Beyond the Frontier, Volume II
This compilation presents the latest research in first-year composition, including pedagogy, praxis, debate, and assessment. It will benefit anyone who studies or engages with first-year composition, including graduate students, instructors, and administrators.
This book introduces “AfroSymbiocity,” a paradigm for conflict resolution based on original African strategies. It provides the missing cultural pieces in the puzzle of conflict, using the historical example of King Moshoeshoe to demonstrate an approach with universal relevance.
This book presents a theoretical description of fiber Bragg gratings, focusing on channel densification and tunability. It includes full Matlab code to synthesize and optimize various gratings using genetic algorithms, simulated annealing, and tabu search.
While the destruction of archaeological sites in war often makes the headlines, lesser disputes about local heritage sites go unreported. This book focuses on conflicts between archaeological conservation and religious faiths which use archaeological heritage in their practices.
Weizfeld focuses on the political philosophy and the constitutional transformation of the contradiction between two major nations in one land, namely Palestine-Israel.
Written by leading experts, this volume offers detailed and up-to-date findings for survey methodologists and practitioners. It deepens the reader’s understanding of the unit problem and showcases recent advances in business survey methodology and practice.
The Changing Landscape of Global Businesses
Cross-border business has fundamentally changed. This book addresses today’s new dimensions alongside time-honoured principles. Integrating all managerial functions, it provides a comprehensive picture of global business through a rich blend of principles and case studies.
Christian Mind in the Emerging World
In this collection, Christian scholars from around the world explore how faith underpins academic disciplines. Offering a global perspective focused on Asia, these essays illustrate a faith-integrated approach to diverse fields from science to social services and business.
Challenges of Human Rights in Latin America
Latin America’s democratic process struggles to protect citizens’ rights due to weak institutions. This book presents minutes from the Inter-American Fundamental Rights Conference, exploring the consolidation of democracy, impeachment, freedom of information, and due process.
Conceptual Blending and the Arts
Warchoł analyses how the processes described in Conceptual Blending Theory can be applied in practice, on the basis of Michał Batory’s posters designed for artistic events, highlighting how Batory’s artefacts influence people and convey hidden messages.
This book offers a trenchant analysis of the post-millennial cultural shift away from liberal social values. It dissects how values like racial equality, tolerance, and diversity have been evacuated of their meaning to serve a reactionary politics peddling regressive ideology.
This title details several aspects of foreign direct investment (FDI) and their linkages to African economies. Based on stylized facts and rigorous analytical studies, it offers state-of-the-art analyses on FDI-related topics.
Modern African American Poets
Spanning the Harlem Renaissance to the present, this book offers new perspectives on poets like Hughes and Cullen, viewed through self-acceptance and self-dejection. It explores multi-ethnic roots, Dual Inheritance Theory, and the redefinition of black womanhood.
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.
The Mystique of the Northwest Passage
Chylińska highlights the 16th-century English-Atlantic connections constructed on the basis of the world division defined by two fundamental documents of the late 15th century: namely, the papal bull Inter Caetera, and the Portuguese-Spanish Treaty of Tordesilla.
The Political History of Muslim Bengal
Though now predominantly Muslim, Bengal was once Buddhist. This book tells the story of successive religious and political transformations shaping Bengali Muslim identity, narrating a history from the Muslim Sultanate to the 1971 liberation war and the present day.
Transcribing the Graves of All Saints Church, Fenagh, County Carlow, Ireland
Drawn from a journey of transcribing gravestones as a hobby, this monograph illustrates how information on headstones allows a glimpse at long-forgotten social conditions, politics, religion and grave robbing.
This title discusses an array of critical contemporary issues on housing design pertaining to sustainable practices, emerging technologies, heritage conservation, humanitarian efforts, and their effects on occupants’ physical and psychological experience and well-being.
Women Poets and Myth in the 20th and 21st Centuries
This book examines women poets and theorists who engage with myth. From H.D. to Margaret Atwood and Anne Carson, they rewrite old myths and create new ones for the present, interrogating their power to articulate our reality and act as catalysts for new ideas.
In the 1970s, new technology was needed to build on Arctic ice. This book relates the human history and technical innovations developed, moving beyond lab studies to detail the testing, construction and use of ice in real conditions for designers, educators, and students.
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