Coleridge and Hinduism
The only comprehensive study of Coleridge’s profound ties to Oriental Tales, revealing how Hindu works, especially the Bhagavadgītā, shaped his poetic imagination and his quest for the “One life.”
This book explores how Irish playwrights engaged with the Easter Rising, the Troubles, and other conflicts. It analyzes their plays in historical context, revealing insights into humanity and resilience amid deep republican, unionist, and denominational divides.
This corpus-based study of the 2016 election reveals substantial discrepancies in how US media portrayed Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton. It shows how partisanship and journalistic norms shaped their representations, offering new insights into political communication.
Narrative Rewritings and Artistic Praxis in Derek Walcott’s Works
This book moves beyond Derek Walcott’s Nobel Prize-winning poetry to reveal his fundamental contribution to Caribbean theatre and art. Examining key works as postcolonial re-writings of European stories, it uncovers the strategies Walcott used to respond to colonial power.
How Nurses Can Facilitate Meaning-making and Dialogue
Nurses hear patients’ stories daily. This book describes how to use narrative to realize therapeutic aims. With practical case studies, it explains how narrative achieves person-centred care, enabling a switch from care delivery to a dialogic, recovery-oriented approach.
Pop Culture Matters
We immerse ourselves daily in expressions of popular culture but rarely pay critical attention to them. The essays in this collection redress this situation and critically examine various offerings in film, television, social media, music, literature, sports, and related areas.
From Something to Nothing
This study breaks down the technical language of Jewish mysticism, where God is approached as no-thing. Memorializing scholar Zalman Schachter Shalomi, it provides a spectrum of topics, allowing beginners to explore this ultimate reality of nothingness.
This book explores quantum-mechanical scattering in macroscopic targets and the conditions for coherent scattering on a macroscopic scale. It introduces coherence domains and examines their role in scattering, emphasizing the momentum and energy transfer to the target.
Emerging Water Insecurity in India
This book investigates India’s water crisis, focusing on Punjab. It explores the use and abuse of groundwater, revealing its virtual exportation. It examines water governance, offering lessons for all regions grappling with water scarcity and sustainable development.
Model United Nations Simulations and English as a Lingua Franca
Model United Nations (MUN) simulations develop negotiation skills for a globally connected world, especially in English as a Lingua Franca (ELF) contexts. This volume provides researchers, practitioners, and language teachers with best practices to enrich the MUN experience.
This book presents research on Costs of Quality (CoQ) management in China. Based on case studies from Chinese enterprises, it shows professionals and executives how to adopt strategic CoQ management to enhance product quality and improve business performance.
Using a historical approach, this book traces Canada’s role in the Arab-Israel conflict. It argues that Canadian policy, operating within the Anglo-American framework, has been shaped by religio-cultural factors, economic interests, and the influence of domestic elites.
Beringia
This study explores the migration of cultures from Asia to North America, presenting linguistic evidence connecting the Athabaskan language family to Siberia. It examines the origins of the first Americans through anthropology, archaeology, and folklore.
Cosimo I de’ Medici as Collector
Antiquity collections were manifestations of power. This study explores the collection of Cosimo I de’ Medici, using unpublished sources to reconstruct its display and reveal the political aims behind one of the major princely collections of its time.
Age-Related Evolution of the Professional Singing Voice
This book discusses the age-related evolution of the professional singing voice, providing specific examples of singers from 8 to 88 years old. Drawing on 60 years of experience, the author provides new ideas for all those working with ageing voices.
Economics and Politics in the Robotic Age
This book shows that the development of AI and robotics is a natural consequence of human history. It explains how this new robotic age will reshape our economy and society, and how individuals, firms, and governments can prepare for the future.
An accessible guide to the basic concepts of atomic & molecular quantum structure and how we probe it using light. These ideas underpin modern science. Ideal for undergraduates, this book includes in-chapter examples, questions, workbooks, and accompanying online videos.
Rivals and Conspirators
This history exposes the rivalry and conflict behind Paris’s rise as the “modern art centre.” It reveals how the most powerful Salons were not the avant-garde, and how a welcoming internationalism gave way to nationalist xenophobia.
Voices on the Loss of National Independence in Korea and Vietnam, 1890-1920
This comparative study of anti-colonial movements in Korea and Vietnam examines two protagonists. Molded by shared pasts, they dealt with their countries’ condition and envisioned an alternative world order that has pertinence today.
Through art, mythology, literature, and archaeology, this volume uncovers how power was displayed in the Ancient world, from Egypt’s 18th Dynasty to the Sassanian Empire.
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