The Mysterious and Obvious in American Diplomacy
This book analyses how the Monroe Doctrine established a US policy of interference and preventive strikes. It proves this doctrine remains the basis for American diplomacy, a tool of domination used by presidents from Monroe to Trump.
This volume engages with how the idea of the human features in African societies and scholarship. Contributors are concerned with the urgent imperative of rescuing what it means to be humane in a world being pushed towards a dystopic future by climate change and fundamentalism.
Explore stancetaking’s theory and practice across diverse contexts, from political trials to informal chats. Analyzing events like the COVID-19 pandemic, this interdisciplinary volume offers key applications for teaching and improving inter-ethnic communication.
This book demonstrates fractional calculus’ use to model natural phenomena and new processes in advanced technologies. The focus is on modelling, results, and interpretations, rather than theorems. A source for students and scientists modelling nonlinear and hereditary phenomena.
Japan is the world’s third-largest economy, yet surprisingly little-known. This book charts its journey from the rapid modernization of the Meiji Period to its postwar “economic miracle,” and reveals how its growth outpaced the West even during the so-called “lost decade.”
Teaching the Shoah
This collection of essays and creative pieces showcases new ways to teach the Nazi genocide. Featuring academic contributions, a play, and a short story, it addresses the overarching question: how can and should the Shoah be taught to share its most important lessons?
Cognition, Emotion and Consciousness in Modernist Storyworlds
This volume explores the representation of minds in literary texts, focusing on modernism. Through cognition and emotion, these essays reveal the nexus between mind and narrative, arguing that experientiality is fundamental to all genres, from poetry to the novel.
Film as an Expression of Spirituality
What makes a film ‘spiritually significant’? These essays explore the Arts & Faith Top 100 list, with close readings of films by Dreyer, Kubrick, Scorsese, and others—a foundational introduction for those seeking to understand film as an expression of human spirituality.
By reframing the cosmos through entropy and creativity, this book offers a solution to the Fermi paradox, a correction of the Drake equation, and a new definition of singularity, revealing a unique chain of being—from elementary information to all possible worlds.
Teaching Shakespeare in Film and the Arts Today
Explore past, present, and future approaches to Shakespeare on Film. This volume offers practical case-studies for teaching textual analysis through film and the arts—perfect for instructors to adapt or for any reader interested in the field to enjoy.
This essay collection explores inconsistency in the major Latin epics of the Flavian Age. Leading experts demonstrate that inconsistency is often a strategic device, and its careful study yields precious insights into the poets’ artistic, thematic, and ideological agendas.
Returning to the Long Revolution
The key to motivating change lies in a radical re-imagining of democratic citizenship. We must reconfigure ourselves from being passive consumers to active citizens, empowered to participate in and take responsibility for remaking the communities in which we live and work.
This book explores Globally Important Agricultural Heritage Systems (GIAHS) and “Build Back Better” (BBB) initiatives for community resilience. It shows how traditional agriculture can revitalize regions and how disasters can be a trigger to create more resilient societies.
Therapeutic Journalism
This book shows how emotional literacy and clinical psychology can create a therapeutic form of journalism. It presents a new model to analyze information through an emotional lens, empowering students to inform with empathy and see a shattered world with a fresh pair of eyes.
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.
This book is a systematic study of modern engineering sciences, exploring current trends and future developments. Areas covered include artificial intelligence, quantum computing, nanotechnology, advanced manufacturing, and micro-electromechanical systems (MEMs).
The Global and Local Appeal of Kneehigh Theatre Company
This book explores “Brand Kneehigh,” defining how the theatre company’s Cornish identity achieved global appeal. Analyzing key productions, it reveals the tensions between local and global interests and investigates Kneehigh’s unique solution: their performance space, the Asylum.
This volume explores scientific and technical knowledge in 13th-16th century Europe, with a special focus on the Iberian Peninsula. Drawing on recipe books, technical treatises, and archaeology, it presents a holistic perspective of technical knowledge during the Middle Ages.
Digital English as a Lingua Franca
This book investigates the aesthetics of informal online communication. Using sentiment analysis, it demonstrates that the style of these texts is influenced by how we associate emotions and opinions with specific words and syntactic patterns.
Evidence-Based Eating
This accessible book summarizes the latest research in human nutrition and lifestyle, with fascinating historical context. It distinguishes high-quality evidence from personal anecdotes and clarifies the critical difference between correlation and causation.
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