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The origin and development of dougong and zaojing in early china
This book inquiries about the origin of dougong and zaojing in Chinese Bronze Age, and their heavenly interpretations in the Han dynasty (206 BCE–220), with an aim to remind people the rich cultural meanings embodied in these two important architectural elements in early China.
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The role of land and natural resources in conflict and peacemaking
Aiming to contribute to the literature of what works to make peace, this volume examines the roles of land, water and mineral resources in conflict and peacemaking. The analysis focuses on six cases of prolonged, ethno-national, asymmetric conflict and six cases of special interest.
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Living across connectivity
This volume looks at the role of digital media platforms in shaping migrants’ practices of connectivity and mobility. Focusing on migration within and beyond East Asia, it explores the pervasive use of smartphones as an everyday reality for intimacy, entrepreneurship, and care for East Asian migr...
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Another canon
Both rigorous and readable, ‘Another Canon’ is an original contribution to the study of Indian English literature.
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Wittgenstein and the life we live with language
This work is guided by the idea that Wittgenstein’s thought opens the door to a more profound break with the philosophical tradition than has been generally recognized. It brings this insight to bear on some basic problems of philosophy.
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Ventures in philosophical history
The book provides a series of innovative studies of the treatment of major issues by philosophers ranging from classical antiquity to the present day.
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Virtual voyages
'Virtual Voyages' is a fascinating account of the European discovery of the elusive 'great south land' told through the literature of 'imaginary voyages'.
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Rethinking the social through durkheim, marx, weber and whitehead
This is the first book to systematically analyse the different concepts of the social developed by Durkheim, Marx and Weber, suggesting that debates surrounding this concept are still very much alive.
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Colors of the concepts
This book is designed as an academic monograph but is intended for a general audience.
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Fundamentals of market access for pharmaceuticals
This book provides a conceptual and pragmatic approach to the complexity of market access for pharmaceuticals across different types of economies and health care systems around the world, providing a comprehensive toolbox with key concepts and methods for students, executives from companies, publ...
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Thinking on thresholds
Through a combination of case studies and theoretical investigations, the essays in this book address the imaginative power of the threshold as a productive space in literature and art.
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Reading by numbers
‘Reading by Numbers: Recalibrating the Literary Field’ explores the critical potential of digital and quantitative methods for producing new knowledge about literary and cultural history.
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Process philosophy
The book analyses and compares a variety of processes of change: in evolution, learning and innovation, language and meaning, self and society and ethics and morality. Taking a realistic approach, the book is inspired by pragmatic philosophy, in particular, that of Dewey, Nietzsche, Wittgenstein ...
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For the love of bombs
The truism that history is written by its winners reflects the literature about how the bomb came about, with apologetic books most often written by U.S. scholars. The physicist Robert Oppenheimer, the nuke’s ‘father’, is repeatedly centre stage, as in the case of the recent film about him. These...
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Regimes of happiness
‘Regimes of Happiness’ is a comparative and historical analysis of how human societies have articulated and enacted distinctive notions of human fulfillment.
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Space and time as a matter of light and death
Rather than treating space, time, and perception as purely physical phenomena, this book shows how they emerge from our embodied, mortal condition. It explores the existential role of light and death in shaping experience, revealing the hidden foundations of seemingly objective knowledge, both em...
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Screen writings
'Screen Writings: Partial Views of a Total Art, Classic to Contemporary' offers close readings of individual films intended to explain how moviemakers use the resources of the medium to pursue complex and significant humanistic goals.
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Politics of the possible
A refreshing and wide-ranging approach to the study of South Asian politics.
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Resilience and recovery of hospitality and tourism
A comprehensive guide exploring resilience strategies in tourism and hospitality, focusing on leadership, sustainability and data-driven recovery in a post-pandemic world.
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Transforming the politics of mobility and migration in aotearoa new zealand
Transforming the Politics of Mobility and Migration in Aotearoa New Zealand is a future-focused book that formulates alternative paradigms timely and necessary for a just and ethical politics of mobility and migration in Aotearoa New Zealand. Examining a variety of topics, the book addresses the ...
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The post-traumatic theatre of grotowski and kantor
A historical and critical analysis of the post-traumatic theatre of Grotowski and Kantor, examining the ways they represent Auschwitz in their respective pivotal works ‘Akropolis’ and ‘Dead Class’.
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Joycean possibilities: a margot norris legacy
Inspired by the work of Margot Norris, this volume takes up her theme of how James Joyce’s works open up a host of new possibilities: for interpretation, for stylistic “iridescence,” for narrative, for other possible worlds, and for gender equality.
