Close encounters

For over four decades, art historian and cultural theorist Adrian Rifkin has been producing visionary and esoteric work, influencing a variety of artists and scholars. Inspired by ...

This reference work, the first of three, brings together extracts from the major writings by Christians and Muslims that reflect their awareness of one another and the attitudes th...

Encounters in the field Applied conversation analysis in professional contexts Societal impact is an integral part of academic research today and researchers are expected to share...

Ever since Kant's Dreams of a Spirit Seer, encounters with the deceased have been discredited by philosophy. It is not without irony that a follower and confidant of Kant, Gottlob ...

This shorter chapter traces the religion of cabin-class emigrants, who were generally middle-class, so from the section of Victorian society keen to impose their religious and mora...

<i>Megaliths of the World</i> brings together the latest research on megalithic monuments throughout the world. Many of these sites are well known, others less familiar...

The sudden appearance and proliferation of Greco-Roman exedrae (and their domestic derivations) in American parks and homes at the close of the nineteenth century marks a particula...

Until now, popular novelist James Clavell has not been recognized for his literary achievements and his contributions to cross-cultural understanding. This critical study seeks to ...