The American 1950s will not be left alone. This book addresses this enduring phenomenon through its Portuguese proponents, from the arrival of rock ‘n’ roll to the contemporary retro scene. Through interviews, it reveals why this American aesthetic continues to fascinate.
This book charts the history of Romanian semiotics before introducing new concepts like conversational history—for analyzing literary texts—and existential rereading. It also features a collaborative linguistic study and a unique Database of Romanian Love Charms.
Empathy connects us, but social isolation and polarization are driving us apart. A lack of empathy causes society to suffer, making it harder to work with others. How can we learn to demonstrate more empathy? This book sheds light on that question.
The Afterlives of Narratives
This book analyzes how narratives are reinterpreted in British theatre. Discussing case studies from Shakespeare to Zadie Smith, this volume interrogates adaptation and appropriation, exploring the dialogic relationship between source texts and their contemporary reimaginings.
A scholarly study of the material culture of burghers in 17th-18th century Lithuania. This book analyzes urban houses, interiors, furnishings, and symbolic signboards, alongside everyday life, including festivities and inns. For historians of Eastern Europe’s urban legacy.
Transformative Technologies in Healthcare
Artificial Intelligence is transforming healthcare. This book explores the dynamic intersection of technology and medicine, delving into core AI principles, groundbreaking case studies, and the ethical and regulatory challenges of integrating these powerful new tools.
Moving Bodies, Wandering Minds
This book explores the connection between movement—both physical and mental—and creativity. Research shows physical activity has cognitive benefits like improving memory, while intentional mind-wandering can enhance creative ideation. This book summarizes this fascinating link.
Honoring the work of Gyula Klima, this volume explores key issues in medieval logic, metaphysics, and epistemology. Contributions offer significant new insights on Ockham’s semantics, intentionality, Aquinas on genus and species, and Aristotle on demonstration.
Rehabilitating Heckscher-Ohlin
Comparative advantage, the cornerstone of international trade, lacks a theory consistent with the data. This book rehabilitates the popular but rejected Heckscher-Ohlin model by endogenizing technology and focusing on natural resources within a framework of vertical trade.
Agripreneurship Management
Dive into the world of agripreneurship. This guide offers practical insights, case studies, and tools for aspiring agripreneurs to turn agriculture into a profitable and sustainable venture. Discover how to unlock the potential of the agricultural sector and make your mark.
Circulating Knowledge and Elites
Intelligent bots promise salvation while paradigms clash online. With trust in experts collapsing, new leaders emerge. Are their intelligent designs an improvement on the evolution guessed by blind watchmakers?
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.
Violence Impacting Children and Youth
This book provides informative perspectives on violence impacting children and youth in the Global South. It examines trends, dynamics, and experiences, enabling policymakers, educators, and social workers to develop useful strategies to protect them.
This book explores how 1990s criticism reshaped the cinematic portrayal of Turkey’s Early Republican Period. It examines how historical films about the Republic’s founding were influenced by a new scrutiny of nationalism and the previously untouchable ideals of the era.
Personality and its Disorders
To understand a disordered personality, we must first understand normal personality. This book re-frames personality disorders not as an inner pathology, but as aberrant variations of the normal, derailed by injuries and shaped by social and cultural environments.
This reference guide on confusing English words is for those engaged in Arabic-English-Arabic translation. An asset to both new and seasoned translators, this one-of-a-kind book is a must-buy for any translator who wishes to provide highly accurate translations.
This book offers 180 actionable principles to empower new school leaders and inspire experienced ones. Drawing from the author’s extensive career, this guide is grounded in real-world challenges and equips you with practical strategies to drive meaningful, sustainable change.
Renegotiating Islam with Post-colonial Pakistan and the West
Beyond simplistic portrayals, this book shows how authors Shamsie, Naqvi, and Haji redefine Muslim identity. Their works navigate the interplay of faith, culture, and migration to forge new ways of belonging in a globalized world, offering a vital, fresh perspective.
A Clinician’s Guide to Radical Care Beyond Institutional Walls
This book is a rallying cry for a mental health revolution. It dismantles coercive psychiatry and replaces it with bold, community-rooted alternatives grounded in dignity and liberation. It offers real-world tools and a blueprint for building systems that heal rather than harm.
This coursebook helps computer science students develop the English skills for academic and professional success. It covers essential topics with practical exercises in listening, reading, speaking, and writing, placing special emphasis on expanding technical vocabulary.