(Post)Colonial Passages
The essays gathered here discuss postcolonialism as a transdisciplinary field of passages that negotiate among diverse, yet interrelated, cultural fields.
Whistleblowing
Many white-collar criminals are too powerful to jail. Whistleblowers play an important role in detection by sending crime signals. This book details fraud signal detection and presents four case studies where whistleblowers reported fraud suspicions.
This volume is a rigorous update of the state of the art in the investigation of Old and Middle English. Written by some of the best known experts in this field, it addresses various issues, such as etymology, manuscript sources, and medieval literary traditions, among others.
Semiconductor silicon is the basic material of modern electronics. Its properties are determined by defects in its crystal structure, but a complete description of these defects has been a mystery—until now. This book solves it using classical and probabilistic approaches.
Cinematic Schooling
Combs uses the metaphor of schooling to highlight the conviction that the widespread attention given to moving pictures in their various venues is not only diverting and entertaining, but also educative, although subtle and suggestive rather than explicit and didactic.
A definitive guide to high-performance marine vehicles. This volume explores the design, resistance, powering, seakeeping, and maneuvering of monohulls, multihulls, hydrofoils, and more, through cutting-edge theoretical and numerical analysis.
This book explores the unbreakable relationship between teaching, learning, and assessment. A range of articles scrutinizes assessment from a wide spectrum: from teacher assessment literacy and technology in the classroom to the role of the CEFR and empirical data analysis.
Consciousness and Self-Knowledge in Medieval Philosophy
While often traced to Descartes, self-knowledge is a perennial theme. This volume studies its treatment in the Medieval Latin West, focusing on Aquinas. It explores how the intellect grasps itself and how transformative self-knowledge leads to virtue, happiness, and fulfillment.
John Bradburne
Poet, mystic, and martyr. These essays explore the multifaceted life of John Bradburne and the turbulent times he encountered in 20th-century Rhodesia. This volume investigates his poetry, spirituality, and humanitarian legacy, making the case for his recognition as a saint.
Death on the Move
This volume explores the different aspects of the management of death, dying and mortality by migrants in Southern Europe, through deconstructing persistent idiosyncratic beliefs, myths, narratives, silences, and constraints.
A unique hybrid of historical Gothic, this novel is set amid the sanguinary events of post-revolutionary France. It follows Countess Adelaide de Narbonne’s rebellion against male authority, connecting her story with that of Charlotte Corday, Marat’s murderer.
For those who want to understand the reasons behind the Israel-Palestine conflict, this book offers a rational explanation. It takes a world tour of Jewish communities and their thoughts on the Palestinian question, from over a century ago to the present day.
This volume contributes to closing the divide that still exists today between the so-called ‘practical’ and ‘classical’ disciplines in seminary curricula. The essays here model a dynamic reading of human situations and biblical texts that reveal their multivalent complexities.
This volume discusses pressing issues in contemporary artistic education and culture. It explores how artistic education preserves national traditions, contributes to international integration, and navigates the challenges of the 21st century.
Golda Meir’s Foreign Decision-Making Process
Kremer Asaf focuses on Meir’s foreign decision making processes during her tenure as Israeli Prime Minister. She exposes the political-diplomatic aspects of foreign policy, using interviews and analysis of hundreds of formerly secret documents from various national archives.
This volume includes ten essays on American, British and Canadian writers’ biographies and family histories, ranging from Woolf’s Orlando (1928) to Zanganeh’s The Enchanter (2011), analysing the connection between biography and fiction in the light of postmodernism.
Addressing issues of theorization in linguistics associated with systems of representation, these essays question the very concept of metalanguage and study the relationship between linguistics and cognition from a variety of perspectives.
Sak-Wernicka explores the impact of visual impairment on the interpretation of utterances. She identifies common ground between the pragmatic analysis of comprehension and visual impairment, and shows how the study of pragmatics is enriched by the study of visual impairment.
This conference proceedings stems from a prevailing feeling among Palestinians that Palestinian identity is in a state of weakening and retreat. The contributions study, analyse, and suggest solutions to the problems facing Palestinian identity today.
Uncovering Caledonia
Uncover the burning cultural issues of modern Scotland from a non-native point of view. This book offers insight through the analysis of Scottish folk tales, legends, literature, and film, appealing to both scholars and the general reader.
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