Seductive Screens
This book describes the development of children’s media from radio to Facebook, explaining the perfect storm—a collision of economics, psychology, and technology—behind its growth. It explores the influence of Disney, Sesame Street, and Batman in this context.
Travellers, Gypsies, Roma
This volume explores new areas of enquiry in Irish, Traveller, Romani and Migration Studies. In a rapidly changing Ireland, increased acknowledgement of diversity makes dialogue between mainstream society, older minorities and newer immigrant communities necessary.
Exploring Space
This collection of original essays on Literature, Linguistics, and Translation by Malaysian academics reflects state-of-the-art, interdisciplinary research. It provides textual and theoretical readings from a variety of traditional and modern perspectives.
New Social Movements, Class, and the Environment
This history of Greenpeace Canada explores its troubled relationship with the working class. Through its actions against sealing, forestry, and its own workers, it illustrates the historic obstacles to a common labour and environmental agenda.
On the Outlook
This volume explores how messianic thinking, from its Judeo-Christian origins to thinkers like Walter Benjamin and Giorgio Agamben, has been used to confront injustice. These essays analyze its influence on contemporary politics, philosophy, and law.
The Spectral Body
A powerful and original analysis of István Szabó’s films. Zoltán Dragon argues that a spectral phantom, hiding family secrets, fuels the oeuvre’s haunting effects and uncanny visuals, opening up new possibilities for studying film.
Has technology’s ease of manipulation created distrust in photography? Or have we always desired to manipulate the image to satisfy the demand for the “idealised”? This book explores how artists stage reality to help us look more closely at the world.
W. K. Clifford’s essay “The Ethics of Belief” argued it is wrong to believe anything upon insufficient evidence. This book examines the essay’s context, its clash with critics like William James, its influence on thinkers like Bertrand Russell, and its relevance today.
Freelance English Teaching in Eastern Europe
An invaluable guide to freelance English teaching in Eastern Europe, with exclusive insights on combining work with travel. This information-rich account is essential for teacher-travelers, career-minded graduates, and ELT entrepreneurs.
Asylum Seekers
This global collection of essays offers new ideas on imagination and creativity in education. Authors explore theories and provide practical strategies for infusing classrooms with imaginative activities, from teaching literacy and science to fostering responsible citizenship.
Framing Globalization
This collection of readings explores the intersection of the global and local through visual sociology. It examines how images in various contexts reflect and generate sociological concepts, shaping our understanding of identity, culture, and belonging worldwide.
Colonial Visions, Postcolonial Revisions
This book traces the Malaysian Indian diaspora from colonial subordination to postcolonial identity. It uncovers the suppressed story of coolie resistance and reveals how pioneer immigrants choreographed the diasporic identity they left as a legacy for today.
This collection of Bowne’s most important sermons summarizes the thought of a great preacher on many aspects of religion and faith. Lucid and flowing, it appeals to scholars and newcomers alike, offering new angles and much food for thought.
Ireland is changing so rapidly that many wonder where it is headed. This book probes the geographical, historical, social, and political currents at play, offering cogent insight into these changes and well-founded projections about the future.
Heiner Müller, one of Europe’s most provocative playwrights, was a communist banned by his own government. Infuriating both East and West, his work defied theater itself. In this collection, leading scholars grapple with his artistic and political legacy.
Susan Glaspell
Pulitzer Prize-winner Susan Glaspell’s work engages with feminism, war, class, and law. Susan Glaspell: New Directions in Critical Inquiry brings scholarship up to date, featuring new essays from leading scholars on her art and thoughtful social commentary.
This collection of essays examines identity in 19th & 20th century Britain. It explores how social, cultural, and political change created fragmented identities, linking theoretical debates to historical work on class, gender, religion, and nationality.
Beyond mere diversion, entertainment is how we forge our identities. This collection of essays reveals this vital process from the Middle Ages to the present day.
David Swift turns to the philosopher Epicurus for a scientific explanation of the mind. Reinterpreting thinkers from Descartes to Freud, he reveals the secrets of love, hate, and behavior as the results of learned experience, not genetic predisposition.
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