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Dramatic movement of african american women
This book intends to explore the nature, scope, and features of African American women’s theatre and dramas. It exhibits African American women dramatists’ expertise, mechanics, methods, and artistic elements as well as the major themes projected in their dramas. The book is about a dramatic move...
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Wittgenstein and popular culture
This volume makes an incisive contribution to the field of philosophy of culture in outlining the potential of Wittgenstein’s philosophy for the study of popular culture, focusing on concrete examples: from detective fiction and comics, to TV series and football fandom.
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Becoming a doctor
Becoming a Doctor is an intimate account of one person’s transformation from naïve student to professorial physician. Packed with unforgettable anecdotes and surprising insights, the book is far more than a memoir of medical education. Chapter by chapter, it exposes the challenging issues that do...
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The anthem companion to alfred schutz
This book examines various concepts in Schutz’s philosophical theory and considers issues in theory of knowledge, social science, and the theory of society.
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Navigating data standards in business strategy
This book is designed to help companies create and apply data principles for a positive impact on business strategy and growth, providing stability outside of the ever-changing technology, data, and legal landscapes.
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Urban landscape priorities, opportunities and prospect
Urban Landscape Priorities, Opportunities and Prospect focuses on current planning and design priorities and opportunities for the enhancement of future urban landscape contexts. Current priorities include walkability, access, urban greening and climate mitigation. These and other priorities are ...
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Slum city africa
Slum City Africa: “A Very Bad Place With Good Teachings” uses a combination of personal experience and stories passed down to Warren Elofson’s co-author Jonah Weyessa to textualize the realities of living in Nairobi’s poverty-stricken region, Kibera, one of the world’s dirtiest and most dangerous...
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Narrative medicine in education, practice, and interventions
This anthology is the first of its kind which integrates chapters on legitimizing narrative medicine in education, practice and research, on analyzing types of patient narratives and on studying interventions applying vulnerable or shared reading, creative writing, or Socratic dialogue as a means...
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Transforming the politics of mobility and migration in aotearoa new zealand
Transforming the Politics of Mobility and Migration in Aotearoa New Zealand is a future-focused book that formulates alternative paradigms timely and necessary for a just and ethical politics of mobility and migration in Aotearoa New Zealand. Examining a variety of topics, the book addresses the ...
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The bittersweet vine
Following her abduction, Maria Shroder wakes up in her own bed unharmed and suffering from hysterical amnesia. Strangely, the book club Maria has joined holds a clue to her disappearance, and she sets out on a journey to uncover the truth – a truth which is buried in her past.
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Australian theatre, modernism and patrick white
‘Australian Theatre, Modernism and Patrick White’ details the rejection of two Patrick White plays – ‘The Ham Funeral’ and ‘Night on Bald Mountain’ – by the Adelaide Festival of Arts in Australia in the early 1960s.
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Science advice and global environmental governance
“Science Advice and Global Environmental Governance” examines expert committees advising multilateral environmental agreements on ozone layer depletion, persistent organic pollutants and land degradation. This work argues the co-production arising in these committees warrants recognizing their co...
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Europe’s unfinished currency
The Economic and Monetary Union (EMU) of the European Union is a unique historical experiment, as no monetary union of sovereign states has survived to date. This book explores how it could work, and develops scenarios of how things might evolve in case of failure.
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Spanish romance in the battle for global supremacy
By exploring England’s fanatical consumption of the so-called books of the brave conquistadors, this book shows how tales of love and arms mystified global conquest (in such places as Mexico, Peru, Guiana, California, and Australia) and rooted the idea of English empire as a civilized alternative...
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A social history of literacy in japan
Despite the great interest in and the availability of enormous literature about education in Japan, this book is a translation of the first work written in Japanese on the history of literacy in Japan. The authors are each accomplished scholars of Japanese educational history, and each provides s...
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Hacking digital ethics
This book is not a critique of digital ethics but rather a hack. It develops an exploit kit on the basis of state-of-the-art social theory and uses it to breach the insecure legacy system upon which the discourse of digital ethics is running. It exposes the bugs, the sloppy programming, and the f...
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Karl marx's 'capital': a guide to volumes i–iii
This book provides a comprehensive guide to all three volumes of Karl Marx’s Capital, with advice on further reading and points for further discussion.
