Common Threads
Common Threads explores the artistic identity and memory of ten textile artists. Through their stories, it reveals how individuals create a cohesive sense of self and deepens our understanding of what it means to be an artist.
Historicizing Fiction/Fictionalizing History
A unique comparative study of Umberto Eco and Orhan Pamuk. This book uses their historical novels to examine fictional depictions of reality, exploring how the text confronts a world of facts and how this affects the autonomy of the fictional space.
A definitive reference for the theory and practice of Islamic finance. Explore global banking innovations and understand their vital role in today’s volatile economy.
Analyzing Public Policies in Latin America
This book presents research on public policies in Latin America from a cognitive perspective. It asks what paradigms have shaped these policies, how they have changed over time, and who the new actors and coalitions influencing agendas are today.
Knowledge in Action
With authorship from community partners and universities, this book highlights the challenges of university-community engagement and outlines how Australian universities defy these obstacles through innovative projects that create positive socio-economic change.
Media, Power and Empowerment
This collection of original research maps trends in CEE media, providing insight into the region’s shared history and politics. It also discusses the differences among the countries, the consequences for their media scenes, and the lived experiences of their people.
Writers with roots in Africa navigate new terrains and racialized identities in Europe. Through vibrant literature, they redefine identity and imagine the contours of a diverse, inclusive Europe, reckoning with its colonial history and its legacy.
Innovation in Financial Services
Synthesizing academic research and practitioner insights, this book explores innovation in financial services. It analyzes success factors, strategy, and the challenges facing an industry in need of vision and strategic foresight.
This social history of the modern Middle East covers the last 100 years, focusing on everyday life rather than sensational events. It explores key issues including urbanization, gender identities, migration, and the social consequences of the Arab Spring.
The discourse of education for sustainability is a self-centred discourse, refusing to acknowledge insights from other fields. It needs a radical paradigm shift to become communal learning in a real place, facing tough questions about its prevailing insularity.
Leading scholars offer a fresh, thought-provoking examination of Byzantium in Late Antiquity and beyond. This multi-disciplinary volume presents innovative research on the interaction between the Empire’s core and periphery, and relations between Romans and Barbarians.
This book examines how EU water directives engender “Other Spaces” of feminist ecological alignment. Drawing on ethnographies of river restorations, it shows how activism challenges neoliberal governance, revealing urban waterways as intriguing gendered heterotopias.
‘Philosophy’ – After the End of Philosophy
This work rethinks philosophy for our interconnected times, proposing a new “critical philosophy” with an emancipatory thrust. It takes aim at bullshit and offers compelling analyses to grapple with the serious challenges facing our globalizing world.
Love, Family and Friendship
This volume presents current research on love, family, and friendship from a Latin American perspective. It includes studies from Brazil, Chile, Colombia, and Mexico on topics from satisfaction to violence, filling a major gap in relationship research.
Ecclesia et Violentia
This interdisciplinary anthology explores violence and the medieval Church. It examines attacks against clergy, aggression between them, and the role of violence in discipline, revealing how it was integral to the legal culture and social bonds of medieval Europe.
The search for identity is a challenge in our global world. Placing the topic against an intercultural background, this book addresses the relationship between self, identity, and society from an academic perspective, with research from around the world.
This volume explores extension—a fundamental, yet largely unexplored, aspect of language. Contributors investigate its regularities, limits, and influence on grammar and meaning, using rich examples from English, French, Polish, Russian, and German.
This study examines the social and cultural contexts that frame art’s creation and influence its effects. Time is a social river, unpredictable and forever in motion. Art runs in that river, subject to the flow and chance of its inexorable force.
Explore sustainable agriculture with bio-fertilizers and fungicides. This guide provides easy, illustrated protocols for PGPR from production to commercialization. A vital resource for students, researchers, and entrepreneurs in the field.
Inductive or Deductive?
This book presents the first systematic analysis of inductive vs. deductive instruction for pragmatic competence in EFL learners. The results suggest the advantage of the inductive approach. A valuable resource for researchers and teachers, with materials and insights.
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