Gendered Bodies and New Technologies
As human interaction with technology becomes seamless, the body is reduced to an interface. What is forgotten is that being human means being embodied. To live in the dynamic intersection between mind and body is what makes us human.
For ruling houses, collecting was a political act driven by dynastic ambition. A family’s collection attested to the age and power of its lineage. This volume presents articles exploring this phenomenon from the Roman Republic to the eighteenth century.
African American Women’s Language
This groundbreaking research on African American Women’s Language is long overdue. It expands a literature that has too often focused only on men, exploring the language, discourse, and identity of Black women while finally letting the sistas speak.
Music and Literary Modernism
Scholars examine the intersections of music, literature, and language in modernism. Essays explore music’s place in the writing of Joyce, Woolf, and Pound, and literature’s importance for composers from Antheil to The Beatles. Revised and updated second edition.
Kaleidoscopic Grammar
This book explores binarism—pairs of binary features—as a powerful tool in the evolution of civilization, cognition, and language. It argues that binarism provides a base for complexity, proposing that the first verbs evolved from a split in early nouns.
F.F. Bosworth
F.F. Bosworth (1877-1958) was a Pentecostal pioneer and famous healing evangelist who led over a million people to Christ. While many know his book, Christ the Healer, few know the man. This book is the first critical analysis of his life and ministry.
Languages in Australian Education
Despite 20 years of language policy development, languages have not secured a place in Australian education. As Australia enters a new phase of policy activity, this book examines what has been achieved and considers a viable path for renewal.
The Future of Post-Human Sexuality
Modern sexual freedom is a seductive ideology, blinding us to its dark side. This book offers a radical new way to understand sexuality, with profound implications for the future of humanity.
Chronology and Evolution within the Mesolithic of North-West Europe
These proceedings focus on the contribution of carbon-14 dates to Mesolithic research in North-West Europe. 40 papers cover themes like lithic industries, settlement patterns, burial practices, human impact on the environment, and neolithisation.
Academics, Pompiers, Official Artists and the Arrière-garde
This collection of essays challenges the modernist slant of 20th-century art history. It investigates the complex relationship both innovative and conservative artists had with tradition, re-evaluating artists pushed to the margins by polemical descriptors.
Written on Stone
This book explores the history of Britain’s prehistoric monuments: not their origins, but how they have been viewed over centuries. It investigates their impact on culture, from motivating artists and authors to inspiring ‘New Age’ religions.
Between the Two
This book is a reflexive exploration into collaborative writing as a method of inquiry. At its heart are sequences of exchanged writings that form an experimental, transgressive inquiry into subjectivity, drawing on the philosophy of Gilles Deleuze.
Marine Monitoring Platforms
This book presents a comprehensive study of the challenges and technologies for observing the ocean environment. It describes state-of-the-art marine platforms and provides a vision for the future, with recommendations for ocean monitoring in the Irish context.
Explore the preaching and teaching of Rudolf Bultmann and Dietrich Bonhoeffer. Often misunderstood, this book objectively views their methods of biblical interpretation, showing how both sought to communicate the Gospel in a relevant manner during a challenging time.
Ethical Encounters
These essays on theatre ethics demonstrate how academics and artists have thought about its ethical implications. They debate relevant issues and explore what is possible within theatre, challenging you to form and develop your own opinions and resultant actions.
Prominent scholars from a wide array of disciplines unpack the complex factors underlying terrorism and political violence. This volume brings together global perspectives to provide a more nuanced understanding of this critical and timely issue.
This Christian devotional uses A Christmas Carol as a tool to teach the ancient Advent lessons of Hope, Faith, Peace, Love and Joy. Travel through Ebenezer’s redemptive journey to examine how Christ is born in your past, present and future.
Translation Reconsidered
This interdisciplinary study argues that translation does not merely relocate a text, but negotiates and alters relationships between cultures. Focusing on the cultural history of Bengal, it explores how genres are also translated, assuming striking new shapes.
Creative Interventions
Who are “intellectuals”? Are they an endangered species? This collection of essays examines the changing role, function, and self-perception of Italian intellectuals since World War II, with comparative essays on their place in other Western cultures.
Issues in Accents of English 2
This book explores variability in English accent production and perception by native and non-native speakers. Based on original data, it discusses intelligibility, identity, motivation, stress, and rhythm to contribute to pronunciation teaching.
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