This book explores the relationship between Ruskin and Turner through their mutual fascination with water, focusing on The Harbours of England. It reveals how water became a multifaceted symbol of tradition, progress, and nationalism in the nineteenth century.
Interdisciplinarity in International Relations
This collection provides a unique, in-depth view of modern society’s problems using an interdisciplinary approach. It addresses issues in international relations, economics, law, and business, providing a better understanding and showcasing the potential of this method.
Female Recreation of Music Traditions
Explore how women composers since the 20th century reinterpret past music, fusing traditional idioms into their own unique compositions. Through in-depth analyses with musical examples, this book reveals their techniques for musicians and listeners alike.
This unique monograph explores the in-depth chemistry of allelopathy—the chemical interactions between plants. It covers the development of bioherbicides and the nanoencapsulation of allelochemicals for agriculture, a valuable resource for scientists, students, and industry.
The Linguistic Sophistication of Morphological Decomposition
How do we recognize words? Challenging the idea that we rely solely on visual patterns, this book proposes a novel model of lexical access. It posits a mechanism where the brain generates multiple decomposition patterns in parallel, then evaluates them to choose the optimal one.
Why do some people get sick while others stay healthy? In an era of stress, this book reveals the answer. Referencing cancer, it uncovers the impact of negative emotions on your body and the psychological profiles of those vulnerable to illness and those who remain resilient.
Revolution of Cosmetics
Cosmeceuticals merge cosmetics with pharmaceutical properties. This book clarifies their complex regulatory landscape and explores the latest trends in cosmetic science, evaluating products that claim to deliver positive physiological impacts.
Advancing Africa’s Sustainable Development
This book provides papers from a conference on advancing science, technology, and innovation in Africa. Though from various countries, the contributors all share a common interest in furthering science research, education, and disease surveillance.
Göbbels, Himmler and Göring
In this study of Hitler’s three henchmen, Göbbels, Himmler and Göring, Sangster utilises both older biographies, because of their insights, and more recent scholarly publications, as well as diaries. He also examines their mental stability in the light of psychopathic studies.
Intelligent Systems in Buildings
This book explores how intelligent systems can enhance the performance of the traditional courtyard house. It identifies key features of these homes and shows how knowledge of intelligent systems is crucial to fulfilling occupants’ needs.
The Literary Representation of World War II Childhood
Focusing on twenty one primary texts about childhood under Nazism, Honan examines how childhood in literature has changed over the years, from the Romantic writers to child slave labour in the Victorian era, the child-soldier and the impact of deportation.
Plants produce a vast diversity of bioactive molecules to defend themselves from stress. This book provides a complete overview of these compounds, detailing their biochemistry, functional roles, and biotechnological production for use as food supplements and natural medicines.
This collection of papers charts European cemeteries as cultural sites and open-air museums. Authors present funerary art, investigate historical approaches, and propose ways to promote cemetery heritage, laying the groundwork for public discussion on our common heritage.
Varian Studies Volume Three
Roman emperor Varius (AD 218–222) is far less known than his mythical avatar, Heliogabalus. This book contains studies of the historical emperor, his Syrian sun god Elagabal, and the legendary avatar who thrives in literature, the arts, and popular culture.
Arthur Conan Doyle’s Art of Fiction
This groundbreaking book rescues Arthur Conan Doyle from the sub-literary category of popular fiction. Instead of focusing on Victorian attitudes, this study shifts the emphasis to the neglected art of his stories, demonstrating they can be read as canonical literary fiction.
Consciousness, Performing Arts and Literature
Against the background of personal, institutional and cultural trajectories, this collection considers dance, opera, theatre and practice as research from a consciousness studies perspective.
Psoni shows the importance of, and the various roles played by, the feminine figure in the work of both W.B. Yeats and Angelos Sikelianos, highlighting the essential role assumed by the gynocentric mythology permeating the work of the two poets.
Eastern Orthodox Christianity and Animal Suffering
This is the first Eastern Orthodox work on animal suffering and human salvation. Using Biblical teachings and contemporary science, it argues that animal suffering is against God’s Will and that indifference to it has negative consequences for human salvation.
From Prehistory to the Middle Ages, the Duero River’s archaeological heritage is at risk. Before these sites are lost forever, the Zamoraprotohistórica society leads a programme to preserve them. This volume is a compilation of remarkable papers on the river’s rich history.
Homage to Political Philosophy
Flynn offers a model introduction to political philosophy, addressing philosophers from Plato to Rawls and Nozick, with each thinker treated as exploring perennial problems.