Critical Essays on Literature, Language, and Aesthetics
Reflecting Professor Milind Malshe’s research interests, this volume of interdisciplinary essays explores the social sciences and humanities. The essays engage in a free play of many voices and will be of interest to researchers, academics, and casual readers.
Africa and the First World War
This anthology brings together essays written by scholars of African history, society, and military about African experiences of the war. It complements and problematises some key themes on Africa and the First World War, and offers a stimulating historiographical excursion.
Biologists in the Age of Totalitarianism
These gripping biographies reveal the hidden lives of biologists in the Third Reich. Dr. Nowak, who knew many personally, uses newly opened archives to tell the stories of victims and perpetrators caught in the ideological nets of Nazism, Stalinism, and Maoism.
Varian Studies Volume Two
A study of Emperor Elagabalus’s architecture and sculpture in Rome. This book confirms the Palatine site and astronomical implications of the Varian Temple, and analyses relief sculpture to explore the cosmology, theology, and ritual of the Syrian sun god’s cult.
This volume explains methods for examining oil and acrylic paint surfaces. It compares untreated and treated samples of historic and modern paints to reveal ideal cleaning systems, presenting tests of materials ranging from demineralized water and sponges to detergents.
This collection of essays highlights the variety in contemporary English and American studies and linguistics. It examines travelling and recollection in literature, male and female voices in narratives, representations of history, and the theoretical questions of language.
The Future of Post-Human History
Are those who cannot remember the past condemned to repeat it, or is history written by the victor? This book rejects these opposing views, offering a new theory to understand history in the context of universality and relativity.
This corpus-based study examines how US and UK newspapers used reporting strategies to shape public opinion on the Second Gulf War. It reveals that the choice of strategies is not only ideologically-driven, but also highly determined by country, style, and genre.
This publication is composed of several articles that explore complexity in its most varied aspects. The solution of contemporary problems, whatever they may be, requires a multifaceted vision, far beyond the reductionist perspective.
Venereal Diseases and the Reform Enigma
Many consider misogyny, class conflict and racial paranoia the drivers of venereal disease control policy in the early twentieth century. This book re-examines sources from Edinburgh and Adelaide to reveal a more complex reality of practical disease control.
This collection of essays explores educational issues from various disciplines, including Business Economics, Linguistics, Education, and History. Topics range from urban theory and bilingualism to Socratic teaching techniques. Essential for educators, researchers, and students.
This book covers Monté Carlo Methods and computer simulation for applications like calculating Pi, integration, areas, and volumes. It also introduces the novel Complex Probability Paradigm. For scholars and students in mathematics, computer science, and science in general.
Electronics and Microprocessing for Research
This accompanying textbook for a beginners’ course in microprocessing explains introductory electronics, programming, microprocessing, and data collection techniques to allow students to start designing and building their own instruments for research projects.
This collection of articles utilises thematic orientations, methodological approaches and data materials to give an insight into the opportunities and challenges that exist for education in society, in relation to the growing cultural and linguistic complexity prevalent today.
The English Reformation Revisited
Salvato puts forward a comparative study of two Church Communities, specifically the Anglican Communion and the Universal Catholic Church. He investigates what caused the Church in England to break away from the Catholic Church, and focuses on the influence of English law.
O’Connor investigates the first time that Ireland, with an autonomous legislative parliament, met with large inward migration in the modern era. She explains the history of Ireland’s policy and public opinion toward inward migration and the treatment of migration today.
The orphan has turned out to be an extraordinarily versatile literary figure. By juxtaposing diverse fictional representations of orphans, this volume sheds light on the development of cultural concepts such as childhood, family, parental legacy, individualism, and charity.
The Philosophical Roots of the Ecological Crisis
The roots of the ecological crisis are traced to the thought of René Descartes, father of modern philosophy. His worldview established a dangerous legacy: a human-centered, mechanistic conception of nature and a sharp dualism between humanity and the physical world.
This anthology studies the subject of islands, their essence and identity, their isolation and their relationships in the Ancient world. It researches Greek and Roman concepts of insularity, and their consequences for the political, economic and social life of the Empire.
The Literary Reagan
This collection of authentic quotations reveals the inner Ronald Reagan. Based on his own writings and letters—not a speechwriter’s—it gathers over 1,500 quotes on everything from the Cold War and the power of government to personal humor, toasts, and even wine.
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