The Life and Work of Isidore Snapper (1889-1973)
Professor of Medicine on three continents, POW of the Japanese, US war consultant, and lover of a CIA agent. Isidore Snapper was a medical celebrity and one of the last great generalists—a brilliant physician from an era now extinct.
Each individual is of the highest value. This book explores how this core belief shapes the laws, customs, and norms that guide society, uncovering the critical connection between our values and the modern economy—a vital read for the future of humanity.
Based on real science, this book offers a new methodology for assessing coaching’s effects on managers’ personalities. It shows how they can respond to the challenges they face in a more effective and professional way.
Cinema and Evil
This book explores films that address the problem of evil, drawing on thinkers from Manicheanism to Arendt. It considers how filmmakers like Fritz Lang and Michael Haneke use “dangerous” films to task us with considering evil as our own responsibility.
When financial hardship forced the Brooklyn Museum to sell a Book of Hours, a dealer purchased and dismembered it for profit. This book uncovers the moral complexities of the sale, identifies the manuscript’s original owner, and digitally reconstructs the priceless text.
Captured by the City
This collection of essays explores cities in North America, Europe, and Asia as dynamic encounters. Different disciplines intersect to shape the unique field of Urban Culture Studies and grant us a new understanding of how we inscribe cities and how they inscribe us.
This book explores the interface between biochemistry and cosmochemistry to understand how life began on Earth and if this process is universal. Told through personal anecdotes, it focuses on amino acids to ask if life could originate and evolve on other worlds.
Decoding Consciousness and Bioethics
How do we know if someone else is conscious? This book offers a compelling bioethical analysis of one of neuroscience’s most intriguing topics: states of consciousness, bringing together contributions from international experts in neuroscience, philosophy, law, and ethics.
Lee Miller, Photography, Surrealism and the Second World War
Hilditch considers how Lee Miller’s war photographs can be interpreted as ‘surreal documentary’ combining a surrealist sensibility with a need to inform. Each chapter contains a close analysis of specific photographs in a generally chronological study with a thematic focus.
Experimental Archaeology and Neolithic Architecture
How did preliterate people build complex monuments like Stonehenge without a plan? This book argues Neolithic builders used rudimentary techniques: ropes to set out the design, finger reckoning for measurement, and the sun’s shadow for orientation.
P. Papinius Statius Volume II
This three-volume work offers a revised text, prose translation, and extensive commentary for the two epics of Statius: his magnum opus, the Thebaid, and the Achilleid, which was left unfinished at his death.
Semiotics and Visual Communication
This book explores how semiotic theory can be applied to visual communication practice. Featuring contributions on design, media, and the visual arts, it is an essential asset for anyone interested in semiotics from both a theoretical and applied view.
Industrial growth has created complex products with health and environmental risks, prompting the new field of regulatory science. Leaders in the field contribute to these pages, providing a multidisciplinary overview and guide to critical topics in this evolving discipline.
For advanced students, this book establishes a path from the study of phase transitions to the current understanding of living matter. It explores concepts from statistical mechanics, non-linear systems, chaos and self-organization drawn from physics, chemistry and biology.
This book presents a model of epistemic stance, showing that questions come from two distinct positions: Unknowing (a lack of knowledge) and Uncertain (a lack of certainty). Uncertain questions range on a continuum from expressing doubt to advancing a supposition.
Spanning 45 years, these essays chart the author’s evolving thought on Taiwan’s modern history. They investigate political reform by intellectuals since the 1970s and the creation of a national human rights commission, including the handling of transitional justice.
Managing a Tour Operating Business
Explore the global tour operations business and how technology influences new business models. With case studies from Europe, Africa, and the USA, this text addresses challenges in developing countries and offers a business model for future sustainability.
This book studies modern civil law through philosophical categories. It analyzes the dynamics between the internal and external, vertical and horizontal, and symmetry and asymmetry to reveal how legal subjects interact in a state of equilibrium.
Occupational Injuries and Workplace Risks
Occupational injuries cause immense human suffering and economic loss. This book explores what makes workers vulnerable, from age and shift work to risks in industries like construction and fishing, while also touching on recent trends like climate change.
A vital collection on intercultural practices in European health and education. Featuring cutting-edge research with diverse clients, it examines diversity, sources of tension, and paths to resilience and wellbeing.
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