Using a historical approach, this book traces Canada’s role in the Arab-Israel conflict. It argues that Canadian policy, operating within the Anglo-American framework, has been shaped by religio-cultural factors, economic interests, and the influence of domestic elites.
This collection of papers explores language use and attitudes towards it from both historical and present-day perspectives. It examines language in personal letters, the impact of usage guides, and the interplay between actual language use and prescriptive attitudes.
The Heraldic World of Lawrence Durrell
This book presents unorthodox explorations of Alexandria, the city at the heart of Durrell’s writing. It offers an insight into his Sicilian Carousel and a unique reading of his Alexandria Quartet in light of the art and landscape of ancient Egypt.
The Trojan War begins with one sacrifice, Iphigenia, and ends with another, Polyxena. In Greek tragedy, did these ritual killings restore cosmic balance, or did they only unleash greater chaos?
This book brings together local voices from Africa, the Middle East, and Latin America to offer a comparative analysis of democracy and development. Contributors explore a shared disenchantment with politics, democratic backsliding, and the trials of the postcolonial era.
What is a ‘first letter’? Is it a child’s first writing, a first love letter, or the first to a new correspondent? This volume examines the first letters of authors, philosophers, and artists—including Voltaire, Diderot, and Coleridge—and their connection to what follows.
The Life and Work of Rudolf Bruči
This first collection of essays in English on composer Rudolf Bruči explores his multivalent work from many angles. It emphasizes his relevance in Balkan musicology, his considerable international reputation, and his role as a cultural worker in post-war socialist Yugoslavia.
Learn how electrical pulses can make cancer treatment more efficient with fewer side effects. Successfully used with chemotherapy on over 3000 patients, this method doesn’t require high-tech resources, making it ideal for less-equipped healthcare settings.
Why do bilinguals code-switch? This book proposes a model where one language builds the grammatical frame while the other is activated at a lexical level. This view is tested by analyzing natural speech and second language acquisition data, treating both as predictable outcomes.
Discover the honey bee’s adaptation to environments worldwide. This book explains how the bee colony functions as an integral biological unit to survive long winters and uses specific acoustic and electrical signals for spatial orientation and communication.
Spanish Women Authors of Serial Crime Fiction
This collection analyzes detective series with female investigators, exploring their treatment of current social, political, and gender issues. Authors break with convention by blending crime fiction with sci-fi and the supernatural in varied settings to reinvigorate the genre.
This book is a guide to performing uniform broadband measurements with low uncertainty. It discusses radiometric, photometric, color, and LED measurements, and shows how to avoid large errors by standardizing the measurement procedure and using properly selected meters.
Dr Samways Writes to the Editor
After early achievements in physics and medicine, Dr Daniel Samways’s prestigious career was thrown off course by tuberculosis. He turned to general practice, but his undiminished scientific curiosity was revealed in prolific writings that continue to resonate today.
Art and Anatomy in Nineteenth Century Britain
In early 19th-century Britain, art and science collided. Artists studied dissection to capture life, while anatomists learned to draw for accuracy. This book uncovers their mutual dependence and how anatomical truth became a measure of beauty, through three pioneering figures.
Homecoming Trails in Mexican American Cultural History
Critical essays by specialists from Mexico, Germany, and the US reexamine Mexican American cultural history from a 21st-century global perspective. The jargon-free essays explore biography, nationhood, and globalism, from Imperial Spain to modern US influence in Latin America.
A tool for teachers in the multicultural classroom, this book focuses on cross-cultural communicative competency. It provides a foundation for teaching English as a lingua franca in the age of globalization, bringing pluralism and multiculturalism center stage.
This book explores the future of food and its changing definition. Discover the most cutting-edge developments in the food industry, including lab-meat, nano-engineered foods, vertical agriculture, and Marsfoods, along with future technologies and consumption trends.
For physics scholars and general readers, this book explores the action of ultra-low doses on biological systems. It covers medicinal remedies like homeopathy, the influence of color and form, and the Twin Correlation.
Why have Africa’s two largest oil producers, Angola and Nigeria, experienced such different outcomes? This book reveals how Angola’s leader used oil wealth to consolidate a 38-year autocracy, while in Nigeria, perennial contestation for power created a more competitive system.
Freedom of Navigation in the Exclusive Economic Zone
This book examines the EU’s initiatives on ship-source pollution. It analyzes this first regional approach to criminalize pollution beyond international standards, and asks how this will impact the freedom of navigation for other States in the exclusive economic zone.