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Philosophical meta-reflections on literary studies
‘Philosophical Meta-Reflections on Literary Studies: Why Do Things with Texts, and What to Do with Them?’ takes up key meta-questions in the humanities, with focus on contemporary literary studies, philosophically examines the nature of knowledge therein as well as the implications of certain pop...
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Technological retrogression
The aim of this book is to broaden our understanding of technological change by adopting the concept of technological retrogression. With reference to concrete cases of technological retrogression a new conceptual framework is developed. The book’s exposition aims at contrasting retrogressive eco...
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The anthem companion to robert park
Not making a case for or against Robert Park, ‘The Anthem Companion to Robert Park’ encourages readers to consider the virtue of rethinking—and rereading—this major figure in American sociology.
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Theater in the middle east
The collected essays from noteworthy dramatists and scholars in this book represent new ways of understanding theater in the Middle East not as geographical but transcultural spaces of performance. What distinguishes this book from previous works is that it offers new analysis on a range of theat...
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Reading to stay alive
This book explores how literary reading can enable people considering suicide to stay alive.
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Authoritarian collectivism and ‘real socialism’
The book discusses so-called real socialism and offers an alternative conceptualization of it as authoritarian collectivism, making use of an analytical methodology. It concentrates on the principles of ‘real socialism’ in its golden age but also assesses its present embrace of capitalism.
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Keywords for travel writing studies
‘Keywords for Travel Writing Studies’ draws on the concept of the ‘keyword’ as initially elaborated by Raymond Williams in his seminal 1976 text, ‘Keywords: A Vocabulary of Culture and Society’, in order to present 100 concepts central to the study of travel writing as a literary form with cross-...
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Evgeny boratynsky and the russian golden age
Evgeny Boratynsky and the Russian Golden Age is the first metrical and rhymed translation of nearly all the lyrics by Evgeny Boratynsky (1800–1844), one of the greatest poets of the Golden Age of Russian poetry. A long introduction and a detailed commentary, which includes multiple poems by Pushk...
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Raymond federman and samuel beckett
This book is about Raymond Federman and his incredible textual obsession with Samuel Beckett. Federman was a scholar of Beckett, postmodern theorist, a self-translator and avant-garde novelist.
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Australian media and the politics of belonging
Containing contributions by leading scholars, ‘Australian Media and the Politics of Belonging’ addresses key topical themes and concerns in contemporary Australia.
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Tennessee williams, t-shirt modernism and the refashionings of theater
Tennessee Williams, T-shirt Modernism and the Refashionings of Theater engages the Williams we thought we knew, as he grew, developed, reconfigured himself into a playwright we didn’t, in his attempts to refashion himself amid the vortices of changing sexual mores, including the performance of ma...
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Male homosexuality in 21st-century thailand
This book explores the experiences, meanings and identities of young same-sex attracted men in rural Thailand. It is based on a study of 25 young rural Thai men who were each interviewed three times within a two-year period while they were aged 18–20, uncovering significant fluidity, variety and ...
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Conflict and sustainability in a changing environment
‘Conflict and Sustainability in a Changing Environment’ presents the idea that local communities can develop sustainably under changing environmental conditions when the discrepancy are sufficiently addressed between community views and the views of organizations responsible for implementing deve...
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Epic and romance in traditional chinese culture
The epic-like saga of Wu Song has been in living oral tradition in China for more than 700 years up to the present, where it has taken the form of drama, balladry, song and storytelling.
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South american perspectives on cultural diversity
This book delves into the evolution of cultural diversity policies in Argentina, Brazil, and Peru. It highlights the struggles of marginalized groups for equality and explores how these policies challenge the monocultural narratives imposed by nation-states over the last 15 years.
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Learning leadership from dogs
The book uses the context and world of dogs to aid the reader's understanding of leadership. The reader will learn about leadership concepts and also about several breeds of dogs, across the world, including breeds such as the Bulldog, Dachshund, German Shepherd, Mastiff and Otterhound, among oth...
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From mimetic translation to artistic transduction
Literary translation can be retranslated into new ways of thinking about music and the other arts. In artistic transduction, Woolf called the word the poetical cry, Berlioz the singing lyric, and Brecht the rhyming slang.
