The once-celebrated “Kerala Model” of development has crumbled under pressure. This book takes a new look at the statecraft through the lens of popular cinema, using melodrama to reveal the frictions and slippages that escape official histories and statistics.
Navigating Decolonial Realities in Social Work Education and Practice
This book explores the enduring impact of coloniality on South African higher education, calling for transformative change. Focusing on decolonisation and epistemic justice, it examines how colonial legacies marginalise African epistemologies, languages, and identities.
Translating Horror
This collection of essays examines the translation of horror in literature and cinema. Considering authors like H. P. Lovecraft and Stephen King, this volume probes the boundaries between originals and their retellings, revealing how translation is part of the telling of horror.
Thus Burst Hippocrene
These daring essays connect literary titans from Homer and Dante to Shakespeare and Li Bo. The author’s rare multi-lingual approach uncovers startling new insights for scholars and curious readers alike.
Bringing together a number of conference papers, this book explores the six educational alternatives that exist in Romania, namely Step by Step, Waldorf, Freinet, Curative Pedagogy, Montessori and the Jenaplan.
This book explores staff and student perceptions of English as the medium of instruction (EMI) in Pakistani universities. It examines attitudes towards Pakistani English and exposes the gap between EMI policy and practice, revealing multi-layered issues.
The contributions here offer new insights into aspects of Russian émigré culture already known to scholarship, but also detail new facets of the phenomenon, highlighting the significance of places of seemingly secondary importance such as Prague, Istanbul and India.
The Waffen-SS in Allied Hands Volume One
The Waffen-SS are regarded as Germany’s elite. This book uses manuscripts from the United States National Archives, many unscrutinised for over 70 years, to provide a unique insight into a force capable of incredible military feats and incredible evil.
This definitive biography depicts one Victorian woman’s struggle to stay afloat in a rising tide of prurient scandalmongering and snobbery. Various previously untapped letters and diaries allow the reader to navigate through the sensationalist fog of the press of her time.
Turn research into practice. This guide shows how to integrate linguistics, translation, literature, and cultural studies into the language classroom with innovative strategies for teaching English, Spanish, French, and German.
The Waffen-SS in Allied Hands Volume Two
Regarded as Germany’s elite in WWII, the Waffen-SS were capable of incredible military feats and incredible evil. Sourced from the US National Archives, this book uses manuscripts unscrutinised for over 70 years to provide a unique insight into this infamous organisation.
Most deception research is North American-centric and ignores our digital lives. This book provides insights into computer-mediated deception across cultures, namely Poland and the USA, examining how cultural values affect deceptive communication and its detection online.
Thought Experiments between Nature and Society
What is a thought experiment, and is it useful for philosophy? This collection tackles this hot topic, analyzing classics from The Ring of Gyges to Brain-in-a-Vat. Colleagues of Nenad Miščević share their thoughts, followed by his own comments on their work.
This volume examines when, how and why cabinets of prints and drawings became a specialised part of princely and private collections. Among other things, it assesses how important collections were for the self-representation of a prince or connoisseur among specialists and peers.
Models of European Civil Society
This volume explores European models of civil society, past and present. Civil society is crucial for a well-functioning state, creating an active community able to control its leaders. With social media, the tools for self-organisation are more powerful than ever.
What is the American Dream? This family history, spanning four centuries, finds an answer in the preserved, untold stories of the author’s Mormon ancestors. Their dream was a cautionary tale: a nightmare where coming to America was often not worth the sacrifice.
Dicite, Pierides
From Homeric epic to Virgil’s Aeneid and the epigrams of Geminus, these sixteen essays offer fresh, thoughtful readings of classical literature.
Learn Italian with fun texts, dialogues, and photos covering cultural topics like cities, recipes, and famous writers. This book includes grammar and recordings with a variety of accents—a great training tool for A1-B2 level students.
This compendium brings together 18 case studies investigating territory in the Middle Ages from an archaeological perspective. The contributions focus especially on cases in Portugal, Spain and Italy, in order to provide a Mediterranean perspective.
Composed in the 1630s, Giambattista Basile’s The Tale of Tales (the Pentameron) is a wicked parody of the Decameron. Among its fifty stories are the earliest literary versions of famous fairy tales such as Cinderella, Rapunzel, and The Sleeping Beauty.
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