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Provides an overview of Polish authors and works from the 16th century to today, highlighting their contributions to and interactions with world literature and cultures--Author: Piotr Florczyk, K. A...

Based on intensive ethnographic work in Romania and India conducted over six years, this book traces the struggle for social justice in Roma and Adivasi communities. Throughout centuries of...

In the first study to examine F. W. J. Schelling's political thought, Velimir Stojkovski not only unearths a neglected dimension of the influential thinker's philosophy but further shows what it can...

Locating science fiction as its own distinct and increasingly important narrative form, this book explores how the genre challenges pervasive perceptions of society as presented in the conventional...

More than any other type of environment, with the possible exception of mountains, the sea has been understood since antiquity as being immovable to a proverbial degree. Yet it was the sea's capacity...

This open access book is a unique study of the impact of lived experience on literate life, exploring how children's reading development is affected by their home setting, and how this sense of place...

Technical automation - the ability of manmade (or god-made) objects to move and act autonomously - is not just the province of engineering or science fiction. In this book, Maria Gerolemou, by taking...

Answering foundational questions like what is a comic" and "how do comics work" in original and imaginative ways, this book adapts established, formalist approaches to explaining the experience of...

Rethinking the relationship between form and history in Irish modernist writing and its aftermath, this book examines how critics have previously categorized the Irish modernist novel, as an...

Introduction. Ends and beginnings : life and mind at the Australian fin de si?le -- The bush undertaker : Henry Lawson and the stragglers of the second industrial revolution -- Rose Summerfield...

The Governance of European Higher Education: Convergence or Divergence analyses governance at state and institutional levels in five European higher education systems chosen as representative of...

Centering on the British kitchen sink realism movement of the late 1950s and early 1960s, specifically its documentation of the built environment's influence on class consciousness, this book...

Covering moral intuition, self-evidence, non-inferentiality, moral emotion and seeming states, Hossein Dabbagh defends the epistemology of moral intuitionism. His line of analysis resists the...

Examining afresh the 16th-century style of mannerism, Sjoerd van Tuinen synthesises philosophy and aesthetics to demonstrate not only the contemporary relevance of mannerism but its broader...

This book considers cultural identity and power relations in early fourth-century BCE Greece through a reading of Xenophon's historical narratives, the Hellenica, Anabasis and Cyropaedia. These texts...

'A lass unparalleled' -- The femme fatale -- A kinder, gentler Cleopatra -- Cleopatra modernized -- Lizpatra and its aftermath -- Eighties ladies -- The fantasy queen of the 90s -- The 21st century...

Discusses how, when and why football spectators produce sound, and it examines the structures, meanings and functions of these sounds and their relationship to the football match as an...

The opponents of Epicureanism in antiquity, including Cicero, Plutarch and Lactantius, succeeded in establishing a famous clich? the theoretical and practical disinterest of Epicurus and the...

Examines the rise of Donald Trump through the lens of new media landscapes and cultural shifts that have emerged since the 1980s, when Trump came to prominence--Author: Michael Mario...

An introduction to linguistics, this book acquaints students to the key areas of linguistics using real-world illustrations. This fully revised and updated text draws upon students' daily experiences...