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Media and the myth of the pristine night
This book provides a critical and comprehensive account of the mediation of rural darkness. Analyzing a wide range of contemporary media, from astrophotography, tourist advertisements and social media to editing software, online databases and nature documentaries, the book focuses on two competin...
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American horror story and cult television
This collection of essays approaches the American Horror Story cult television series through a rich variety of critical perspectives within the broader field of television studies and its transections with other disciplines.
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Violence prevention through transformative mediation in south africa
The book’s primary goal is to propose local solutions for South African communities’ peace and security challenges, emphasising peacebuilding approaches. It aims to publish lessons learned from the real-life experiences of scholars and practitioners regarding solutions for preventing violence in ...
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The european byron
This book considers how Byron’s cosmopolitanism, mobility, and chameleon style influenced Byron’s identity in West and Eastern Europe. Transformed by French translations, Byron’s work was read by Thomas Moore, Ugo Foscolo, Lady Mosergan, Madame de Staël, Adam Mickiewicz and Alexander Pushkin. His...
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Love in the age of autism
Gayle DeLong was a well-known activist in the autism community, the ‘Warrior Mom’ of two autistic daughters. This book is a record (based largely on her diaries) of her happy marriage to Jonathan Rose, and a document of all the pains and joys that autism families experience.
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The insider's secrets to getting your school leadership job
The Insider’s Secrets to Finding Your School Leadership Job: This practical 125-page self-help professional guide coaches school and district leadership candidates step-by-step through the hiring process for their dream jobs in public education.
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A critical edition of caroline norton's love in "the world"
A late-1820s unpublished fashionable novel describing the romantic adventures of teenage Alixe St Clair during her first two seasons in London Regency society.
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Compositions, orchestrations, adaptations and arrangements
This anthology consists of original compositions and arrangements as well as adaptations, arrangements and orchestrations of pre-existing compositions of Ron Westray, to date.
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Taking responsibility for the life of complex human ecosystems
Moving towards, not away from, the vexing array of discouraging crises of our time and drawing on a number of innovative but congruent concepts, this short book offers to focus our path towards deep accountability for the life of complex human ecosystems.
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Crime, criminality and injustice
The chapters in this volume present data and analysis that sheds light on the live experiences of those at the lowest intersections of injustice—Indigenous peoples, ethnic minorities, refugees, disabled people, youth, women, children and the poor. The contributors include eminent academics, stude...
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Athletic ceos
Athletic CEOs: Leadership in Turbulent Times presents an unorthodox model of effective business leadership for turbulent environments – athletic leadership – that delivers superior results in a specific context, that is, one of fast obsolescence, high turbulence, intense government interference, ...
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Quandaries of belonging
Quandaries of Belonging is both a personal meditation on the author’s relationship with Aotearoa New Zealand and a critical exploration of coexistence in a postcolonial society.
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Bauman, elias and latour on modernity and its alternatives
‘Bauman, Elias and Latour on Modernity and Its Alternatives’ summarizes and compares the sociological works of three contemporary authors insofar as they deal with the themes of modernity and its alternatives. These alternatives are either deemed to be possible or actually experienced, whether hi...
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Textuality, culture and scripture
“Textuality, Culture and Scripture,” a study of the necessary and close relations between the three concepts, argues for the necessary role of textuality in culture and the inadequacy of a cultural theory based on materialism. It explores the standing and role of scripture in textual theory and i...
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Contemporary gothic and horror film
This book examines contemporary Gothic cinema within a transnational approach by focusing on the aesthetic and philosophical roots which lie at the heart of the Gothic. The study will invoke its literary and filmic forebears by exploring how these styles informed the modern filmic Gothic.
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Self-presentation and self-praise in the digital workplace
Self-Presentation and Self-Praise in the Digital Workplace presents the findings of an interdisciplinary study of the ‘self-entrepreneurial self’ and, in particular, the rationale behind its need to self-present under the current socio-economic and business conditions.
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Farewell, my beautiful homeland
‘Farewell, My Beautiful Homeland’ is the story of a man from Salonika on the eve of the First World War who is forced to choose between his love for a woman and his love for his country as the Ottoman Empire is drawn into the war and faces collapse.
