How Materials Matter

How Materials MatterHow does design and innovation shape peoples lives in the Pacific? Focusing on plant materials from the region, How Materials Matter reveals ways in which a variety of people from craftswomen and scientists to architects and politicians work with materials to transform worlds. Recognizing the fragile and ephemeral nature of plant fibres, this work delves into how the biophysical properties of certain leaves and their aesthetic appearance are utilized

This book looks beyond the trendier manifestations of Buddhism in America to look at distinctly American Buddhist ways of life-ways of perceiving and understanding

introduction to relevant background material and select critical bibliographies for each poem

Interpreting these scenes through the works of Frantz Fanon

These essays in honour of Arun Kumar Das Gupta present a view of English literature and drama in a context of humane literary studies with a critical ambience harking back to the Renaissance

Interreligious Dialogue

The Poetics of Difference and Displacement views intercultural theatre as a process of displacement and re-placement of culturally specified and differentiated theatrical forces

The essays as a whole seek to demonstrate both the coherence of Norris’s thought and his contribution toward the establishment of a distinctive form of naturalism in America

nonnational models

from the Lumières' Oil Wells of Baku (1896) to Al Gore's An Inconvenient Truth (2006)

This book presents interviews with some of the most provocative artists of the postmodern era

following the sequence of the Halakhic category-formations of the Mishnah-Tosefta-Yerushalmi-Bavli

It critiques the dominant tropes of food security offered by the international financial institutions and promotes the importance of small-scale family farming in developing sustainable food sovereignty