Press, Propaganda and Politics
This study compares media in Francoist Spain and Communist Romania, revealing startling similarities in the propaganda of two opposing regimes. It challenges old paradigms and forges a new, unified framework for understanding totalitarian systems.
Pretty Ugly
Why did we evolve a sense of beauty? This book answers from the perspective of scientists with deep knowledge of the arts, weaving together experimental science with art, music, and more. They show how all our senses are similar under the hood in shaping our aesthetic experience.
Preventing Child Maltreatment and Traumas
Drawing from experiences in Italy and Japan, this book shares successful clinical cases, new diagnostic techniques, and screening tools for early detecting and treating child maltreatment. An essential resource for clinicians, psychotherapists, psychiatrists, and paediatricians.
Preventing Radicalisation and Terrorism in Europe
This book compares the counter-terrorism and counter-radicalisation policies of Belgium, France, Italy, Spain, and the United Kingdom. It offers a critical assessment of their strengths and weaknesses, identifying evolutionary lines and proposing a series of recommendations.
Primogeniture and Entail in England
This book examines the history and literary representation of primogeniture, the English custom making the eldest son sole heir. Denounced as unjust yet fiercely defended, it dominated social life for centuries, sparking a major ideological debate.
Principles and Practices for Psychodynamic Group Career Counseling
The first manual on psychodynamic group career counseling, this book offers insights into unconscious processes affecting career decisions. It provides a complete intervention with detailed sessions, methodological tools, case illustrations, and scripts for practitioners.
Principles of Sustainability Economics
Is economic development reachable on an exhausted planet? Greener technologies may help, but we are far off track due to inappropriate institutions and adverse incentives. This book explains why, using core economic principles to identify the Gordian knots of sustainability.
Print Culture through the Ages
This compendium of essays by renowned scholars focuses on the evolution of printing, reading publics, and publishing during periods of political and cultural change in Latin America. It will be of interest to scholars in the areas of literature, book history, and print culture.
Printed Advertisement 1947-1970
This work explains the politics of newspaper advertisements in Bengal between 1947 and 1970 and the Bengali middle class’s encounter with them. Though sober, the ads shaped desires and prescribed a lifestyle, preparing the ground for modern consumerism.
Following the advent of the printing press, Italian humanist Latin texts spread across Europe. This study is the first comprehensive account of their dissemination and impact on the Renaissance curriculum and the rising national literary traditions of the period.
Prisoners of War and Forced Labour
This book expands the historical perspective by connecting the Holocaust with the treatment of prisoners of war and forced labourers in the Third Reich. The volume consists of papers from international researchers presented at the Falstad symposium.
Private Bill Legislation in the Nineteenth Century
The creation of canals, railways, and the infrastructure of Victorian Britain was impossible without private Acts of Parliament. How these Acts were promoted and passed has never been systematically analysed—until now. This book explores over 20,000 Acts from 1797 to 1914.
Private Instincts and Public Ideals
How do you choose a school? Most guides focus only on your child’s success. This collection of essays features parents who also consider the flourishing of others, equal opportunity, and diverse schools. Their stories will challenge and enrich your own parenting journey.
Private Military and Security Companies
Calazans investigates the application of International Humanitarian Law and International Human Rights Law in addressing the business conduct of Private Military and Security Companies during armed conflicts.
Privilege and Prejudice
Twenty years after Peggy McIntosh’s groundbreaking essay on white privilege, these essays reveal how sexism and racism persist. This text explores enduring inequality in higher education, technology, and media, even in systems trying to address these problems.
Privileged Mobilities
Marking an important contribution to the growing school of critical studies of tourism, this title raises questions regarding privileged mobiles from the standpoint of class, gender, ethnicity and citizenship.
Offering an accessible framework for the student and general reader to study the Franco regime, Sangster explores the various views of the Spanish dictator provided by biographers and historians.
Probing the Skin
Across art, literature, and medicine, these essays read the skin—as a sensual surface, a racial marker, and a canvas for tattoos, scars, and memory.
Aberšek embarks on an ambitious journey of providing potential explanations of how to optimally meet the needs and requirements of our future society, shedding light on issues related to teaching and learning based on contemporary trends from the field of information technologies
The Internet of Things creates immense challenges in digital systems. This book tackles the exponential complexity of Boolean problems, presenting powerful new solutions using GPUs, exploring security applications, and discussing the scientific basis of future quantum computers.
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