This easy-to-use text offers a fast review of orthopaedic pathology for daily clinical practice and board examination. It is a helpful reference for anatomic pathologists and orthopaedic surgeons preparing for their board exams.
What is gesture? What is multimodality? This volume provides answers through an eclectic set of recent studies. It investigates gesture in relation to speech, language acquisition, the performing arts (music, dance, theatre), and Artificial Intelligence.
The Music of Meaning
A book about meaning in music, poetry, and language. These 24 essays explore how we communicate through signs, symbols, and metaphor, revealing the complex unfolding of the expressive human mind and the intricate relationship between expression and thought.
The Legacy of János S. Petőfi
János S. Petőfi was a founder of Text Linguistics. In this volume, his colleagues and disciples discuss his enormous impact on linguistics, literary theory, rhetoric and semiotics. Essays consider topics like coherence and the analysis of literary and multimedial texts.
Mapping Cultural Identities and Intersections
This book applies imagology to film, art, and narratives to explore identity construction. Through interdisciplinary approaches, it examines cultural and ethnic identities—the self and the other—with a focus on literary works as they are translated from one culture to another.
This interdisciplinary volume examines women’s global journeys toward peace. International scholars explore how and why contemporary nonviolent tactics have proved effective in the movement from war to building peace amid twenty-first century social changes.
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.
Explore eco-friendly bromination using bromide-bromate salts, which generate only salt water as waste. This guide covers key reactions, from aromatic substitutions to oxidations. With simple, novel, and economically viable methods, it’s essential for academia and industry.
The Role of Defamation in the Outbreak of War
Comparing the wars of 1939 and 2022, this book shows how Hitler and Putin used propaganda to dehumanize victims and deter Western help. Hitler succeeded; Putin did not. History repeated itself, but inaccurately. Includes full translations of key propaganda texts.
Aging Femininities
Older women have never been more visible, or more problematised. This collection of essays interrogates the troubling representations of “aging femininity” in popular culture, forging links between contemporary lived experience and feminist cultural theory.
Mirrors and Windows in Language Teacher Education
This book on language learning and interculturality invites educators to look in the mirror at their own practice and out the window at others’ research. It’s for all who want to support every learner in classes where inclusion and cooperation are the norm, not competition.
Community Practices in India
This ground-breaking collaboration by Indian practitioners and academics presents indigenous knowledge in community organizing. Through case studies of social justice for marginalized communities, it captures locally relevant approaches and engages readers in critical reflection.
Forensic science pioneer Ralph Turner’s work was the basis for drunk driving laws. He founded the field’s leading professional organization and was one of the first persons to question the Warren Commission Report on the assassination of President Kennedy.
This book provides a novel, strategic solution for China’s future, investigating the scientification of its words, language, and culture. This ‘scientific Chinese trinity’ will create a scientific China and facilitate the development of the digital economy.
Technology and Performance during the Renaissance
Leonardo da Vinci, known for science and art, was also one of the most famous musicians of the Renaissance. His multifaceted knowledge pushed him beyond performance; his codices contain studies on sound and an extraordinary catalogue of new musical instruments he designed.
The Ecological Footprint of Tourism
This book provides a methodological approach to calculating the Ecological Footprint of Tourism (TEF). Through a Greek case study, it offers insights on the TEF as a sustainability indicator under the pressures of climate change, mass tourism, and the energy transition.
Disruptions in Economic and Social Polity
Capitalism is in crisis and the neoliberal model has failed, causing major economic and social disruptions. This book analyzes these global issues, with particular reference to India, to find a direction for change and detail plans for future actions.
Aquifer characterisation is essential for groundwater modelling, but traditional methods are time-consuming and expensive. This volume explores how geophysical techniques overcome these limitations, providing high-resolution subsurface data through detailed case studies.
Master English phrasal verbs. This comprehensive resource provides a list of verbs with easy definitions, usage examples, and exercises. It’s an essential tool for non-native speakers seeking to achieve native-like fluency and master an unpredictable part of the language.
Introduction to Field-Being Philosophy
Lik Kuen Tong’s Field-Being philosophy offers a new metaphysics. Rethinking the universe as “activity,” “relationality,” and “betweenness,” this future-oriented philosophy lends itself to addressing current issues such as climate change, global relations, and difference.
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