This volume presents the results of archaeological research at Grotta Mora Cavorso, a cave in central Italy. Covering the Historic and Protohistoric periods, it reveals the cave’s complex, multi-layered use as a burial and ritual place, a hermitage, and even a war refuge.
This book explores the Italian contribution to the current global phenomenon of a “return to reality” by examining the country’s rich cultural production in literature and cinema. It focuses on works from the period spanning the Nineties to the present day.
Thirty Years After
The first major collection of Vietnam War criticism since the 1990s, these new essays on literature, film, and art explore the conflict’s traumatic cultural legacy and enduring impact. An indispensable work for understanding this crucial period in history.
Critical Method and Contemporary Film
This volume investigates what film critics do and what ideologies inform their evaluations. It traces changes in critical methodologies, arguing for the emergence of neofuturism over postmodernism, and asks: Who evaluates film, why, and does the system need to change?
This systematic, illustrated guide presents methods for bone marrow aspiration and trephine biopsy. It offers a step-by-step approach to obtaining and processing samples safely and effectively, with practical advice on resolving common problems and complications.
The Rehabilitation of Historic Schools in Portugal
This book examines the adaptation of heritage schools for 21st-century needs. Using rehabilitated schools in Portugal as a case study, it assesses the effects of design decisions on cultural values, showing how material conservation can enhance the intangible.
Common Ground
Today’s environmental problems have their origins in how we have lived. This book forges a connection between social and environmental history, exploring how the daily activities of ordinary people shaped our relationship with nature to inform our future.
Resilience and Sustainability in Law
This work presents a new vision of sustainability and resilience for an age of emergency. It critically examines existing theories, particularly in environmental law, challenging preexisting categories to provide an innovative, clear, and linear framework for the topic.
Mutagenesis, Cytotoxicity and Crop Improvement
This book sets mutation breeding within a contemporary context, relating it to modern molecular biology. It details techniques to induce mutations at the gene level to improve the productivity of crops, particularly cereals, grains and vegetables.
Integrated Waste Management
This book investigates Circular Economy (CE) solutions to the issue of waste. It merges science and management to offer practical, techno-managerial solutions for transitioning to a low carbon economy, exploring both managerial aspects and advances in technical detailing.
This book explores how Taiwanese scholars adapted French feminist theories, applying the concept of écriture féminine (“feminine writing”) to Taiwanese cinema. It analyzes how women’s voices emerge when the camera becomes a cinematic pen in films like The Butcher’s Wife.
In an age of innovation, we must question past educational approaches. This book outlines a learning-focused tactic, explaining how it differs from education and its value for individual growth. It shows how higher education institutions can adapt to a new learning environment.
For Friedrich Nietzsche, scepticism is not mere nihilism. His philosophy takes us beyond the ‘death of God’ to a new spiritualization of life, holding out an affirmative spirit of joy in the renewal of our ‘god-creating’ power and will to honour the higher Whole.
Deconstructing Dreamscapes of Femininity
This book explores the interplay of two dimensions of consciousness: This World and The Otherworld. Together, they create the archetype Lolita, in the Mist—a protective dreamscape where a girl can explore her budding sexuality through film and social imagery.
Post-Truth
In an era of misinformation, this anthology offers a vital resource. Scholars spanning communication, politics, technology, and more explore the challenges of our post-truth age, providing a cornerstone for dialogue and action in confronting this complex phenomenon.
This book explains object-oriented programming concepts like classes, objects, inheritance, and polymorphism in a simple manner. It includes a large number of examples in C#, VB.Net, and Python, making it an indispensable resource to enhance your system development skills.
America’s project to privatize the world’s resources via the dollar is igniting a nationalist backlash. As these forces clash, the entire global system faces a greater, existential threat: climate change.
Echoes from the Greek Bronze Age
This book highlights Hecataeus’s work on Herodotus’ ‘known world’, alongside the thoughts of Anaxagoras and Xenophanes. It also presents Simonides’ art of memory, ‘the Loci’, and its influence years later on the heretic Giordano Bruno.
Future Prospects for Music Education
Inspired by Lucy Green’s groundbreaking work, this anthology offers a critical examination of informal learning pedagogy in music education. An international community of scholars explores future prospects for music education with informal learning as its focal point.
This work explores the philosophical basis for phenomenological structuralism, giving a hermeneutical approach to understanding and resolving the structure/agency problematic of the social sciences.
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