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The book brings together scholars, practitioners and policymakers in higher education, and discusses in a variety of topics the future of the higher education sector in a rapidly changing global context.

In Henry Longueville Mansel, Francesca Norman offers a new interpretation of the thought of an important though often misunderstood Victorian theologian and philosopher. Norman's study of Mansel brings new insight to the study of Newman, Spencer, Disraeli, Mill, and Maurice.

This anthology focuses on the subject of religious contact in the study of religion, and discussing in particular, its merits and challenges of, in comparison to other approaches in the field.

This collected volume provides a timely reflection of the interdisciplinary field of translation, interpreting and political discourse. It offers new perspectives to disciplines of translation/interpreting studies, and linguistics and political science, focusing on synergies between translation/interpreting and political discourse.

This annotated edition of Hadriaan Beverland's De peccato originali (1679) is the first English translation of this infamous work, which presented Beverland's thesis on sex and original sin. It includes a comprehensive introduction that contextualizes the book and its impact.

This volume rediscovers the intriguing power of parables to transform daily life into ethical-religious dynamics.

This book is full of polemical ideas that bring an urgent call for a multifaceted interdisciplinary collaboration in a time of deep environmental, as well as political, economic and cultural crisis.

This volume brings together contributions coming from scholars in linguistics and philosophy who are interested in questions related to agency and intentions in language, broadly construed.

There is much academic coverage of World War One but World War Two was as much a poet's war. There has been no attempt until now to look at the impact of the war on Scottish poets of the era.

Cet ouvrage explore les phénomènes migratoires aux Comores en s'appuyant sur un corpus de 18 textes de genres différents publiés entre 2008 et 2017 auxquels il offre une relecture contextualisée, humanisée aux côtés des premiers concernés, témoins et victimes. This book explores the migratory phenomena in the Comoros based on a corpus of 18 texts of different genres published between 2008 and 2017 to which it offers a contextualised, humanized rereading alongside those primarily affected, witnesses, and victims.

Discover the surprising transformations of Poland over 30 years. This timeless book uses unique longitudinal data from the Polish Panel Survey POLPAN 1988 - 2018 to understand the radical social, economic, and political changes from the end of Communism to the rise of populism, offering a holistic understanding of the country's post-1989 history.

Pioneering Marxist studies of the transition from feudalism to capitalism.

Why is the dragon idea globally distributed when no such creature existed? This book argues that the idea of dragons evolved from preliterate attempts to explain the causality and nature of rainbows.

This collection applies refigured critical theories to pressing contemporary issues such as migration, inequality, racism, postcolonial economies and socieites, political violence, human-animal relations, and intellectuals' role in the world.

This book examines the diverse prosody of compound nouns in Kansai Japanese and the insights that can be gained from them for theories of the syntax-prosody interface, with a special focus on compounds with particularly variable, potentially endangered prosody.

Ever since the early 2nd millennium BCE, Pre-Classical Anatolia has been a crossroads of languages and peoples. This book provides a state-of-the-art study of linguistic and cultural contacts in a region that was the bridge between the East and the West

This volume collects the proceedings of the First Latin American Communist Conference of June 1919 - the first and only opportunity for activists in Latin America to engage in a wide-ranging discussion of urgent issues facing communist parties as well as the broader left.

"Buddhisms" captures the challenge inherent in the diverse practices and beliefs of this religion. In this book, grounding the analysis in the bodies of practitioners provides a new opportunity for coherence that reaches across vast expanses of time and space.

Syntax on the Edge defines and applies an original approach to syntactic structure based on graph theory. We explore the nature of syntax as a formal system of connections between expressions, and address long-standing puzzles in English and Spanish grammar.

An outstanding and carefully documented study of Russian and American language-centred poetry of the avant-garde and the neo-avant-garde, and an important contribution to comparative linguistic poetics.

Based on both quantitative and qualitative empirical data, this ground-breaking book paints a complex picture of the living conditions of Chinese migrants and their descendants in France, which have been profoundly challenged by the Covid-19 pandemic.

The Maimonides Review is an annual collection of double-blind peer-reviewed articles, which seeks to provide a broad international arena for an intellectual exchange of ideas between the disciplines of philosophy, theology, religion, cultural history, and literature and to showcase their multifarious junctures within the framework of Jewish studies.

An exploration of the physical, physiognomic, and psychological through the artistic production--drawings, prints, paintings, and sculpture--of leading Early Modern Italian artists to reveal a penchant for humour and wit.

The Celestial Revelations of Saint Birgitta of Sweden (d. 1373) circulated widely in a period when Italian women writers began to publish their work. This volume offers innovative investigations of the profound impact of Birgitta of Sweden in Renaissance Italy.

A ground-breaking study of the evolution of an extraordinary piece of English church furniture, from its medieval creation to its modern dismemberment and refurbishment, by a team of technical, historical, and museological specialists.

This volume examines alternative, or less-considered, objects transacted in the late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century Italian art market and their impact on visual culture, considering authentic works, pastiches, counterfeits, and reproductions in diverse media including painting, plaster, terracotta, and photography.

This book examines Irenaeus' account of divine simplicity in the second century, the first extant Christian writer to explain his use of this philosophical concept which became so central to later Christian thought.