This collection explores synth-pop's sounds and its hooks, new technologies and production techniques, its media and imagery, its ideologies and discourses about art and culture, society and politics.Synth-pop is a loose rubric that includes DIY electronic music, post-punk and sounds shot through with the tropes of futurism and dystopia during the Cold War and early neoliberalism that Mark Fisher has called "the eerie.” Synth-pop also refers to melodic hits and cha...

An international group of esteemed scholars examines how religio-ethnonationalist power is communicatively produced, normalized, and resisted through discourse.This edited volume moves beyond conceptions of democratic decline as a purely institutional or electoral phenomenon to advance our understanding of how religion, nationalism, and media power intersect in struggles over democracy. Foregrounding the communicative processes through which affective narratives of...

The handbook brings together a growing body of research that explores the language people use when they are playing, coaching, administering, reporting on and watching sport. In addition to illustrating the variety of research being undertaken at the interface between language and sport, the volume conceptualises, consolidates and distinguishes the exciting and expanding field of sports linguistics that is emerging around these studies.Grounded in the broader concer...

How can aesthetics connect with research in other disciplines and fuel them with philosophical ideas and insights?This edited collection explores what kind of companion discipline aesthetics can be . and the benefits of collaboration for other disciplines: not only in the humanities, but also those likemeteorology, brain research, engineering, or computer science. The contributors investigate the contemporary role of aesthetics in relationship with other discipline...

The fifth volume in the Collected Writings of Charles Brockden Brown presents, for the first time, the entirety of the Historical Sketches, Brown's final major fiction (1805-1806), along with six earlier fragments.Previously accessible only in scattered sources, archives, and to specialized readers, the Sketches are here assembled in a single volume and edited for the first time, while four of the six fragments are transcribed from manusc...

Unmasking Corporatized Racism in Retail pulls back the curtain on an industry that has long celebrated exclusivity while quietly sustaining systemic inequity.Dr. Xavier D. Clark and Dr. Richard T. Craig trace the historical roots of luxury fashion-from brands founded in the shadows of colonialism to contemporary boutiques where Black shoppers are profiled, dismissed, or erased. Through research, lived experience, and cultural analysis, the...

This important volume tackles the discourse of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict from an interdisciplinary perspective with a focus on language and communication, constituting a novel approach in the literature on the topic. By drawing on methods from linguistics, media studies, digital culture, journalism, and literature, it explores new pathways for analysing how narratives are constructed, contested, and disseminated across multiple platforms and contexts. Offering a con...

The Bloomsbury Handbook of Ecolinguistics is a comprehensive guide focusing upon the expanding field of ecolinguistics and its investigations of the role of language in the life-sustaining interactions of humans, other species, and the more-than-human world. The collection explores topics such as climate change discourse, representations of plants and animals, relationships with land, ecotourism, language education in the Anthropocene and much more, in addition to comprehensive ov...

The first in-depth exploration of the thought of Canadian philosopher of religion J.L. Schellenberg, one of the most original and innovative voices in the field today.Renowned philosophers of religion from many parts of the world address Schellenberg's work, each analyzing a key aspect. Alongside chapters on Schellenberg's arguments against traditional theism and classical Christian doctrine, there are fresh discussions of his religious skepticism, his suggested sh...

Clinical neuropsychologist and learning disorder expert Dr. Katie Davis offers a new, illuminating approach to child development, helping you to support your child through their challenges—without leaping to a diagnosis.As parents, we want nothing more than our child to thrive in each stage of development. Seeing them struggle in that process can be difficult, but sometimes, it’s normal. After years of research, Dr. Davis suggests that a diagnosis isn’t al...

“A timely reminder that we are not just our brains. Arm yourself against the forces of misinformation by reading this book!”—Gina Rippon, author of The Gendered BrainChallenge everything you think you know about your brain. Expose the myths. Embrace the complexity. Transform your understanding of human nature and behavior.Modern culture bombards us with seductive brain myths—from the "left-brain/right-brain" fallacy to dopamine bei...

A powerful reimagining of the ancient Indian Ramayana epic.This retelling of the Ramayana is a deeply Javanese story, shaped by folklore and spiritual reflection. Rama's quest to rescue Sinta from the ogre Rahwana becomes a meditation on imperfection and the human struggle toward goodness. At its center is the anak bajang child—an unseen, mysterious being who restores balance to a world in chaos. Neither god nor hero, the bajang embodies innocence and quie...