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Creativity and "the paris review" interviews
In Creativity and The Paris Review Interviews: A Discourse Analysis of Famous Writers' Composing Practices, author Ronda Leathers Dively explores contexts, behaviors, and composing practices that generated some of the world’s most significant literary works. Her analysis ultimately leads to concr...
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Managing coral reefs
‘Managing Coral Reefs’ compares reef management in Indonesia, which takes a decentralized approach, and in Malaysia, which takes a centralized approach.
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Environmental problem-solving: balancing science and politics using consensus building tools
'Environmental Problem-Solving' offers a self-paced curriculum for college and university students who want to learn the basic techniques government agencies, citizen action groups, corporations and research institutions use to solve pressing environmental problems.
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The anthem companion to thorstein veblen
“The Anthem Companion to Thorstein Veblen” offers a collection of original essays by leading scholars in the field of Veblen studies. Contributions span a wide range of Veblen’s concerns, with a special emphasis on Veblen’s significance for contemporary debates about epistemology, social evolutio...
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The united states, the soviet union and the geopolitical implications of the origins of the cold war
‘The United States, the Soviet Union and the Geopolitical Implications of the Origins of the Cold War, 1945–1949’ examines the geopolitical implications of the process of institutionalization of the international order that took place in the aftermath of World War Two. The book argues that the or...
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Statistics and the quest for quality journalism
This book looks at how numbers and statistics have been used to underpin quality in news reporting. In doing so, the aim is to challenge some common assumptions about how journalists engage and use statistics in their quest for quality news. It seeks to improve our understanding about the usage o...
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The social ecology of border landscapes
A collection of essays from a wide range of disciplines, “The Social Ecology of Border Landscapes” addresses social ecologies in the marginal spaces, liminal landscapes and territorial interfaces of border zones.
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Unto the tulip gardens
The Tulip Era is in full bloom in 18th century Istanbul as the mystery over the chief imperial painter unfolds. Passion, love and tulips embellish the spectacular atmosphere as a bloody revolt is brewing in the wings.
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Place of a skull
‘Place of a Skull’ is a story of a family torn apart by the Troubles in Northern Ireland, of guilt, revenge and a killer’s search for redemption.
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Ecosystems as models for restoring our economies, 2nd edition
Winner, International Impact Book Award 2026 Emerging from the fields of ecological restoration and economics, this interdisciplinary book delivers a clear path to restoring our economies in a way that speaks well to industry groups and business owners, students and the general public, and to po...
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Six red months in russia
This new edition of Bryant's book is annotated and set in its appropriate historical context to create a more accessible text for modern readers on the anniversary of this truly world-changing event.
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Sebastian masuda
Sebastian Masuda is a Japanese creator who is globally known as the father of Japanese “Kawaii” (cute) subculture which originated in Harajuku. His work is characterized by bright neon colors that led to the emergence of Decora fashion. He wears several hats in the field of fashion, art, and ente...
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Music technology panic narratives beyond piracy
When people develop technologies to distribute music, record labels act like it will destroy music. This book shows these narratives are about reconfiguring power.
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Apphia peach, george lord lyttelton, and 'the correspondents'
This book is an annotated edition of The Correspondents (1775), a work, as the introduction argues, derived from A Sentimental Journey, and one of the best of the many later efforts to capture Sterne’s unique blend of sensibility and sensuality.
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Sensibilities and emotion on trans-globalisation era
This book offers a reflection about the state of politics of sensibilities on a planetary scale today; the authors propose a space that is destined to listen and exchange our own experiences of inquiry.
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The history of eugenics in global perspective
This book presents the very first global history of eugenics. Eugenics emerged at the end of the nineteenth century as a global phenomenon that transcended religions, political orientations, and ideologies. It deeply influenced concepts of health care and state policies in many countries.
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Indigenous knowledge systems, entrepreneurship and sustainable development in africa
The book engages the need to embrace Indigenous knowledge-based entrepreneurship as a path towards achieving sustainable development in Africa. It advances a decolonization of knowledge systems that have undergirded entrepreneurship in Africa to pave ways for Indigenous knowledge systems.
