This book reveals Homer’s vibrant legacy in Portuguese, Spanish, Brazilian, and Argentinian literature from the 19th to the 21st century. Juxtaposing Homeric motifs across genres—theatre, poetry, novel, and short story—it offers a unique cross-cultural comparison.
This book argues that contemporary fashion is a performative-conceptual turn. It presents a new approach from visual semiotics, where fashion emerges as a visual code for our hyperreal societies, combining cybernetics, fetishism, and transgression.
Psychiatry has reduced the living person to mere brain chemistry, eliminating “Bios” from its practice. As its theoretical foundation crumbles and calls grow to abolish the discipline, this book counteracts such ambitions, arguing for a badly needed theoretical consciousness.
This volume reports on bilingual practices in contemporary societies worldwide. Researchers discuss topics including language learning, education, media, and social change, with a special focus on Malta as an excellent laboratory for the scientific study of bilingualism.
This selection of studies unites East and West, exploring space in literature, drama, and film. Through challenging analyses, the reader journeys into complementary cultures to discover how spatiality produces knowledge, and how reading itself becomes a form of owning space.
This is the first monograph to identify microalgal species in Kashmir’s Dal Lake. It presents a comprehensive taxonomic description of the algal flora, featuring over 200 coloured photographs. An essential resource for researchers, students, and biologists.
This book challenges the myth of the neutral scholar. Renowned international scholars passionately engage with diverse texts, geographies and cultures, focusing on postcolonial, ecocritical, and mythical studies informed by ecosophy, ecofeminism, and system theory.
Learning to Teach
Diverse teacher educators share stories of their experiences as students and teachers. This collection reveals how these experiences influence their teaching, offering effective practices for culturally diverse learners with a focus on social justice, equity, and inclusion.
How did six pioneer families survive the 19th-century American wilderness? Through their own accounts, this book reveals their struggle, their grace under pressure, and the clashing cultural identities that would sow the seeds of a divided nation.
The Philosophy of Yoga in Contemporary American Fiction
This book unveils the mystical motifs and yoga philosophies interwoven into the narrative structures of fictions by Saul Bellow, J.D. Salinger, John Updike, and Kurt Vonnegut, opening new vistas on the interface between Eastern philosophy and Western literature.
Satellite images often suffer from interpretability issues and lost details due to sensor limitations. This book exploits deep learning to boost minute details and improve classification, showing how super-resolution improves spatial detail for precise decision-making.
James Hill, a Dumfries Neurosurgeon
Shaped by the Scottish Enlightenment, surgeon James Hill (1703-1776) preferred his own observations to the teachings of past authorities. He achieved a grand reputation for his contribution to the treatment of head injuries. Though his legacy faded, this book documents his work.
This book offers an ethical analysis of challenges in COVID-19 research, vaccination, and therapy. It confronts the dilemma of who to treat when life-saving resources are limited and highlights the necessity of a global bioethical framework for pandemic management.
This book presents basic results in functional and classical analysis, emphasizing convexity, optimization, and operator theory. It reveals the connection between linear and convex operators and establishes their relationship with other fields of mathematics and physics.
Why did the idealistic goals of revolutionary periods in Britain (1642-1688) and Egypt (2011-2013) lead to counter-revolutions? This book explains how sectarian strains magnified the blunders of new rulers, causing religion to destabilize their regimes instead of saving them.
Preventing Child Maltreatment and Traumas
Drawing from experiences in Italy and Japan, this book shares successful clinical cases, new diagnostic techniques, and screening tools for early detecting and treating child maltreatment. An essential resource for clinicians, psychotherapists, psychiatrists, and paediatricians.
Relocating self-construction to social and political psychology, these essays explore the postcolonial condition. This is the catalyst for inquiries into collective traumas, new narratives, and the double consciousness of writers living at home and as migrants.
Modern and Contemporary Taiwanese Philosophy
As mainland China rejected its philosophical heritage, Taiwanese thinkers did more than preserve it—they reinvented it. Engaging with Western thought, they forged complex new systems, creating a vital 20th-century legacy still largely unknown in the West.
Montaigne’s Essays
Montaigne’s essays probe the intimate feelings, anxieties, and hopes of daily life. This blend of his observations with the author’s offers a mirror to your own experiences, and the solace of knowing that his wisdom applies precisely to your world.
Second Language Teaching in the Digital Era
A guide to second language teaching in the digital era, this book merges theory and practice. It covers approaches for digital learners and presents case studies on applying and evaluating innovative technologies.