France at the Flicks
Explore the recent revitalisation of French popular cinema as it challenges Hollywood’s dominance. This book discusses blockbuster successes—both international hits and domestic favourites—and explores their production, distribution, and reception.
This book helps researchers select the right predictive model. It explains and compares traditional and data-driven models from a statistical viewpoint, with illustrations in R. Learn to handle model assumptions, outliers, and overfitting.
Mental Condition Defences and the Criminal Justice System
This collection brings together medical and legal conceptions of mental disorder to appraise mental condition defences. It provides invaluable, original insights into a sensitive area of criminal law that has struggled to keep pace with psychiatry.
Postsocialist Mobilities
Native scholars examine mobility in the cinema of the Visegrad countries and Romania, exploring political transition, social change, and transforming gender roles. These in-depth analyses are uniquely informed by the authors’ own “close-up” personal experiences of the phenomena.
Constructal theory is widely used, but often incorrectly applied, leading to unreasonable results. This book systematically reviews its applications in fields from economics to heat transfer, pointing out significant flaws, mistakes, and limitations. An essential read for anyone.
The Archaeology of Anatolia Volume II
This second volume in the Archaeology of Anatolia series offers reports on the most recent discoveries from across the Anatolian peninsula. Periods covered span the Epipalaeolithic to the Islamic, and sites and regions range from the western Anatolian coast to Van.
This volume offers a cross-disciplinary insight into language contact research, bringing together studies on language variation, second language acquisition, and translation. It creates a dialogue between researchers, viewing language contact from a broader perspective.
This book explains how to eliminate the artificial and psychological boundaries that separate communities in modern societies. It shows how people of different nationalities and backgrounds can live together peacefully in a world divided by race, identity, and religion.
Rediscovering Women Writers of Wartime London
This book shows the war-stricken city through the eyes of five women writers whose long-neglected novels vividly portray life in the Blitz. This new appraisal of their work highlights the social changes taking place, especially in the lives of women, in those turbulent times.
Feminism Reframed
This collection reframes the dialogue between feminism, art history, and visual culture. It revisits feminist art histories to ask urgent questions for the present and reasserts the need for continuous feminist interventions in the academy and the art world.
Robert Serumaga and the Golden Age of Uganda’s Theatre (1968-1978)
This is the first complete examination of playwright Robert Serumaga’s work and the Golden Age of Uganda’s theatre (1968-1978). It is a study of a theatre of commitment, dissidence, and survival, born under the unrelenting glare of severe, scorching censorship.
This second volume uses vector optimization to model economic systems. Chapters cover decision-making and modeling within companies, in market systems, and for forecasting.
Religious Messages in the Media
Can religious messages be transmitted through the media? This book analyzes the relationship between media and religion, arguing that media can only convey religious messages superficially and are unsuitable for mediating deep spiritual content or evangelization.
The Discourse of Well-Being in Late-Modern Ireland
What makes a society happy? This book explores well-being from a new angle by analysing letters to the editor from newspapers in late-modern Ireland. It provides empirical evidence of the major themes of well-being from the public’s viewpoint and sheds light on their concerns.
This book reveals Homer’s vibrant legacy in Portuguese, Spanish, Brazilian, and Argentinian literature from the 19th to the 21st century. Juxtaposing Homeric motifs across genres—theatre, poetry, novel, and short story—it offers a unique cross-cultural comparison.
The Politics of Civil Society in Africa
This book chronicles how civil society confronts challenges facing Africa, from democracy and human rights to climate change. As state power fails the world’s youngest population, this book makes a clarion call for a more activist civil society to shape the continent’s future.
Emerging Hydrogenated Semiconductors
This book reveals the excellent properties of hydrogenated semiconductor materials and their potential for nanoelectronics, renewable energy, and biological applications. It provides scientists and R&D engineers with an overview of the latest developments and new research ideas.
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?
Musical Waves
This volume comprises a wide range of cutting-edge analytical approaches for numerous musical styles. It includes studies inspired by Schoenberg, transformational theory, narrative, form, and—notably—several approaches to popular music.
Africa continues to face harsh challenges as a result of colonialism. This volume addresses diverse social-political, moral, and developmental problems, arguing that while they arose from Africa’s encounter with the West, the solutions must be home-grown.
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