Academic Press imprint: 6422 books
The Literary Criticism of Matthew Arnold
Letters to Clough, the 1853 Preface, and Some Essays
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2014
Many of the ideas that appear in poet Matthew Arnold’s Preface to the Poems of 1853 to his collection of poems and in his later essays are suggested in the letters that Arnold wrote to his friend Arthur Hugh Clough. Literature was, in Arnold’s perception, meant to communicate a message rather...
Spanish–Israeli Relations, 1956–1992
Ghosts of the Past and Contemporary Challenges in the Middle East
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2016
Despite a common heritage dating back centuries and mutual national interests, such as their joint fear of Soviet influence across the Mediterranean, it took 38 years after the establishment of the State of Israel (1948) and a decade after Franco's death (1975) for relations to be established between...
Museums in a time of migration
Rethinking museum's roles, representations, collections, and collaborations
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2018
Migration has, across time, contributed to the development and reshaping of societies and urban spaces. Today, migration movements have become a global phenomenon, where the number of countries affected—socially, economically and culturally—by migration is continually increasing. As in past times,...
The Fitzgerald Legacy
Reforming Public Life in Australia and Beyond
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2010
Twenty years ago, the Commission of Inquiry into Possible Illegal Activities and Associated Police Misconduct, commonly referred to as the Fitzgerald Inquiry after its chair Mr G.E. (Tony) Fitzgerald, QC, tabled its findings in the Queensland Parliament after an exhaustive and sensational two years...
The Ring of Myths
The Israelis, Wagner and the Nazis
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2013
In the fall of 1938, following Kristallnacht, the symphonic orchestra in Palestine cancelled the performance of Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg. No one could foresee that this would be the beginning of a never-ending boycott. The boycott began in a society struggling for its existence and collective...
by Volodymyr Krasnoholovets
Language: English
Release Date: July 6, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: July 6, 2017
This book, Structure of Space and the Submicroscopic Deterministic Concept of Physics, completely formalizes fundamental physics by showing that all space, which consists of objects and distances, arises from the same origin: manifold of sets. A continuously organized mathematical lattice of topological...
Music Autoethnographies
Making Autoethnography Sing/Making Music Personal
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2012
Autoethnography is an autobiographical genre that connects the personal to the cultural, social, and political. Usually written in the first-person voice, autoethnographic work appears in a variety of creative formats; for example, short stories, music compositions, poetry, photographic essays, and...
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Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2011
Written by researchers from a wide variety of disciplines, this report explores the two most influential theoretical discourse traditions, namely Discourse Theory and Critical Discourse Analysis. Based on numerous Swedish and Scandinavian case studies, this account reveals the usefulness of the study...
Infants of Parents with Mental Illness
Developmental, Clinical, Cultural, and Personal Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: December 31, 2008
During the last 100 years infant mortality rates have improved dramatically, yet even in a developed country such as Australia the physical health of infants varies greatly, despite advances in science and technology. It has now become clear that emotional and physical development is affected by many...
Future Theatre Research
Origin, Medium, Performance-Text, Reception and Acting
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2016
Eli Rozik explores the principles that generated the theatre medium, and its possible roots in the preverbal imagistic mode of thinking. This mode characterizes the remnants of preverbal thinking, such as unconscious thinking (dreaming), the embryonic speech of toddlers, and their imaginative play...
José 'Pepe' Mujica
Warrior, Philosopher, President
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2016
Toward the end of his administration (2010–2015), then Uruguayan President José ‘Pepe’ Mujica made headlines across the world with a couple of unusual speeches at United Nations assemblies in Rio de Janeiro and New York that were heatedly anti-capitalist, anti-consumerist, anti-globalization...
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Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2012
Social scientists, a rehabilitation researcher, a folklorist, a political commentator, and other contributors survey some of the differences in European culture and discuss the complex topic of national identity in Europe. This volume forms a fascinating mosaic of European diversity, revealing idiosyncrasies...
Anglo-American Policy toward the Persian Gulf, 1978–1985
Power, Influence and Restraint
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2015
For many commentators and historians the announcement of the Carter Doctrine signaled the end of the British presence and the final transfer of power to the United States in the Persian Gulf. But on the ground the reality was different. After the announcement of the British leaving the Persian Gulf...
Las dos Españas
Terror and Crisis in Contemporary Spain
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2016
The idea of a divided Spain, where one half is antagonistic to the other half, dates back at least to the 19th-century. The narrative of las dos Españas is evident across many political and historical debates operating in the Spanish state, and contemporarily it shadows and informs national issues...