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Refugees, refuge, and human displacement
This volume studies the concept of refuge as well as historical forced displacement and statelessness, trying to provide potential lasting solutions to the many problems associated with this situation. It moves from the pressing crisis of refugees to the crisis of humanity that seeks to find refuge.
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Pursuits of settler belonging in contemporary australian memoirs
This book examines Australian memoirs of settler belonging written by public intellectuals—writers, historians, academics, journalists—which attempt to come to terms with the history of colonial violence and dispossession of Indigenous people, and articulate new perspectives on how to belong ethi...
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Contemporary black urban music
This course will examine Contemporary Black Urban Music and its historical development by tracing the evolution of soul and funk music into rap and hip-hop.
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The russian pendulum
Arthur Bullard’s The Russian Pendulum (1919) is a personal and political analysis of the Russian Revolution, from the Revolution of 1905 through the beginning of the Civil War in 1918. It reflects Bullard’s own perspective, as an advocate for change in Russia with American help.
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Excavating the castle
Excavating the Castle demonstrates that the serious and respectable historiography of the Gothic begins not in 1921 but in the early nineteenth century and that the Gothic concept crystallized more than half a century earlier than historians of the Gothic had realized previously.
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The ecstasy of reproduction
The Ecstasy of Reproduction is a piercing analysis of contemporaneity which the author still terms postmodernity. Aesthetics and critical theory are at stake to define concepts such as the end of art, kitsch, simulacra, reproduction, and the commodification of living forms..
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Fundamentals of planning cities for healthy living
The proposed book illustrates the decline of community planning for healthy living and outlines measures that can be reintroduced to foster active lifestyles.
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Melodrama, masculinity and international art cinema
This book offers a detailed study of how some of the most illustrious auteurs in the history of art cinema have made use of melodrama to represent masculine subjectivity on the screen.
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The crossroads of crime writing
This volume argues that we must examine the boundaries in fiction and non-fiction crime writing with an awareness of and turn toward the unseen structures and spatial uncertainties that so often lead to and reflect collective fears and anxieties. The chapters within utilize theories of cultural m...
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Media sociology and journalism
While the alt right and post-truth attitudes render democracy fragile, so does professional journalism when it reports on the most vulnerable subjects in society but rarely addresses them as the imagined audience. A dialogical critique of divisions in news media, politics, and contemporary sociol...
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The sign of the swan
This scholarly monograph is an original philosophical reflection on poetics, elucidating the metaphysical and mystical potential of poetic language as quasi-religious revelation. It develops a theory of the symbol based on French Symbolist Poetry as culminating in Stéphane Mallarmé.
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Pashtun identity and geopolitics in southwest asia
This book juxtaposes vital issues of Pashtun identity, state formation, Taliban on both sides of the Durand Line, Frontier Crimes Regulation, security prerogative and the civil societies of Pakistan and Afghanistan, which since 9/11, have been posited in a rather precarious geopolitics.
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Affect and realism in contemporary brazilian fiction
This book is about contemporary Brazilian fiction from the past two decades and concerned with the possibilities of literary intervention in the reality of the historical moment.
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The labyrinth of sustainability
‘The Labyrinth of Sustainability’ explores the growth of corporate sustainability in Latin America, offering actionable insights to business leaders, policymakers, NGOs, academics and journalists through 12 case studies that examine the challenges and opportunities facing companies across the reg...
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Wittgenstein, scepticism and naturalism
The essays in Wittgenstein, Scepticism and Naturalism cover the later Wittgenstein’s thought on scepticism about the external world; scepticism about other minds; knowledge and belief; meaning and rule-following; and the nature of psychological concepts. Focusing on topics in the later philosophy...
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The anthem companion to gabriel tarde
‘The Anthem Companion to Gabriel Tarde’ offers the best contemporary work on Gabriel Tarde, written by the best scholars currently working in this field. Original, authoritative and wide-ranging, the critical assessments of this volume will make it ideal for Tarde students and scholars alike. ‘A...
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Paradoxes of populism
“Paradoxes of Populism” discusses the fantasies, promises and contradictions of populism as also its backgrounds and causes. While demonstrating the many varieties of populism, the book explains its rising popularity and steers the reader through the many myths and misconceptions surrounding it.
