The Unspeakable
This volume explores how trauma, even when silenced, emerges in surprising ways in Francophone literature and art. It examines how expressive forms evoke a terrible reality, tackle ethical responsibility, and can ultimately lead to the process of healing.
Carers’ Stories
This book shares the stories of six carers, including gay and lesbian partners. They found health and social care services to be a burden, not the person with dementia. Discover the strategies that support people to maintain a sense of identity and wellbeing.
Legilimens!
Legilimens is the spell to see into another’s mind. This collection brings together anthropologists, theologians, historians, and rhetoricians to see into the Harry Potter texts, deliberating over the greater scholarly significance of these rich works.
Republic of Macedonia Foreign Policy
Macedonia’s existence is contested and its internal balance is delicate, yet it could become a model of stability. Dejan Marolov presents an in-depth analysis of its foreign policy since the break-up of Yugoslavia. Anyone interested in the Western Balkans should read this book.
Civil Society in Africa
This book examines a human rights ministry in a Nairobi slum. While it improved local democratic values, parishioners were inhibited from holding officials accountable due to fears of retaliation. An important resource for those addressing challenges facing the urban poor.
About The Boys
To ease tensions in a Bristol school, seven Somali and African Caribbean boys are brought together. Five years later, the author finds them again, uncovering powerful stories of exclusion, ambition, and success as they approach their GCSEs.
This book researches three solutions to steel congestion in reinforced concrete: steel fibers, self-consolidating concrete, and headed bars. Based on test results, it proposes new models that provide a basis for future research and improved codes.
The Aesthetics of Failure
This book explores the ethical aspects of Samuel Beckett’s aesthetics of failure through his connection to Maurice Blanchot and Emmanuel Levinas. It traces Beckett’s ‘unwording’ to analyze how inexpressibility is bound with ethical responsibility.
This book tackles intercultural language teaching and the use of information and communication technology in the EFL classroom. A pioneering study, its results offer materials writers, software designers, and EFL teachers criteria to evaluate CALL software.
Coming Home? Vol. 2
Forced displacement creates conflict. This book explores the complex inter-relationship of conflict, return migration, and the compelling search for a sense of home, shifting attention to the colonial and post-colonial framework of the French-North African nexus.
Theory and Practice of Logic-Based Therapy
We upset ourselves by deducing destructive conclusions from irrational premises. This book presents Logic-Based Therapy (LBT), a guide to using logic and philosophy to refute these fallacies, overcome anxiety, depression, and anger, and attain happiness.
Coming Home? Vol. 1
Forced displacement creates conflict. This book explores the complex link between return migration and the compelling but often chimerical search for home. Scholars examine tensions between nation-states and migrants in 20th and 21st century Europe and North Africa.
Ancient genres were contested, hybrid and ambiguous. This volume presents case studies on understandings of genre, examining well-known texts like Ovid and late-antique works from Rome and Greece to Gaza and Syria.
Topicality and Representation
This book explores how topical concerns shaped Islamic figures in Elizabethan plays like Peele’s Battle of Alcazar and Percy’s Mahomet and his Heaven. It argues these characters were formed by contemporary issues, rendering the term ‘representation’ debatable.
Disability and Medieval Law
Disability and Medieval Law considers how medieval societies dealt with crime, punishment, and mental illness. When did law take disability into account? When did it choose to cause disabilities? How did authors use disability to discuss law and human nature?
A critique of contemporary artistic interpretation whose lessons apply to our entire culture. This essential study is from Ion Piso, drawing on over 50 years of experience as an artist-interpreter on the world’s opera stages.
Fatal Fascinations
What is the impact of portraying violence? This book examines representations of crime and violence across media—from fiction and film to journalism—to interrogate the ethics of spectacle and the political contexts in which narratives of good and evil are defined.
The Polish Swan Triumphant
This collection of essays covers several centuries of Polish literature and its reception abroad, from the Renaissance poet Jan Kochanowski and the Baroque to the great precursor of modern poetry, Cyprian Norwid. It explores their influence on foreign poets.
Byron and Latin Culture
This collection of papers details the huge influence of Latin poets on Byron. His borrowings, imitations, and parodies are catalogued in unprecedented detail, revealing how classical writers inspired *Don Juan*. Also explores Byron’s influence on European art.
Popular culture surrounds us. This collection offers a diverse selection of scholarship examining contemporary television, film, video games, internet fandom, gender, and identity, exploring the many cultural modes that shape our everyday lives.
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