Shifting Toponymies
(Re)naming Places, (Re)shaping Identities
Place-names are dynamic tools used to shape our surroundings and identities. This book explores the fascinating and often controversial relationship between toponyms and identity, showing how (re)naming practices convey values and visions of the world across space and time.
Place-names are dynamic tools used to shape our surroundings and identities. This book explores the fascinating and often controversial relationship between toponyms and identity, showing how (re)naming practices convey values and visions of the world across space and time.
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This book presents the financial performance of the shipping industry since 1896, tracking how fortunes were made and lost through market cycles. It examines the underlying causes that moved the market and evaluates when players got their speculative act right or badly wrong.
This book presents the financial performance of the shipping industry since 1896, tracking how fortunes were made and lost through market cycles. It examines the underlying causes that moved the market and evaluates when players got their speculative act right or badly wrong.
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Reading the novels of George Eliot, Arthur Quiller-Couch, Barry Unsworth, and others, as a Methodist, David Dickinson offers a colourful picture of Methodists in British fiction since the close of the nineteenth century.
Reading the novels of George Eliot, Arthur Quiller-Couch, Barry Unsworth, and others, as a Methodist, David Dickinson offers a colourful picture of Methodists in British fiction since the close of the nineteenth century.
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This book breaks frontiers. It deals with human beings and their intrinsic relationship with time in the space of a week. In a search for the days’ identities, the book identifies the particular characteristics of each day, revealing that we are literally the days of the week.
This book breaks frontiers. It deals with human beings and their intrinsic relationship with time in the space of a week. In a search for the days’ identities, the book identifies the particular characteristics of each day, revealing that we are literally the days of the week.
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This book explores how early trauma leads to loneliness and vulnerability to indoctrination—stress states at pandemic levels. It details how loneliness causes illness and indoctrination fuels a divided world, offering compassionate empathy as a unique path to repair and healing.
This book explores how early trauma leads to loneliness and vulnerability to indoctrination—stress states at pandemic levels. It details how loneliness causes illness and indoctrination fuels a divided world, offering compassionate empathy as a unique path to repair and healing.
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Women Who Belong
Claiming a Female’s Right-Filled Place
To fight the fallacious assumption that patriarchy is eternal, this book inverts history. By centering the ordinary woman, we find women, rich and poor, who used patriarchal laws to protect their rights and demand the powers due them.
To fight the fallacious assumption that patriarchy is eternal, this book inverts history. By centering the ordinary woman, we find women, rich and poor, who used patriarchal laws to protect their rights and demand the powers due them.
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This book on media translation covers its history and major theories, offering practical applications in Arabic and English. It seeks to help students and professionals acquire the skills needed for this profession.
This book on media translation covers its history and major theories, offering practical applications in Arabic and English. It seeks to help students and professionals acquire the skills needed for this profession.
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By studying the temperance societies of Victorian and Edwardian England, this book opens a window onto middle-class and working-class society. These organizations of men, women, and children provided the backbone for temperance as both a social movement and a political lobby.
By studying the temperance societies of Victorian and Edwardian England, this book opens a window onto middle-class and working-class society. These organizations of men, women, and children provided the backbone for temperance as both a social movement and a political lobby.
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Coastal Environments in the West of Ireland
Sea, Land, and Spirit
This study unites the natural sciences and humanities to explore the connections between the environment and cultural heritage on Ireland's west coast. It reveals a deep appreciation for the wild coastal topography, preserved in the Irish language, poetry, story, and music.
This study unites the natural sciences and humanities to explore the connections between the environment and cultural heritage on Ireland’s west coast. It reveals a deep appreciation for the wild coastal topography, preserved in the Irish language, poetry, story, and music.
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Intellectual Developments in Greece and China
Contingency, Institutionalization and Path Dependency
This book compares the intellectual developments of ancient Greece and China, presenting a new theoretical model to explain their different trajectories. It offers a superior explanation to outdated studies and provides a sophisticated critique of Eurocentric views.
This book compares the intellectual developments of ancient Greece and China, presenting a new theoretical model to explain their different trajectories. It offers a superior explanation to outdated studies and provides a sophisticated critique of Eurocentric views.
