Physicians and Their Literary Work
This book connects medicine and literature, analyzing how the medical profession shaped the work of doctor-authors. It reveals how they built a unique literary identity, changing our perception of the human being. For doctors and literary scholars alike.
Beyond defining moments like the Bay of Pigs, this book reveals lesser-known events: Che’s adventures, Castro’s possible link to JFK’s assassination, and Cuba’s silent wars. Utilizing sources previously available only in Spanish, it corrects the record on the Cuban Revolution.
BioFutures and the Legacy of Our Past
Our attempts to distance ourselves from nature have come at an immense cost to the planet. The problems which beset us – climate change, pandemics – have their origins in our biology. To survive, solutions must take our evolutionary heritage into account, or they will fail.
Literature, Parasitism, and Science
This book considers how parasitic worms molded the imaginations of Bram Stoker, Robert Louis Stevenson, and Arthur Conan Doyle. Breaking the taboo surrounding parasitism, it reveals how classic literature owes much to the emerging science of parasitology.
This book explores the critical role of gender in the agricultural sector, examining the challenges women face. It advocates for inclusive, gender-sensitive policies that empower women, promote equity, and ensure sustainable development and food security.
Romanticism, Rhetoric and the Search for the Sublime, 2nd Edition
This book builds a Neo-Romantic rhetorical theory for our time. It traces Romanticism’s roots through key writers and artists, linking their love of nature to the current environmental crisis and empowering those seeking to save the environment.
In the postmodern ironic music of composer Bojidar Spassov, old and new times, and cultural traditions emerge like carnival masks. This book is the first monograph on this paradoxical multicultural artist and the first attempt to shed light on the contemporary music of Bulgaria.
This volume offers innovative research on Iberian Studies from a transnational, interdisciplinary perspective. Core themes include memory, historical revisionism, dialogues between Portugal and Spain, and transatlantic crossings that connect Europe, Africa, and the Americas.
China’s Belt and Road Initiative is an ambitious global infrastructure program. Using a unique project database, this book provides a complete picture of the BRI’s benefits, risks, and implications, exploring its debt problems and future redesign.
This collection of 350 poems about Mark Twain explores a neglected dimension of his popular reception. Ranging from anonymous rhymes to highbrow tributes, they trace the crests in Twain’s fame over the decades, proving useful to general readers, teachers, and scholars.
The first comprehensive study in English of the detective novel in Puerto Rico, from its origins in 1984 to the present. This book establishes a canon for the genre, analyzing some 50 works to reveal a diverse and innovative literary tradition on the island.
The Covid-19 pandemic exposed irrational behaviours like those described as diabolical possessions. This book presents the first edition of the Xiropotamou manuscript 98, an ancient exorcistic prayer, with a biblical study and an overview of the Rite of Exorcism in Byzantium.
When financial hardship forced the Brooklyn Museum to sell a Book of Hours, a dealer purchased and dismembered it for profit. This book uncovers the moral complexities of the sale, identifies the manuscript’s original owner, and digitally reconstructs the priceless text.
Theories of social reproduction are complex and hard to quantify. This book resolves this issue by introducing the Triptych Model of Social Class Reproduction, an easy-to-grasp framework applicable across cultures, and substantiates it with quantitative research.
The Memoirs of Resi Weglein, a Holocaust Survivor
In the Theresienstadt camp, nurse Resi Weglein tended to the dying while fighting for her own life. Her astounding memoir is a rare eyewitness testimony to the Holocaust and a powerful testament to preserving one’s humanity in the face of unimaginable horror.
This book evaluates Mexico’s National System of Researchers (SNI) within the international scientific context. It assesses this research elite’s role and transcendence to recognize the impact and success of Mexico’s research policy.
Deconstructing Gender Stereotypes in Western Tradition
Western art has often portrayed women as objects of desire or inspirational muses. This multidisciplinary volume challenges these roles, presenting womanhood from new perspectives and highlighting characters who have been neglected, misrepresented, or reduced to the margins.
Essays on Psychogeography and the City as Performance
Inspired by Psychogeography, this collection of essays by international scholar-artists highlights the performative aspects of cities. It offers a practical guide to experiencing the cityscape as the Artscape, where performance and imagination create immersive public art.
This collection unravels how we represent non-humans in literature and film. From Noah’s Ark to Hitchcock’s The Birds, it probes the ethical and symbolic roles creatures play in our lives, challenging our perceptions and inviting us to reflect on their cultural significance.
The Transformative Development of Postcolonial Africa
How can pure and natural sciences help solve Africa’s developmental crises? This book offers answers from scientists and development experts, providing new, context-specific paradigms to rewrite the continent’s story and bring about its transformative development.
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