Death on the Move
This volume explores the different aspects of the management of death, dying and mortality by migrants in Southern Europe, through deconstructing persistent idiosyncratic beliefs, myths, narratives, silences, and constraints.
John Bradburne
Poet, mystic, and martyr. These essays explore the multifaceted life of John Bradburne and the turbulent times he encountered in 20th-century Rhodesia. This volume investigates his poetry, spirituality, and humanitarian legacy, making the case for his recognition as a saint.
Consciousness and Self-Knowledge in Medieval Philosophy
While often traced to Descartes, self-knowledge is a perennial theme. This volume studies its treatment in the Medieval Latin West, focusing on Aquinas. It explores how the intellect grasps itself and how transformative self-knowledge leads to virtue, happiness, and fulfillment.
This book explores the unbreakable relationship between teaching, learning, and assessment. A range of articles scrutinizes assessment from a wide spectrum: from teacher assessment literacy and technology in the classroom to the role of the CEFR and empirical data analysis.
A definitive guide to high-performance marine vehicles. This volume explores the design, resistance, powering, seakeeping, and maneuvering of monohulls, multihulls, hydrofoils, and more, through cutting-edge theoretical and numerical analysis.
Cinematic Schooling
Combs uses the metaphor of schooling to highlight the conviction that the widespread attention given to moving pictures in their various venues is not only diverting and entertaining, but also educative, although subtle and suggestive rather than explicit and didactic.
This volume is a rigorous update of the state of the art in the investigation of Old and Middle English. Written by some of the best known experts in this field, it addresses various issues, such as etymology, manuscript sources, and medieval literary traditions, among others.
Whistleblowing
Many white-collar criminals are too powerful to jail. Whistleblowers play an important role in detection by sending crime signals. This book details fraud signal detection and presents four case studies where whistleblowers reported fraud suspicions.
(Post)Colonial Passages
The essays gathered here discuss postcolonialism as a transdisciplinary field of passages that negotiate among diverse, yet interrelated, cultural fields.
Ethics of Social Consequences
This anthology showcases new and unconventional views of many traditional moral values, such as humanity, human dignity, justice and responsibility. The contributions analyse these values and approaches from the point of view of non-utilitarian consequentialism.
Language, Media and Economy in Virtual and Real Life
Bringing together contributions concerning the relationship between languages and the economy, this anthology pays particular attention to the topic of “names in the economy”, opening this relationship to further fields of interest for the study of the role of language.
Echoing Voices in Italian Literature
This anthology explores the reception of classics and translation from modern languages as two different, yet synergic, ways of engaging with literary canons and established traditions in 20th-century Italy.
Foreign Women Authors under Fascism and Francoism
This collection highlights cultural features and processes which characterized translation practice under the dictatorships of Mussolini and Franco. It brings to the fore the “microhistory” that exists behind every publishing proposal, whether collective or individual.
As the field of ELT studies sees continued horizontal and vertical diversification, from new forms of online learning to a greater depth of analysis, a new sophistication has emerged. This increasing sophistication is reflected in the research papers in this volume.
The Radicalism of Departure
Spiessens proposes an entirely new reading of Max Stirner’s philosophical magnum opus Der Einzige und sein Eigentum. This exciting interpretation clears the way for a philosophical rehabilitation of Stirner’s ideas.
Former cabinet minister and long-time Erdoğan aide Akdoğan provides valuable insights into the Turkish president’s leadership profile, and explains how he relates to centuries-old theories of leadership in Turkish and Islamic thought.
The Italian Short Story through the Centuries
This collection of essays gathers together Italian and American scholars to provide a cooperative analysis of the Italian short story, beginning in the fourteenth century with Giovanni Boccaccio and arriving at the twentieth century with Alberto Moravia and Anna Maria Ortese.
Diversity Management and Identity in Organisations
Bizjak advances a conceptualisation of gender identity within Diversity Management in organisations that takes into account the linkages between individual and organisational identity, thus moving from liminality to inclusion.
Translating Ethiopia
As a result of the cultural turn in translation studies and geography, Tomei adopts a comparative and diachronic perspective on colonial and postcolonial descriptions of space and place in Ethiopia, examining variations in intertextual citation and re-writing.
Dealing with Authorship
This title examines the multiple ways in which the progressive (self-) fashioning of authors and filmmakers interacts with the public sphere, generating authorial postures and arousing attention. It analyses the works of both canonical and non-canonical authors and filmmakers.
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