Wit’s End
This book studies the “Great Movies,” the enduring works of cinematic history. It attempts to “make sense” of these films to understand what they express about the universality of human life and the worlds they recreate on screen.
The study of ancient marriage has traditionally focused on elite texts and laws. This collection reveals a shift in focus, with essays examining demographic and contractual evidence, inscriptions, and visual imagery alongside innovative readings of authors.
Truth to Power
How can scholars penetrate the corporate media? This collection of articles explores the role of the intellectual in a society where privately owned media dominates public discourse. Never have their opinions been more crucial to the public good.
From Multiculturalism to Hybridity
This book examines how migration is transforming multilingual Switzerland, a nation shaped by political will rather than linguistic unity. It analyzes these challenges and successes, offering resources for teaching cultural hybridity in the classroom.
Tracking the Mobility of Crime
This study introduces a new approach to examining sub-county geographies of crime. Using Census data and spatial statistics, it identifies significant processes in the spatial mobility and spread of criminal activity, extending methods of analysis.
Classrooms and Playgrounds
Mapping primary education in Kerala, South-West India, this book offers fresh insights. It argues schooling is a set of cultural practices that cannot be reduced to teaching prescribed texts, but is a practice that shapes our everyday lives.
Le mensonge
This collection of essays considers the political, social, and artistic impact of the dichotomy of truth and lies in French culture. Bringing together research from diverse disciplines, this work is of great relevance to students and researchers alike.
Cuisine and Symbolic Capital
This collection of essays examines food in international film and literature, exploring how making, eating, and thinking about food reveals culture, mediates social relationships, and shapes cultural identity.
Why study Pound and Eliot as Imagists when one left the movement and the other never belonged? To explore their shared premium on precision for opposite ends. Pound plied accuracy to carve distinctions, while Eliot used it to intuit a divine amalgamation.
Business Process Reengineering
Master Business Process Reengineering. This practical guide provides expert strategies and the unique Sturdy BPR Matrix to implement real-world change and achieve your business objectives.
Femininity, Feminism and Gendered Discourse
International experts present cutting edge research on language and gender. This collection explores femininity, feminism, and gendered discourse, analyzing how we perform and negotiate our identities in diverse cultural and linguistic contexts.
French Orientalism
This volume challenges the canonic approach to French Orientalism. Broadening the scope of enquiry from the Middle Ages to the 21st century, it uses new theoretical perspectives to question, subvert, and resituate canonic theories and their global consequences.
Modernising Agrifood Chains in China
China faces major challenges in agricultural development. While it seeks to fast-track high-value agrifood chains, this book’s case study finds a more viable and inclusive strategy is to incrementally develop mid-value chains through facilitative policies.
Ranked Set Sampling has numerous advantages over classical sampling techniques. This volume of reviewed essays is a reference book for postgraduate students in economics, social, medical, biological sciences, and statistics. The subject is a hot topic for dissertations.
Blood on the Page
In fourteen unprecedented interviews, the first authors to publish fiction on HIV/AIDS in South Africa and Zimbabwe discuss their ground-breaking work. They give voice to silence and humanize an epidemic otherwise unimaginable statistically.
Concerning Peace
Is utopian peace a failed ideal, or an omnipresent reality? This collection of essays investigates these questions through concrete examples from metaphysics, politics, history, and culture. For anyone who refuses to accept the world as it is.
A unique comparative study of US & UK politics, blending personal accounts with sharp analysis. It tackles the era’s defining issues, from the Clinton-Obama healthcare debate to the economic crisis, Climategate, and the 2010 UK election.
Decentralised Governance in Tribal India
This book studies tribal participation in Panchayat Raj since the PESA Act. Through field study, it explores the link between Democracy, Decentralisation, and Development, questioning whether real power has been devolved from Lok Sabha to Gram Sabha.
Mother-Texts
Patriarchy has worked to silence women’s dialogue, creating unrepresentative maternal narratives. This book’s valuable research gives recognition to mothers as they speak up, developing a literature in their own language and claiming maternal knowledge and power.
Divine Sounds from the Heart—Singing Unfettered in their Own Voices
In a world dominated by male voices, medieval women saints embraced bhakti (devotion) as a form of resistance. They questioned society, family, and relationships, rejecting patriarchal control and finding their own voices by reimagining God as a lover, a husband, and a friend.
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