This volume offers a comprehensive, multilingual approach to the practice of translation and interpretation, shaped by global markets and advanced technologies. It provides a practice-oriented perspective on cross-cultural communication and is an accessible pedagogical resource.
This book applies new feminist and gender methodologies to biblical texts. It continues pioneering discussions while introducing new theories to challenge accepted interpretations and ideologies that reinforce patriarchal domination and injustice.
This book explores the relationship between African American males and the police through their own eyes. It reveals this is not a black or white issue, but a global human problem, and is essential for understanding their realities, fears, and concerns.
Semiconductors are the driving force behind economic strength and national security, but novel types are needed for today’s scaling demands. This book provides comprehensive coverage of InAs1-xPx solid solutions, from production to their properties and application potential.
Based on original research, this book explores the struggles of working women in Karachi, Pakistan. From managers to domestic workers, it reveals how women in each category are victims of a gender-biased society, fighting for survival in a male-dominated world.
Aimed at students, this clear and concise practical handbook is prepared in accordance with the latest syllabi. It explores the instruments and glassware handled during experiments and the calculations required to prepare chemical reagents and media.
An Anthropological Study of Marine Fishermen in Kerala
This anthropological study of Hindu marine fishermen in two neighboring Indian villages, administered by different state governments, explores how state interventions influence development, gender roles, and survival in an uncertain economy.
This volume showcases new research on a wide range of topics in Ghana, including pidgin, music, agricultural policy, and the poetics of names. It will appeal particularly to students of Africana and Ghanaian studies.
Who really wrote the Letters of Paul? Anonymous editors saved him from oblivion but distorted his message, adding anti-Jewish and misogynistic texts alongside the beautiful praise of love. This book reconstructs the first edition, removing 2000 years of changes.
The Making of Refugee Memory
The first English-language history of how Asia Minor refugees sustained memories of their “lost homeland” in Greece. This ground-breaking study explores refugee identity through an in-depth case-study of the Thracian Centre and its conduits of memory.
This collection explores the Gospel of John regarding Jews and the origins of Christian anti-Judaism. It examines how Johannine Christianity was tied to ancient Judaism while distancing itself from Jewish culture, providing vital context for modern Jewish-Christian dialogue.
This book provides a novel, strategic solution for China’s future, investigating the scientification of its words, language, and culture. This ‘scientific Chinese trinity’ will create a scientific China and facilitate the development of the digital economy.
Controversies over Islamic Origins
How can we reconstruct the origins of Islam? This book addresses this question by exploring conflicting modern theories through case studies on the Qur’an, the Prophet, and conquest narratives, examining a spectrum of traditionalist and revisionist scholarship.
Explore the wave and vibration equation, emphasizing singular solutions and physical content. This book covers applications from tsunamis and storm breakers to the ringing of bells and collapsing towers. For students, researchers, and engineers in physics and applied mathematics.
Aspects of Social Justice in an Arab Israeli Teachers’ College
These essays shed a social justice-focused light on teacher education. Based on real-life experiences, contributors share practical strategies for supporting Arabic-speaking students in a multicultural setting. A vital resource for educators working in diverse environments.
Early Feminist Pioneers, Their Lives, and Their Reform Efforts
This book explores the lives of eight early feminist pioneers of England and America. These reformers, activists, and abolitionists noticed injustices and took brave actions at great personal cost to provide remedies and protect vulnerable populations.
The Value of Mathematics and Computing in Contemporary Art
Artists have always used the tools of their time. Today, computers and mathematics enrich the panoply of tools an artist can deploy. This book reveals the immense artistic qualities and intellectual values of works created with our growing mathematical knowledge.
The COVID-19 pandemic has changed education research. This book maps key challenges and opportunities for a post-COVID world where method and methodology are as vital as findings. It explores issues from STEM research and design to analysis, complexity, and ethics.
This textbook explains the physical processes governing the formation and evolution of planetary systems. Designed for undergraduates, the theory is developed from first principles, covering planetary dynamics, magnetic fields, and the fluid dynamics of circumstellar disks.
Literature against Paralysis in Joyce and His Counterparts
Dublin has inspired many literary masters, including James Joyce. This collection of essays on Irish writers analyses how their literature disrupts paralysis and entropy, making sense of our human “chaosmos” by juxtaposing local and universal concerns.