Trauma, Media, Art
This collection of essays explores artistic and media representations of traumatic histories from around the world. The authors both apply and critique dominant theories of trauma, exploring their limitations while considering new methodologies.
These essays examine the elusive dream of the Irish and Irish Americans. From 19th-century emigrants to contemporary artists, this study explores the conflicted visions of a people striving to come to terms with what it means to be Irish.
This volume addresses the representation of warfare, assessing the veracity of war images and their impact. War images may trigger horror or paradoxically attain sublimity, blurring the narrow margin between ethics and aesthetics, information, and propaganda.
Diaries of a Forgotten Parent
An intimate window on the lives of divorced men. Ten American fathers share intensely personal reflections of guilt, pain, and pride, deconstructing the societal myth that fathers are less valuable parents than mothers.
The Polyphony of Food
Food is more than a basic need. It satisfies the entire range of human motivations, from feeling safe and secure to affirming cultural identity. It is a vehicle for bonding, love, esteem, and even a means of self-actualization.
Leading international victimologists explore practical and theoretical issues in Victimology. This collection describes how a victim’s rights are deprived and offers recommendations to balance the justice system and improve the situation for victims of crime.
Daniel-François-Esprit Auber
Auber & Scribe’s opéra-féerique Le Cheval de bronze is one of the composer’s best achievements. Its witty, exotic plot involves a magical horse that transports men to Venus and its sirens. A forgotten gem brimming with invention, fantasy, and comedy.
Family
From the “In Defence of the Family” conference, these papers tackle the global challenges facing children and families. They champion a dialogue across cultures to build a more humane and promising future for humanity.
Making a Difference
Discover how applied linguistics makes a difference in a changing world. Leading experts explore language’s role in migration, media, and policy. For students, teachers, and anyone interested in the real-world impact of language.
Beyond the Hijab Debates
Public debates reduce complex issues to simplistic binaries. This collection cuts through the noise, offering incisive analyses and new possibilities for understanding the intersection of gender, race, and religion.
Intermedial Arts
These essays position intermediality as a way to challenge our notion of art. Writers examine the relations between the arts—reference, combination, or transformation—to help us grasp their changing relationship in our contemporary medial age.
Travellers’ Tales
The experiences of English language teachers are often overlooked. This volume explores the complexity of ELT as global ‘work’ through teacher narratives, revealing the personal, pedagogical, and cultural dimensions of their work in overseas contexts.
This book explores the cultural and social aspects of space in archaeology. Using cutting-edge spatial methods, it reveals how people have used space to subsist, recreate culture, and understand landscape, social relationships, and cultural heritage.
These critical essays explore the representation of sex, gender, and sexual orientation from the early days of cinema to the twenty-first century, investigating the complex relations between film style, sexual politics, and their social ramifications.
21st Century China
China is Australia’s ‘life-blood’. Leading academics dissect this complex relationship—from politics and law to Confucianism and ‘green’ cuisine—offering fresh insights for our shared future.
Internet Tomography
This book introduces Internet tomography, from basic principles to applications. It focuses on designing Internet Tomography Measurement Systems to map Internet performance, with uses in network design, wireless networks, and Service Level Agreement compliance.
What ought philosophy of religion be? How should it relate to religion today? This collection offers a variety of perspectives on contemporary issues like faith, reason, atheism, and politics, without privileging any single philosophical or religious orientation.
Songs at Twilight
A visually impaired author and thirty contributors explore their experiences of living with a visual impairment and its effect on their identity. Through collaborative narrative, they challenge sighted assumptions about blindness.
A Southern Nigerian Community
A social and cultural study of a Nigerian city where hustle and insecurity define the everyday. The book explores the struggle for progress, the dynamics of religious faith in a city of a thousand churches, and the nature of time in an undocumented culture.
Sold by the Millions
Australian genre fiction writers sell stories by the millions. This is the first collection to explore Australia’s best-selling material, with leading experts providing pieces on Romance, Horror, Crime, Science Fiction, and more.
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