Rhetoric in 2Maccabees
2Maccabees describes the threat of Hellenisation, yet its authors ironically used Greek rhetoric to combat Greek influence. This book presents the latest post-2012 findings from nine prominent scholars, offering essential theological insights for serious Biblical scholars.
Pragmatic Aspects of L2 Communication
This volume addresses pragmatic aspects of L2 communication from the perspectives of researchers, practitioners, and learners. It shows how pragmatic awareness is crucial for social competence and can be applied to language teaching and assessment.
Making Sense of Stories
This book is an invaluable guide for the researcher or professional using storytelling as inquiry. Drawing from disciplines like psychology and sociology, its 29 chapters provide a rich compendium of ways to analyse stories and make sense of them.
Contemporary Crime Fiction
This book presents nine compelling essays on contemporary crime fiction, bringing fresh perspectives to the vibrant genre. Topics range from domestic noir and historical crime to race and ethnicity, examining authors like Gillian Flynn, Ian Rankin, and Tana French.
The Siluae of Statius are five books of occasional poems written for rich patrons. This volume presents the text with a facing translation, an introduction to the transmission of the text, and a bibliography of relevant secondary literature.
This book illustrates how global phenomena like digitalisation and climate change impact multinationals. As extant research does not fully explain emergent topics like digital business models and cleantech companies, this volume serves to fill this critical gap.
Development Engineering
This research-backed guide shows innovators how to develop technological interventions for low-resource settings. Learn to create sustainable solutions that meet a real need, are affordable, and fit the cultural context to avoid common failures and achieve widespread use.
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.
Sound Art and Music
This volume explores the mutually beneficial, but occasionally uneasy, relationship between sound art and music. With chapters from practitioners and theoreticians, it provides a snapshot of contemporary research across this exciting area of study.
This volume outlines the changing landscape of business and consumer behaviour post-pandemic. It identifies emerging trends—shaped by cultural context and generational belonging—needed to develop digital products and services for an evolving world.
The Odyssey of Communism
This interdisciplinary volume explores how film has shaped culture and memory. From the Berlin Wall to China, it journeys from the terror of communist prisons to the rosy image of propaganda, arguing that communism, lingering in mentalities, still needs interrogation.
Paul Valéry’s complex and graceful writing presents daunting obstacles for the translator. This volume is the culmination of 50 years devoted to bringing his poems into fluent English. It shows him as both the supreme poet of the mind and a consummate linguistic musician.
Two of the world’s most wicked writers, decadent poets Viereck and Crowley, formed an alliance in 1915 New York. Viereck was the editor of a pro-German magazine; Crowley was his new hire. But was Crowley a British secret agent sent to spy on the German network?
A History of Bristol Medical School
This book details the history of medicine and medical teaching in Bristol from the 16th century to the present. It covers the development of hospitals and healthcare, focusing on the origins of the Bristol Medical School and its relationship with other educational institutions.
This book explores why resource-poor groups are excluded from the economic benefits of watershed development projects. It traces the factors denying them equal opportunities and discusses potential avenues for their meaningful inclusion in the governance of natural resources.
Genetics, the study of inheritance, is a powerful science. We can now unravel the human genome, understand cancer, solve serious crimes, and intervene with our crops, animals, and even ourselves. This book explains how this science emerged.
Walter Benjamin and the Actuality of Critique
This book explores the striking actuality of Walter Benjamin’s work. It focuses on his critique of violence, a central topic in contemporary political debate, and his critique of experience, the bedrock upon which his whole philosophy rests.
This volume looks at the future of museums, confronting challenges like funding cuts and a dubious art trade. It also explores exciting prospects, from new possibilities in display and visitor experience to the rising visitor numbers at major museums worldwide.
This book propounds a different conception of producing ideas, introducing semiotic reality—signs and sign systems. It shows how the interplay of three realities (the material world, signs, and the human mind) gives rise to new notions like metathinking.
Children, Childhood, and the Future
The science of a “good childhood” is based on Western children, ignoring the global majority. This volume bridges that gap by exploring childhood in African countries, offering ways to develop joint ideas about childhood instead of imposing one-sided standards.
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