Organic synthesis rarely goes to plan. To fight meagre yields and side reactions, you need to master reaction mechanisms. This book moves you from knowing the simple steps of an undergraduate degree to envisioning the convoluted mechanisms needed in professional practice.
Helping You Successfully Manage Your Headache and Migraine
Authored by a consultant neurologist with 20 years of experience, this book is for headache sufferers told “there is nothing else we can do.” Advising on how to alleviate and prevent symptoms, it provides a guide to understanding and self-managing your condition.
This collection explores current issues concerning glycolipids and their connection with diseases, the immune system, cancer, and infections. It offers a comprehensive presentation of current trends, data, and developments in health sciences, pharmacology, and industry.
Political correctness cripples public debate, limits knowledge, and threatens democracy. This book shows how meritocracies have become contaminated by the propaganda of cultural wars. Why are media and teachers still following old instructions to control damage?
Requests in Film Dialogue and Dubbing Translation
This is the first account of speech act pragmatics and (im)politeness in film conversation and dubbing, focusing on requests. It compares the features of requests in English and Italian film dialogue and reveals how their pragmatics travel across languages in translation.
Between the Headphones
While film sound studies have focused on Hollywood, the soundscapes of other world cinemas remain underexplored. This book bridges the gap, introducing leading sound practitioners from India—the world’s largest film producer—through a collection of revealing interviews.
Our food system contributes to climate change, social injustice, and a public health crisis where diet is implicated in one in five deaths. We are told it is the consumers’ fault, but this deflects attention from the policies that created the problems. This book examines them.
Quatrains of Omar Khayyam, Astronomer-Poet of Persia
Omar Khayyam’s validity as a poet is highly debated. This book focuses on 100 quatrains authenticated by Persian authorities. To bring out Khayyam’s true voice, this unique bilingual volume provides the Persian originals side-by-side with literal English translations.
Work Integrated Learning for Students
This book offers solutions to global challenges through work integrated learning (WIL). It shifts perspectives on building ethical businesses, engaging in the 4IR and gig economy, and embracing human-AI integration, propelling you to become an entrepreneurial lifelong learner.
These critical essays on Mirza Ghalib explore key themes in his poetry and letters, from his obsession with death to comparisons with Shakespeare. The book highlights the myriad shades of meaning in Ghalib’s vision of life—one that details life in all its horror and glory.
The Posthuman Imagination
What does it mean to be human in the Anthropocene? This volume explores posthumanism’s response to this crisis through accessible essays. Featuring an interview with philosopher Francesca Ferrando, it explicates the subject through various literary and filmic texts.
This volume unites research on the resilience and survival of refugees, exploring their complex settlement experiences and advocating for their rights. It is a vital resource for those envisioning a Canada where all newcomers feel rooted and safe.
Social enterprise is a crucial feature of higher education, connecting the public, private and voluntary sectors. This volume provides a joined-up approach, examining theoretical approaches and offering best practice examples for teaching and learning in the social sciences.
This series of critiques explores three literary forums. “Modern Sonneteers” shows that the sonnet thrives still. “Homage to Hilary Mantel” offers new analyses of the pre-eminent novelist. “Critical Letters” gathers pensees on literature written during the COVID-19 pandemic.
The Reflexive Diversity Research Programme
This book introduces key theories in diversity research. Using a case study of UC Berkeley’s diversity strategy, it illustrates intersectional, multi-level, and reflexive research approaches, reflecting on the practice of research itself.
The treatment of cancer patients must include quality of life. As this book shows, patients do not have equal access to cancer treatment around the world, and often basic diagnosis and treatment are lacking.
Why is there something rather than nothing? What is the origin of everything? For centuries, theology and metaphysics sought answers. Today, physics and cosmology join the search for a theory of everything. The papers in this volume offer contributions to this ultimate debate.
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.
Prospects and Impediments of Feminist Monolithism
This book reads poetry by British, American, and Sub-Saharan women to argue for feminist monolithism. It finds remarkable consistency in themes of resisting oppression across geographical divides, proposing this as a stable ground for unity without ignoring their differences.
Yoga and Alignment
This accessible look at yoga philosophy and psychology follows the eight limbs of yoga from foundational ethics to the highest states of consciousness. Based on 30 years of research, it connects the insights of this ancient tradition to the challenges we face today.
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