This book interprets the feminist theories of Rajam Krishnan, a doyen of Tamil literature, who has been a forerunner of many contemporary ideologies. It provides much-needed tools for the vast corpus of contemporary research in the global domain of Indian women’s literature.
Forensic science pioneer Ralph Turner’s work was the basis for drunk driving laws. He founded the field’s leading professional organization and was one of the first persons to question the Warren Commission Report on the assassination of President Kennedy.
Beyond royal courts lies a rarely seen world: a folk Ramayana etched in stone on humble village temple walls. This pioneering work unveils these intricate plaques, a visual journey through the epic’s seven Kandas and their masterfully sculpted stories.
Random Thoughts
This collection of critical essays ranges from Shakespeare to Rushdie, covering Indian, British, and African writers. Addressing poetry, fiction, and drama with a fresh approach, the book is a valuable resource for students, teachers, and researchers of English literature.
Ranked Set Sampling has numerous advantages over classical sampling techniques. This volume of reviewed essays is a reference book for postgraduate students in economics, social, medical, biological sciences, and statistics. The subject is a hot topic for dissertations.
What is rational choice? Can a society make rational decisions? This book is a primer in rational and social choice theory for students and teachers. An up-to-date textbook full of examples and exercises, it combines formal results with the latest research.
Artificial intelligence is the most disruptive technology today. This volume explores the problems of ethical AI and the prospects of human-like intelligence, with a broad spectrum of approaches from ethics, economics, defense studies, computer science, and philosophy.
Rationality in Economics
A critical look at how scientists model human rationality. This book traces today’s complex mathematical models of choice back to their flawed, unpragmatic roots in medieval thought, offering a new taxonomy for understanding how we decide.
Raymond Queneau’s Dubliners
An exploration of two comic, erotic, and feminist novels by Raymond Queneau set in Ireland. This book examines Joycean influences and a surreal version of the Dublin Uprising, solving puzzles to reveal *Les Œuvres completes de Sally Mara* as a subtly integrated literary work.
Re-Activating Critical Thinking in the Midst of Necropolitical Realities
Is a pluriversal generation of scholars forming a radical structure to confront the necropolitical and necrocapitalist governmentality emerging worldwide? The articles in this volume transcend geographical boundaries to develop strategies for radical change.
Re-Constructing Place and Space
This book explores the influence of embodied, discursive, and mediated communication on the construction and maintenance of Caribbean diasporic communities, presenting a more complex picture of peoples from the region and their diasporic identities.
Re-doing Rapunzel’s Hair
This volume explores embodied cognition and our imaginative experience of hair, using Rapunzel’s symbolic hair as a touchstone. It introduces “fancifold,” a quality of imagination that produces both enchantment and disenchantment.
Re-Embroidering the Robe
Since the mid-nineteenth century, writers have retold old myths with fresh messages or created new ones for traditional truths. The eighteen essays in this book examine this transforming artistry in literature from 1850 to the present day.
Re-Entering Old Spaces
Using “old spaces” as a metaphorical tool, this book reintroduces established topics with new approaches. Contributors explore how spaces—physical, symbolic, and aesthetic—are created and recreated through writing, reflecting both their “visitors” and their “hosts.”
This collection re-examines the work and life of Arthur Conan Doyle from multiple perspectives. It considers overlooked aspects of his oeuvre, offering fresh perspectives on his fiction and his relationship to contemporary writers and movements.
These essays reflect the international and pluridisciplinary nature of Holocaust scholarship, widening the definition of Holocaust literature to include comic books, fiction, and film. Contributors engage controversial issues of authenticity, morality, and representation.
Re-imagining African Identity in the Twenty-First Century
This book deconstructs the idea that African identity is based exclusively on ‘Blackness’. It argues for intermediality, a new way of thinking that embraces difference to envision a vibrant, cosmopolitan Africa open to people of all races and identities.
Re-Imagining the First World War
What is the place of the First World War in cultural memory today? This volume explores the Great War’s enduring significance in Anglophone literature and culture, from poetry and film to Downton Abbey, offering new perspectives on the conflict.
Re-Inventing Western Civilisation
This book reveals neoliberalism as a transnational tradition carried by a network seeking societies based on individual freedom and a free market, transforming the overall picture of European (neo)liberalisms in the twentieth century.
With the peripheral now the center of contemporary culture, this volume examines cultural identity in a global world. It addresses immigration, diaspora, and gender politics, exploring cultural identity as a site of crisis and fragmentation.
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