From the publisher: This book is a collection of new and controversial views on pain, its accessibility to understanding and its influence on knowledge. Despite contrary assumptions, the volume argues for the possibility to externalise and communicate pain through language, narr…
Negotiating boundaries in multicultural societies
by Milne, Andrew, Mansour, Dina
fromAt the interface
Negotiating boundaries in multicultural societies
by Milne, Andrew, Mansour, Dina
fromAt the interface
What constitutes a villain? How does villainy differ from evil? Do villains created for children's fiction differ from those created for adults? The villains considered in this volume come from an eclectic range of sources - from comic books to film and from novels to television…
"Monsters have taken many forms across time and cultures, yet within these variations, monsters often evoke the same paradoxical response: disgust and desire. We simultaneously fear monsters and take pleasure in seeing them, and their role in human culture helps to explain this …
"The papers within this volume articulate the challenges perceived by an individual or a country when its sense of self is confronted by the foreign, the threatening. Migration, exile, and invasion all challenge the individual or the nation to redefine itself and thereby write a…
Probing the boundaries of education
by Claes, Tom, McMahon, Frank, Levesque, Nancy
fromAt the interface
Foreword -- Jon Braddy -- Preface -- Nicol Michelle Epple -- List of Illustrations -- Introduction to the Sexuality and Spirituality Field of Research -- Phil Shining -- PART 1 -- Natural Instincts -- 1 Spirituality of the Sexually Charged Landscape -- Dennis Alan Winters -- 2 S…