interface of science and religion in the 21st century. Drawing from many disciplines, including psychology and history, it considers the crucial questions of how science and religion can help shape our worldviews today.
Seyadi provides insights that will go some way toward dissipating the concerns that are routinely raised about the procedural and practical soundness of arbitration in the Arab Gulf states. In addition, he places arbitration in the Arab Gulf states in its present legal systems.
Fragile and Resilient Cities on Water
Venice and Tokyo exemplify the challenges confronting cities on water. This volume explores the “rediscovery of water,” highlighting the socio-economic, environmental, and cultural process of re-evaluating heritage in these fragile, liminal spaces.
The studies gathered here engage in different ways with the ideas of André Jolles (1874–1946), whose Einfache Formen (“Simple Forms”) was first published in 1930. This anthology will be of interest to scholars of medieval and early modern Spanish, Catalan and Latin literature.
Acquiring Lingua Franca of the Modern Time
Explore modern ESL/EFL teaching strategies for a globalized, digital world. International scholars apply linguistic theory and multi-cultural communication to today’s classrooms.
This title addresses several issues on contrasts between English and other languages. It gives valuable insights into cross-linguistic differences between English and other languages, which might otherwise go unnoticed, and will be useful to experts on language studies.
Based on case studies in Sub-Saharan Africa, this book examines the paradoxes of environmental resource management and climate change policy. It critiques flawed interventions and calls for questioning orthodoxies to address Africa’s developmental challenges.
Languaging Diversity Volume 3
Languages, diversity and power. This volume explores how power relations are expressed and enforced through language. From TV courtrooms to post-war cinema and filmmaking in Africa, the contributions span decades and continents, providing in-depth analyses of diverse contexts.
“Three women ruined the Kingdom: Eve, The Queen and the Countess of Derby.” This biography pieces together the life of Charlotte de La Trémoïlle, a Huguenot who defended Lathom House during a brutal siege and was the only woman sequestered by Oliver Cromwell’s Parliament.
The Neurolinguistic Approach (NLA) for Learning and Teaching Foreign Languages
Germain details the development of the Neurolinguistic Approach to Second-language Acquisition, from its inception in Canada in 1998 as a method for teaching French as a second language in a school setting to its current use in teaching adults in several other countries.
A History of the Lie of Innocence in Literature
Tracing history of the “lie of innocence” as represented in literary texts from the late 18th century until today, Le Cudennec explores the relationship between fathers and sons, arguing that the shedding of paternal ties represents the possibility of an “innocence of becoming”.
Studying the millennial history of the Indian subcontinent, this collection questions various linguistic, literary and artistic appropriations of the past. It does this to address the conflicting comprehensions of the present and the figuring/imagining of a possible future.
Looser explores the differences between extrinsic and intrinsic Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR), reflecting on the impact these discrepancies have on CSR stakeholders.