Shapter traces the rise of photography’s perceived truthfulness in depicting reality. He shows why a combination of pre-knowledge of early developments in imagery and a marketing campaign espousing the accuracy of photographs acted to create a belief in the photograph’s veracity.
Kola highlights perspectives concerning the economic and social impact of microfinance products on their clients’ lives. He probes whether being a client of monetary financial institutions’ microfinance programmes brings positive changes to their lives and their community.
Communicating Visually
This publication focuses on the various vectors of visual communication, particularly contemporary brands as social phenomena, culture and the way people communicate and create meanings, from a designer’s perspective.
This book challenges modern psychology’s view that we are victims of circumstance. It argues that by denying human freedom and personal responsibility, we risk undermining our civilisation, and offers a ‘purposive psychology’ to help individuals gain mastery of themselves.
An insightful exploration of sensation and synaesthesia in film and new media. These essays examine how cinematic experiences create immersive environments that stimulate our senses and mind, from perception and movement to olfaction, abstract cinema, and interactive art.
World Cities, City Worlds
When living and working in cities, we need to make sense of them in order to get by. We must delve below their surface to understand how we can best engage with them. Solesbury argues that three tropes can help us here: namely, metaphors, icons and perspectives.
The General Theory of Particle Mechanics
Yefremov provides insights into the tight connection between fundamental math and mechanics, demonstrating that quantum, classical, and relativistic mechanics can be regarded as links of a single theoretical chain readily extracted from a simple mathematical medium.
This monograph offers a thorough discussion of the relevance of incorporating robotics into the 21st century classroom. It explores essential topics including outcome-based education, robotics technology, its use in education, and its theoretical underpinnings, among others.
Reclaiming Indigenous Knowledge Systems
This book explores people-forest relationships in Kenya through the Indigenous Knowledge of the Agĩkũyũ people. It confronts the history of land dispossession, cements the forest’s role in the struggle for independence, and shows how this wisdom can forge sustainable futures.
Man-made climate change poses a new crisis: how do we feed 10 billion people in a climate hostile to food security? This book explores the threat to our “daily bread” and argues that we are not without hope, offering solutions that can lead to a better future for humankind.
Mr Justice McCardie (1869-1933)
In this work, Lentin explores the life of Mr Justice McCardie, a highly controversial 20th-century High Court Judge. He describes McCardie’s impact on his peers, both his critics, who called him a ‘rogue judge’, and his admirers, who labelled him ‘a Crusader on the Bench’.
The Contemporary Arab Contribution to World Culture
This book challenges the projected image of a dominant West as a necessary model for a dependent ‘rest of the world.’ It calls for a decolonization of human knowledge, using recent Arab contributions as an example of an alternative to the globalization of Western norms.
Bordered Identities in Language, Literature, and Culture
Cameroon’s complex postcolonial legacy has burdened it with a linguistic and pedagogic culture which has inhibited its national identity. The present volume reflects on this issue and serves to renegotiate its identity beyond the mega-frames of Empire.
Seriality Across Narrations, Languages and Mass Consumption
This volume discusses contemporary audiovisual seriality, analyzing series like Black Mirror, Game of Thrones, and Stranger Things. It reflects on seriality as a process of social, linguistic and gender transformation, exploring reception, authorship, and intertextuality.
The African American Journey to the Power Dome
Sharma explores the African American journey from the plantation to the power dome through multiple socio-artistic perspectives of Black American authorship. She throws light on the transforming status of America’s Native Son and the marked visibility of its Invisible Man.
First Generation Mainframes
This volume describes the IBM computer systems that influenced architecture in the 1950s and 1960s. These modular systems featured a common architecture for peripherals, the first operating systems, and groundbreaking software like the FORTRAN programming language.
India is in an era of great upheaval, making a complete break with its past to redefine its role in the world. This collection of essays captures these extraordinary times, chronicling the changes and fault-lines shaping its future and impacting the world around it.
Challenges and Critiques of the EU Internal Security Strategy
The papers gathered here explore a variety of areas and issues related to, or raised by, the EU Internal Security Strategy. They cover such matters as critical infrastructure protection and environmental crime, from a range of disciplinary perspectives.
This book offers a statistical study and a dynamical approach to stellar systems. It explains and solves the closure problem for any velocity distribution, and applies these methods to describe the mixture of stellar populations in the Milky Way.
Art and Design
This book is a selection of essays on art and design. A hierarchy often places “art” apart from “design.” But isn’t some art designed? These essays investigate this dichotomy from both sides of the supposed divide to discuss the ground between.
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