The Management of Intercultural Academic Interaction
This book examines how six Japanese exchange students manage intercultural academic interaction at an Australian university. It analyzes the impact of program structures and provides insights on how universities can better support students’ transition between cultures.
Friends and Foes Volume I
What constitutes friendship? What challenges, duties and pleasures does it entail? This volume of philosophical and cultural essays offers an illuminating investigation of the relationship between friendship and conflict, exploring its compelling ambiguities.
Masquerade and Femininity
These essays on Russian and Polish women writers explore femininity through the lens of masquerade. They scrutinize the gap between lived female experience and the culturally constructed masks women wear, combining East European literary and gender studies.
John Wayne’s iconic status was forged in post-WWII anxieties over civil rights. This book uncovers his political legacy: a model of white masculinity that continues from Reagan to today’s superheroes.
The Right Sort of Woman
Nineteenth-century British women’s travel writing reveals how they found freedom abroad. Far from strict Victorian codes, they participated in men’s sports, improving their health and confidence. This shaped feminism and the revolutionary image of the New Woman.
This book examines how laissez-faire economics influenced Britain’s relationship with America after the Revolution. Informed by Adam Smith, Lord Shelburne envisioned a new commercial empire based on trade instead of territorial conquest.
Stories from across cultures deal with shamanic soul loss—the detachment of the psyche from trauma. This book argues for a new genre, the shamanic story, and its sub-genre of soul-loss tales, analysing examples to support this hypothesis.
Gujaratis in the West
This compilation of scholarly works investigates how Gujaratis, a successful and integrated community, construct and express their complex religious, linguistic, and ethnic identities in the West, offering a unique insight into a community often overlooked.
To Inspire and Instruct
This collection of essays tells the story of how medieval art was collected by individuals and institutions in the American Midwest, considering the motives of donors, the formation of major collections, and evolving curatorial practices.
This collection explores women’s struggle for education from the fourth to the twenty-first century in Europe and the Americas. It demonstrates not only the great strides women have made but also the challenges that have yet to be overcome.
The Cycle of Troy in Geoffrey Chaucer
In the Middle Ages, Trojan myths were transformed into models of human behaviour. This book explores how Geoffrey Chaucer recreates those myths, manipulating his material and integrating them into the contexts of his own works.
Crossroads of the Southwest
In southeastern Arizona, Hohokam, Mogollon, and Anasazi cultures intersected. Crossroads of the Southwest presents new archaeological research examining culture, identity, and migration. Top scholars use new data to study this long-overlooked region.
Scholars remain sharply divided on nationalism. This volume offers new empirical research, examining a variety of contexts within the English-speaking world, including Australia, Canada, India, the UK, and the US, through interdisciplinary studies.
Daniel-François-Esprit Auber
Auber and Scribe’s masterful opéra-comique Haydée is one of the composer’s richest scores. A Venetian admiral is haunted by guilt after cheating a friend who then killed himself. Blackmail, love, and Venetian pomp drive this psychological drama.
Ruskin’s Struggle for Coherence
The ten essays collected here address the coherence in Ruskin’s multi-disciplinary works. Using interdisciplinary approaches, they explore the “polygon” of his thought and what he called “The Mystery of Life and Its Arts.”
This landmark collection is the first of critical responses to novelist Thea Astley. It includes essays from leading critics, three essays by Astley herself, a major interview with her, and the first Thea Astley lecture by Kate Grenville.
Daniel-François-Esprit Auber
In Auber’s opéra-comique La Sirène, travellers are caught in an ambush after hearing the entrancing song of Zerlina, the Siren. She aids her bandit brother, but when she falls for their handsome captive, a tale of romance and revealed identities begins.
Labor’s Canvas
Labor’s Canvas argues that New Deal art reveals important tensions. Artists saw themselves as cultural workers, yet struggled to reconcile social protest and aesthetics, often depicting laborers as bodies without minds and exposing cultural contradictions.
The Apothecary’s Chest
This collection of essays explores the intertwined notions of magic, science, and superstition in figures like the apothecary, alchemist, and shaman. Topics range from the mystical traits of mundane materials to the origins of the occult and the modern poet.
Processability Theory (PT) explains the developmental sequences in second language learning, providing insights into what learners are ready to acquire. Taking PT as its point of departure, this book applies, tests, and extends the theory.
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