Outside
Artists, scholars, and philosophers explore cloth’s value and impact on society, revealing its potential as a metaphor for consciousness, a carrier of narrative, and a catalyst for community empathy and cohesion.
Counterpoints
Revolving around Edward Said’s theme of “counterpoint,” this book explores his contribution to the humanities. Overshadowed by his political positions, Said’s intellectual achievements should be acknowledged. This book pays tribute to his academic and humanistic legacy.
The Language of Diversity
From a Christian worldview, these essays bridge gaps among racial, cultural, and religious differences. The selections examine interfaith relations and challenge readers to probe topics like education, race, and gender.
Florida Studies
Florida’s long and colorful past is matched by its literary production, yet critical assessment has lagged. This volume corrects that oversight with papers on Florida literature, including studies of African-American figures and suggestions for teaching.
Living in Liverpool
This collection penetrates the lost world of working-class Liverpool. It reprints a selection of writings from social commentators, chief amongst them journalist Hugh Shimmin, who recorded the habits, housing, and wages of the city’s toiling masses.
This collection presents a snapshot of current music theory, exploring repertoire from Bach to the avant-garde. Neglected aspects of musical structure like rhythm and meter are given new focus, with many essays centered on the music and ideas of Arnold Schoenberg.
This collection explores monarchy, family, suicide, and sodomy in eighteenth-century France. It argues that the private and public weakness of sovereigns and husbands undermined their legitimacy, challenging simplistic assumptions about absolutism and Revolution.
European identity is both a problem and an opportunity. This interdisciplinary volume examines its complex facets—from cultural politics to digital media—to clarify and even create a new sense of what it means to be European.
Career Paths for Programmers
Commercial software development requires more than technical skill; it demands communication and collaboration. Based on a three-year study, this book explores the diverse roles and skills needed by senior practitioners, showing the various paths to advance.
Evolutionary Theist
The culmination of fifty years of research on American liberal religious thought, this study of Minot J. Savage completes the author’s work on the empirical tradition within the Free Religious Association.
Reveries of Home
Reveries of Home considers understandings of home in a globalized world. A series of case-studies reveals how home-making is an ongoing work, cementing the close connections that remain between home and identity, even in a world of movement.
Challenges of Discourse Processing
This book shows how linguistic analysis and natural language processing can automatically recognize the discourse structures of technical documents. It presents concrete solutions which can be deployed in industrial contexts to improve document quality.
The boundaries between bodies and technologies are changing how we experience the world. How close are we to a world where machines are indistinguishable from their creators? This book explores the relationship between technology and embodiment.
The House of Fiction as the House of Life
Houses, the silent background to our lives, could many a tale unfold. This collection offers a transdisciplinary look at the paper houses of 18th and 19th century English literature, investigating haunted edifices, gendered spaces, and Gothic fiction.
Civic Duty
This study offers a new view on public services in the early modern Low Countries. It explores who provided services between 1500 and 1800, how they were rewarded, and how these responsibilities were shaped by conceptions of citizenship and collective interest.
This study explores African/Caribbean boys’ educational experiences in the UK. It contrasts narratives of racial exclusion in mainstream schools with the positive support of supplementary education, highlighting what the former can learn from the latter.
Niger Delta
Since the 1970s, Nigeria’s Niger Delta has been engulfed by oil-related conflicts. This book explores the complex constraints and pathways to development in the region, bringing to the fore the challenges and options for a sustainable future.
Seeking the Self – Encountering the Other
This collection offers new insights into diasporic experiences. It examines how we can ethically read and interpret encounters with the cultural, sexual, and ethnic other in narratives of displacement, belonging, and exclusion.
Being Amongst Others
Philosophical reflection helps us understand our world. This volume presents a variety of phenomenological views on everyday life, granting precedent to the first-person perspective to explore consciousness, friendship, and religious or political experiences.
Terror Truncated
To distinguish fact from myth, this book traces the crimes and leaders of the widely misunderstood Abu Sayyaf Group. It concludes that the group has been in decline since 2002, and by 2012 existed as fragmented cells rather than an organised entity.
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