Dutch Newspapers on War Victims and Their LSD-treatment by Jan Bastiaans
A controversial LSD treatment for concentration camp survivors was championed by Dutch newspapers against medical criticism. This book explores how the media’s focus on victimhood blurred the lines of diagnosis and paved the way for the modern concept of PTSD.
Voices of the Chronically Ill
This book describes what it is like to embody the chaos of chronic illness and the related loss and remaking of one’s sense of self. Through first-person narratives, it reveals vulnerability, suffering, and brokenness, yet also endurance and fortitude.
This collection of essays offers new perspectives on female authors of Spanish crime fiction. The studies analyze how their versatile narratives explore gender, sexuality, and social issues while reformulating the crime genre—and sometimes departing from it entirely.
Peacebuilding in Volatile Communities
This book explores the history and ongoing challenges of peacebuilding in Nigeria. It analyzes efforts to address armed banditry and community tensions, offering practical recommendations for sustainable peace. A vital resource for scholars, policymakers & practitioners.
Nonsense and Other Senses
This collection of essays offers a gallery of “nonsense practices” in literature across periods and countries. It reveals literary nonsense not as chaos, but as a deliberate, “regulated” attempt to snatch order from the jaws of chaos.
This book offers a biopolitical analysis of the Harry Potter series. Applying the theories of Foucault, Hardt, and Negri, it reveals how the fantasy world both perpetuates power inequalities and provides a dissident perspective on power relations.
Human Characteristics
What special behaviours, social practices, and psychological structures make us human? Uniting evolution, psychology, and cognitive science, these studies explore cognition, sociality, and sexuality to provoke debate and stimulate new research.
The Sacred Tree
For ancient and medieval Europeans, the sacred tree was the center of the world and a picture of the cosmos, symbolizing stability and order. When these Pagan peoples adopted Christianity, this potent symbol was transformed, but its power endured.
Useless Beauty
The story of Australian art is not just landscape. Useless Beauty puts flowers front and centre, exploring how major artists like Margaret Preston and Sidney Nolan used blossoms to define identity and bring a psychological dimension to the everyday.
Challenging traditional film musicology, this book approaches the film score from practical to theoretical perspectives. Essays explore films from art-house to mainstream, and include interviews with influential composers Trevor Jones and Michael Nyman.
This book introduces reactor physics in a simple, intuitive way. It explains key mathematical concepts without losing scientific rigour, making it ideal for getting started with radioactivity calculations or basic problems in reactor physics.
This book applies trusted statistical and analytical tools to aviation. It is for analysts, managers, and students who must extract actionable insights from large volumes of data. Readers are taught how to implement techniques using Microsoft Excel and Eviews software.
By coupling gravitational and magnetic fields, a normally weak relativistic effect is enhanced. This outward dragging increases the rotational velocities of galaxies, presenting important implications for the missing mass problem in galactic dynamics.
This book investigates the discourses on origins, identifying four types: mythical, rational, scientific, and phenomenological. It analyzes the singular structure of each, defining them as ascending or descending to reveal the unique ways we talk about our beginnings.
This title is a passionate scholarly inquiry focused on some of the most pressing issues confronting architectural practice, urbanism, and city-making today. It offers an array of conversations with leading architects, urbanists, architectural historians and urban thinkers.
Connecting South-South Communities
This book offers an overview of over twenty-five years of relations between South Africa and Malaysia, evaluating their diplomatic, commercial, and cultural connections. It unpacks the notions of ‘African ways’ versus ‘Asian ways’ and highlights the role of non-state actors.
Greek Interwar Art and Design (1922-1939)
This fully documented overview explores Greek interwar art, a period defined by the birth of Modernism and the search for Greekness. It shows how artists blended modern trends with ancient and traditional art to forge a national identity, revealing the continuity of Hellenism.
Once denigrated, the Ryukyuan languages are now severely endangered by oppressive policies. This volume depicts the history of the crisis, shedding light on the dark side of modernization and a misplaced obsession with monolingualism.
The Future of Asian Feminisms
This book on Asian feminisms confronts fundamentalisms, conflicts, and neo-liberalism. A critical contribution from Asian women’s studies scholars and activists, it stimulates a unique “Asian voice” in the global women’s movement.
In The Canterbury Tales Revisited, diverse international scholars offer 21st-century interpretations. Articles cover new areas like Chaucer and Judaism, Queer studies, and feminism, with an insightful opening piece by eminent Medievalist David Matthews.
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