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Poldowski (Ir?ne Dean Paul n?e Wieniawska) 1879-1932 was the youngest daughter of the celebrated violinist/composer, Henryk Wieniawski. The only member of her family to follow her father into the...

Sedirse Bodley is one of the best-known senior figures of contemporary music in Ireland. This book seeks to examine his engagement with the poetry of Micheal O'Siadhail and the making of these song...

This book presents a renewed consideration of women's poetry in ancient Greek literature by offering a detailed analysis of the works attributed to female poets from the Hellenistic era. These scarce...

In English and many other languages the name Kon-Tiki is a byword for adventure and the exotic. The journey of the Kon-Tiki from Peru to Polynesia in 1947 became one of the founding myths of the...

This book shows that an imported ecumenical method was inadequate in enabling churches in Nigeria, particularly Anglican / Methodist ones, to act ecumenically in dealing with the overwhelming...

This volume assesses football's changing politics and culture in Korea during the twentieth century. It analyses the diffuse development of football in the two Koreas from the following angles:...

This work presents a detailed study of the five key ballet organisations that operated in Ireland between 1927 and 1963: the Abbey Theatre School of Ballet, the Abbey School of Ballet, the Sara Payne...

Of the many commemorations of World War I, little was made of the 100th anniversary of the Treaty of London that passed South Tyrol from Austria to Italy in April 1915. This volume explores the...

This book explores whether the basis for a liberation ecclesiology can be attributed to Joseph Ratzinger. While its focus is ecclesiological, the author also gathers together many strands of...

Perhaps the greatest actor-manager of his time , wrote the distinguished playwright Harold Pinter, whose first job in the theatre was with Anew McMaster's classical theatre company and whose little...

This study offers an unconventional reading of modern and postmodern German memorials from a medievalist perspective. Including but not limited to memorials for the victims of the Nazis in Germany,...

In the 1580s, almost a century after Christopher Columbus first set foot in the New World, England could not make any substantial claim to the rich territories there. Less than a century later,...

This book focuses on the treatment of violence in a number of fictional and non-fictional texts published in the North of Ireland during the last two decades and analyses, through the prism of French...

This book reflects on a journey as a shamanic healer and a psychotherapist, and how the integration of psychotherapy and traditional healing methods emerged. It explores an initial training in...

This book is an auto-ethnographic account of the development of a charismatic community choir leader. It brings together management literature and a survey of the community choir scene with the...

This book proposes an alternative, Dominican Thomist vision of a procedurally secular society that comprises three realms, namely sacred, secular and profane. Derived from experience and classroom...

Hailed by General Sir Ian Hamilton as 'a slashing man of action', Aylmer Hunter-Weston began the Great War as one of the British Army's rising stars. By its close, his reputation was very different...

Leopardi's Zibaldone has been considered to be a collection of temporary thoughts and impressions lacking coherence and consistency. This book shows that such a perceived lack of coherence is merely...

These letters give a personal and intimate insight into the lives of two sisters living in Madras (now Chennai) in the time of Jane Austen. Both describe day-to-day life, occupations and...

This book is the outcome of collaboration between medical and theological writers from within the Christian tradition. Its aim is to explore ways in which medicine and theology can be complementary...

This volume is about the partnership of the Christian churches in their dialogue with the European Institutions. In a context of plurality the discourse between religion, society and political...

Global military integration is yet a missing link towards abolishing war and nuclear weapons. Only if all state were joined in a truly Global NATO would it be possible to overcome the security...

This book investigates language in a broad framework, taking into account anthropology, psychology and evolutionary biology. Using examples from oral communication in a number of languages, the...

Through an examination of the newspaper reporting of the Crimean War this book recreates a contemporary reader's perspective on the war as a context for a consideration of literature which was...

This volume presents a number of close readings of Latin American literary and cultural phenomena. The overarching theme of the collection is the revision of the accepted view of Latin American...

Abbas Khider has established himself as one of the leading literary voices of refugees and marginalised communities in Germany today.Born in Baghdad, Iraq, hs novels probe important questions related...

Academic style and its standards are often unclear to students and scholars. This book aims to unpack the concept of academic style proofreading using methodologies including terminology, corpus...

Comparative literary studies face new challenges today in a world marked by the migration of people, languages, ideas and texts across diverse and increasingly porous borders. The field is restricted...

This book is a study of a significant nexus in contemporary Catholic thought and is peculiarly relevant to the turbulent conditions of the Modern Church, especially in relation to Vatican II. It is a...

This book is based on papers originally presented at the international conference 'Activating Human Rights and Diversity' held in Australia in 2003. It advances a powerful and convincing affirmation...