This volume explores the history, art, and culture of Florence through three unique festivities where sacred and secular values intertwine. Discover how these traditions continue to shape the city’s character, revealed through both famous and lesser-known works of art.
Second Language Teaching in the Digital Era
A guide to second language teaching in the digital era, this book merges theory and practice. It covers approaches for digital learners and presents case studies on applying and evaluating innovative technologies.
Gaps and the Creation of Ideas
This artist’s book is a portrait of the space between things, from neurons to comic-book frames. Juxtaposing quotations and images from hundreds of sources, it explores the gap as a ubiquitous phenomenon that crosses the boundaries of neuroscience, art, and popular culture.
The Control Data Corporation’s Supercomputer Systems
This volume focuses on Control Data Corporation’s supercomputers, which brought Seymour Cray’s design principles to maturity. For over 25 years, CDC sold some of the fastest machines for science and engineering, and this book covers their systems, software, and key applications.
Photographs of Interpreters
This book rescues photographs of interpreters: from diplomats trusted by Nixon to indigenous guides making first contact in the Amazon. Each image is analyzed as a performance, a moment expressing geopolitical power, and an act of salvaging lives lost in the sea of history.
Holocaust Film
Why is Holocaust film scholarship marginalized when the films themselves are so crucial to public awareness? This book explores the political and economic motivations for this paradox, connecting public debates over representation to the cinematic structures of key films.
Shakespeare on Love
Plato’s vision of universal love, alchemy, and Christian ideas strongly influenced Shakespeare’s Sonnets. He inserted these themes into his plays, creating a paradoxical combination of erotic mysticism with real lovers. The Dark Lady finds her supreme realisation in Cleopatra.
The Ailing Turkish Democracy
Turkey’s ailing democracy is trapped between liberal and totalitarian rule. This book diagnoses the “disease,” exposing its roots in socio-economic issues, the Kurdish question, and a weak opposition, and analyzes the ruling elite’s conservative response to social change.
This book explores Eventualism, a metaphysical theory concerning reality and every “anything” that exists. It argues that “anythings” are not just physical things, but also creations of the human mind and artificial intelligence, and provides an analysis of their structure.
Colonising Te Whanganui ā Tara and Marketing Wellington, 1840-1849
In the 1840s, the New Zealand Company used powerful images to lure English settlers to Wellington, a land already home to Māori. This book explores how these visuals were complicit in transferring Māori land into English ownership, investigating processes of redress and hope.
Toni Morrison’s A Mercy
This first volume of essays on Toni Morrison’s acclaimed novel, A Mercy, presents critical approaches to its richly-layered text. It explores the novel’s setting before slavery was linked to race, illuminating the work for scholars and students.
Kyrgyzstan and the Legacies of Collectivisation
Soviet rule in Kyrgyzstan was enabled by collectivisation and forcible population displacement. These strategies of colonisation reconfigured the population but were met with resistance. The book explores these changes and how independent Kyrgyzstan struggles with their legacy.
Constitutional Cultures
This volume explores constitutions in the Atlantic World, showing their connectedness. To fully understand a constitutional order, it is necessary to analyse not just the legal text, but its implementation, legitimisation, and especially its culture.
How do various nations view honors education? Whether known as “honors” or “talent-development,” it is associated with a student-centric ethos and creative approaches to learning. This exploration considers how honors education can empower educators and students worldwide.
This book covers the consequences of death for patients and families, including grief and health. It offers a health promotion perspective on palliative care for patients, families, and care workers, stressing the importance of fulfilling patient wishes.
This book combats modern scholarship’s marginalization of women in antiquity, proving their roles in the home, workplace, and society were essential for survival. Using archaeology and textual studies, it highlights women’s extensive accomplishments.
Explore theories and research on social influence. This book covers methods from advertising and propaganda to public relations, examining source credibility, the third-person effect, media agenda-setting, and the effectiveness of government communication campaigns.
Early Farmers, Late Foragers, and Ceramic Traditions
Prominent scholars present new perspectives on the beginnings of pottery in Europe’s late forager and early farmer societies. This collection of essays explores the rise of a new technology, offering a fascinating read for scholars and the public alike.
Changing Societies
From migration to environmental crises and the rise of AI, our societies are in constant movement. This volume explores how populations confronted with such social changes are affected, and how these dynamics can foster new ways of individual or collective decision-making.
This volume explores depictions of contagious diseases in literature, media, and art throughout history. From a post-human and environmental perspective, these narratives of ‘plague literature’ hold a crucial position in guiding humanity towards a greater ecological awareness.
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