Trade and Security
The US achieved its true goal in Vietnam: not saving a nation, but buying time for a region. This book reveals how America sacrificed its economy to build prosperous Asian allies as a firewall against Communism.
“A Zoo of Lusts…A Harem of Fondled Hatreds”
Why does on-screen sexual violence escalate when the victim isn’t white, straight, or middle class? This historical interrogation of rape in film reveals what its changing portrayal says about our culture.
Fantasy, Art and Life
William Gray’s Fantasy, Art and Life examines how life is affirmed and enhanced through fantasy literature. Focusing on George MacDonald and Robert Louis Stevenson, it explores how their Scottish backgrounds shaped their engagement with “The Fantastic Imagination.”
Berkeley’s Lasting Legacy
Known for his denial of matter, George Berkeley was a far more wide-ranging thinker. This collection by international experts reveals his contributions to metaphysics, science, and economics, showing him as he was: a courageous philosophical innovator.
Multiple Voices in Academic and Professional Discourse
This book provides a global view of interdisciplinary research and innovative proposals in teaching specialized languages for the sciences and other professions. Chapters cover discourse analysis, specialized translation, terminology, and ICT.
“The EU is Not Them, But Us!”
This corpus-driven analysis of political speeches on EU integration from Finland, Hungary, and the UK reveals how language reflects power positions. It offers insights into articulations of collective identity and shared European patterns of identification.
Media Space and Gender Construction
This innovative book explores the relationship between geography and gender from an Indian perspective. It examines how Media Space—a virtual place for ideas and images—is used to construct gender stereotypes through visual media like soap operas.
Positioning Daniel Defoe’s Non-Fiction
This volume analyses Daniel Defoe’s non-fictional works. Moving away from his much studied novels, these essays explore the rhetorical strategies and generic inventiveness on display, revealing an author of outstanding skill and energy.
This volume explores the interface between ecological integrity as a scientific concept and key issues in ethics, international law, and public health. Leading scholars re-examine these dimensions from the viewpoint of global governance.
This practical guide to English phonetics and phonology offers tips to master its sounds and prosodic features. It makes a confounding subject accessible for students, serving as a helpful introductory text for understanding the workings of English.
This book comprises papers on theoretical linguistics, applied language studies, literature and cultural studies, divided into three sections: Image, Identity, and Reality. A valuable resource for academic study and the general public.
Machiavellis Revivus
This book reframes Machiavelli not as a “teacher of evil,” but as a virtuous humanist. It offers a subversive interpretation of his works as an educational cure for our time—a battle-cry to repel the ignorance and misfortunes in our human condition.
Overcoming Knowledge Sharing Barriers through Communities of Practice
This book analyzes the barriers obstructing knowledge flows and their impact on new product development in an automotive R&D supplier. It uses innovative social network analysis to map collaboration, identify problems, and improve organizational performance.
Michael Foot’s leadership is often seen as a cataclysmic failure. This book argues that far from being a disaster, it contributed to the survival of the Labour Party as he emerged as a unity candidate against the divisive potential of radicals.
Global Encounters
Scholars worldwide share their most successful teaching practices in cross-cultural studies and international education. This compilation highlights the need for culturally sensitive education to foster skills in the next generation of global citizens.
From Antiquity to the Postmodern World
This volume brings together histories and literatures of the Jewish people. The articles investigate Jewish life and thought, from ancient sources and mysticism to contemporary themes, offering vibrant responses to the key questions: “Who is a Jew?” and “What is Judaism?”
Dislocating Anthropology?
Dislocating Anthropology? explores how fieldwork in bounded places is no longer tenable. This collection of essays sheds light on methodological dislocations relating to locality, identity, and fieldwork, examining relationships that are spatially dynamic.
Social Trust and Life Insurance
This book investigates how incomplete knowledge, social trust and risk perceptions influence acceptance of the risks of insurers using genetic test results. It analyzes the consequences for society and explores the difficulties of managing these risks.
Women and Science, 17th Century to Present
This volume takes a new approach to women in science, moving beyond the obstacles they have faced. It analyzes the link between women and science through various media—including fiction, poetry, and sci-fi—to explore the portrayal and self-portrayal of women.
Economy in Changing Society
Within the frame of globalisation and post-socialist transformation, this book analyzes how actors, relations, and institutions drive economic processes. Empirical studies explore transition economies, new markets, consumption, and corporate behavior.
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