This volume probes how space and gaze are tied in with social constructions of gender relations. It considers the gendered body, the queer gaze, the relationship between body and memory, the memory of war, monstrosity, and also domestic and hybrid spaces as key concepts.
Florida Studies
Florida’s long and colorful past is matched by its literary production, yet critical assessment has lagged. This volume corrects that oversight with papers on every aspect of Florida literature, including its African-American figures and teaching suggestions.
The Psychological Model of Illness highlights the role of psychological factors in adapting to chronic illness like heart attacks. This book provides an empirical investigation of illness cognition, coping, and their effects on quality of life.
The Flesh of Being
This text is a conversation with Friedrich Nietzsche’s Thus Spoke Zarathustra. It is not about Nietzsche, but what it is for someone to read his text, a book for everyone and no one. The text is what the reader has to write through the reading.
Narratives and Songs from Atauro Island, Timor-Leste
This first-ever multilingual archive of endangered oral traditions from Atauro, Timor-Leste, was created in collaboration with the island’s communities. Discover tales of the island’s origin—revealed when arrows pierce the sea—alongside traditional songs and cultural texts.
Master culture-specific vocabulary for intercultural communication between English and Romanian. This unique dictionary is an easy-to-use tool for translators, students, and professionals, with vocabulary organised thematically to cover cuisine, holidays, sports, and more.
Prepare for university-level texts. This coursebook teaches strategies and vocabulary to build confidence and proficiency. Develop academic skills with lively exercises that weave the excitement of the Internet into your daily English communication.
Many Floridas
This collection of feminist essays envisions change for women in Florida. Authors write from various intersections of class, race, and sexuality to bridge the gap between theory and practice, making meaningful connections between the academy and the community.
This volume brings together thoughtful and provocative essays on the complex interrelationship of language, thought, and action. From popular to technical, light to deadly serious, this collection calls attention to the importance of language to politics.
This guide covers phytodermatoses—skin reactions caused by plant compounds. It profiles 68 plant species that cause dermatoses in humans, especially for those who cultivate or sell them. For each plant, the description, habitat, and main toxic constituents are given.
Angela Ralli connects contemporary morphological theory to less-studied aspects of language interference and contact-induced variation and change, and shows how languages of divergent typologies can affect each other.
Emerging African Geopolitics
This book explores the intricate tapestry of African geopolitics, examining the continent’s socio-economic challenges and prospects. It navigates Africa’s complex interactions with global powers, the lingering shadows of colonialism, and the quest for a promising future.
Delve into the archival history of early Indian cinema. This book examines the landmark Indo-European collaboration at Bombay Talkies through Gilles Deleuze’s compelling concepts of Movement-Image and Time-Image, exploring censorship, studios, and film journalism.
Romantic poet Justinus Kerner’s Sketches from My Boyhood is a vivid, charming, and entertaining narrative of growing up in Württemberg. Set against the ever-present reality of the French Revolution, it is a gem of 19th-century autobiographical writing.
The Metamorphoses of Philosophy II
Providing a phenomenology of the Western mind, this second of three volumes maps philosophy’s re-emergence in scholasticism and early modern science, up to its peak in the great metaphysical systems of 19th century German philosophy.
The roots of Chechnya lie in shamanism. The rich stories of the Nokhchii people have survived for thousands of years through oral traditions, providing virtually the only remaining evidence of their ancestors. This book contains these tales and commentaries on them.
This celebratory centenary volume edited by two of the leading poetry specialists in Europe, sheds new light on Edward Thomas and the roads his poems have travelled, a century after his death at the Battle of Arras on 9th April 1917.
Why Unitary Social Science? argues that the division of social science into discrete disciplines thwarts the emergence of an objective science of society. Social science is seen here as unitary, with diverse specialisations emerging from a single base.
‘Intimately Associated for Many Years’
The letters of Bishop George Bell and Willem Visser’t Hooft mirror efforts by the World Council of Churches to unite Christianity and confront an age of crisis. To mitigate political tensions, they raised their voices to presidents and prime ministers.
Views, Positions, Legacies
This book collects 24 interviews with German and British theatre artists over 20 years. Actors, directors, and dramatists discuss boulevard comedy, Brecht’s legacy, and seminal productions like Sir Richard Eyre’s account of his Hamlet at the Royal Court.