Enraged by the death of his beloved comrade Pátroklos, Akhilleús returns to battle to slay the Trojan champion Héktōr. After desecrating the corpse, he is confronted by King Príamos. Touched by the old man’s grief, Akhilleús achieves redemption by returning the body for burial.
The Caucasus Policy of Russia in the Early 21st Century
This book analyses Russia’s policy toward the strategic Caucasus region, especially under Putin. It examines post-Soviet relations with Azerbaijan and Georgia, shedding light on the Chechen-Russian conflict and the Russo-Georgian Wars.
This book presents a soft-sensing technique using spectral data to assess difficult-to-measure process parameters. It’s a practical guide for researchers, engineers, and students who need a modelling method for small sample data to solve real-world control challenges.
Human–Robot Interaction
This book introduces state-of-the-art technologies in human-robot interactions. It details recent advances in dynamics, controls, design, and modelling, appealing to graduate students, practitioners, and researchers in robotics, computer science, and mechanical engineering.
Thinking Styles
Are thinking styles distinct from personality? Can they be changed? Are some styles better than others? This book answers these controversial questions, providing solid research evidence and intriguing insights into the nature of thinking styles for academics and students alike.
Stuart Hood’s year fighting with the Italian Resistance in WWII shaped his peacetime trajectory. This collection assesses the achievements of this broadcaster, media studies pioneer, translator, and novelist, showing how his life offers fresh insights into 20th-century history.
The Evolution of Stars
With anecdotes from 60 years’ experience as a research scientist on the world’s largest telescopes, this book exposes what is often glossed over. It details the basis for our knowledge of the universe, warts and all, and offers insights as to where the science is going.
Spiritual and Corporeal Selves in India
This volume explores the union of the corporeal and the spiritual in contemporary India. It offers clues to the East-West encounter and tackles the dualism of mind and body, suggesting a rupture of binary thinking, unlike in Western theory.
Lavinia Fontana’s Mythological Paintings
This volume investigates Lavinia Fontana’s mythological paintings. The first female painter of sixteenth-century Italy to depict female nudes and mythological subjects, Fontana challenged the male tradition of history painting and paved the way for future female artists.
This book explores the connection between information structure and syntax, examining phenomena like topic and focus fronting in English and Spanish. It argues that differences in word order across languages are the consequence of feature inheritance in the sentence periphery.
This book addresses the changing nature of research methodologies in mathematics, science, health and environmental education. It has a singular focus on methodology as something worth considering in itself, bringing methodology to the forefront of educational research.
This volume examines the challenges of social exclusion and inequality facing Western Balkan countries on their path to the EU. It explores how state failures to protect women, young people, and Roma minorities have driven high rates of outward migration.
Master English phrasal verbs. This comprehensive resource provides a list of verbs with easy definitions, usage examples, and exercises. It’s an essential tool for non-native speakers seeking to achieve native-like fluency and master an unpredictable part of the language.
This collection of essays examines dystopian fiction in literature, TV, and games. Capturing the dilemmas of our precarious epoch, it offers new interpretations of classics like Orwell and Atwood and pop culture phenomena like The Hunger Games and Fallout.
Daesoon Jinrihoe in Modern Korea
In an era of hardship, new religious movements (NRMs) emerged in East Asia. This book presents the unique case of Daesoon Jinrihoe, a native Korean NRM which successfully survived and transformed. It offers insight that such groups can thrive in a digital era, not just disappear.
Politics is not only about ideas, but practices. This book reveals how 19th-century exiles created the laboratory for modern politics, circulating not just ideals but the techniques of how to debate, vote, and run a party, resulting in a new political grammar.
These performance texts explore disability, inclusion, and diversity in our 21st-century culture. Offering challenging, evenly divided roles and exciting historical subjects, they provide ample scope for ensemble acting and group production.
Strategic indecision explains the endemic conflicts and geopolitical tensions in the Black Sea. This is the first encyclopaedia dedicated to the region’s geopolitics, written for researchers and any reader interested in international relations, history, and geography.
“God became man that man might become God.” This book shows how Hegel fleshes this thought out, stripping away false materialist interpretations of his philosophy to reveal its continuity with the Biblical belief in “the power to become the sons of God.”
Paganism and Its Discontents
While some use Norse spirituality to promote racist ideologies, many contemporary Heathens reject this thinking. This book delineates between two communities using shared symbols for widely different purposes to help mitigate the rising tide of hate and racialized identity.