Antiquity and Social Reform
Why would someone join a new religion? Dawn Hutchinson argues that followers of movements in the 1960s–1980s found legitimacy in religions that offered a personal experience, a connection to ancient tradition, and agency in improving their world.
Interiors
These essays explore the borderland between interiors and exteriors. Where do we draw dividing lines? Can we afford not to distinguish between the inside and outside, between “us” and “them”? This volume presents a plethora of answers.
Museums now engage with hot topics like terrorism, climate change, and social justice. This collection explores the role of cultural institutions in a complex world, examining how they can activate conversations and action through both new theories and practical means.
Social Sciences Today
This collection of essays will appeal to teachers and researchers of social sciences. The essays deal with three main issues in Europe and Asia: educational theory, society in the context of globalisation, and identity, alterity and multiculturalism.
Leading scholars from philosophy, psychology, and history cast new light on Sartre. This volume deliberately stresses a middle and final period of his work, exploring diverse topics and offering new insights on authenticity, freedom, and ethics.
How was the perception of time in medieval Europe influenced by religious faith? This book explores the “spiritual temporalities” of the age, showing how Christian faith was malleable and how artists and writers negotiated with their spiritual tradition.
The concept of culture industry leads a double life. This book is a contribution to a critical tradition that explores the term in relation to media, philosophy, and consumption, showing the continued relevance of an expression whose muteness corroborates its darkest content.
A Crosslinguistic Study of the Language of Space
This book examines spatial language in sign and spoken languages, presenting a novel Crossmodal Spatial Language model. The model shows that features from spatial input are not necessarily mapped to spatial descriptions regardless of modality or language.
Teaching Foreign Languages
Teaching Foreign Languages: Languages for Special Purposes is a collection of essays for teachers of modern languages. The essays cover three main approaches: theoretical, descriptive, and applied linguistics, with examples from Europe, Asia, and Africa.
Meanings of Ripley
This collection offers varied interpretations of sci-fi icon Ellen Ripley. Is she a feminist hero? A patriarchal mother? Does she move beyond dichotomous gender roles? Voices from multiple disciplines explore these questions against the backdrop of Second Wave Feminism.
Citizen Participation and Local Governance
This book shows how community-based institutions, like a Residents’ Association, can engage a city council to improve service delivery. Citizens can speak with one voice, exhorting local authorities to incorporate their input and have their destiny in their own hands.
Sex has long been ignored by tourism and leisure scholars. This book brings the topic into the light of academic debate, highlighting emerging cross-disciplinary work and providing insights into a broad array of sex-related issues and environments worldwide.
Detective Inspector Napoleon Bonaparte
Bony was a “blacktracker” who became a police inspector and worked throughout Australia. For the first time, learn of the real Bony and the Aboriginal background to his cases. This biography displays the real spirit of Australia!
This book presents striking textual correspondences between Greek and Shakespearean plays. It proves William Shakespeare became “Shakespeare” because of his mastery of the ancient Greek treasury of Drama, where images like Lady Macbeth’s cruelty first appear.
The warrior Messiah of the Old Testament matches Jesus in the New, fighting cosmic evil. This struggle takes place in a heavenly dimension, using the word from his mouth as the only weapon, revealing a strong continuity between the Testaments.
A critical guide to Bernard E. Meland, influential constructive theologian at the University of Chicago. This study examines his metaphysical view, method, and doctrine of God, and offers a final evaluation of his later writings.
Coming Out to the Mainstream
Has New Queer Cinema gone mainstream? This collection of essays examines how its themes have entered popular culture, challenging a queer-phobic climate and informing debates on queerness in film, television, and beyond.
Foreign Language Anxiety and the Advanced Language Learner
Does anxiety about learning a foreign language decline as learners become more competent, or is it also relevant at higher levels of proficiency? This book explores the role anxiety plays in the learning and communication processes of advanced language learners.
Opéra-Comique
Opéra-comique, a French genre not always comic in nature—the most famous example, Bizet’s Carmen, is a tragedy—reflected the cultural life of France. This sourcebook details its forgotten composers and operas, providing a way into a changing age.
Political repression sparks resistance, which in turn provokes counter-resistance. This anthology explores this volatile cycle, revealing how the struggle for freedom unexpectedly forges new cultural expressions and democratic possibilities.
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