Cultural Exchanges in the Eastern Mediterranean
The history of the Mediterranean is rich with migration, colonisation, and trade. This collection highlights underrepresented cultural exchanges, with Cyprus as a central crossroads, linking the study of everyday life to macro-scale narratives based on trans-regional engagement.
An Exploration of Hatred in Pop Music
‘Love’ may be the major theme of pop songs, but ‘hate’ runs it close. This book explores hatred across the history of popular music—in lyrics, album art, and the industry itself—asking important questions about misogyny, politics, psychology, and family along the way.
Contemporary Dance and Southern African Rock Art
In Apartheid South Africa, the author started a mixed-race dance company in her garage. Weaving together research into rock art and transformative choreography, this book shows how dance can change attitudes, perceptions, and the human spirit. Includes a video link to the dance.
Writing as Performance
This volume finds an outlet in autoethnography, creating authentic relations between scholars and their writing. It explores new relationships forced into being by the pandemic, as authors describe personal experiences that shed light upon wider cultural and social dynamics.
Intentional Parenting
This book offers a multi-cultural, global perspective on parenting. It combines cultural wisdom with the latest scientific research to guide you in raising a healthy child through every stage, from connecting with an infant to communicating with an adolescent.
This book maps the vital substances of traditional Chinese medicine (TCM), like Qi, to modern signaling molecules. By explaining the molecular mechanism behind TCM’s proven success, it bridges Eastern and Western medicines to enable more effective treatment of disease states.
This book discusses mathematical techniques for stellar kinematics, from classical methods like least squares to modern ones not in other texts, such as total least squares and semi-definite programming. For astronomers, students, engineers, and mathematicians.
Selected Articles and Letters of Stewart R. Roberts, MD (1878-1941)
Stewart R. Roberts, MD, was the first cardiologist in the South of the United States and was frequently called ‘the Osler of the South.’ This book presents a selection of 20 articles by Roberts, providing insights into his work and his environment.
The first collection to survey great books by African authors across the academic disciplines. Expert contributors select and analyze five landmark texts in their fields, exploring their profound influence on individuals and society.
This volume analyses the political activities of migrant groups and diasporas in their host countries and homelands. It combines theoretical approaches and case studies to detail their objectives, organizations, and links with political parties.
Earth Science and Deuterium Nuclear Reactions
Many of Earth’s greatest mysteries—its internal heat, atmospheric composition, and the creation of elements—remain unsolved. This book shows these phenomena could be explained by nuclear fusion in our planet’s core, offering solutions to the problems now threatening our world.
This book shows how theatre and media can negotiate the contradictions threatening Nigeria’s unity. It provides statesmen and policy makers with alternative methods for nation-building, offering models from the global South applicable to similar global settings.
From mythological satyrs and wicked imperial stepmothers to misbehaving students and obstreperous old Athenians, this volume investigates attitudes to age in the ancient world, exploring intergenerational relationships and the intersections with gender, class and status.
This book assesses the risks of debris flows in Georgia, calculating the damage they cause. It presents innovative, patented structures to regulate them, designed using theoretical, laboratory, and field studies to ensure reliability. For scientists, engineers, and students.
This book highlights marine pollution in Tunisia’s Bizerte Lagoon, offering insights into contamination sources. It presents the first study of pesticides in the aquatic ecosystem, assessing the lagoon’s environmental quality against global health standards.
Curating Organizational Memory
Our most trusted organizations are burdened by an accumulation of knowledge. As this book shows, by incorporating forgetting into their strategies for change, they can evolve. Forgetting is an unexpected theory of organizing that can challenge ossified institutional practices.
Dementia Caregiving East and West
This book pulls together practical and adaptable communicative approaches to dementia care from global researchers. With contributions from fields like gerontology, linguistics, and nursing, it highlights communication as the most helpful non-pharmacological means of assistance.
Combining “light” verses with theoretical issues, this book studies the children’s poetry of Robert Louis Stevenson and James Reeves through Reader-Oriented Theories. It offers a new perspective to scholars, teachers, critics, and readers of these beloved poets.
This collection on Homo Kybernetes frames the technosphere as an aesthetic problem. It reflects on cybernetic thinking as a condition for digital aesthetics and explores the transition of human existence through transhumanism and the posthuman condition.
The Personalist Social Contract
How can we survive with a broken humanity? Our urgent existential threats demonstrate how dangerously divided we are. This book proposes the Personalist Social Contract (PSC) as a common moral language to bring together our sciences and societies for shared survival.
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