The authors of this volume explore rhetorical and discursive strategies used to negotiate and establish legitimate knowledge and its disciplinary boundaries, to make scientific knowledge interesting o
The circulation of goods, ideas, and people has shaped a common European food culture. But practical questions pertaining to this process remain unanswered. How and why do changes in food habits occur
The main purpose of this volume is to look into a wide spectrum of artistic ventures which cross boundaries and challenge habitual thinking, consequently involving an element of provocation. While it
This textbook offers a brief overview of the main philosophical schools of the two most significant cultures in ancient Asia, from where these thoughts have spread widely – it concerns ancient India a
This book is a case study of an African-Caribbean-founded football club, Meadebrook Cavaliers, from the English East Midlands. Covering the years 1970 to 2010, it seeks to address the paucity of resea
Higher education and society are becoming increasingly intertwined. Both act as a transmitter of culture, yet many colleges and universities also ideally seek to create a more perfectible society and
Higher Education and Society explores the influences of higher education on society, and vice versa, the influences of society on higher education. It focuses on how higher education’s relationship wi
Ruth: Bridges and Boundaries is a literary close reading of the text as a bridge between the anarchic period of the Judges and the monarchic age that begins with the birth of David, as reflected throu
Humanitarianism, Communications and Change is the first book to explore humanitarianism in today’s rapidly changing media and communications environment. Based on the latest academic thinking alongsid
Tryuk investigates the history and ethics of translation and interpreting. The author has organized the main body of her text in five chapters devoted to setting the scene, the ethics of interpreters,
Nineteenth-century Spanish realist novelist Benito Prez Galds was well-read in medicine as well as literature. This literary study looks at the realistic clinical d
Contributed by humanitarian communications practitioners, journalists, and academics mainly from the UK, the 19 chapters in this book consider the role of media and communications in humanitarianism,
Offering a comprehensive analysis of mediated representations of global pandemics, this book engages with the construction, management, and classification of difference in the global context of a pand
This is a theoretical book about the relation of media and the course of disease, especially pandemic disease, in a globalized society. Author Levina asserts that, and explains how media representatio
Quinn explores the work of education--curriculum and pedagogy specifically--with respect to the dream of peace, here particularly as issuing from the subjective gleanings of education students, prospe
This book explores the differences between ‘high’ and ‘low’ cultures in an Irish context, arguing that these differences require constant revision and redefinition. The volume includes analysis of fam
You have been wondering about it for some time; finally, Zawadzki (Polish, Jagiellonian U.) has the guts to say it out loud. Weak thought can be a temporary affliction or a life-long avenue of pursuit
In 11 papers from an October 2009 conference in Belgrade, scholars of philosophy offer some contemporary perspectives on the potential of Darwin's theory of evolution for present and future generation
«Empathy must be part of education because knowledge without it is incomplete» (Swanger, Essays in Aesthetic Education, 1990). Aesthetics, Empathy and Education pursues Swanger’s assertion in myriad w
White (integrated studies in education, McGill U., Canada) and Costantino (art education, U. of Georgia) provide teachers and graduate students in education with 10 essays on the connection between ae
The massive scholarship on Argentine writer Jorge Luis Borges (1899-1986) is strangely quiet about his admiration for and extensive writing on Swedish theologian and mystic Emanuel Swedenborg (1688-17
Queer Impact and Practices brings together chapters arising from the third annual Queering Paradigms conference. Queer Theory is still evolving and extending the range of its enquiry. It maps out new
Byron’s mannerist digressive style and his ‘theatricality’ are a method of literary and cultural discourse based on the concepts of irony, paradox and reflectivity that were practised in seventeenth-c
Ossian's poetry was rediscovered in the eighteenth century; an example of "folk poetry," it became part of the "national epic" movement, an effort in Europe to establish roots for largely rootless loc
It is obvious today that the democratic political regime cannot be considered reality without taking into account political parties; it is as obvious as the phenomenon of partidocracy, expressed throu
In recent years, calls for a new humanism have arisen from a variety of voices across the spectrum of philosophy, expressing frustration with outdated models of the human that cannot account for the r
This book was shortlisted for the Lord Aberdare Prize 2013. While the relationship between amateurism and sport is well documented, the impact of this ethos on the professional coaches and trainers wh
Eight studies from a September 2010 summer school in Berlin explore the cognitive-linguistic and motor task planning that speakers must accomplish before uttering a sentence. Among the topics are glob
Intercultural Policies and Education is concerned with educational challenges in multicultural societies. Educational policies, practices and strategies for fruitful coexistence in the multicultural s
Race and Writing Assessment brings together established and up-and-coming scholars in composition studies to explore how writing assessment needs to change in order to account for the increasing diver
In this collection of essays, US contributors in English and composition raise questions about race, class, and assessment in classrooms, writing programs, and large-scale assessments of writing such
Disasters in today’s globalized world are becoming not only more frequent but, often, more catastrophic. The media play a critical role in communicating and making sense of these cataclysmic events. T
Intercultural dialogue is a concept and discourse that dates back to the 1980s. It is the major means for managing diversity and strengthening democracy within Europe and beyond. It has been adopted b
This book explores social networking sites as the digital field of cultural production by loosely drawing from Pierre Bourdieu’s notion of field and capital. The book examines four case studies on MyS
This collection of essays aims to revive the sociological debate on the unintended, unanticipated and unexpected consequences of social action, as started by Robert K. Merton in a classic study of 193
International charity Oxfam notes that in the past 20 years the number of global disasters, from the Indian Ocean tsunami to the major earthquakes in Haiti and Japan, has quadrupled. As the speed of n
Besley and Peters (both education, Waikato U., New Zealand and U. of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign) offer an international collection of papers written by scholars exploring intercultural dialogue for
Suhr (media studies, Miami U. Hamilton) explores social networking sites as a digital field of cultural production for popular musicians by loosely drawing on Pierre Bourdieu's theories related to fie
This multidisciplinary edited volume examines wide-ranging exchanges between France and its Mediterranean neighbours and their impact. It questions the changing notion of a Mediterranean space and its
This book takes up a critical and realistic perspective on what is happening in China, India and other Asian countries in comparison with Western countries. It avoids hiding problems and difficulties,
