This illustrated guide explores moiré patterns in 1D, 2D, 3D, and time. Learn to identify, distinguish, evaluate, and control the moiré effect, and to use it in modern technologies.
The Mystery of Hamlet
Hamlet kills Polonius thinking he is Claudius. Yet he cannot kill Claudius. Why? Shakespeare understood the Freudian slip centuries before Freud, using hints to reveal the secrets of a disillusioned idealist’s tragically conscientious character.
Human Trafficking
Using the accounts of twenty-six women, Maria De Angelis explores women’s stories of agency in a lived experience of trafficking. This book will be of interest to students undertaking courses in modern slavery, human geography, police studies, social work, and criminology.
This collection of essays highlights the variety in contemporary English and American studies and linguistics. It examines travelling and recollection in literature, male and female voices in narratives, representations of history, and the theoretical questions of language.
The United States has played a pivotal, controversial role in China-Japan relations since WWII. This volume provides a multi-faceted overview of America’s interaction in East Asia, highlighting the obstacles to improved bilateral and regional integration.
Popular Music and Australian Culture
This volume explores popular music and culture, challenging assumptions about how we experience modernity. The essays raise larger questions about our status as consumers and participants in historical change, and examine the relationship between sound, media, and community.
Problem-Based Learning is an effective method of medical instruction that teaches students to think critically in a group environment. This book will help you harness the power of active learning and conduct an outstanding session and properly prepare for it.
This book delves into the Ukraine conflict through international law. It scrutinizes Russia’s arguments, drawing parallels to legal doctrines previously used by other major powers. A pioneering and impartial analysis essential for anyone wishing to stay informed.
Second Person Plural Forms in World Englishes
While Modern English uses a single “you,” many dialects have plural forms like “yous.” This investigation, based on a 1.9 billion-word corpus, explores these forms across 20 varieties of English, uncovering their distribution and role in the speaker-hearer relationship.
Honors Education and the Foundation of Fairness
How can we support high academic achievement while allowing equitable access to higher learning? By focusing on equity, contributors shine light on conditions of inequity in honors education and advocate for supporting a wide range of identities. This book is a call to action.
Exploring the Macabre, Malevolent, and Mysterious
Scholars explore how horror and dark subjects influence cultures worldwide. These topics are found not only in fiction but in belief systems, art, and government. This intellectual exploration covers witchcraft, zombies, serial killers, monsters, and the mysterious unknown.
Equine Fictions
This innovative volume explores the powerful human-horse bond in 21st-century fiction and autobiography from the perspectives of affect and politics. It analyzes how narratives of healing, mourning, and identity are shaped by gender and nation in contemporary writing.
This book analyzes the US Federal Reserve’s extensive role in our daily lives and its consequences for the world’s economy. As its global dominance gives rise to international opposition, this book explores the Fed’s history, policies, and the key challenges it faces.
Each wave of technological innovation and economic freedom has fueled a destructive cycle of consumerism and ecological degradation. This book is a stark warning: our addiction to growth is driving us to our demise. Hybel challenges readers to confront uncomfortable truths.
World War I and the Birth of a New World Order
This volume re-evaluates the impact of World War I on Eastern Europe, particularly Romania, revealing lasting effects still felt today. Using case studies and memoirs, it offers fresh perspectives on social changes, women’s emancipation, new boundaries, and national minorities.
Uncovering the hidden history of Shi’ism in North Africa and al-Andalus, this book offers the first English translations of Morisco traditions. It reveals their original works, study of diverse Shi’ite sources, and a vibrant faith that rewrites the region’s history.
On the Geology of Syria
Explore the geology of Syria, a highly diverse field for geologists. Located at the meeting point of the Eurasian, African, and Arabic plates, Syria is underlain by the active Dead Sea Fault Zone, making this area of unique interest.
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.
Believing ‘no text is an island,’ this book explores intertextuality and transformation. It examines texts—especially children’s literature—that traverse boundaries of genre, medium, and geography, with essays from a wide range of international scholars.
Slow violence is the gradual environmental catastrophe harming the poor. While often associated with the Global South, this book reveals its devastating impact in America, concentrating on Illinois and Appalachia and exploring its reflection in literature.
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