Benedetto Varchi’s L’ Ercolano
The first-ever translation of Benedetto Varchi’s L’Ercolano (1570). In a witty and lively dialogue, this 16th-century treatise tackles timeless questions: Are we the only communicating species? What was the first language? A surprisingly modern and entertaining exploration.
Driver distraction results in 340,000 roadway deaths annually. While most research covers personal vehicles, this book focuses specifically on transit bus driver distractions. It is an essential guide for transit agencies and professionals involved in transportation safety.
This volume presents papers from AICED 24, delving into language structure. Contributions explore the syntax, phonology, and semantics of Romanian and other European languages, as well as topics like translation and L2 learning. For all linguists interested in these fields.
A Shakespearean Reading of Pirandello’s Henry IV
This innovative comparative analysis of Shakespeare’s Hamlet and Pirandello’s Enrico IV delves into the intertextual relationship between the two tragedies, presenting an original interpretation that connects concepts like original sin, farce, and simulacrum.
Liquidity and Asset Pricing
Explore the role of liquidity in asset pricing models, from risk premiums to market crises. This book empirically tests how augmented liquidity factors improve models and explains policy implications relevant to researchers, regulators, traders, and portfolio managers.
Demystifying Medical Data
“Demystifying Medical Data” equips you with the essential statistical tools for analyzing medical data. From descriptive statistics to hypothesis testing and experimental design, each chapter builds your competence, making this a comprehensive guide for medical data analysis.
Digital Business Ecosystems in the Service Industry
This guide explores the transformative potential of Digital Business Ecosystems (DBEs) for the service industry. Combining theory with case studies from leaders like Amazon and Netflix, it offers actionable insights to reshape business models and achieve sustainable growth.
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 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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
In Argentina, Chile, and Spain, playwrights addressed the national traumas of dictatorship by creating “posttraumatic theater.” This book argues these plays represent national crises by taking on stylistic features that mimic the symptoms of posttraumatic stress disorder.
The Making of a Jungian Analyst
In the crucible of training analysis, a woman confronts her own shadows to become a Jungian analyst. Guided by a tough supervising analyst—a Holocaust survivor—and a flood of dreams, she discovers the guiding force of the Self in the second half of life.
Political Economy of Financial Systems
Why did identical financial systems lead to contrasting outcomes in South Korea and India? This book argues that the efficiency of finance depends not just on its structure, but on the wider political-economic context and its relations with the market.
This book bridges the gap between theory and creativity in musicianship. It moves beyond the idea of theory as rigid and creativity as wild, providing a discussion of the creative drive in theory and how these ideas shape performance through illuminating examples.
Justice and American Intercollegiate Athletics
This book is about an accomplishment of justice in intercollegiate athletics. Through acts of connection, departure, and reconnection, competitors with directly opposed interests joined to create enduring patterns of centered belonging.
Classics in Hagiography
As new heroes, Christian martyrs and saints shaped a new worldview. But to what extent was the classical heritage decisive in building their profiles? This volume explores how hagiographic texts always benefit from engaging with the rich and enduring classical tradition.
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