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An Afrocentric analysis revealing how African spirituality, orality, and communal values shape African American language beyond Eurocentric linguistic paradigms.

Examining multiple reworkings of the author’s most famous stories in literature, theatre, film and beyond, the volume is dedicated to exploring the ever-evolving cultural legacy of Daphne du Maurier. In doing so, it interrogates adaptation as a distinctly Gothic process, concerned with hauntings, doublings and transformations.

Why leisure? What for? Why thirteen ways of looking? On what grounds and on whose authority? Blackshaw answers these questions and more by advancing an original reading of this oldest of ideas and a constructive new conception for our era.

Introduces the Macro-Governance Index, a fourteen-component empirical framework correlating with human development at r = 0.97 across 170 countries, offering policymakers and researchers a reproducible tool for measuring and improving governance.

This volume demonstrates how the Neapolitan Enlightenment served as a vibrant “European laboratory,” where rigorous scientific inquiry and deep civic commitment intertwined, positioning Naples as a central node of modern knowledge.

An appraisal of Rose Bertin’s contributions to fashion, art and culture in the early days of the fashion industry in eighteenth-century France.

Every nation strives to build a creative, innovative economy, yet only a few achieve a genuine economic breakthrough. This is why such successes are called “economic miracles.” This book argues that there are no miracles: success depends on how a country’s social institutions are configured. It offers a step-by-step plan for setting them up effectively. Economic development does not have to be left to intuition or chance—it can be managed.

Why do we obey? How have poets and writers responded to this question? This book investigates the relationship between Euro-American literature and the history of the anarchist movement and culture, from the late-18th to the first half of the 20th century. Adopting a comparative perspective, it examines how the political question of obedience—and its refusal—became integrated into literary discourse.

Women and Ghosts in Eighteenth-Century England provides an exploration of eighteenth-century hauntings in the words of the women who experienced them. These female narratives of ghostly experiences formed the foundations for the psychical research that continues today.

This book explores the interdisciplinary pathways that environmental psychologists have taken to become educators, researchers, and consultants in this highly applied and growing field. Individuals with backgrounds in architecture, urban planning, and geography, as well as in the health sciences (and beyond), describe how they discovered environmental psychology—and hope that others will follow.

The book is a historical and theoretical account of the development and present situation of what has come widely to be known as Religious Studies. This account emphasizes the complexity of the field due both to its origins and the uncertain and even conflicted position today of the academic study of religion.

Mexico–US, Serbia–EU Border Lives and Works is an interdisciplinary, accessible study of Mexico–US and Serbia-EU border practices and policies. Our interdisciplinary, collaborative team of scholars, artists, and migration practitioners tackle crucial questions about how these borders impact people on the move, host communities, and the nations that grapple with the borders they enforce, politicize, celebrate, and mourn.