Morality of the Past from the Present Perspective
This monograph explores morality in Slovakia during the first half of the 20th century. Set in its unique socio-political context, it examines the era’s key philosophical, ethical, and professional aspects, and the reflection of morality in Slovak literature.
The texts of India’s ancient materialist philosophy, Cārvāka/Lokāyata, were all lost after the twelfth century. Based on the most recent research, this book reconstructs the fundamental tenets of this system from available fragments and the works of its opponents.
More Than Mere Playthings
Spanning ancient Etruria to 20th-century Italy, this book explores the minor arts—from cameos to reliquaries. Through interdisciplinary perspectives, it reveals the unique importance of these objects, showing that the division between major and minor arts is no longer valid.
This book provides the first normative reference values for Albanian adolescents, covering body height, weight, composition, and craniofacial dimensions. An essential tool for medical practitioners, sports scientists, and public health researchers.
Moses
This intellectual biography describes the personal development and motivations of Moses from childhood to death. It shows how he developed into a leader and law-giver who led the Jewish people in their struggle for freedom and influenced their religion.
Mother-Texts
Patriarchy has worked to silence women’s dialogue, creating unrepresentative maternal narratives. This book’s valuable research gives recognition to mothers as they speak up, developing a literature in their own language and claiming maternal knowledge and power.
It takes a virtual village to raise a child. Millions of mothers worldwide are creating online communities to construct modern motherhood together. Motherhood Online explores the multifaceted lives they live online and the new space they create to maintain sanity.
Mothers at the Margins
This collection speaks with the voices of mothers who feel alienated, stigmatised, or silenced for not fitting the expected norms of motherhood. It challenges narrow ideas of maternal identity, revealing structures of oppression and strategies of resistance and love.
Mothers of Innovation
What sparks innovation? This book reveals why property rights and resources were not enough to ignite the Industrial Revolution. The surprising key was expanding social networks, which fostered cooperation and integrated unrelated concepts to create something new.
This interdisciplinary book explores how mountains are represented in art and literature. It reveals the link between the world’s shapes and human imagination, showing how art is a path to awareness and a vital tool for protecting the natural world.
Mourning and Disaster
Why did the Hillsborough disaster and the death of Princess Diana provoke such contrasting scenes of public mourning? This book asks what these events reveal about society, identity, and the ways we grieve for those we don’t know personally.
Movement and Clitics
This volume gathers selected papers on movement and clitics. The authors explore a wide variety of languages, from Icelandic to Mayan, drawing on data from adult grammar, language acquisition, developmental language disorders, and language change.
Movements in Time
In a time of global protest, this book brings together essays to reinterpret time and bring about social change. Breaking from traditional linear notions, it suggests new conceptions of time can have a major influence on creating a more just, tolerant world.
Movie Time studies temporal mythmaking in American movies. It explores how films make sense of our world by reconstructing pasts like the 1950s, defining the present through the rise of conservatism, and foreseeing alternative futures.
Movies on Home Ground
This exploration of British amateur cinema (1930–1980) reveals a significant but under-explored film practice. It shows how this leisure activity assumed remarkable aesthetic forms, widening the recognised canon of British filmmaking in fascinating new directions.
Moving Bodies, Wandering Minds
This book explores the connection between movement—both physical and mental—and creativity. Research shows physical activity has cognitive benefits like improving memory, while intentional mind-wandering can enhance creative ideation. This book summarizes this fascinating link.
Moving Forward
This collection explores ‘tradition and transformation’. Early-career researchers from the arts and social sciences boldly explore the tension between past and future, respecting history while effecting change. Accessible to a non-specialist audience.
Moving from Infancy to Young Adulthood
A review of the Virgin Islands’ (BVI) economic and political development over the past 60 years. This book explores future possibilities and comments on present systems, making it a must-read for island scholars, policy makers, and students.
This is the first book to apply expressive writing to L2 academic writing. Its techniques are particularly helpful for L2 students who have difficulty expressing themselves in English. The book will appeal to lecturers, linguists, psychologists, and teachers.
Moving Images, Mobile Bodies
This collection addresses the issue of corporeality as a discursive field (which asks for a “poetics”), and the possible ways in which technology affects, and is affected by, the body in the context of recent artistic and theoretical developments.
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