Two of the world’s most wicked writers, decadent poets Viereck and Crowley, formed an alliance in 1915 New York. Viereck was the editor of a pro-German magazine; Crowley was his new hire. But was Crowley a British secret agent sent to spy on the German network?
A psychiatrist’s experiences in the Vietnam War inspired a lifelong commitment to refugee care. This book chronicles his psychiatric clinic, sharing profound stories of loss and trauma from his patients and revealing their remarkable paths to healing.
After the Genocides
A sweeping memoir of the author’s Jewish and Armenian families, this account moves from genocide and the Cold War to his work with American and Russian leaders to prevent nuclear war, culminating in his organization winning the Nobel Peace Prize.
Claiming Sylvia Plath
Claiming Sylvia Plath is a critical study of the public obsession with the poet. It explores how she has been claimed by critics, feminists, and biographers to further theories, politics, and careers, offering new perspectives on her public image.
This book explores how Gabonese writer Sylvie Ntsame’s novels challenge patriarchal traditions that silence women. Ntsame counters racism and the objectification of the black female body with depictions of idealized interracial love, calling for understanding between cultures.
In a phantasmagoric trial, Alfred Dreyfus was called a “zinc puppet.” This book reveals the man behind the enigma: his concealed Jewish identity, the love it inspired, and the Court Martial as a fin de siècle horror fantasy.
Signs, Codes, Spaces, and Arts
This book delves into general and spatial semiotics, introducing the “sign prism,” an integrative model of sign connection. It focuses on spatial semiotics and its visual codes, applying these concepts to research the structures and historical changes of visual arts.
Journalism and Politics in Nigeria
This book offers fresh insight into the impact of British colonial rule on contemporary Nigerian politics and journalism. It explores the enduring effects of this inheritance and the unintended consequences that remain problematic more than 100 years later.
Training the Composer
Uncover the teaching methods of masters Schoenberg and Boulanger. For the first time in print, this text analyzes their materials, contrasting the German and French schools to forge a new, effective pedagogy for composition teachers.
Working Women, 1800-2017
This book examines how women have adapted their dual role as carers and breadwinners, from the industrial revolution to the digital age. Drawing on original fieldwork, this volume sheds new light on gender, family, and labour issues across Europe.
Mediating Germany
This volume explores how German popular culture responds to contemporary life, combining tradition with current social debates. Essays offer case studies of popular fiction, theatre, music, and filmmaking, analyzing today’s issues and their historical legacies.
Studies in Linguistic Variation and Change 3
This volume traces the complex history of the English language from its beginnings to the present day. Using diverse theoretical standpoints, it addresses changes in fields from semantics to syntax, and will be of interest to scholars and students of historical linguistics.
A Traditionalist History of the Great War, Book II
Combining Sacred Geography and Sea Power, this book offers a Traditionalist perspective on the choices facing the Ten Great Powers on the eve of the Great War. It shows the world of 1914 on its own terms, free from the projections of contemporary historiography.
Becoming an Effective Teacher in America
Should you become a teacher? This book helps you decide and shows you how to become an effective resource for your students. Learn how to build a teaching philosophy, motivate learners, manage your classroom, and navigate the challenges facing today’s teachers.
Semiotics and Visual Communication IV
Inspired by Roland Barthes, this book explores today’s myths. It examines how daily life and consumer culture—from cinema and sports to online networks and fashion—are socially constructed signs, shaped by global mass communication and visual culture.
Experienced professors from Australia, New Zealand, the USA, and Eastern Europe recount in interviews their secrets to success in mentoring doctoral students. Their supervision styles are analysed and compared to elucidate what it means to be a successful advisor.
Teaching Psychology around the World
A handbook for psychology professors aiming to internationalize and diversify their curricula. This work provides practical tips, innovative teaching ideas, and global perspectives on psychology education from distinguished authors representing every major region of the world.
How, where, and when does innovation occur in creative writing teaching? This volume explores such innovation, gathering contributors whose teaching stories provide direction, stimulus, and encouragement for those seeking to innovate in how creative writing is taught and learnt.
Opéra-Comique
Opéra-comique, a French genre not always comic in nature—the most famous example, Bizet’s Carmen, is a tragedy—reflected the cultural life of France. This sourcebook details its forgotten composers and operas, providing a way into a changing age.
East-West Symbioses
This book explores many facets of the encounters between East and West, including exoticizations and incommensurabilities, creative fusions, and the effect of the West on Asian countries. It will appeal to anyone seeking an understanding of the relationship of the two spheres.
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