The New York Yankees in the Twentieth Century
This is not for baseball fans only. This exploration of Yankee history examines how design, corporatism, and philosophy created a global franchise. It reveals the distinction between looking and seeing by exploring the meaning of the pinstripes, the stadium, and the iconic cap.
Leading scholars from philosophy, psychology, and history cast new light on Sartre. This volume deliberately stresses a middle and final period of his work, exploring diverse topics and offering new insights on authenticity, freedom, and ethics.
An essential collection for health professionals and researchers on the wellbeing of breast cancer survivors. This book covers key topics including comorbid conditions, lifestyle factors, health disparities, symptom management, survivorship care plans, and financial hardship.
Mindoro and Lingayen Liberated
From Dec 1944 to Jan 1945, two Allied invasions in the Philippines turned the tide against Japan. This book covers the battles of Mindoro Island and Lingayen Gulf, focusing on the devastating Kamikaze attacks on Allied ships and the war crimes of high-ranking Japanese officers.
Learning Abroad
Since 1959, Commonwealth scholarships have moved 25,000 people across borders, launching them into influence. This book tells the story of the plan, asking who was selected and why, and assesses the long-term impact to answer a key question: was it good value?
The Mirror Crack’d
How did Tolkien craft such enduring horror? Scholars reveal how he transformed medieval sources, turning landscapes, dragons, the Undead, and even darkness itself into potent symbols that tap into our most deeply rooted fears.
Innovative Mnemonics in Chemical Education
This book details time-economic, innovative learning techniques to help students grow an interest in chemistry and memorize the subject. It solves the limitations of conventional methods and provides chemical applications, problems, and free educational tools.
This volume analyzes the “seeing-through utterances” in Kafka’s works, suggesting he intentionally used them as a type of rhetoric. As the first study of this technique, this book provides a new perspective for analyzing the rhetoric of Kafka’s works.
This book is the second in a series showcasing outcomes of the Maryvale Institute’s doctoral research programme. It provides an overview of the breadth of work by its students in the UK, Europe, the USA and Africa and their contribution to new knowledge in Catholic studies.
This book analyzes Zionism, from its origins in European antisemitism to its implantation in historic Palestine. It maps its development since the creation of Israel and examines the consequences: the occupation, the violation of inhabitants’ rights, and Hamas’s response.
A core guide for educators seeking to build a constructive reading environment. This book offers proven models, theories, and techniques to effectively design, introduce, and assess powerful reading tasks, enhancing your teaching abilities.
This collection on Homo Kybernetes frames the technosphere as an aesthetic problem. It reflects on cybernetic thinking as a condition for digital aesthetics and explores the transition of human existence through transhumanism and the posthuman condition.
This book illustrates the objectives and construction of reduced English forms like Basic English and Globish. All share a common goal: to build a language tool for effective international communication, a lingua franca for a globalized world. For students and scholars.
New Social Movements, Class, and the Environment
This history of Greenpeace Canada explores its troubled relationship with the working class. Through its actions against sealing, forestry, and its own workers, it illustrates the historic obstacles to a common labour and environmental agenda.
Essays on Swedish Cultural Life During the Late Eighteenth Century
When dusting out corners, we may be surprised by the vitality of things once thought useful. This book looks at old letters, a popular song, a hit comedy, and an overlooked opera, intending to surprise us with their residual vitality and ask why we swept them aside.
Lipid Oxidation Products
This book describes the neglected processes of photooxidation and autoxidation in phototrophs. It details their mechanisms, focusing on oxidation products as tracers, and discusses how temperature and solar irradiance affect them, impacting the ultimate fate of organic matter.
The uncanny is what is frightening, yet it arises from the familiar, disturbing our sense of home and self as unresolved pasts resurface. This book explores representations of the uncanny in language, literature, and culture.
Theories of social reproduction are complex and hard to quantify. This book resolves this issue by introducing the Triptych Model of Social Class Reproduction, an easy-to-grasp framework applicable across cultures, and substantiates it with quantitative research.
Rescuing Women from American Mythology
This book explores the historical origins of sexism and misogyny in American mythology through the lens of comic books. It argues that misogyny is not the product of nefarious individuals, but is perpetuated by a male-dominated mythological and social structure in our media.
Daimonic Imagination
This volume of essays celebrates the daimonic presence—god, angel, muse, spirit—and its role in inspired creativity. Contributors evoke the daimon through history, literature, and encounter, exploring humanity’s relationship with mysterious and numinous reality.
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