A new identity is emerging among Haitian-American youth. Forged by the consciousness of the black American underclass and its street culture, it now challenges the traditional bourgeois values and the Vodou Ethic of their Haitian heritage.
Women’s Writing in Western Europe
The first study to investigate the legacy of a pioneering generation of women writers for contemporary authors across Western Europe. These studies uncover a complex web of intertextual links, offering new paradigms to think and read with.
This book presents multidisciplinary research from Turkey on urban studies, sustainability, environment, and migration. Using specific examples, it offers innovative approaches to current problems, arguing that local policy is key to achieving sustainability on a wider scale.
This collection of essays on Socialism and Socialist Humanism argues that left-wing ideas are crucial to building a better world.
A Self-divided Poet
Long regarded as a minor comic poet, this first book on Thomas Hood’s verse reveals his true range. It analyzes his serious poems, uncovering a debt to Elizabethan and Metaphysical poets, while also giving his comic genius its due in his light-hearted oeuvre.
This book presents the electrical characterization of DBD-based atmospheric pressure plasma jets (APPJs) for biomedical & material applications. It establishes optimum operation ranges without arcing, showing how working gas affects power consumption and jet length.
Inspired by a pantheist worldview, this text advocates an alternative globalization based not on the economy and politics, but on humanity’s transcendence to a collective consciousness, presenting a counter-trend against nationalism, religious extremism, xenophobia, and racism.
Literature and the Great War
This book traces an overall picture of the literature born from the Great War. Focused on Italy, but rich in European references, it is a journey through history and the human soul, between hopes and fears, from the eve of war to the trenches and the return home.
This book presents an original theory for searching for space objects when only crude orbital information is known. It uses a special principle to construct efficient search plans that prevent the object’s loss and ensure an economical use of resources.
Language Acquisition, Processing and Bilingualism
This volume covers a broad range of topics in Romance language acquisition, from syntax to phonology. It explores L1, L2, bilingual, and atypical development—including deafness and language intervention—appealing to scholars, students, educators, and clinicians.
Sport Tourism
This volume provides important theoretical and applied insights into sport tourism. A collective work written by specialists in the field, it provides new insights into this rapidly expanding field, which is in constant change and challenged by globalization.
Insights into Genetic Retinal Diseases
This definitive guide from leading experts covers cutting-edge research in genetic retinal diseases. It delves into next-generation sequencing, unveiling unknown mutations and innovative diagnostic tools and treatments that hold the key to preserving and restoring vision.
Reflections on the Greek Sovereign Debt Crisis
The 2007 financial crisis became a sovereign debt crisis, calling European integration into question. Focusing on Greece, where the crisis began, experts analyze flawed policies, contagion effects, the shadow economy, and the very future of the euro.
Fields of Expertise
Fields of Expertise explores the relationship between experts and power from a historical perspective. Using case studies from Paris and London since 1600, it challenges traditional views on expertise in risk management, medicine, and economic policy.
The term ‘border’ has become a ploy for chauvinism and ultra-nationalist bigotry, with notorious coverage in media, cinema, and literature. This volume explores a wide range of literary, linguistic, and media representations of the ‘border.’
This pioneering research on Arab political discourse in Israel shows how Arab MKs use lively rhetorical devices to criticize the government’s discriminatory policies and to promote the rights of Israeli Arabs and the Palestinian people.
Forest and the Water Cycle
Do forests help or harm our water supply? This book unites international experts from forestry and water management to answer this critical question. It offers scientific perspectives and case studies to help protect water resources in forested areas.
The Future of the Creative Industries
The creative industries are crucial to the future of culture and national wealth. This collection of papers from researchers and industrialists explores the role of design, covering applied art, fashion and textiles, the built environment, and spatial design.
This collection traces themes of authority and gender in chronicles from the Middle Ages to the Renaissance. With contributions from leading specialists, this study spans medieval Europe, drawing on evidence from language, literature, history, and art.
This book covers special and general relativity, tensor calculus, Einstein’s field equations, and cosmological models. It also provides a lucid introduction to alternative theories of gravitation. Including examples and exercises, it is an asset for every student and researcher.
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