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This exercise in ethical criticism regards cultural texts as friends for conversation. It explores female agency, colonialism, and slavery through figures from Joan of Arc to Princess Diana and texts from The Thousand and One Nights to a radical re-reading of Middlemarch.
This exercise in ethical criticism regards cultural texts as friends for conversation. It explores female agency, colonialism, and slavery through figures from Joan of Arc to Princess Diana and texts from The Thousand and One Nights to a radical re-reading of Middlemarch.
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Cultural Diversity in Cross-Cultural Settings
A Global Approach
As people move across international borders, the nuances of communication vary from culture to culture. This book explores how the misperception of cultural values can result in communication breakdowns.
As people move across international borders, the nuances of communication vary from culture to culture. This book explores how the misperception of cultural values can result in communication breakdowns.
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A sequel to the well-received *Schools of Linguistics*, this book shows how the subject has changed. Old “schools” have made way for a more diverse field, and Sampson offers a sampler describing two dozen of the most interesting innovations to emerge in the present century.
A sequel to the well-received *Schools of Linguistics*, this book shows how the subject has changed. Old “schools” have made way for a more diverse field, and Sampson offers a sampler describing two dozen of the most interesting innovations to emerge in the present century.
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This book argues that the rule of law does not stand alone; ethics and integrity are the lifeblood of all legal and governance systems. It explores how to overcome deficiencies in our legal systems and demonstrates how this approach can lead to more effective governance.
This book argues that the rule of law does not stand alone; ethics and integrity are the lifeblood of all legal and governance systems. It explores how to overcome deficiencies in our legal systems and demonstrates how this approach can lead to more effective governance.
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Essays on the History and Culture of the Unknown Calabria
Land of the Forgotten
Calabria, one of Europe's oldest civilised regions, has suffered from the neglect of its rich cultural legacy. This book directs the world's attention to those immense disregarded riches through essays on its history, arts, intellectual legacy, and its rejuvenation today.
Calabria, one of Europe’s oldest civilised regions, has suffered from the neglect of its rich cultural legacy. This book directs the world’s attention to those immense disregarded riches through essays on its history, arts, intellectual legacy, and its rejuvenation today.
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This book interrogates how stigma ‘others’ individuals and groups. Focusing on mental health, disability, and transgender politics, it reveals the progressive and regressive aspects of campaigns to challenge stigma, and warns how they can threaten our political freedom.
This book interrogates how stigma ‘others’ individuals and groups. Focusing on mental health, disability, and transgender politics, it reveals the progressive and regressive aspects of campaigns to challenge stigma, and warns how they can threaten our political freedom.
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Art Writing Online
The State of the Art World
These reviews of art exhibitions tackle institutional critique, race, and class. The book argues that the critic’s role is to create a community for debate, noting that moments of crisis bring conflicts to the surface and make radical change thinkable.
These reviews of art exhibitions tackle institutional critique, race, and class. The book argues that the critic’s role is to create a community for debate, noting that moments of crisis bring conflicts to the surface and make radical change thinkable.
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This volume examines bilingualism and multilingualism, covering second, third, and heritage language acquisition. Through critical analysis, it investigates new approaches to language learning and teaching, offering frameworks for understanding multilingualism.
This volume examines bilingualism and multilingualism, covering second, third, and heritage language acquisition. Through critical analysis, it investigates new approaches to language learning and teaching, offering frameworks for understanding multilingualism.
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Forms of Experienced Environments
Questioning Relations between Humans, Aesthetics, and Sciences
Going beyond policies focused on control, this book explores our world through ‘environmental forms’. This largely neglected, form-based approach opens a new perspective on the relationships between people, aesthetics, and environments.
Going beyond policies focused on control, this book explores our world through ‘environmental forms’. This largely neglected, form-based approach opens a new perspective on the relationships between people, aesthetics, and environments.
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Health Inequity
A Crucial Issue Worldwide
This book analyzes the crucial issue of health inequities between and within countries. It uses a multitude of figures to illustrate huge inequalities in maternal mortality, life expectancy, and more. A vital resource for students, researchers, and health decision makers.
This book analyzes the crucial issue of health inequities between and within countries. It uses a multitude of figures to illustrate huge inequalities in maternal mortality, life expectancy, and more. A vital resource for students, researchers, and health decision makers.
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