This book discusses the COVID-19 pandemic’s effects on both high-level politics and people’s inner worlds. Through diverse religious, historical, social, and legal analyses, it offers broad perspectives and questions the future of international security.
An Introduction to the Uses and Diffusion of the News
How do audiences use mass media, and how does news spread through society? This text examines how media cultivates fear and shapes our beliefs about crime, risk, and social issues. It covers key theories like the Spiral of Silence, the Knowledge Gap, and Cultivation Theory.
For specialists in mathematics, science, and engineering, this guide applies numerical methods to solve complex systems. Explore techniques in C++, Maple, and MATLAB through practical case studies in data analysis, optimisation, and differential equations.
This text explores theoretical issues in contemporary rhetoric, including the role of culture, citizenship, and how space and time affect language. A resource for scholars and students, its goal is to stimulate thought and provoke critical responses to the ideas within.
Dealing with Multilingualism in TV Series
This book analyzes multilingualism in TV series and explores how dubbing affects the plot and characterisation of the original shows. A specific focus on Italian dubbing provides detailed insight into this complex and fascinating phenomenon.
This book explores the works of Aeschylus, Sophocles, Euripides, and Aristophanes. It considers their principal characters, their motivations, and what their legacies mean to us today, revealing the enduring influence of Classical Greek drama on modern culture.
This book details the reinvention of librarians and archivists as memory makers for the digital age. Learn the methods to turn a flood of data into valued information, combining the art of curation with the science of recordkeeping to assume control in the Digital Memory Age.
How to Get a Paper Published in Academic Journals
This book provides a step-by-step guide to the thinking, writing, and polishing of a paper. It pinpoints what journals look for and covers common mistakes in data analysis and writing and how to rectify them. For students and those new to publishing, this book is invaluable.
Modern industrial society is a fluke of history. This book argues our world is the result of accidental events, not inherent European values. Our advanced civilization is an unexpected explosion, unique and unlikely to be found anywhere else in the universe.
This book presents insights into the work of actor Krishnan Nair, unique in the field of Kathakali. Through his superb ability to connect with audiences and his sheer charisma, Nair achieved his burning ambitions: ensuring Kathakali performers gained status and a decent wage.
This volume’s ten studies analyze Victorian and Neo-Victorian novels. The authors investigate preserved or recycled Victorian themes and discuss how key issues like gender, sexuality, race, and empire are used to update the great tradition for a new age.
Karen Blixen’s Existentialism
This book investigates the writings of Karen Blixen from an existentialist angle. Blixen subtly integrates the ideas of Kierkegaard, Nietzsche, and Sartre, making them accessible while offering her own ideas on existentialism’s fundamental problem: how to become who you are.
Discover the communities of coping that form in everyday work routines. Through storytelling, breaks, and socialising, employees can manage stress and improve well-being. This book reveals how to build strong emotional cultures through trust, connection, and open communication.
Monsters have always been border crossers, their transnational nature reflecting our era of global crisis. This book explores the cultural flow of monstrosity, examining its socio-political ramifications in a world framed by the Covid pandemic and our shared vulnerability.
Medical Specialisation at the London Hospital
The development of specialty skills in the late 19th and 20th centuries transformed medicine. For the first time, patients could expect accurate diagnosis and effective treatment. Specialty skills defined innovations in hospital and family practice, a legacy that continues today.
Artificial intelligence is the most disruptive technology today. This volume explores the problems of ethical AI and the prospects of human-like intelligence, with a broad spectrum of approaches from ethics, economics, defense studies, computer science, and philosophy.
This book shares the poignant, captivating, and hard-to-believe true tales of four teachers in Indonesia. Described as modern dervishes, they sowed the seeds of successful education through altruism and teamwork, even rescuing three orphans from the aftermath of a tsunami.
Legal Machine Translation Explained
This book bridges a gap in the literature with an in-depth analysis of machine translation in legal practice. It explores whether MT is reliable for legal documents and how practitioners can use it as a draft for post-editing, tackle its shortcomings, and supplement the tools.
This book explores the complexities of academic writing in English for graduate students and researchers. It clarifies how to communicate discipline-related content and is ideal for non-native speakers studying for master’s and PhD qualifications or academic publishing.
This book explores the ecological aspects of climate change using the ecological footprint model. Featuring case studies from the Danube River and data from a research station north of the Polar Circle, it is of interest to students, teachers, and scientists.
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