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This volume contains a selection of articles focussed on analysis and interpretation of Ali Smith's literary output. It aims to explore key areas of her work including language, identity, narrative...

The book shows the heterogeneity of Polish Romanticism, which is often unfairly narrowed in its reception abroad to the issue of nationality. The authors focus on the history of Poland and Russia in...

Some sources state that the number of books Ibn Sina has written is over 240; 153 of these have been discovered. Among his valuable books, the two most well-known books are al-Shifa, which deals...

This book explores the ways in which the political and social power structures between filmmaker and protagonist are manifested in the aesthetics of documentary film. Using a synthesis of filmmaking...

The book describes socialisation processes and the reaching of adulthood by the youth in 9 post-communist countries in Europe and Asia. The analyses consider internal political transformations and...

The book consists of nine chapters devoted to representations of melancholia in 19th-century art and literature. The book not only provides a survey of images and modes of behaviour of 19th-century...

This book gives a comprehensive overview of the phenomenon of artistic dialogue with ancient myths. The contributors investigate the procedure of myths' recycling within Greco-Roman antiquity, and...

The book deals with different aspects of the legal comparison of the compliance officer's function within the common law and civil law system such as the legal roots and the cultural background of...

The book investigates the morphology and phonology of the nominal domain in Tagbana of the Senufo group of C?te d'Ivoire. The nominal domain is the locus of a phenomenon called 'alliterative...

Scott's influence on Scottish tourism is widely discussed. However, only a few scholars have provided a holistic analysis of the relationship between Scott and Scottish tourism from the 19th to the...

This book explores the effects of globalisation and digitalisation to labour law. The authors discuss how a changed political setting influences the foundations of contemporary labour law, and the...

Based on historical corpora, the book is a comprehensive study of the demise of five preterite-present verbs in English. It offers a detailed description of the forms and uses of these verbs in Old...

This book discusses how judges qualify their activities as objective. The data for this project was retrieved from a large sample of cases using Langacker's methodology. The sample included over a...

This book reconstructs and discusses the research of Roger J. Williams, exploring the development of his concept of Biochemical Individuality. As a pioneer in the emerging field of biochemistry,...

The book focuses on the Polish social policy in the period 1918-1939, its contextual (historical, organisational, conceptual, financial) conditionings, the institutions, and primarily on the...

This book presents you with the background profiles of those mass exterminators of National Socialism who wound up in court. It pictures their 'route to crime' and explains why their court room...

The volume focuses on the Pan-Orthodox Council of 2016 and highlights key issues for the Orthodox world. These include conciliarism, ecclesiastical geopolitics, local and universal Orthodoxy,...

The book provides the first analysis of Karl Christian Friedrich Krause's system of philosophy and of his panentheism in English. It is of value to anyone interested in German idealism, panpsychism,...

Central Europe, 1914-1918. A broad vista of the lives of the inhabitants of the border zones between Russia, Germany, and Austria-Hungary during the Great War. The ordinary man's struggle to survive...

The book considers the poetry of Czeslaw Milosz in the light of world literature and comparative literary studies. It employs critical debates about his reception in American literature, English...

The author analyses the meaning of Nārāyaṇa Guru's Śaiva poems composed in Malayalam, Sanskrit and Tamil. The author points to how Nārāyaṇa Guru's ideas connect...

The discourse on Physiognomy had an important influence and impact on European theatrical culture at the end of the eighteenth and the beginning of the nineteenth centuries. The book discusses the...

This volume analyzes the identity of Polish systemic solutions, the nature of change in constitutionalism and the modern political system of Poland. The authors question the roles of various state...

The Maastricht Treaty remains a crossroad in the history of European integration. Since its ratification, policy areas at the core of the national sovereignties have been included in the Brussels...

The case studies of Joe Namath, Dennis Rodman and Barry Bonds show how this phenomenon has become visible from the 1960s onwards because of profound changes within the media and sports. These...

The discussion of Lipset-Rokkan's theory of cleavages leads to the conclusion that communism left behind the post-communist cleavage. The cleavage manifested itself in electoral behavior, the party...

This book discusses silence as a state born either by trauma-inflicted muteness or deliberate abstinence from speech focusing on the mute(d) characters, the nonverbal forms of communication and...

The book examines the literary representation of smell throughout American literature. In her innovative close readings, the author combines insights from cultural studies, critical race, gender,...

The main purpose of the book is to create a model of the presidential election campaign in South Korea. The collected materials, posted on Facebook and Twitter accounts by the three most important...

The book focuses on Heidegger's thoughtful repetition of early Greek thinking, and his receptive attention to the fragments of the Presocratics from our contemporary age. It presents a deep analysis...