Innovative Mnemonics in Chemical Education
This book details time-economic, innovative learning techniques to help students grow an interest in chemistry and memorize the subject. It solves the limitations of conventional methods and provides chemical applications, problems, and free educational tools.
This collection of papers on comparative philosophy challenges academic philosophy’s focus on Western thought. By opening a dialogue across cultures, these chapters explore philosophy’s politico-aesthetic dimension, demonstrating the equality of marginalized voices.
By exploring the nature of book production and changing images of peasants in Livonia and Courland in the 18th and 19th centuries, Daija investigates the complex historical relationship between Latvians and Baltic Germans and the regional specifics of the Baltic Enlightenment.
Though much has been written on the Grenada Revolution and its untimely demise, the majority of authors have been non-Grenadian. All the contributors here, except one, are Grenadian, giving voice to persons who were active participants, children, teenagers, and young adults.
Behind every crime novel is a family. Some are crime syndicates; others are dysfunctional, tearing themselves apart. Not everyone escapes alive. This collection of essays explores crime fiction, the family, and the disastrous impact society can have on personal relationships.
Critical Method and Contemporary Film
This volume investigates what film critics do and what ideologies inform their evaluations. It traces changes in critical methodologies, arguing for the emergence of neofuturism over postmodernism, and asks: Who evaluates film, why, and does the system need to change?
This conference proceedings analyses a range of political, economic, security and socio-cultural issues that lie at the heart of the instability that the Middle East and North Africa region is currently experiencing.
A Study of Authorial Illustration
This book analyses the practice of authors illustrating their own works. Combining theoretical aspects with commentaries on specific illustrations, it provides academics and students with an enjoyable, scholarly introduction to this thriving field of research.
Popular Music, Ethnicity and Politics in the Kenya of the 1990s
Okatch Biggy was the single most dominant benga artiste of the 1990s. Mboya analyzes Biggy’s songs as works of art, identifying the aesthetic and rhetorical conventions that are deployed in the songs, and exploring the central messages of the music, and their significance.
This book identifies the conditions under which foreign countries intervene in civil wars, proposing a framework of four dimensions: the civil war itself, the intervening states, the host-intervener relationship, and the relationship between the interveners themselves.
While chiefly a site of popular pleasure and merriment, popular culture also functions as a site and source through which identities are inhabited, brokered and contested. This volume offers theoretical reflections on the significance of particular elements of popular culture.
Gloria Naylor’s Fiction
This text offers innovative ways of analyzing economics in Gloria Naylor’s fiction, using interpretive strategies which are applicable to the entire tradition of African American literature. The writers gathered here embody years of insightful and vigorous Naylor scholarship.
Postgraduate Voices in Punk Studies
The first academic collection of postgraduate research on the punk scene. These cutting-edge, interdisciplinary studies explore themes of gender, race, and sexuality, covering topics from French straight-edge to the links between punk and 90s rave culture.
Recovering History through Fact and Fiction
This collection reclaims the histories of figures forgotten by time and offers fresh perspectives on those distorted by fame, including Mary Shelley, Judy Garland, and J.R.R. Tolkien. It provides a needed snapshot of new research on biography and its many variations.
Abiteboul brings together a group of essays on 27 English or American writers contributing to the history of English and American literature, and offers a concise survey of the question of literary understanding.
Authored by a group of experts, these essays provide fresh research on key topics such as leadership, arts, education, psychology, and sports. The contributors consider social issues and challenges pertinent to contemporary life, for both students and the public.
This title demonstrates how intuition and psychological insights can be used to design relevant models and decision strategies, and describes how goals can be adequately formed and operationalised. It then integrates these processes in an analytical framework for decision-making.
Gohar’s study focuses on convergence to pure strategy Nash equilibria in plurality voting games and other scoring rules. It investigates restrictions on the number of iterations that can be made for different voting rules, considering weighted and equi-weighted voting settings.
This book addresses teaching and assessing foreign language for academic purposes in a plurilingual context. Based on a research project, it describes a model LAP test and shows findings on the performance of students from both Indo-European and non-Indo-European languages.
Indonesian Muslims in a Global World
Muslim communities in non-Muslim countries have been an interesting topic in academia recently. Zulfikar serves to enrich previous literature on this important issue, highlighting Indonesian Muslims’ experience of living in between their home and their host society.
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