Democrats into Nazis
How did middle-class Germans support extreme nationalism? This study of a Bavarian town after WWI shows how devastating crises discredited democracy and handed the initiative to the radical Right, as inhabitants came to see events as part of a broader “European Civil War.”
Demography In Transition
This compilation provides unique insight into complex demographic issues. Demographers examine how race and ethnicity affect access to heath care, the consequences of an aging population, migration patterns, and the implications of changing family structures.
Demons on the Couch
Belief in possession has ancient roots. This book traces its global history and explores how mental health professionals can help a person who believes they are possessed. Featuring interviews with exorcists, this is a fascinating study for believers and sceptics alike.
Demystifying Medical Data
“Demystifying Medical Data” equips you with the essential statistical tools for analyzing medical data. From descriptive statistics to hypothesis testing and experimental design, each chapter builds your competence, making this a comprehensive guide for medical data analysis.
Demystifying the Legal Art of Order, Power and Fun
Law has a reputation for being an incomprehensible art, leaving many feeling helpless. This book introduces readers to the past, present, and future of Law in an accessible and exciting way, using literary and artistic works to demystify it and prove that Law can be fun.
Denmark’s Police State and the Erosion of Justice
Behind Denmark’s polished image lies a reality of systemic dysfunction. This gripping exposé reveals, through harrowing interwoven stories, how ordinary citizens are destroyed by the very institutions meant to protect them. A stark warning to all democracies.
Ngongkum’s innovative reading of Dennis Brutus’ poetry underlines its concern for suffering humanity in the apartheid context and beyond. She brings to the fore the different motifs, strategies and artistry with which Brutus succeeds in initiating revolt through art.
Departing from Tradition
This book showcases some of the ongoing innovations in the rapidly growing field of English Language Teaching, offering insights into the tremendous changes occurring in secondary and university English language classrooms across Asia.
Depicting Dante in Anglo-Italian Literary and Visual Arts
This title examines key stages of Dante’s appropriation in Western cultural history. It focuses on his representation, including how his image was fixed in the first 200 years of his appropriation in Florence and how Dantean images and his text have been used in Britain.
Why do adults write about the child and why do they choose to depict children? Georgieva looks at various examples from literature, art and film to analyze aspects of adults’ outlook on the child, and what it tells us about the adult, paying special attention to the “eye” motif.
This volume explores depictions of contagious diseases in literature, media, and art throughout history. From a post-human and environmental perspective, these narratives of ‘plague literature’ hold a crucial position in guiding humanity towards a greater ecological awareness.
Depictions of the Three Orders and Estates around the Year 1500
This volume highlights the copious depictions of society’s three orders—the oratores, bellatores, and laboratores—in the Late Middle Ages and Early Modern Period. The vast visual material proves this trifunctional division was a widespread ideological foundation.
This collection reevaluates Descartes’ reputation as the “father of modern philosophy.” Essays attend to the impact of “Cartesianism” from the 17th century to today, addressing the character of his originality and the lasting challenges of his thought.
Recent scholarship challenges Descartes’s role as the founder of modernity. This collection of original papers by leading philosophers explores this debate, bringing together for the first time naturalist and phenomenological schools of thought.
Describing the Unobserved and Other Essays
The seven essays gathered in this volume are all concerned with the “unspeakable sentences” of fictional narration, using Unspeakable Essays (1982) as a theoretical framework for further exploration into linguistics, philosophy and the analysis of narrative and the novel.
Design and Cinema
Design and Cinema: Form Follows Film explores the patterns of experience created by the brotherhood of these disciplines. The book is organized in two parts: Discourse, a look at formal categories, and Works, which presents films and workshop examples.
To understand users, one must understand their emotional responses to buying, using, and owning products. This book explores the emotions in human-product relationships and offers techniques to utilise these insights in design practice.
Design Directions
This book explores how designers and researchers respond to the changing relationship between humans and technology. It presents diverse approaches, from theoretical explorations to practical methods, on topics like emotions, education, and transforming environments.
Making a case for existentialist design ethics, this book reveals an unsettling reality: there is no exit for designers but to accept their freedom and responsibility. It lays the ground for a radical transformation of how we conceive design, ethics, and the role of designers.
Design for Visual Communication
Based on ideas discussed within the framework of the 2016 International Conference on Typography and Visual Communication (ICTVC), this anthology investigates both current and future challenges and priorities in the field of design for visual communication.
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