Turkey
This book explains the most important domestic and international developments related to Turkey during the last two decades. Written by experts to the highest academic standards, it focuses on Turkey’s relations with the wider world and is highly analytical.
“The Real Thing”
Tom Stoppard is the most significant living British dramatist. The critical essays in this volume celebrate his insightful and wry work, addressing well-known plays like Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead as well as his critically neglected fiction.
Inside Arguments
This collection of essays by the finest specialists provides a decisive input to the study of logic and argumentation theory. The authors clarify the relationship between these concepts, taking stock of the most recent developments. An essential tool.
Cesare Pugni
Prolific 19th-century composer Cesare Pugni worked with the era’s greatest choreographers to create renowned ballets. His works include Esmeralda, based on Hugo’s Notre-Dame de Paris, and Le Violon du diable, a tale of a violinist given irresistible power.
Albert Camus’s The Stranger
This collection of critical essays by international experts examines Camus’s The Stranger from both philosophical and literary perspectives. Presenting the first known critical examination in English, this volume sheds new light on the classic novel.
Emma di Resburgo
A tale of dynastic rivalry, kidnap, and usurpation in a wild Scotland, Emma di Resburgo established Meyerbeer’s reputation in Italy. This milestone of Romantic opera blends the Rossinian idiom with the composer’s own technical mastery and rich invention.
As Time Goes By
This volume provides literary analyses of ageing through writers from Cervantes to Cixous. Exploring universal themes, these essays offer portraits of what age is, has been, and might be, demonstrating literature’s power to reflect social trends.
Cultivating Peace
This book embraces a new approach: cultivating peace. Using global case studies, its narratives offer constructive lessons on preventing violence, restoring shattered societies, and creating positive change through nonviolent, locally-driven initiatives.
Semiotics and Visual Communication
This book explores how semiotic theory can be applied to visual communication practice. Featuring contributions on design, media, and the visual arts, it is an essential asset for anyone interested in semiotics from both a theoretical and applied view.
Across seven centuries, trace the global journey of Chinese art. These essays reveal how collectors and museums in Japan, Europe, and America have shaped its circulation, taste, and cultural meaning across cultures.
Assessing Pragmatic Competence in the Japanese EFL Context
Examines how Japanese and American listening styles can cause miscommunication and investigates if listener responses can be taught, providing language teachers with practical classroom strategies.
The Holocaust and World War II
This interdisciplinary volume explores the connection between World War II and the Holocaust in history and memory. Nineteen articles from prominent scholars, including acclaimed historian Gerhard L. Weinberg, examine presidential decisions, racial hatred, and more.
This book investigates how Estonia, Poland and Latvia comply with the EU’s free movement of capital. It compares their laws, analyzes the link between national restrictions and cross-border capital flows, and reports the views of affected business executives.
This volume is a political, social, and economic history of Zimbabwe from 1890 to 2008. Including topics such as women’s and human rights, this study brings the history of Zimbabwe almost up to the present day, superseding older volumes.
This volume explores the bond between man and nature through literary and visual works by Native and non-Native artists. It re-imagines our outlook on indigenous production, revealing how the non-human provides a key to understanding our world.
Language Teaching and Learning
This collection addresses language teaching and learning dilemmas, especially with the advent of the digital revolution. It provides new perspectives, pedagogies, and approaches to shape sustainable policies and empower critical and successful language users.
Theory That Matters
Theory That Matters offers an up-to-date assessment of literary and cultural theory. The volume launches a defence of theory, demonstrating this is not achieved at the expense of praxis, but by showing its currency through a variety of contexts.
Daniel-François-Esprit Auber
Once regarded as a great figure of music, with an impact as great as Rossini’s, Daniel-François-Esprit Auber is now neglected. The time has come to reassess his life and work, especially his collaboration with master librettist Eugène Scribe, and hear his elegant music again.
Le biographique n’est pas épuisé : il déborde la biographie. Cet ouvrage propose un état de la réflexion sur le sujet, au croisement des sciences sociales et de la littérature, au point de rencontre entre science et fiction.
Language Contact
When speakers of different languages interact, their languages influence each other. This can range from exchanging words to altering grammar, sometimes leading to language death. This volume unites distinguished scholars to offer a multidimensional exploration of the field.
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