Research proposals are a ubiquitous part of higher education. This title provides a support framework with step-by-step guidance about what constitutes a good research proposal and what can be done to maximize one’s chances of writing a successful application.
Rethinking Gender in Popular Culture in the 21st Century
This publication details popular culture representations of gender, offering a rich and accessible discussion of masculinities and femininities in 21st-century media. It investigates the workings of gender in contemporary pop culture products in an original and rigorous way.
Forensic science pioneer Ralph Turner’s work was the basis for drunk driving laws. He founded the field’s leading professional organization and was one of the first persons to question the Warren Commission Report on the assassination of President Kennedy.
Fluid Physiology
Inappropriate fluid therapy harms patients. For medical and veterinary practitioners, this book presents a new paradigm based on the revised Starling principle. It retires outdated views on colloids and focuses on volume kinetics for safer, evidence-based patient care.
Campania’s Wine on the Net
This book explores the language of wine tasting, analyzing promotional notes for wines from Italy’s Campania region. It examines how descriptions are translated for English-speaking consumers, offering insights for linguists, wine professionals, and ordinary wine drinkers alike.
Public Theology and Institutional Economics
In our modern society, many public debates urge for attention to questions about the economy. This book shows why religious thinking offers unexpectedly relevant perspectives on our capitalist market, our urge for common ground, and our responsibility for a sustainable lifestyle.
This book focuses on the calculus of variations, combining partial differential equations with geometry to solve nonlinear problems. It provides the latest developments in multidimensional optimization and optimal control for researchers, engineers, and students.
Heinz-Uwe Haus, a leading voice in the collapse of communism in the GDR, combined politics and theatre. In this book, he provides a unique insider’s narrative of German unification and its aftermath, widening the context to current issues through the lens of theatre.
Elements of Statistics
This book is a crucial resource for students intimidated by statistical symbols and equations. It prepares you for statistics courses without anxiety and serves as an excellent desk reference for new researchers. Its hands-on style helps you easily achieve statistical literacy.
Sir Jerome Horsey’s (d. 1626) animated account of his experiences in Russia and other countries is a travel-book, an adventure story and an autobiography of a controversial and significant figure. It is here given with a full introduction and extensive explanatory notes.
This book uncovers the disturbing link between snakes, Medusa’s gaze, and symbols of female fear. It traces a lineage of reptilian hybrids—from goddesses to monsters—to explore the powerful things that never happened but have always been.
Controllability of Dynamic Systems
This book explores the Green’s function method for controllability analysis in dynamic systems. Valid for both linear and nonlinear dynamics, the approach is shown with examples of sophisticated issues and extensive numerical analysis, revealing its advantages and drawbacks.
Misconceptions in Science Education
Despite access to information, learners often provide incorrect, intuition-based responses to science and mathematics questions. This book suggests a paradigm shift, using an “empathic space” to utilize misconceptions as a learning tool, leading to a cathartic “Aha!” moment.
Discomfort and Moral Impediment
This book connects human suffering with morality. It explores our condition through the moral requirements of not harming or manipulating, and questions the ethics of responsible procreation and the moral quality of abstention.
New Journeys in Iberian Studies
The research collected here consists of 18 chapters which explore a number of key areas of investigation in contemporary Iberian studies. There is a strong emphasis on trans-national and trans-regional approaches to the subject area, reflecting current discourse and scholarship.
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.
Mnemodrama in Action
Mnemodrama, or a “drama of memory”, is a technique of actor training borne out of experiments conducted by the Italian theatre maker Alessandro Fersen in his studio laboratory in Rome between 1957 and 1983. This work is an introduction to its theory and practice.
The Legacy of Empire
The shadow of Napoleon’s empires haunted the nineteenth-century. In reaction, a unique Anglo-Italian style developed among ex-patriot writers and artists. Contrasting Napoleon’s legacy with an ideal state, their work championed national independence, feminism, and republicanism.
Black Soldiers in a White Man’s War
Pollock investigates the story of 600 Black men from across North America and the Caribbean, who, in 1917, went to war in a labour unit. Based on service records of the 600 volunteers and 35 courts-martial in the unit, he probes the lives of these soldiers between 1917 and 1918.
Societies Emerging from Conflict
This collection of essays, written by scholars with ties to Bangladesh, Bulgaria, Canada, Ghana, Indonesia, Iraq, and the USA, argues that a new post-atrocity framework is taking root, suggesting promising alternatives to retributive criminal proceedings.
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