Leading scholars explore the understudied history of collecting in the American South. This volume examines the rich Renaissance and Baroque art in Southern public and private collections, revealing how these works were acquired, curated, displayed, and preserved.
Data on gravity reveal a fascinating hidden world, allowing us to “see” under glaciers or beneath desert sands. This book explores subglacial Antarctica, Saharan paleolakes, and ocean-bottom craters, and analyses gravity fields to help find oil and gas with higher probability.
The Mekong Delta’s economically significant fish species are threatened by fragmented research, hindering conservation. This monograph offers a solution: the culmination of a decade of research providing a holistic understanding of their genetics, ecology, and survival.
This book explores the ‘mother ideas’ that form scientific knowledge, highlighting stability as a driving force in nature. This analysis leads to the introduction of consciousness and redefines elementary notions such as the “me”, beauty, and art.
Mircea Eliade’s Journalistic Writings
This book discusses Mircea Eliade’s lesser-known journalism. His articles serve as a starting point for comments on the movement of ideas in the interwar era, the dramatic destiny of his generation under totalitarian regimes, and his reception in Romania and abroad.
Because of the lack of written records, archaeologists must become shrewd detectives. This book inspects the material evidence to present an entirely fresh, overlooked image of Etruria—one deeply rooted in the land and its natural environment.
For teachers and students of philosophy, this book traces developments in Philosophy of Education from Rousseau through the twentieth century. The second part describes Christian approaches to educational philosophy that will appeal to Catholics as well as Protestants.
The Palestinian Constitutional Court
This book argues the Palestinian Constitutional Court has failed to uphold the Basic Law against authoritarian actions. It offers a case study on how courts in authoritarian regimes obstruct rights and is the first authoritative English-language study of the Court’s judgments.
Global History, Visual Culture and Itinerancies
This chronologically ambitious book investigates globalization from Roman times to the present. It argues that itinerant agents carry cultural baggage, transporting and transmitting it to create interconnections and produce active changes in global history.
Language through Translation
This book reveals how fantasy characterization is created in an original text and distorted in its Chinese translation. Based on a linguistic analysis of translation shifts, it offers crucial insights for creative writing, translation studies, and critical discourse analysis.
This accessible introduction to language variation provides critical accounts of key topics in sociolinguistics, stylistics, pragmatics, and discourse analysis. Illustrated with compelling examples, it serves as a valuable reference for students of linguistics and communication.
Essays on Swedish Cultural Life During the Late Eighteenth Century
When dusting out corners, we may be surprised by the vitality of things once thought useful. This book looks at old letters, a popular song, a hit comedy, and an overlooked opera, intending to surprise us with their residual vitality and ask why we swept them aside.
This book develops a nonstandard approach to control systems analysis and design using non-recursive behavioural models. It presents techniques for state controllability analysis, feedback control, and optimal control design. All results are illustrated by lab experiments.
A Community at the Heart of Europe
This book offers an overview of the Slovene minority in Italy and their efforts to preserve their cultural and linguistic heritage. Shaped by devastating events like the World Wars and fascism, the community now faces new challenges and protections in a globalized world.
This book offers a bold, innovative approach to literary interpretation: the neurohermeneutics of suspicion. It illuminates the intricate bond between literature and the mind, encouraging readers to adopt a suspicious stance to unearth complex, multilayered meanings.
This book studies the thermodynamic bases of protein structure and function. Moving from physical chemistry principles to current topics in biochemistry, it details protein stability, ligand interactions, and allostery in a language that is rigorous yet easy to read.
This simple, practical guide explains how diabetic patients can use self-management activities to control their condition and reduce the risk of serious complications. It is an essential resource for patients, their families, and the healthcare professionals who educate them.
Resolving the China-US Conflicts
Countering the Thucydides’ Trap, this book offers a new theory of intercultural communication to resolve China-US conflicts. It argues that deeply-rooted bonds between the peoples can overcome a zero-sum mentality and lead to mutual benefits instead of an inevitable war.
Autism Decoded
Paediatrician Professor May Ng demystifies autism with clarity and empathy in ‘Autism Decoded.’ This jargon-free roadmap offers practical insights and fosters appreciation for the diverse strengths of the neurodiverse community, empowering readers to build a world of acceptance.
Contested Histories and Politics of People
Subaltern Studies unearths subsumed narratives and subjugated knowledges to counter hegemonic domination. It critiques power manipulated by colonialism and elite nationalists, and challenges the neo-colonial politics that continue to alter history.