This is the first book to critically examine the relationship between England and Greece, and how England has influenced modern Greece—not always for the better. Written by a former diplomat of dual heritage, it reveals the true story, warts and all, up to the present day.
Florence’s English Cemetery, 1827-1877
The restoration of Florence’s English Cemetery reveals the stories of foreign non-Catholics buried there from 1827-1877. It is a democracy in death, where writers like Elizabeth Barrett Browning, artists, and former slaves lie alongside nobility and royalty.
After the Genocides
A sweeping memoir of the author’s Jewish and Armenian families, this account moves from genocide and the Cold War to his work with American and Russian leaders to prevent nuclear war, culminating in his organization winning the Nobel Peace Prize.
GeoPolitics and the Media in Asia and the Pacific
This book examines how the media’s adversarial culture ferments geo-political battles across the Asia-Pacific. It questions militaristic reporting, critiques Western narratives like the ‘rules-based order’, and provides guidelines for reporting without a militarist mindset.
This advanced text on formal logic covers semantics, axiomatics, and proofs of soundness, completeness, and Gödel’s theorems. It also discusses the pictorial semantics of logic diagrams, the evaluation of everyday argumentation, and Nether Logic, the logic of falsehood.
This book challenges the assumption that Islamism and democracy are incompatible. Drawing from fieldwork in post-Suharto Indonesia, it reveals how these forces can coexist through contestation and compromise, with implications for Muslim-majority countries.
Psychology and Culture
This book uniquely explores clinical psychology and psychoanalysis from a cross-cultural perspective. It covers topics from personality disorders and suicide to cultural emotions and dream interpretation, offering vital insights for psychologists and culture enthusiasts alike.
War has been a dominant theme in Australian history, but there is an alternative story. In every conflict, war resisters and conscientious objectors stood firm. They endured violence and prison, branded as cowards, yet showed it took a special type of courage to resist war.
Discover realist painter Clark Hulings (1922-2011), an artist whose subject was work—daily life in ancient places grappling with modernity. This book highlights the beauty and empathy of his paintings and discusses the work ethic that took him to the summit of realist technique.
This book analyzes multilingual academic writing through translanguaging, examining the disparity between thinking in one language and writing in another. It offers practical strategies for educators to acknowledge student voices and identities, decolonizing academic writing.
This textbook and reference for students and scientists helps dispel the fear of statistics. With carefully selected material, examples, and computer solutions, it covers topics from basic to advanced, helping you choose the right analyses and reach sensible conclusions.
This book shows that behavioural finance began not in the 1980s, but over 300 years ago. It offers the first comprehensive assessment of Joseph de la Vega’s Confusion of Confusions (1688), demonstrating it is the true precursor to modern behavioural finance.
Frederick Reinhardt arrived as US Ambassador to Vietnam during a critical time. He repaired the fragile relationship with Ngo Dinh Diem, restoring trust while overseeing pivotal events like the removal of the French, a new constitution, and Vietnam’s first national election.
This volume engages with how the idea of the human features in African societies and scholarship. Contributors are concerned with the urgent imperative of rescuing what it means to be humane in a world being pushed towards a dystopic future by climate change and fundamentalism.
This book explores the enduring myth of Antigone and her timeless power of resistance. It shows how subjectivity is forged in crisis, tracing the myth to its reconstruction in Kamila Shamsie’s work, where Antigone is reborn as Aneeka, a modern Muslim British woman.
This volume promotes innovation in research methodologies for science, mathematics, health, and environmental education. Chapters present new methods to address global challenges like climate change, exploring queer theory, AI, arts-based studies, and socioscientific approaches.
This book helps researchers select the right predictive model. It explains and compares traditional and data-driven models from a statistical viewpoint, with illustrations in R. Learn to handle model assumptions, outliers, and overfitting.
A discussion on the changing nature of South Africa’s higher education sector, covering challenges like low enrollment and high dropout rates that rob the country of economic potential. A welcome addition for policy-makers and scholars.
Glycoscience
This book presents compact data in glycoscience, a developing field linking biology, chemistry, and medicine. It covers the structure, biosynthesis, and biological roles of carbohydrates, highlighting their connection to cancer, hereditary disorders, and other human diseases.
International scholars share diverse perspectives on discourse, translation studies, and education. This volume will enrich the reader’s worldview and provide a plethora of creative ideas for anyone interested in philology, literary translation, and university-level teaching.