Raymond Queneau’s Dubliners
An exploration of two comic, erotic, and feminist novels by Raymond Queneau set in Ireland. This book examines Joycean influences and a surreal version of the Dublin Uprising, solving puzzles to reveal *Les Œuvres completes de Sally Mara* as a subtly integrated literary work.
Mechanisms of Cross-Boundary Learning
This book reveals the mechanism of adult learning through boundary-crossing experiences. It empirically analyzes how collaboration across organizations sparks learning and associated job crafting, presenting findings with global applications.
This volume explores the connections between literary figures, artists, and locations of the Victorian era. It covers writers and painters like Charles Dickens and D. G. Rossetti, addresses transatlantic links, and includes influential figures from other periods.
This is the first comprehensive study on the urban ecology of amphibians and reptiles in Plovdiv, Bulgaria. It summarizes their species composition, spatial distribution, and population dynamics to identify Important Herpetological Areas and provide key conservational data.
This book tells the ‘USC story’: the challenges faced and pedagogical enhancements made in embracing new technology to teach social work online. It details how faculty converted traditional courses for a virtual program that grew to over 2,200 students.
Sociothermodynamics
Why do social groups segregate in hard times and mix in affluent ones? This book uses game theory and thermodynamics to show that segregation can be beneficial for all—like sugar separating in cold water. In the long run, however, social evolution leads to a homogeneous mix.
This book presents over 40 experiments in optics for students and engineers. Covering components like lenses, mirrors, and gratings, each experiment is clearly described with concise, easy-to-understand theory to explain the principles underlying them.
Potential Development Using Thinking Tools
This book cracks teaching myths that make learners knowledge duplicators instead of creators. Thinking tools move the focus from mastering content to critical thinking, turning learners into thinking engineers who take ownership of what they discover, create, and solve.
Experiences of Academics from a Working-Class Heritage
While higher education welcomes diverse students, it predominantly employs middle-class academics. Based on candid interviews, this book explores the experiences of academics from working-class backgrounds, as both students and staff, from their early careers to the present day.
Predictive microbiology uses mathematical models to predict microbial behaviour in food. This book details the latest advances, from key modeling techniques to new trends and innovative methods in risk assessment, providing valuable tools for food scientists and the industry.
Constructal theory is widely used, but often incorrectly applied, leading to unreasonable results. This book systematically reviews its applications in fields from economics to heat transfer, pointing out significant flaws, mistakes, and limitations. An essential read for anyone.
Where Agnon and Jung Meet
This book uses Carl Jung’s theory to analyze the Jewish archetypes in Nobel laureate S. Y. Agnon’s novel, The Bridal Canopy. It serves as a practical guide to applying psychological theory to a novel, offering a new perspective on the depths of the universal human soul.
This book presents four short works by prominent Japanese writers like Natsume Sōseki, in their first-ever English translations. A unique textbook, it provides the original Japanese and encourages you to make your own translation before reading the author’s and its commentary.
Women’s Rights after the Arab Spring
The 2011 Arab Spring was meant to be a new dawn for women’s freedom, but the rise of Islamic parties created a new challenge. This book analyzes post-2011 constitutional reforms to ask: how can women’s demands be reconciled with new political establishments?
Practical Cardiology Review
This book covers real and practical issues in cardiology. Each chapter features key point summaries and multiple-choice questions for self-assessment. Complete with comprehensive answers, real pictures, and charts, this guide is perfect for rapid review and easy learning.
This book focuses on the social, economic, political and structural transformations of cities in Europe, the Near East and Asia from the 17th century to today. It explores the coexistence of diverse groups and the evolution of urban public space.
The problems in Shakespeare’s plays mirror those modern business leaders encounter. While today’s leaders are equipped with better tools, they may lack the moral strength found in these classics. This book delineates leadership and management theories through the Bard’s plays.
Exploring current trends and challenges in sustainable tourism, this volume investigates tourism policies, national image creation, environmental factors, wellness and medical tourism, regional development, and key financial issues.
A guide to chemically modifying metal surfaces to produce hard, scratch-resistant, and corrosion-resistant surfaces, or surfaces that easily accept coatings. Includes processes for aluminum, magnesium, titanium, iron, copper, silver, and their alloys.
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