Exploring the culture, practice and business of book production, distribution, publication and reception, this anthology demonstrates that publishing needs to be understood as a social and cultural practice, and not just as a business.
Catching Terrorists in America
Hewitt presents a detailed examination of terrorist acts in America from the late 1960s to the Boston Marathon bombing, focusing on such aspects as responses of law enforcement and the Department of Homeland Security to block terrorism attacks from abroad.
Land of Fertility III
Spanning 5000 years from the Bronze Age to the Muslim Conquest, this volume explores civilization in the Fertile Crescent. It examines the migration of people, goods, and ideas, and ancient Egypt’s relations with its neighbours—were they based on partnership, or supremacy?
Current Myanmar Studies
This book contains articles concerned with the major issues facing development in Myanmar. Topics explored include Muslims in Arakan (Rohingya), economic perspectives, the challenges facing Aung San Suu Kyi, and an ethnographic note on textile production in Shan State.
Psychic River
Using a variety of psychoanalytic and philosophical lenses, and using the Psychic River as a metaphor, Mathew asks the question of what it means “to learn” and “to teach”. He considers the joys and frustrations of lifelong learning, and what drives us to learn as we age.
This volume continues the series project of providing interpretations of selected novels through analyses of each of its chapters. It provides in-depth explications of Austen’s text in order to illustrate its thematic complexity and model the practice of close reading.
Social network analysis is a methodological tool used to investigate collections of individuals and their shared relationships. The book provides an overview of the tool’s growing body of research in sport, and details practical guidance for its application.
Encountering Entrepreneurs
This monograph probes the daily life of businessmen in a particularly productive area of Northern Italy, Lombardy. It provides insights into their business and entrepreneurialism, offering a different approach to capitalism and reflections on human nature.
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.
By studying various myths, folk tales, examples in cinema, commentary from modern individuals, reports from traditional shamans, and neuroscience, Kline discerns the features and characteristics of the “Otherworld” and argues for its existence in the physical world.
The Change of Paradigm in Nuclear Fuel Optimization
Current nuclear fuel optimization cannot predict accidents and suffers from great uncertainty. This book details a new philosophy based on the synergic paradigm to minimize radioactive leakage, resolve the safety-efficiency contradiction, and ensure safer reactor operation.
This study highlights the attitudes of the residents of Mytilene, Lesvos, regarding the recent massive migration flow towards Europe and how it has affected the island. It will act as a useful tool for better policy implementation and is of great contemporary relevance.
Innovative Software
This is a text for those engaged in creating new, high-value software solutions for which an existing exemplar does not exist. It covers how to understand and resolve problems associated with the process and details the design and implementation aspects for high-risk software.
This collection offers examples of excellence, innovation and ingenuity as they occur in honours colleges and programs throughout the USA, discussing what we can do to contribute to human knowledge, to empower creativity and to make positive futures through education.
Managing Enterprise Resource Planning Adoption and Business Processes
Recent decades have witnessed many avoidable ERP failures and malpractices concerning its adoption. The author presents an adoption methodology, called the Full Lifecycle ERP Adoption Reference (FLEAR) model, which will prevent the reoccurrence of such downfalls.
Roman Military Medicine
An illuminating text on the understudied topic of medicine and its use in the Roman military, this study explores the workings of the ancient healthcare system, the methods of care by its physicians, and the treatments it offered for different ailments and injuries.
Inspired by a pantheist worldview, this text advocates an alternative globalization based not on the economy and politics, but on humanity’s transcendence to a collective consciousness, presenting a counter-trend against nationalism, religious extremism, xenophobia, and racism.
A Cross-linguistic and Cross-cultural Analysis of English and Slovene Onomastic Phraseological Units
Of particular interest to scholars of Slavonic languages, this title provides cross-linguistic and cross-cultural research into an understudied segment of phraseology by utilising two databases composed from monolingual English and Slovene phraseological dictionaries.
This collection of philosophical essays analyses the Italian artist Ugo Nespolo’s poetics from different theoretical perspectives, focused in particular on his artworks and films.
This book is concerned with the outcomes of the doctoral research programme of the Maryvale Institute (UK) and its contribution to new knowledge in the area of Catholic studies, a wide field including history, literature, philosophy, spirituality, and theology.
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