Social Sciences

Baltic Postcolonial Narratives

Literature and Power

By: Almantas Samalavičius

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This book explores postcolonialism's difficult entry into the Baltic literary domain. It provides timely insights by analyzing Lithuania’s best postcolonial novels from the last decade of the Soviet period and the more recent post-Soviet era.

This book explores postcolonialism’s difficult entry into the Baltic literary domain. It provides timely insights by analyzing Lithuania’s best postcolonial novels from the last decade of the Soviet period and the more recent post-Soviet era.

Nat Turner in Black and White

Race, Trauma, and the American Cultural Imaginary

By: Luminita Dragulescu

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This book reveals how writers imagine cautionary Nat Turner-tales, making him a misunderstood and polarizing figure. By locating the Turner Insurrection within historical race trauma, writers expose the lasting impact of slavery and frame rebellion as heroic.

Political, Pedagogical and Research Insights into Early Language Education

Edited By: Hacer Hande Uysal

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This valuable contribution to teaching languages to young learners offers new global perspectives on policy, theory, research, and pedagogy. It covers cognitive learning, teacher education, and classroom practices, making it essential for policymakers, researchers, and teachers.

Retirement Experiences of Psychologists

Edited By: Rodney R. Baker, Patrick H. DeLeon

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For a generation living longer than ever, retirement is uncharted territory. This volume brings together distinguished psychologists to share their personal journeys. Learn from their stories and explore the idea of “retiring to” something, not just “from” it.

The Poetics of Otherness and Transition in Naomi Alderman’s Fiction

By: José M. Yebra

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This first book on Naomi Alderman’s work highlights her transcultural recasting of British and Jewish traditions. The analysis focuses on relevant topics including gender and sexual orientation, the rewriting of the Sacred Scriptures, and feminist posthuman dystopias.

Intersections of the Global and the Local in Slovak Immigrant Communities in Britain

By: Július Rozenfeld

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This book offers a new cultural perspective on Slovak immigration, going beyond economic analysis. It compares British and Slovak understandings of class, religion, and ethnicity to reveal how these factors shape the integration of children within UK education.

The Attitude of Early-Christians toward Unbelievers and Semi-Believers

By: Harm W. Hollander

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This book explores early Christian attitudes toward Jews, pagans, and heretics. Based on the Gospel of John, Jude, and The Testaments of the Twelve Patriarchs, it explains their negative feelings and offers surprising new results for anyone interested in Christian origins.

Grotta Mora Cavorso, from Protohistory to Present Times

By: Mario Federico Rolfo, Katia Francesca Achino, Maurizio Gatta, Letizia Silvestri

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This volume presents the results of archaeological research at Grotta Mora Cavorso, a cave in central Italy. Covering the Historic and Protohistoric periods, it reveals the cave's complex, multi-layered use as a burial and ritual place, a hermitage, and even a war refuge.

This volume presents the results of archaeological research at Grotta Mora Cavorso, a cave in central Italy. Covering the Historic and Protohistoric periods, it reveals the cave’s complex, multi-layered use as a burial and ritual place, a hermitage, and even a war refuge.

Rediscovering Women Writers of Wartime London

Shining a Spotlight onto the Blitzed City

By: Evelina Garay Collcutt

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This book shows the war-stricken city through the eyes of five women writers whose long-neglected novels vividly portray life in the Blitz. This new appraisal of their work highlights the social changes taking place, especially in the lives of women, in those turbulent times.

A Local Perspective on Lexicography

Dictionary Research, Practice, and Use in Romania

Edited By: Marinela Burada, Raluca Sinu

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This book explores dictionary-making and research in Romania. Addressing culture-specific topics for theorists, practitioners, and users, it covers paper and online, monolingual and bilingual works, explaining the challenges that have shaped the local dictionary culture.

Bodies of Water in African American Literature, Music, and Film

Edited By: Sharon A. Lewis, Ama S. Wattley

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This volume of original essays explores the meaning of water in creative narratives by African Americans. Across literature, film, and music, these writers embody provocative, innovative, and refreshing ways to contemplate water in Black American artistic expressivity.

The H5N1 Virus

Seeking Knowledge Justice in an (In)Secure World

By: Philip R. Egert

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This study reveals the social justice linkages of the H5N1 virus, framed as a veterinary scourge, a public health threat, and a potential bioterrorist weapon. This sparked a dual-use dilemma, pitting security against open science, and obscuring questions of justice.

Neoliberalism, Social Policy and Welfare in Developing Countries (Russia, India and South Africa)

Edited By: Irina L. Pervova

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This book illustrates the role of political, economic and social factors in solving the social problems caused by neoliberalism in Russia, India, and South Africa. It details rational strategies to address gaps in socio-economic development and social policy.

The Antigone Myth on the Basis of Liminality and Subjectivity

By: Seher Özkaya

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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.

The Practice of Self-Care

By: Luigina Mortari

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This book explores the philosophy of care, arguing for its primacy in human life. It analyzes care of the self through “spiritual practices”—techniques like achieving inner silence and writing—that shape our way of being and form an ethics of the self.

Italian Canadian Heritage

Migration and Welfare Support from the Second Post-War Period Onwards

By: Valentina Sgro

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This book provides an in-depth analysis of the economic and cultural relations between Italy and Canada since the mid-20th century. It focuses on Italian-Canadian migratory flows, integration, work, and the promotion of a unique cultural heritage.

Solutions for Distance Learning in Higher Education

Edited By: Ginger Jones

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For online programs to succeed, institutions must support course design, communication, and students. This volume investigates these issues and will interest practitioners of online teaching, design, and administration of successful online programs.

The Notion of Space within Diverse Fields of Cognizance

Edited By: Driss Bouyahya

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This volume explores how meanings of space are created and how they impact identity and belonging. It brings together multiple narratives to shed light on how they emerge from, and reshape, relations of power.

Dyslexia and Creativity

Diverse Minds

By: Ken Gobbo

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This book explores dyslexia from a cognitive and neurological view, outlining a theory that links this learning difference to the creative process. It shows how artists and writers faced the struggles of dyslexia, harnessing its positive traits to fuel their creative success.

Ordinary Chondrites from North-East India

A Raman and Infrared Spectroscopic Approach

By: Bhaskar J.Saikia

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A spectroscopic study of meteorites from North-eastern India. This book uses Raman and infrared techniques to analyze silicate minerals in ordinary chondrites. For readers interested in planetary materials, it includes a list of Indian meteorites and a glossary of terms.

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