Nat Turner in Black and White
This book reveals how writers imagine cautionary Nat Turner-tales, making him a misunderstood and polarizing figure. By locating the Turner Insurrection within historical race trauma, writers expose the lasting impact of slavery and frame rebellion as heroic.
This book explains how language works, introducing the science of linguistics. Using real-world examples, it discusses linguistic issues scientifically by considering findings from research studies, allowing the reader to understand how they are embedded in real contexts.
Peripheral Europe
This book connects the EU’s mismanagement of the financial and refugee crises to the integration of the post-socialist East. By turning Europe’s social contract into a cultural one, this process has betrayed core democratic values, both East and West.
Revisiting European Security
The EU faces multiple crises, challenging its rule-based order. Can it still act as a normative international power? This volume re-examines the EU’s influence and values, focusing on its migration policies and its role in neighboring regions, Africa, and China.
This text leads the reader on an evolutionary journey through cancer pain, palliative care, and supportive care. It highlights new research in these fields, reflecting the link between clinical activity and scientific data.
Cinema and Intermediality (Second, Enlarged Edition)
This ground-breaking book explores the relationship between cinema and other arts. Through case studies of films by auteurs like Hitchcock, Antonioni, Godard, and Varda, it clarifies key ideas of intermediality and offers insightful analyses. Revised and enlarged edition.
This is the first modern, extensive study of Late Cretaceous planktic foraminifera, a group of paramount importance for specialists in the oil industry and academia. This volume is dedicated to globotruncanids, describing 61 species with high-quality, spectacular photographs.
Verb and Object Order in the History of English
This study tackles the long-debated question of Verb-Object order in English history. Combining linguistic theory with analysis of Old and Middle English syntax, information structure, and prosody, it sheds new light on language change for scholars, students, and linguists.
Waymarking Italy’s Influence on the American Environmental Imagination While on Pilgrimage to Assisi
A 200-kilometre walk from La Verna to Assisi becomes a “deep-travel” journey into Italy’s influence on environmental thought. This study shows how traversing texts and trails reveals the debt owed to the Italian landscape in how we conceive of the natural world.
The Art of Building at the Dawn of Human Civilization
This book offers an unconventional outlook on architecture’s evolution, showing how prehistoric people developed building by solving complex problems. It demonstrates building to be in synergy with the advancement of human abstract thought, proposing a new field of study.
Three German Women
The lives of three intellectual women—a mathematician, a journalist, and an art historian—serve as mirrors to the tumultuous 20th century. Their stories tell of the hardships, struggles, and victories of women whose achievements were overlooked amid the trauma of Nazism.
The Naxos Papers, Volume I
This volume synthesizes modern linguistics and traditional scholarship for the study of historical English. It presents studies on Old and Middle English, casting doubt on old antagonisms and making the subject accessible to scholars and students of both backgrounds.
This book traces the history of Chinese technical communication, exploring the philosophical traditions and classical texts that shaped it. Discover how these historical roots continue to influence contemporary practice and gain compelling perspectives on the field.
This volume provides insights into the Theatre of the Absurd by focusing on the character. Using mathematical approaches, it introduces new algebraic and geometric models to analyze dramatic relations. Useful for any reader interested in analyzing, staging, or writing a play.
Science Meets Sports
This book presents sports statistics to academics and fans alike. Even without advanced math knowledge, readers will gain completely new insights into their favourite sports by combining sports analytics, data visualisation, and advanced statistical procedures.
This unique book by industry experts reveals the complexities of dermatological drug development. It covers topical, oral, and biologic drugs, explaining the unique clinical studies necessary and how to navigate negotiations with regulatory agencies like the FDA, EMA, and PMDA.
This volume explores communication, meaning-making, and the construction of identity and gender through language. It examines language in context, from media discourse to fiction, and delves into the lexico-grammatical specificities of Romanian set against other languages.
Language Teaching and Language Use in Non-Native Settings
From Cameroon to Turkey, this volume illuminates the gap between teaching norms and real-life language use. It underscores the limitations of current methods and provides well-matched answers to classroom problems for teachers, researchers, and educational policy makers.
This book presents a unified, accessible approach to the physics of the liquid state, in and out of equilibrium. It covers statistical mechanics and complex fluids, making it an indispensable reference for graduate students and researchers in physics and chemistry.
This book provides insights into the experiences of women with disability, focusing on their social relationships and participation. It explores the barriers they face and offers ways to overcome them to achieve full integration, autonomy, and social support.
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