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The creativity hoax
We often hear that creativity is the key to economic regeneration in the west, yet those who pursue creative skills/ambitions typically experience low incomes and poor career prospects. ‘The Creativity Hoax’ argues that the ‘call to creativity’ is designed to make workers more labile, agile and m...
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A treatise on abundance (1638) and early modern views on poverty and famine
‘A “Treatise on Abundance” (1638) and Early Modern Views of Poverty and Famine’ is an edited English translation of Carlo Tapia’s ‘Trattato dell’abondanza’.
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Imagining gender, nation and consumerism in magazines of the 1920s
Offering the first comparative study of 1920s’ US and Canadian print cultures, ‘Imagining Gender, Nation and Consumerism in Magazines of the 1920s’ comparatively examines the highly influential ‘Ladies’ Home Journal’ (1883–2014) and the often-overlooked ‘Canadian Home Journal’ (1905–1958), reveal...
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A city divided: race, fear and the law in police confrontations
When a high school honors student emerges from a police confrontation outside his home bruised and beaten, and facing serious criminal charges, an American city erupts in protests. A long quest for justice begins. "A City Divided" uncovers what happened and examines if race, fear and police condu...
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Life almost still
One missing person case remains unsolved and now another student has disappeared from Barcelona University. His girlfriend and colleagues report matters to the police and university authorities but they refuse to become involved in the case, believing that he has left voluntarily. This soon chang...
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Rabindranath tagore's drama in the perspective of indian theatre
‘Rabindranath Tagore's Drama in the Perspective of Indian Theatre’ examines Tagore’s plays from the viewpoint of Indian dramatic/performance traditions, locating him as a playwright, performer and director in the panoramic continuum of Indian dramatic/performance traditions.
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William blake as natural philosopher, 1788-1795
William Blake as Natural Philosopher, 1788-1795 takes seriously William Blake’s wish to be read as a natural philosopher, particularly in his early illuminated works, and reveals the way that poetry and visual art were for Blake an imaginative way of philosophizing.
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The anthem companion to raymond aron
Raymond Aron is an exceptional figure among twentieth-century sociological and political thinkers. The book focuses on the sociological work of this author of the century, who analyzed his age both in its grand-scale political and socio-economic traits and in the complex social and political rami...
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Iconomy: towards a political economy of images
Exploring viral imagery of the COVID-19 pandemic, U.S. Presidents Trump and Biden, Black Lives Matter, as well as the rise of a “black aesthetic” in white artworlds, this book shows that iconopolitics—especially constellations of visual images—has become pervasive within contemporary life. It que...
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Ethnographies of grey zones in eastern europe
Over the last two decades, Eastern European countries have experienced extensive changes in geo-political relocations and relations leading to everyday uncertainty. Based on ethnographic cases, this anthology explores how grey zones of governance, borders, relations and invisibilities affect ever...
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The truth about confident presenting
‘The Truth about Confident Presenting’ is a collection of more than four dozen basic truths about successful, confident public speaking in accessible, brief chapters by a master of the art.
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Life chances, education and social movements
‘Life Chances, Education and Social Movements’ dwells on the necessity of education and social movements for enhancing the life chances of individuals and disadvantaged groups respectively. Ralf Dahrendorf’s work on life chances and social conflict is used to support the theoretical and empirical...
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Spinoza on ethics and understanding
This volume collects together Peter Winch's previously unpublished lectures on the philosophy of Baruch Spinoza. Winch's original interpretation of Spinoza's Ethics sheds new light on the work of one history's most difficult and admired philosophers from a different perspective.
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Belarusian theatre and the 2020 pro-democracy protests
This book highlights the important creative work of Belarusian theatre and filmmakers seeking to raise awareness of the Pro-democracy movement and human rights abuses in Belarus and to build communities of care and mourning following the fraudulent 2020 presidential elections in Belarus.
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Absence and ruin in hanaa malallah's 'the god marduk'
Conceived as an object biography, this book contextualizes Iraqi artist Hanaa Malallah’s art book The God Marduk (2008) and investigates her use of the ancient past as a conduit for aesthetic and emotive expression offering an in-depth analysis through the methodology of phenomenology.
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