Narratives of Community
This collection of essays examines short story sequences by women from around the world. Using diverse theoretical models, contributors consider how female identity is negotiated in community, making a major contribution to feminist and genre theory.
A Look at China and Sino-Belarus Cooperation
A guide to China’s new era under Xi Jinping. It explores the centralization of power, the anti-corruption fight, and strengthening diplomacy. This book examines the rapprochement with Russia, rising tensions with the US, and controversies of the “Belt and Road” initiative.
This volume on interdisciplinary life sciences is for researchers across various scientific fields and anyone interested in the topic. It integrates disciplines to solve complex problems and is lavishly illustrated with flow charts, diagrams, and tables for easy learning.
In a world of global disruption, selecting the right suppliers is pivotal for business resilience. This guide offers strategic insights and cutting-edge tools like AI and blockchain to help leaders build agile and sustainable supply chains.
Music of Japan Today examines cross-cultural confluences in contemporary Japanese art-music through essays from international composers, performers, and scholars, covering topics from Toru Takemitsu’s legacy to computer music and avant-garde sound artists.
Discovering New Educational Trends (V3)
This textbook of articles and narratives assists educational professionals and students across diverse disciplines—from education and health to psychology and the humanities. It is an excellent resource for university coursework and a supplemental reading tool.
Did the Gold Standard era exploit the working class? Did orthodox macroeconomic policies lead to Nazism? Was Ceausescu wrong to repay all external debt?
“A Moral History of Monetary and Fiscal Policies” by Valentin Lazea tackles these provocative questions and many more.
The Taylor Effect
The Taylor Effect presents a diverse collection of essays addressing Charles Taylor’s A Secular Age. With contributions from philosophy, theology, literature, and political science, this is a central reference point for any future discussion of Taylor’s work.
The International Emblem
The emblem, a Renaissance genre combining text and image, was a powerful tool for propaganda and piety. This collection of essays follows its development from its European origins to its global influence and its ongoing vitality in literature and scholarship.
A tribute to universal mathematician Francisco Bulnes, whose contributions to pure and applied math are vital for future technologies and our understanding of the universe. Through anecdotes and analyses of his work, this book offers inspiration to PhD students and researchers.
Gratitude and Palliative Care
Surprisingly, gratitude persists even at the end of life. This book explores profound gratitude in palliative care. Blending clinical experience and philosophy, it examines the transformative power of gratitude for patients, families, and professionals amidst serious illness.
Reconstructing Pain and Joy
How are pain and joy constructed, represented, and socially determined? This is the first interdisciplinary collection of essays to investigate how these multi-faceted experiences are reconstructed in language, literature, art, and culture.
This volume presents papers from the “Methodology and Archaeometry” conference. It covers topics in archaeometry and archaeological methodology, including non-destructive archaeology, artifact analysis, and experimental archaeology, providing new insights and approaches.
The Impact of Development on the Environment and Human Rights
Priya charts the developmental policies followed in India since independence and their impact on the environment and human rights. He also presents a view of how sustainable development in the country may be attained by focusing on three contemporary case studies.
Workplace Emotions
When John Wilkinson accepts a job in Bahrain, he doesn’t expect a lesson in emotional intelligence. As his team works to upgrade an aluminum plant, he witnesses cultural change in a traditional corporation and learns how EI improves performance.
As popular culture and politics collide, new technologies accelerate the trend. These interdisciplinary essays explore the ramifications, from how entertainment media shapes our understanding of politics to the ways politicians use technology to connect with us.
This book deconstructs the ‘otherizing’ of the marginalized by offering an alternative reading of the body and desire. It investigates bodies with ‘unnatural’ desires to expose and subvert the subtle political ideologies behind stereotypes.
With widespread insecurity in Nigeria, this volume brings together military professionals and civilian scholars to explore critical thinking for national security. It fosters debate to answer an age-old question: Whither Nigeria’s national security and strategy?
This book analyzes boiling processes, showing how heat transfer depends on liquid and surface properties. It offers calculation algorithms to develop programs for optimizing heat transfer equipment, making it essential for specialists in cryogenic, nuclear, and space technology.
This comparative study follows modernists Tristan Tzara and Mário de Andrade on parallel creative paths. Emerging from different worlds, their poetics traversed borders, adapting folk traditions while actively criticising cultural imperialism and advocating against hate.
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