Spaces and Places in the Fantastic
This interdisciplinary collection of essays examines the spaces central to fantasy, science fiction, and horror. It explores how fantastic geographies—from digital worlds to bodies as spaces—shape identity, reflect social ideas, and challenge our perceptions of the real world.
Too much of piano playing is undermined by half-truths, causing an epidemic of injuries and artistic frustration. The antidote is a focus on the science of body and mind. Written by a pianist for pianists, this book uses biomechanics and neuroscience to transform all we do.
Communicating Medical Science in the Digital Age
The internet and social media have transformed medical science communication, making it more open and responsive. This book brings together academics and practitioners to critically discuss emerging trends and genres, and how they shape knowledge, expertise, and identity.
Narrative Criminology
This guide on narrative criminology shows how academia and entertainment can blend. For true crime creators and criminology students, it is an insider’s guide to crafting compelling, responsible narratives that educate and entertain without lowering academic standards.
This book equips students and practitioners with the analytical skills to represent a client in a civil federal tax dispute. Using the Code, Regulations, and case law, you will learn to identify and analyse procedural issues from a tax controversy’s inception through litigation.
COVID-19 and Human Security in Africa
In this collection of testimonies, African scholars and public health experts share first-hand knowledge and lived experiences of the harrowing COVID-19 period. These varied perspectives explore the pandemic’s impact and express concerns for Africa’s future preparedness.
Human Rights in Everyday Life in India
This work uses field-based examples from India to show how human rights discourse is a double-edged sword. While oppressors manipulate the rights paradigm to justify oppression, the oppressed leverage the same language to contest marginalization and assert their dignity.
The Indian Knowledge System presents a timeless, holistic perspective on today’s challenges. Essays on philosophy, yoga, and mathematics explore how ancient wisdom can offer sustainable solutions, bridging past and present for a fresh approach to our shared future.
Political Leadership, Religion and National Security in Nigeria
This book analyzes the causes and impacts of ethno-religious conflicts in Kaduna, Nigeria. It examines the roles of political and religious leaders in peace building, offering a framework for conflict resolution and peaceful co-existence. An essential resource for researchers.
Australia’s Naval Alliances
Australia has long relied on powerful allies for naval defence. Once assured of the Royal Navy’s protection, everything changed in 1941 when that promise was not honoured. Australia then formed an alliance with the United States. But alliances can be fragile.
What is a golden share or an angel investor? English for Financial Institutions is your guide to financial English. It features up-to-date topics like cryptocurrencies and quantitative easing, with numerous exercises and answers for self-study or reference.
Women’s Imaginary Cooking and Appetites Across Cultures
This book explores the cultural implications of women’s engagement with food, tackling the female body, appetites, culinary witchcraft, magic, and cannibalism. It traces how food disorders are alchemically transformed into aesthetics, with a pivotal focus on the Balkans.
This book explores the skills for effective language teaching in a changing world. Covering multilingualism, assessment, and digital tools, it presents innovative approaches to foster competent teachers. A valuable resource for teacher educators and scholars.
Street to Shelter Homes
This book delves into the challenges of street children in Bangladesh, examining the interplay of poverty, abuse, and child labour. It offers practical strategies and unique insights for social workers, policymakers, and educators to address the vulnerability of these children.
This book demonstrates that the Oromo national struggle for democracy and self-determination is complex and dangerous. It asserts that true liberation requires decolonizing the minds of the oppressed and the modern sciences that perpetuate domination and exploitation.
Reimagining Systems Change
This book challenges us to reimagine success in the social impact sector. It investigates what shapes our decisions on social issues and how we can approach these problems more effectively, using “We Love Reading” as an exemplar.
Why hasn’t greater education access transformed opportunities in Africa? This book views transformative education as a catalyst for innovation and 21st-century skills, sharing strategies to decolonize education and prepare learners for the modern workforce and entrepreneurship.
The Lionfish Effect
In The Bahamas, the invasive lionfish is more than an environmental threat—it’s a political one. This book explores how efforts to control the lionfish reveal the ways societies adapt to planetary change, and how these adaptations are mediated by class, race, and power.
Language and Communication
Go beyond just speaking and listening. True communication is understanding the meaning behind the words and the power of how things are said. This collection analyses the process in various contexts, examining the transition from form to meaning to improve all relationships.
Forced Migration to Bordering Countries
This book offers a comparative analysis of forced migration, examining Rohingya refugees in Bangladesh, Syrians in Türkiye, and Ukrainians in the EU. It provides fresh insights into the varied geopolitical, legal, and humanitarian responses shaped by various ‘pull factors.’