For students in medicine, pharmacy, and dentistry, this text covers General and Inorganic Chemistry with a focus on medical applications. It presents chemical principles and explores their role in developing metal-based diagnostic and therapeutic agents and new cancer therapies.
Betwixt and Between
This book examines the fraught relationship between place and cultural translation. Examining translation across multiple contexts and genres, it argues for the fruitful dislocation of translation to challenge the destructive politics of nationalism and cultural homogeneity.
The Virtuoso as Subject
Cvejić provides a novel interpretation of the sudden and steep decline of instrumental virtuosity in its critical reception during the nineteenth century, documenting it with a large number of examples from Europe’s leading music periodicals at the time.
The relation between logic and knowledge is an underdeveloped theme. This book’s ambition is to stimulate renewed reflection upon it by collecting essays from leading figures, each followed by a discussant’s comments to create an ongoing dialogue.
Romanesque Art and Craftsmanship in Central Europe, 900-1300
This book reviews the embellishing cloister arts of the Romanesque period, discussing work in textiles, ivory, wood, metals, and manuscripts. Illustrations stress common themes, placing these objects of art in their historical and spiritual contexts.
This book focuses on the transformation of Turkish modernisation and democratisation. Contributors examine the dynamics behind the decline of democratic standards, the effects of the EU membership process, and the projection of domestic political struggles.
Birthing the Computer
Birthing the Computer examines the evolution of computer architecture, from magnetic drums to cores and the first transistors. These second-generation machines introduced key concepts in architecture and system software that are found in every computer system today.
Sun & Sea Tourism
While foreign tourism companies condemn local corruption and nationals decry exploitation, they often flourish symbiotically. This book exposes this toxic cocktail and provides recommendations for creating a virtuous cycle to restore the beneficial effects of tourism.
Researching Experiences
This book focuses on how people experience and construct meaning from visual culture. It presents video-based methods for researching experiences, introducing methodological tools like the reflexivity lab for students, researchers, and practitioners.
Trans-Disciplinary Migrations
A paradigm shift is challenging our most deeply held beliefs. This book presents a prismatic array of fascinating discourses from doctors, artists, and philosophers. Journeying with a sense of the quantum sublime, they speak with passion about the web of connectivity.
This book reveals that fields and particles are rotational changes within an elastic medium called ‘ether’. This theory explains gravitational attraction, electromagnetism, electron spin, and nuclear reactions.
Post-Millennial Cultures of Fear in Literature
This volume investigates our contemporary “cultures of fear.” Original articles explore post-millennial works ranging from political fictions and trauma narratives to literary disaster discourses and apocalyptic scenarios, using insights from multiple disciplines.
Sharma explores Quakerism, its legacy, and its relevance for Gandhian research, covering topics such as the historical circumstances that led to the birth of Quakerism, the history of the movement, the practices of the sect, and efforts of Quakers to make people more tolerant.
Aged Care in Context and Across Disciplines
Addressing challenges in aged care highlighted by the COVID-19 pandemic, this collection compares practices in China and the Nordic regions. It uncovers commonalities, disparities, and opportunities for collaboration to develop innovative and effective policies and practices.
This book theorizes the bioregional concept as an ecocritical tool for reading literary works. It highlights the interface between nature and culture, using Aboriginal plays to extend ecocriticism beyond prose and sensitize us to place-based cultural nuances.
Sexing the Border
This innovative book is a timely intervention in video and new media art, examining gender in post-Socialist contexts. Chapters explore how encounters between art and technology represent gender, critically reflecting current debates across the region and Europe.
Opera as Anthropology
Kotnik considers the relationship between opera and anthropology. His study rests on the following central arguments: on the one hand, opera is a new and “exotic” topic for anthropologists, while, on the other, anthropology is still seen as an unusual approach to opera.
Reinventing Sound
It is undeniable that in today’s audiovisual world, music plays a leading role. As such, the essays gathered here investigate the ways in which it is featured on mobile devices, its impact on new narrative forms, and the new ways of creating music on the Internet.
This book is a critical assessment of philosophy’s history and practice, written for any educated reader. It distils complex philosophical arguments and explains key issues to individuals outside academia, unencumbered by typical academic paraphernalia.
Mormon theologian B.H. Roberts sought to fuse faith with modern science. Church leaders rejected his work, yet a future prophet secretly co-opted it—adopting its racism while condemning its science and free thought.
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