Just Images
This collection of essays explores the role ethics plays in the study of moving images. Scholars discuss how film engages with history, politics, trauma, and representations of the Other to reshape our thoughts on subjects like terrorism and conflict.
This book presents a qualitative analysis of how Irish entrepreneurs use technology, such as LinkedIn, to form, develop and maintain professional business networks and manage social capital.
The Home Entrepreneur Systems Model
This book chronicles a PhD student’s research into home-based businesses. Using Grounded Theory, it develops the Home Entrepreneur Systems model, a new way to understand how home business meets our needs for security, autonomy, balance, meaning and community.
Quality Issues in ICT Integration
This publication discusses the quality of integrating technology into teaching and learning. Drawing on the experiences of researchers and tutors, it offers students and teachers an insight into various applications of technology and their critical evaluation.
Selling Sex Short
Pornography and sexology are redefining sexuality, but is the model they promote selling sex short? This book investigates the connections between these industries, revealing they promote a sexual ideal resembling prostitution for couples to mimic.
The Black Musketeer
Alexandre Dumas, grandson of a slave, has become a symbol in France’s debates on colonial history, race, and identity. This is the first major work to re-evaluate his life and legacy, providing new ways of interpreting his classics in a francophone context.
Other Combatants, Other Fronts
Much discussion of the First World War remains confined to the Western Front. This volume pushes the focus away to examine forgotten theatres and neglected experiences, exploring what ‘total war’ meant for people around the world implicated in this event.
Fleshly Things and Spiritual Matters
This book offers fresh insights into medieval bodies from multiple perspectives. Ten essays by renowned scholars explore diverse, interdisciplinary approaches, connecting medieval literature with history, theology, gender studies, and the arts.
Fiction Unbound
This book shows how Bernardine Evaristo is not simply a “multicultural” writer. It reveals an author who questions concepts like “Englishness,” race, and gender, giving marginalized characters the chance to tell their own stories.
Messages
Drawing on clinical experience and quotes from movies, TV, and music, this book helps you navigate real-world issues. Discover the direct, practical advice about ourselves hidden in the everyday echoes of popular culture, from finance to love and loss.
The Case against Christ
Are the Gospels good history or bad propaganda? Who should shoulder the blame for the crucifixion of Jesus? This book seeks answers by treating the matter as a forensic death investigation to determine who should be held criminally responsible.
Looking Through Gender
This book explores the shaping and performing of gender identity in British and Irish theatres since the 1980s. From a queer theory standpoint, it reads several plays to unmask exploiting mechanisms of gender regulation and resist confining notions of identity.
This book explores the intricate relationships between language, culture and social connectedness in our diverse local and transnational communities. Language education is no longer about memorization, but using language to connect to others around the globe.
Research in Management Accounting
This book addresses the gap in management accounting research focused on Malaysia. It provides research-oriented articles on key issues and is an essential reference for researchers, academics, managers, accountants, and policy makers.
This book helps students and professionals understand the language of architecture and civil engineering and improve their linguistic skills. It includes practical exercises, a compilation of technical terms, and is written in an accessible yet rigorous style.
Seeing in Spanish
Seeing in Spanish explores visual cultures of the Spanish-speaking world. From Don Quixote to Daddy Yankee, these essays traverse centuries and continents, addressing film, photography, art, graffiti, and digital media from Europe, the Americas, and cyberspace.
Bound by Love
The bonds of love can bring bliss or demand sacrifice; they can save us or destroy us. This book explores how familial bonds in film and television reveal a cultural dialogue about the changing nature of love and the American family.
Daniel-François-Esprit Auber
From one of musical history’s most successful partnerships, composer Auber and librettist Scribe, came their final work: La Fiancée du Roi de Garbe. Based on Boccaccio, this opéra-comique follows a princess on a picaresque journey with pirates.
Daniel François-Esprit Auber
Auber’s music is lively and tender in this tale of social intrigue and artistic integrity. Opera singer Henriette is wooed by an ambassador, but after a rival betrays her, she tears up their marriage contract, choosing the stage over aristocratic pretense.
Daniel-François-Esprit Auber
Once a star of 19th-century French opera, Auber collaborated with librettist Scribe on *Jenny Bell*. Set in London, a diva loves a nobleman whose father objects. Featuring English motifs, this rich score is a charming work to be rediscovered.
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