Campania’s Wine on the Net
This book explores the language of wine tasting, analyzing promotional notes for wines from Italy’s Campania region. It examines how descriptions are translated for English-speaking consumers, offering insights for linguists, wine professionals, and ordinary wine drinkers alike.
British Religion and the World Wars
This is the first in-depth listing of literature on British religion and the World Wars. With over 1,200 items, it covers Christianity, Judaism, and alternative religion. An indispensable reference tool for those investigating the religious landscape of Britain during the wars.
Film and the Historian
Films are not just for audiences. A film exposes the attitudes people took for granted. This volume surveys British cinema from the Second World War to the early 1970s, exploring societal change through films from the well-known Odd Man Out to the forgotten It’s Hard to be Good.
This book tells the stories of eight women from a village in Africa reacting to anthropain—pain inflicted by humans. They weep in “sweet sobs,” turning tears into creative energy that generates resilience, hope, and positive change.
This book analyzes major ethical and bioethical issues like euthanasia, suicide, organ commerce, sexual objectification, and abortion from the perspective of Kant’s moral theory. It tackles questions of autonomy, human dignity, and free choice.
Transdisciplinarity and Translationality in High Dilution Research
Evidence for the biological effects of high dilutions is often ignored by the scientific community. This book provides direct access to the latest research, offering a sound, evidence-based “no” to the question: “Is homeopathy really that implausible?” An essential contribution.
A modern take on the tribal societies of the whole of Pakistan–their origins, history, and social profile. It promotes an understanding of the disruptive effects of external factors and reforms which failed to take into account their deep-seated cultural sensitivities.
Perspectives on Ecocriticism
This volume gathers together papers presented at the conference “Ecocriticism in the Nordic Countries; Yesterday, Today, Tomorrow”. The chapters engage with topics such as the Anthropocene, sustainability, and civilizational critique, as well as dark ecology and animal studies.
From Ottoman to Turk
This work focuses on the factors that were responsible for the collapse and downfall of the Ottoman Empire. It explores how its society and politics led to the paradigm shift giving rise to the making of the Turkish Republic which emerged out of the empire’s ashes.
A Festschrift in Honor of Rami Arav
The Golden Age of Biblical Archaeology all but ignored Bethsaida until 1987, when a young Israeli archaeologist, Rami Arav, began what would become a thirty-two-year-long research project at the site. This work honors the remarkable discoveries and successes of the venture.
Pentecostals Doing Church
Pentecostals are nearly 25% of all Christians. This work investigates how they “do church,” from everyday fellowship to worship. Balancing Western research with global perspectives, it explores the biblical and historical material they use to define their church.
This analysis of masterpieces by Proust, Kafka, Tolstoy, and others demonstrates that reality “imitates” literary possibilities. These works should be treated not as mere fiction, but as paradigms on whose basis we grasp and understand the actual world.
Authored by a group of experts, these essays provide fresh research on key topics such as leadership, arts, education, psychology, and sports. The contributors consider social issues and challenges pertinent to contemporary life, for both students and the public.
Poetry and Philosophy as Handlung
Poetry and Philosophy as Handlung offers verbal “doings” where sentences show both complicity and dissonance. Through this tactical sequence, time and place emerge, capturing the era’s peculiar aroma in a text that remains open to its own immediate future.
Entropy is one of the most interesting concepts in physics. Although a well-defined concept, it is still frequently perceived as one cloaked in mystery. This book, however, discusses entropy and the Second Law of Thermodynamics in such a way that everyone can understand them.
Contemporary biology focuses on genes and molecules, overlooking the living organisms themselves. This book redresses this imbalance by providing a new theory of what organisms are, and then putting it to work by recounting the story of evolution on Earth.
Farming Is Not Big Gardening
This light-hearted, informative narrative discusses US agriculture from a historical, social, and financial perspective. Written in a satirical voice, the author uses storytelling to share his experiences in food and farming through fast-moving, easy-to-read prose.
Authored by leading scholars, this collection of essays explores the complex relations between education and poverty. Using the Chilean system as a case study for issues of international concern, it presents research on social equality, schooling, and teacher education.
The Political Warfare Executive Syllabus Volume I
The syllabus of WWII’s ultra-secret Political Warfare Executive reveals for the first time the controversial methods of its elite propagandists. From delivering a lethal dose of propaganda to shaping a hidden vision for a British-led Europe, their dark arts shaped the continent.
The Political Warfare Executive Syllabus Volume II
The Political Warfare Executive Syllabus reveals the dark arts of WWII’s elite propagandists. Believing propagandists were trained, not born, they taught how to deliver lethal propaganda, use murder to amplify a message, and planned for a shocking, British-led Europe.
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