How Adaptations Awaken the Literary Canon
This book illuminates how reimagining narratives creates empowerment. It explores adaptations—from classic literature to fairy tales—that retell and awaken the literary canon, interrogating conventions and revealing the unique power of reframing stories.
Belonging and Place-Making in a Neoliberal Waterfront Area
This book explores how privatisation and elite developments transform urban waterfronts into exclusive spaces. It argues these policies affect the distribution of owners and renters and change the meaning of home. Using a case study, it examines the feelings of tenure groups.
The Sociology of Longevity
For the first time, this book analyzes how socioecological factors influence our probability of becoming a centenarian. It presents global evidence on the factors affecting life expectancy and contributes applicable knowledge on how to become a healthy centenarian.
This lucid account of J. M. Coetzee’s South African career provides an inside view of apartheid madness. Linking his nonfictional thought with his fiction, it suggests the insanity of apartheid lies in the social deformation and pathological attachments it encourages.
This book analyzes former President Trump’s domestic and foreign policies, from trade wars to nuclear programs. It details their successes, failures, and negative impact on the US and its allies, while offering recommendations to resolve the conflicts they generated.
Personality Type and Art
Discover the psychological roots of your artistic tastes. Revising the theories of Jung and Freud, this book unveils a new understanding of personality that will irrevocably change how you perceive music and art.
This book describes mathematical methods for calculating nuclear characteristics and intercluster potentials. It discusses phase shift analysis of elastic scattering at low and astrophysical energies and investigates three-body models of light nuclear nuclei.
As one of the biggest breakthroughs in medicine, 3D printing has become an integral part of healthcare. This book explores its growth and how it is improving patient care with better quality, customized designs, and lower costs, providing insight for researchers and students.
This book tells the fascinating story of physics from the 19th to the 20th century. It investigates the contrasting ideas and raging arguments that led to our current understanding of the physical world, from the theory of relativity to quantum mechanics.
This book analyzes hateful speech in postcolonial settings like Brazil. Through empirical analysis of online and offline attacks and resistance, it shows how global and local flows fuse into tangled issues, such as the sexist violence permeating contemporary political struggles.
Delving into radical Islam in Saudi Arabia, this book exposes a hidden front: female terrorism. It uncovers the causes of women’s extremism and reveals their crucial, often overlooked, role in terrorist networks, shattering the myth of their non-involvement.
Nurses are motivated by compassion, but how does this ‘soft’ value fit into modern, evidence-based healthcare? This book answers that question, showing that compassion is not old-fashioned but an indispensable necessity for high-quality, evidence-based nursing care.
Mormon theologian B.H. Roberts sought to fuse faith with modern science. Church leaders rejected his work, yet a future prophet secretly co-opted it—adopting its racism while condemning its science and free thought.
Many topical tasks of logical analysis, such as forming and testing hypotheses or searching for inconsistencies in reasoning, are often outside the scope of standard logic courses. This book demonstrates two simple mathematical systems that model reasoning and solve these tasks.
So fiercely anti-clerical it was placed on the Index of Prohibited Books, this 15th-century Italian collection is a landmark of short fiction. Its tales of murder, incest, and ingenious adultery are by turns grim, comic, tragic, and erotic.
This guide to cytogenetic techniques summarizes chromosomal disorders with pictures and easy-to-understand laboratory procedures. It details modern techniques for geneticists, scientists, and those aspiring to establish a molecular cytogenetic lab.
Family firms are over 80% of businesses worldwide. This book offers valuable insights into how they operate, exploring HR management, financial practices, and family integration as a source of competitive advantage. It provides a comprehensive analysis of these key challenges.
Gender-Based Differences in Exposure to and Usage of Camfranglais in Yaoundé
This book explores the Cameroonian youth language Camfranglais—a mix of French, English, Pidgin and local languages—from a rare gender-based approach. It focuses on female speakers, their experiences of exclusion, and the factors that contribute to male dominance in its usage.
T. S. Eliot’s famous poetry expresses not a rejection of faith, but a struggle with it. This book explores how he and Michelangelo wrestled with the highest meanings of existence, seeking to express a modernist view of mystical awe—the experience of God.
Safety Management for the City Gas Industry
City gas provides great convenience but also poses dangers. This book discusses safety issues from a management perspective, sorting out important Chinese laws and summarising practices and experiences to benefit professionals across the globe.
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