Food and Cultural (In)Compatibilities
Specialists in fields from anthropology to linguistics explore how we understand the cultural heritage of food and how it defines the stratification of society. Providing insights into physical and cultural food, this book offers a higher level of understanding of our world.
English as a Foreign Language
This book introduces the reader to ongoing research on teaching English as a foreign language, highlighting recent trends in acquisition, pedagogy, and the development of communication and intercultural skills from a wide variety of global perspectives.
What happens after genocide? Drawing on newly discovered archives, this groundbreaking collection explores the aftermath of the Holocaust and other atrocities through perpetrator trials, victim commemoration, Jewish renewal, and cultural memory in literature and film.
This book guides the switch from traditional source-based optical radiation measurements to more efficient, higher-accuracy detector-based applications. It covers improved standards from the UV to the IR range, enabling low-uncertainty radiometric and photometric measurements.
The Making of Association Football
Modern football was ‘made’ between 1857 and 1877. Using original Football Association minutes, this book tells a tale of disagreement, conspiracy, and the rise of Charles Alcock—creator of the FA Cup and international football—as the game split from rugby forever.
This critical study of Hughes’s poetry from 1957 to 1989 explores how his fascination with violence developed into a vision of cosmic energy. It charts his transition from a poet of ‘blood and guts’ into a messiah of ‘bio-centric life’.
Obesity, diabetes, and hypertension interact, ultimately leading to fatty liver disease. This book explores all aspects of the condition, from how it develops to the ideal lines of investigation and management.
Science and the Wealth of Nations
Idea-based growth theory has been a bust. This volume presents an alternative approach, drawing from classical mechanics and thermodynamics. Consistent with the historical record and data, it explains the 1970s productivity slowdown, the Solow paradox, and policy failures.
The story of Spanish iron workers who migrated to south Wales at the turn of the 20th century. Facing poverty, conflict, and racism, they overcame hurdles to integrate through a new language, rugby, and choir membership, eventually becoming Welsh.
Weaving Theology in Oceania
Woven like an ocean-going canoe, this book offers creative solutions to global needs from an Oceanic perspective. Hearing the cries of the suffering, it draws on Christian academic endeavor anchored in faith, hope and love for a continuing voyage towards a new consciousness.
Dangerous Men
This analysis of dangerous offender legislation in Canada develops a political economy of dangerousness. Using case studies and interviews, it argues that the label of “high-risk convict” obscures the social and economic conditions that many marginalized people experience.
Tomorrow’s Media
This collection of essays from an impressive group of media and broadcasting experts sheds light on where we have come from and where we are going. A unique work of interdisciplinary research, this book exists at an intersection between technology and the arts.
The Politics of Decimalisation in the UK
The introduction of decimal currency in 1971 is a strangely neglected subject. This ground-breaking work debunks the myths, demonstrating the reform was a conservative one. Far from embracing Europe, it defended British exceptionalism by retaining the pound’s prestige.
This volume gathers evaluations of the soul from artistic, mystic, and theological perspectives. Explore the concept of the soul in its ethical and emotional dimensions across global cultures, from Christian and Oriental traditions to those of Ancient Egypt.
The Recumbent Stone Circles of Aberdeenshire
Using experimental archaeology, this book explains how Aberdeenshire’s Recumbent Stone Circles were built. It reveals how prehistoric communities created a network of inter-aligned stone circles, using them to synchronise time and space through their shared astronomy.
Requests in Film Dialogue and Dubbing Translation
This is the first account of speech act pragmatics and (im)politeness in film conversation and dubbing, focusing on requests. It compares the features of requests in English and Italian film dialogue and reveals how their pragmatics travel across languages in translation.
Culture, Crisis and COVID-19
The pandemic is a priceless opportunity for a Great Reset. Can we re-vision capitalism as a life-preserving phenomenon? We must create an economy that serves all stakeholders, not just shareholders. The true mission of business is to serve humanity with higher goals.
The World of Languages and Literatures
This book offers contemporary perspectives on the evolving world of languages and literatures. Using contemporary research, these essays highlight the dynamic global prism through which scholars view these issues, allowing educators, researchers and students to stay current.
English in Non-English-Speaking Countries
This book presents English teachers’ practices and challenges of teaching non-native students. These experiences provide a perspective on contemporary teaching in a non-English-speaking country and serve as a guidebook for new scholars in the field.
This book offers philosophical reflections on new forms of domination, vulnerability and alienation at work. Following Hannah Arendt, it addresses the crisis of work and loneliness as a political problem of exclusion and meaninglessness.