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Hotel Modernity explores the impact of corporate space on the construction and texture of modern fiction and film.

During the rise of Islam, Muslim fascination with Christian monastic life was articulated through a fluid, piety-centred movement. Bradley Bowman explores this confessional synthesis between like-minded religious groups in the medieval Near East.

Im Inhalt wird die Rückwirkung von elektronischen Verbrauchern zur Einsparung von Energie beschrieben und die damit verbundenen Probleme auf eine saubere Versorgungsspannung für sensitive Lasten im Netz von Industrie und Handwerk. Es soll erreicht werden, dass das Thema transparent erklärt wird, damit es verständlich einen großen Anteil an Lesern anspricht, damit sie sich mit der Herausforderung Power Quality (PQ) auseinandersetzen. Es wird e...

An edited collection of interdisciplinary essays on the work of Elizabeth Robins Pennell, American-born, London-based journalist, author, and aesthete who published (or co-published) over twenty books and a thousand periodical articles between the early 1880s and 1930.

Examines the place of media technology in the literary and intellectual history of Romantic-era Britain Godwin and the Book explores a network of controversies concerning the relationship of media form to social futurity in Britain in the Romantic era through the writing of the notorious philosopher-novelist William Godwin (1756-1836). It presents a fresh reading of Godwin's fifty-year corpus, using evidence from his fiction, philosophy and es...

Analyses contemporary Iranian literature in both Iran and its diaspora, in relation to the social, economic and political fields.

Omar Sayfo textually analyses around 40 animation productions in Algeria, Egypt, Iraq, Jordan, Kuwait, the Palestinian Territories, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Syria, Tunisia and the United Arab Emirates, from the 1930s until recently, showing how cartoons have engaged in the making and remaking of religious and political identities

Three collections of essays whose aim is to express the cartography and the experience of a live, open world.

An account of Salome's dance and its centrality within modernist performance

Explores how modern Turkish theologians have grappled with issues such as nationalism and democracy, conceptions of God and humanity, the definition of religion itself and theological arguments for secularism, and theologies of human rights, gender and sexuality.

These three books reflect the beginnings of one of the most radical and exhilarating figures in modern literature.

ReFocus: The Films of Doris Wishman positions Wishman as a significant and overlooked force in American independent film.

Hannah Lauren Murray shows that early US authors repeatedly imagined lost, challenged and negated White racial identity in the new nation.

Explores the religious cultures, beliefs and imperatives that shaped the Jacobite movement in Scotland

Mit der Biografie eines der prominentesten Kriegsherren, die die Geschichte des "Reichs der Mitte" vor hundert Jahren maßgeblich mitschrieben, setzt Rainer ­Kloubert seine erfolgreiche China-Trilogie fort und eröffnet erneut das Panorama einer Welt, die im Westen kaum bekannt ist und die auch heute noch erschreckende Nachwirkungen zeitigt.

Explores the relationship between cinema and the cities of Western China.

Fifty Teams Across the World Gone But Not Forgotten.

Thomas De Quincey's multivalent engagement with Romantic translation This book investigates how De Quincey's writing was shaped by his work as a translator. Drawing on a wide range of materials and readings, it traces how De Quincey employed structures of interlinguistic and interdiscursive exchange to reimagine Romanticism. The book examines how his theories and practices of translation served to position his oeuvre, define his style, frame h...

This book, the first English language study of her films and career, Iranian director Rakhshan Banietemad contains chapters by some of the most prominent scholars of Iranian cinema, as well as younger scholars with fresh points of view.

Investigates the role of memory in forming ethnic and national identities in the early twentieth-century Tasman World