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The ecstasy of reproduction
The Ecstasy of Reproduction is a piercing analysis of contemporaneity which the author still terms postmodernity. Aesthetics and critical theory are at stake to define concepts such as the end of art, kitsch, simulacra, reproduction, and the commodification of living forms..
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Bulgaria in british foreign policy, 1943–1949
This book explores Britain’s involvement in Bulgaria between 1943 and 1949, and by integrating little-known Communist Party documents with British diplomatic records, offers a new understanding of the origins of the Cold War in Bulgaria and the Balkans.
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Frank norris and american naturalism
‘Frank Norris and American Naturalism’ brings together in one volume Donald Pizer’s essays on the writings of Frank Norris. The essays as a whole seek to demonstrate both the coherence of Norris’s thought and his contribution toward the establishment of a distinctive form of naturalism in America.
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A solar-hydrogen economy
In this study the green hydrogen economy is depicted as successor and replacement of the fossil fuel economy in its entirety. Steps involved in building a green industrial revolution on the basis of hydrogen are outlined and the dynamics of building a technoeconomic green successor to fossil fuel...
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British entanglement with brazilian slavery
This book looks beyond the British Empire and the Slavery Abolition Act to focus on Brazil as the final frontier of Britain’s centuries-long involvement with transatlantic slavery.
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New poetry in hindi
A book that showcases experimentalism in modern Hindi poetry.
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Darwin, tennyson and their readers
‘Darwin, Tennyson and Their Readers: Explorations in Victorian Literature and Science’ is an edited collection of essays by Gillian Beer, George Levine and other leading scholars, exploring the interaction between literature and science in the works of Darwin, Tennyson, Huxley and other major fig...
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Collective complaints as a means for protecting social rights in europe
This monograph explores and clarifies the specific features of the collective complaints procedure, established by the treaty system of the European Social Charter as an instrument for the protection of social rights, in the light of its evolutive application by the European Committee of Social R...
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Reproductive racism
The book analyses how demographic knowledge production and states’ grip to the variable of population intertwine. It introduces the concept of the Malthusian matrix in order to understand how class-selective and racist hierarchies within population narratives are combined with gendered policies o...
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When business harms human rights
“When Business Harms Human Rights” narrates the experiences of different individuals and communities from around the world, examining the impact that business activities has had on their lives. The volume is situated within the multidisciplinary subject area of business and human rights.
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American arabists in the cold war middle east, 1946–75
This book examines US State Department’s Middle East area experts during the Cold War, known as Arabists or Middle East hands, showing how their backgrounds and education differed crucially from that of their predecessors. This study focuses on these individuals’ transformative role in US foreign...
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Crafting revision in poetry writing
This book gives poets the tools to experiment with language, sound, and image while building an understanding of how poems work. It covers essential techniques, including line breaks, figurative language, and musicality, and offers exercises that spark creativity and refine craft. With clear expl...
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The identity politics of postcolonial feminism
The Identity Politics of Postcolonial Feminism provides an original analysis of the conceptual categories of essentialisms (situated and strategic) and the politics of location evoked and practised by five hyphenated South Asian postcolonial feminists in the contemporary Anglo-North-American acad...
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Indian and chinese immigrant communities
This interdisciplinary collection of essays offers a window onto the overseas Indian and Chinese communities in Asia. Contributions give insight on the interactive role of the cultural and religious ‘other’, the diasporic absorption of local beliefs and customs, and the practical business network...
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Resisting from morocco's margins
Resisting from Morocco’s Margins explores the socio-political context in which Ahmed Amrani’s oil-on-paper painting Protesta (1969) was made, specifically, the Rif Revolts of the late 1950s.
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Humor 2.0
The book shows how humor has changed since the advent of the internet: new genres, new contexts, and new audiences. The book provides a guide to such phenomena as memes, video parodies, photobombing, and cringe humor. It also shows how the cognitive mechanisms of humor remain unchanged.
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Christos tsiolkas and the fiction of critique
This is the first theoretically informed study of Tsiolkas’s work. It follows the arc of his controversial career, and explores the tensions between political radicality, transgressive sexuality and his more recent commercial success.
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Britain’s empires
A history of the many different British Empires – the Old Colonial System (1600-1776), the Empire of Free Trade (1776-1870), the New Imperialism (1870-1945), Decolonisation (1945-1990) and the era of humanitarian intervention (1990-2020). Britain’s Empires aims to tell the story of the colonial p...
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The puritan ideology of mobility
The Puritan Ideology of Mobility: Corporatism, the Politics of Place, and the Founding of New England Towns before 1650 presents the ideology of mobility which Puritan leaders developed to justify migration and town founding. New England towns were born as living “bodies politic” with a metaphysi...
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