For God and Country
This study on England’s 1944 Education Act examines how politicians and educationalists promoted Christian-civic humanism as the primary educational philosophy in order to shape an education system that promoted a national identity based on ideals of tradition and progress.
Need for Sleep
This book explores the influence of fairytale details and imagery on adult cognition, and will be of interest to scholars concerned with how cognition relates specifically to understanding the subjective experience of daydreaming.
Human Development II
This title offers an overview of a wide range of contemporary issues in education and society, including emotional intelligence, family, and personal development, and represents a useful manual for students and the general public interested in the social sciences.
Christians and Platonists
Theodore Sabo examines the distaste towards matter and the body shared by Christians, Gnostics, and Platonists of late antiquity, looking at key terms like ethos, aiōn, and saeculum, and investigating the individual beliefs of each school of philosophy.
Agency in the British Press
This title examines the ways in which the 2011 UK riots were reported by the British press, analysing the linguistic construal of the main participants involved and their agency. In doing so, it reveals the ideological burden affecting power relations within society.
12th Conference on British and American Studies
This publication represents a selection of papers presented at the 12th Conference on British and American Studies. They are grouped in two main theme clusters, “Languages in Contact and Languages in Use” and “Multidisciplinarity and Multiculturalism in Literary Studies”.
The Power of Culture
This edited collection, comprising mainly Chinese academics and students, focuses upon the role of culture in Sino-American affairs, showing how cultural factors are enormously significant in affecting how Chinese and Americans think about and approach each other.
William Bellamy examines the newly re-discovered anagrams that lie hidden in all Shakespearean texts, and explains the essential role played by these concealed figures in Classical and Renaissance poetry, using a range of examples, including Othello, Hamlet, and Twelfth Night.
This book provides an engaging history of classical education in English schools, beginning in 1500 with massive educational developments in England as humanist studies reached the country from abroad, and ending with the headmastership of Thomas Arnold of Rugby School.
Nationality vs Universality
This publication deals with the history of music as a way of representing historical memory and as an instrument of shaping society’s present. It offers fascinating reading for anyone interested in the mechanisms that shape notions of the musical past.
Oscar Wilde’s Elegant Republic
Using Oscar Wilde as a connecting thread, this monograph navigates the question of Paris’ popularity as a place of both innovation and exile in the late nineteenth century. It uses French, English and American sources to offer an exploration of both the city and its communities.
Truth and Experience
This title meets contemporary challenges posed by experience and truth with a critical openness that allows for the full complexity of these concepts to be investigated through the perspectives of phenomenology and hermeneutics.
The Discourse of Tourism and National Heritage
Stoian studies the field of online tourism promotion, focusing on that of UNESCO World Heritage Sites, looking at two different types of websites—institutional and commercial—from three countries, Romania, Spain and the UK.
The Word made Visible in the Painted Image
This monograph explores the areas of perspective, proportion, witness and theological threshold in the devotional art of the Italian Renaissance, with particular reference to the painted image of Christ.
The idea of light and darkness is one of the central ideas of the Symbolist movement, which emphasises contrasts. The contributors here present a range of studies that provide a detailed understanding of this notion and a variety of its Symbolist interpretations.
Mediating Peace
This edited collection examines the role of art, music and film in peace-building and reconciliation in a range of conflict situations. The contributors are composed of prominent scholars and artists, and examine theoretical, professional and practical concerns.
This collection of essays provides insights into the culturally conditioned structure of Asian societies, questioning Eurocentric views of modernity that assume that Confucianism would have to be abandoned if East Asia wanted to develop a dynamic, modern society.
Human Trafficking
Using the accounts of twenty-six women, Maria De Angelis explores women’s stories of agency in a lived experience of trafficking. This book will be of interest to students undertaking courses in modern slavery, human geography, police studies, social work, and criminology.
‘Intimately Associated for Many Years’
This volume contains the correspondence of Anglican Bishop George Bell and the General Secretary of the World Council of Churches, Willem Visser’t Hooft, and reflects efforts made across the ecumenical movement to unite the Christian churches in an age of international crisis.
Thrice a Stranger
By focusing on the real story of a family against a background of historical events, this book shows how the pseudo-theories of so-called international relations can be demolished, and brings to life some vital aspects of modern European history.
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