Changing Societies
From migration to environmental crises and the rise of AI, our societies are in constant movement. This volume explores how populations confronted with such social changes are affected, and how these dynamics can foster new ways of individual or collective decision-making.
What did ‘Rome’ mean in antiquity, and what has it meant since? This volume shows that ancient Rome has been recontextualised and remade by successive historical periods. These studies show how Rome and its texts are recast for each new audience through adaptation and critique.
Narratives of the Therapeutic Encounter
Exploring a vibrant, unexplored corpus, these essays analyze depictions of talking therapy in French literature. Combining psychoanalytic and fictional texts, the volume focuses on the creative potentials and ethical dilemmas that arise in the therapeutic encounter.
Sam Coverly’s Journal with Historical Notes
Sam Coverly was an entrepreneur and adventurous traveler. His journal and correspondence provide eyewitness accounts of life in a rapidly expanding country at the threshold of industrialization and a transportation revolution, as he saw the nation’s landmass double.
The biological role of heterochromatin, our non-coding DNA, is a mystery. This study of Q-heterochromatin variability in humans reveals that differences are related to environmental factors, not race, and that our ability to adapt to extreme conditions depends on its amount.
Foundational Social Ritual Practices of Parish Life
What makes a parish strong? This book argues it begins not with structures, but with relationships. Discover the foundational ingredients of community and how social rituals, like sharing a meal, forge the bonds that make a parish truly thrive.
For decades, Western Europe has been under Anglo-American military tutelage. Now, amid a widening Atlantic rift and rising geopolitical tensions, the EU seeks “strategic autonomy.” This volume offers a critical assessment of the militarization of European integration.
Maurice Chapelan was three distinct writers: a poet, a famed grammarian, and an author of romans galants. But a unifying thread ran through his literary output: a beauty, simplicity and elegance of style, revealing a love of the French language and a hint of libertinage.
Family firms are over 80% of businesses worldwide. This book offers valuable insights into how they operate, exploring HR management, financial practices, and family integration as a source of competitive advantage. It provides a comprehensive analysis of these key challenges.
Does art need to be beautiful? Is the experience of beauty confined to humans? This volume gathers authors from philosophy, neuroscience, anthropology, and more to investigate the most debated aspects of beauty and aesthetic experience.
These musical essays on Albanian themes explore historical identity and traditional performance. In the 18th century, baroque composers began representing the hero Scanderbeg on the operatic stage, using music’s dramatic power to elicit an emotional response.
University Curriculum Transformations in Context
Universities worldwide are transforming curricula for the global knowledge era. This book presents case studies of three Chilean universities enacting a ’21st-century curriculum’ promoting critical thinking, providing ‘food for thought’ for educators internationally.
These wide-ranging essays are based on new research and linked by a vigorous methodology. Some re-visit well-known historians and subjects. Others make a convincing case for resurrecting the neglected or forgotten. All are problem solving and reach outwards, as well as inwards.
From leading experts, this volume highlights new results in Operations Research, Game Theory, Economic Modelling, and Actuarial Mathematics. It offers methods for optimal decision making, making it essential for researchers, students, banks, and insurance companies.
This exploration of the Medea myth reveals how unresolved suffering turns to vengeance. Her tragic story became a touchstone for early twentieth-century female authors who used it to explore their own struggles with unrequited love, societal abandonment, and self-discovery.
Searching for the Limits of Human Physical Performance
What limits how fast we can run or how long we can row, cycle, or swim without tiring? Exercise fatigue is a common feeling, but its cause remains a mystery. This book examines the historical quest to understand it through the researchers who led the search for answers.
Answering questions like “Will I ever use this?,” this book shows why learning is most effective through experience. It provides the tools needed to make better use of experiences to improve teaching and learning.
This comparative study follows modernists Tristan Tzara and Mário de Andrade on parallel creative paths. Emerging from different worlds, their poetics traversed borders, adapting folk traditions while actively criticising cultural imperialism and advocating against hate.
This collection of essays explores the intersection of art and violence in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance. It will appeal to students, scholars, and readers with an interest in medieval and early modern art history.
For ten years, researchers tracked a group of adults—their stresses, joys, and changing lives. This book summarizes the results of this unique study, documenting how experiences with relationships, work, and health shape us, offering fascinating insights for the midlife years.
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