A trilingual compendium of English, French, and Romanian technical terms for forages. It covers key topics in plant biology, physiology, and cultivation. An essential resource for agriculturists, researchers, students, and translators.
“Papists” and Prejudice
How were Irish Catholic immigrants accepted in 19th-century North East England? This book challenges the accepted view of the region as tolerant, revealing how sectarian violence was fueled by local conditions and the proactive role of the Catholic communities.
The Design Collective
This collection explores the potential of the collective as a structure linking creativity, social change, and politics. Bringing together practitioners, historians, and theorists, it examines how design practices like authorship and agency are being re-evaluated.
Anglistics in Lithuania
This collection offers diverse accounts of English and Lithuanian studies, with a particular focus on the contrastive aspect. Presenting a wide variety of empirical data, these essays have profound implications for both translation and teaching.
Trans/American, Trans/Oceanic, Trans/lation
From different disciplinary angles, these essays explore key questions in International American Studies: What are the symbolic and material relations between the “Americas,” the “USA,” and the “World”? And how does American experience shape global practices?
Papers from the First and Second Postgraduate Forums in Byzantine Studies
This provocative, wide-ranging collection of essays sheds new light on controversial facets of Byzantine history, religion, literature, and art. Sailing to Byzantium is a must for students and academics of one of history’s most fascinating civilizations.
Marronnage and Arts
Marronnage, the quest for freedom during Slavery, has infiltrated social relationships and the arts. This book explores how revolt is incarnated in bodies and voices through music and dance, from the French West Indies to Madagascar and Brazil.
This book describes new ways of approaching aesthetics and innovation. Spanning Gestalt theory to the latest brain scan research, it unites chapters by Western aestheticians and Russian scholars, offering novel perspectives on art and science.
Classics For All
Venture beyond the toga epic. This collection explores antiquity’s surprising legacy in TV, computer games, and B-movies, revealing how Greece and Rome continue to shape even the most cutting-edge corners of modern pop culture.
Longing, Weakness and Temptation
This book explores the universal themes of longing, weakness, and temptation by comparing literary works influenced by biblical and classic texts. It shows how the source text speaks through the new work and how the new work forces new meanings from the source.
Knowledge and learning are key to policy change. This book provides theoretical tools to analyse how ideas affect policy outcomes, offering new perspectives on welfare state reform, policy transfer, and diffusion processes in Europe.
This book explores the creative imagination in Victorian England through five key figures: John Ruskin, William Morris, Dante Gabriel Rossetti, Walter Pater and Arthur Symons. It contrasts the views of theoreticians with the experiences of practitioners.
Hybridity
This volume critically assesses the notion of hybridity in literature and the visual arts from the eighteenth century to the present. It examines the concept as one held in contempt by purists, promoted by syncretists, and viewed with suspicion by its critics.
The European Avant-Garde
This interdisciplinary collection of essays explores European Avant-Garde movements (1900-1940) in text and image. Covering movements like Futurism and Surrealism, it examines themes of the body, translation, identity, and exile.
Mothers of Innovation
What sparks innovation? This book reveals why property rights and resources were not enough to ignite the Industrial Revolution. The surprising key was expanding social networks, which fostered cooperation and integrated unrelated concepts to create something new.
Information Visualisation
This volume reviews information visualisation, the art of transforming complex data into clear visuals. It explores techniques from medieval origins to modern 2D/3D rendering and evaluation methods, with examples from history, art, and science.
Migration and Development
This book finds that highly-skilled Ghanaian and Ivorian return migrants can be key development agents. Bringing back financial, human, and social capital, they create new businesses and community initiatives, supporting the idea of ‘brain circulation’.
Grammatical Development of Chinese among Non-native Speakers
Bridging theory and practice, this book unlocks the science of learning Chinese. It reveals the universal path to CSL acquisition, offering practical applications for teachers and a clear, effective roadmap for learners.
Popular culture surrounds us. This collection offers a diverse selection of scholarship examining contemporary television, film, video games, internet fandom, gender, and identity, exploring the many cultural modes that shape our everyday lives.
Tools of Their Tools
This book explores communication technologies in American culture over 150 years. How has American society molded these technologies? How have they, in turn, shaped American history? Are we still, in the words of Thoreau, “tools of their tools”?
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