A Land of One’s Own
This book examines women’s land rights in Indian literature and society. As discrimination over land and property continues to keep women in a subordinate position, this book deals with the gap between women’s legal rights and their actual ownership of land.
This journal presents research on emotional intelligence, an important factor in the development of emotional competency and cognition. The contributions represent a useful resource for teachers and students of social sciences and adolescent psychology, and mental health workers.
The Undecidable
This book offers an engagement between philosopher Jacques Derrida and author Paul Howard. It uses deconstructive theory to critique Howard’s depiction of Ireland during the Celtic Tiger era, providing an accessible overview of critical theory.
This journal brings together current research on emotional intelligence, an important factor in the development of emotional competency and cognition. It represents a useful resource for teachers, researchers and students of adolescent psychology, and for mental health workers.
Need for Sleep
This book explores the influence of fairytale details and imagery on adult cognition, and will be of interest to scholars concerned with how cognition relates specifically to understanding the subjective experience of daydreaming.
The Recognition Principle
This book explores recognition across psychology, sociology, and politics. It argues that no philosophy of recognition can be built without deep psychological and anthropological foundations, ultimately exploring recognition as a general ‘recognition principle’.
Professor Nambiar offers a unique milestone in the history of Durrellian criticism, embracing Durrell’s search for universal awareness through Western and Indian metaphysics, and presenting a new metaphysical reading of the writer’s prose that has remained untapped until now.
Time for Architecture
Through the lens of time, this book offers a new perspective on modern architecture. It challenges our understanding of modernity, sustainability, and tradition with original theories on longevity, conservation, and collective memory.
Re-Reading Richard Hoggart
Richard Hoggart put the working class on the cultural map. The first critic to take popular culture seriously, he founded Cultural Studies and was a key witness in the Lady Chatterley trial. This volume explores his life and significant role in cultural shifts.
This volume contains selected papers on Man and Environment, exploring human origins and the variability of populations. It discusses evolution, adaptation, skeletal variations, the effects of lifestyle on genetic structure, growth, and ageing.
This book offers a multifaceted approach to young adult literature. Essays explore race, myth, and science through works ranging from classic science fiction and Walter Dean Myers’ sports stories to the popular Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants Quartet.
Daniel-François-Esprit Auber
Once a giant of 19th-century French opera, Daniel Auber partnered with librettist Eugène Scribe for his first enduring success, Le Maçon. In this thrilling rescue opera, a Parisian mason is abducted and must become a hero to save the innocent.
From Individual Wellbeing to Regional Priorities
Dr. Silva Larson explores what is important to people, arguing for an approach that helps decision-makers identify regional priorities. She proposes a method that considers both what people value most and their satisfaction to create “action lists” to improve quality of life.
While quantum mechanics is probabilistic, classical physics makes definite predictions. This book argues these predictions can be explained by the mathematics of special relativity, and explores the profound philosophical consequences. No advanced math or physics is required.
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.
France at the Flicks
Explore the recent revitalisation of French popular cinema as it challenges Hollywood’s dominance. This book discusses blockbuster successes—both international hits and domestic favourites—and explores their production, distribution, and reception.
How did images and spectacles shape power in early modern Europe? This collection of interdisciplinary essays reveals how aesthetic choices in art, theatre, and literature were used to consolidate and subvert institutional power from the 12th to 17th centuries.
Sights Unseen
Many British films never make it to the screen. This book uses archival resources to reconstruct the stories behind these thwarted productions, providing an illuminating insight into the factors which have undermined the stability of the film industry in Britain.
This volume contains a selection of papers from the 2007 NooJ conference. NooJ is a linguistic development environment and corpus processor used to build libraries of linguistic resources and Natural Language Processing applications.
This volume presents highlighted papers from the Ethnographic and Qualitative Research Conference (EQRE). The articles address methodological approaches, ESL, and action research, providing examples of both methodological rigor and important practical applications.
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