A must-read for owning or leasing real estate in the US. This guide covers the step-by-step buying process, answers common questions, and includes material on leasing. Learn the language of the business with a summary of important terms, a glossary, and review questions.
This collection explores creativity and the arts as vital to social movements and change. Leading academics and practitioners investigate how creative activism is deployed, taught, and critically analysed, defining the key parameters of this emerging field.
The most comprehensive textbook on equine dentistry and maxillofacial surgery ever published, this guide includes major scientific advances and detailed surgical techniques. Written by the world’s most prominent specialists, it is essential reading for all equine veterinarians.
Extraterrestrial Intelligence
What are the implications for human society of a sophisticated extraterrestrial intelligence (ETI) operating on Earth? This book explores this question from a multidisciplinary perspective. Any contact with ETI will be a paradigm changer, and we must prepare for this transition.
Common Problems in Pregnancy
This book presents concise summaries of common pregnancy conditions, covering up-to-date diagnosis and evidence-based management. It is of great value to clinicians, obstetricians, and midwives, and is also ideal for those studying for exams.
Strategic Decisions in Directed Networks
Do theoretical models account for the decisions of network users? Drawing on two decades of research in transportation science and behavioral economics, this book uses laboratory experiments to test the validity of these models and finds that, with some qualifications, they do.
This book explores the philosophy of care, arguing for its primacy in human life. It analyzes care of the self through “spiritual practices”—techniques like achieving inner silence and writing—that shape our way of being and form an ethics of the self.
Postcolonial African women have often been represented as weak, subaltern, and speechless. This book shows how Ngugi and Adichie’s novels break from these clichés, depicting the African woman in a versatile and powerful way.
Meyerbeer’s L’Africaine
This study examines the creation, dramaturgy, and musical style of L’Africaine, the final opera by Meyerbeer and Scribe. It covers its astonishing reception and revival, featuring a collection of iconography and its interpretation by the greatest singers of opera’s Golden Age.
Climate change is one of the greatest challenges threatening Earth. Using a multidisciplinary approach, this textbook combines the scientific principles of climate change with the Water-Energy-Food-Health (WEFH) Nexus to help develop long-term strategies for the future.
This book prepares teachers in Southern Africa to effectively teach exceptional children. It provides a new framework for inclusive education, calling for a partnership between universities and schools to improve educational equity and reform teacher education.
This book portrays all rational actions as social. It elucidates the significance of this perspective for psychology, political philosophy, and better living, challenging the damaging consequences of psychology’s assumption that rationality is strictly individualist.
Theatres of Rebellion in Nicaragua
To understand Nicaragua today, we must look at its theatrical performances of power and resistance. This book examines the nation’s history, from the colonial period to the Sandinista Revolution, to reveal the critical connection between revolt and cultural performance.
This book charts the evolution of physical knowledge from classical antiquity to the 18th century. Based on original sources, it details the rise of the experimental method and the modern approach to physics, with a particular focus on Galileo Galilei and Isaac Newton.
The Heraldic World of Lawrence Durrell
This book presents unorthodox explorations of Alexandria, the city at the heart of Durrell’s writing. It offers an insight into his Sicilian Carousel and a unique reading of his Alexandria Quartet in light of the art and landscape of ancient Egypt.
Food and Cultural (In)Compatibilities
Specialists in fields from anthropology to linguistics explore how we understand the cultural heritage of food and how it defines the stratification of society. Providing insights into physical and cultural food, this book offers a higher level of understanding of our world.
Development and Decay of Public Administration in Bangladesh
This book analyzes the development and decay of public administration in Bangladesh, revealing how the British “steel frame” of bureaucracy provides its basis. Though post-colonial governments tried to form their own bureaucracy, they failed to retain its prestige and glory.
Jacques Maritain in the 21st Century
Rejecting egocentric isolation and totalitarianism, Christian philosopher Jacques Maritain promoted the human person in authentic community. His quest for liberation contributes to our understanding of 21st-century movements for sustainability, human rights, and democracy.
Overturn Countermeasures for Vehicles
This book describes the century-long battle to protect drivers from crush-related injuries in vehicle rollovers. It argues a key factor in this response was the shift from “blame the victim” to life-saving rollbars, a move driven by epidemiology and engineering.
Paradoxes in Selected Poetry of Emily Dickinson and Sylvia Plath
This book explores the poetry of Emily Dickinson and Sylvia Plath without sensationalizing the writers or their work. It adopts a multi-pronged approach to provide a holistic view of the issues, similarities, and differences in the poetry of the two women.
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