The H5N1 Virus
This study reveals the social justice linkages of the H5N1 virus, framed as a veterinary scourge, a public health threat, and a potential bioterrorist weapon. This sparked a dual-use dilemma, pitting security against open science, and obscuring questions of justice.
A Local Perspective on Lexicography
This book explores dictionary-making and research in Romania. Addressing culture-specific topics for theorists, practitioners, and users, it covers paper and online, monolingual and bilingual works, explaining the challenges that have shaped the local dictionary culture.
This volume presents the results of archaeological research at Grotta Mora Cavorso, a cave in central Italy. Covering the Historic and Protohistoric periods, it reveals the cave’s complex, multi-layered use as a burial and ritual place, a hermitage, and even a war refuge.
This book explores early Christian attitudes toward Jews, pagans, and heretics. Based on the Gospel of John, Jude, and The Testaments of the Twelve Patriarchs, it explains their negative feelings and offers surprising new results for anyone interested in Christian origins.
Semirings are used in cryptography as their additive operation lacks an inverse, preventing cryptosystem breakage. This book describes such protocols and the hard math their security is based on, appealing to cryptographers and specialists in applied algebra.
This first book on Naomi Alderman’s work highlights her transcultural recasting of British and Jewish traditions. The analysis focuses on relevant topics including gender and sexual orientation, the rewriting of the Sacred Scriptures, and feminist posthuman dystopias.
For a generation living longer than ever, retirement is uncharted territory. This volume brings together distinguished psychologists to share their personal journeys. Learn from their stories and explore the idea of “retiring to” something, not just “from” it.
This valuable contribution to teaching languages to young learners offers new global perspectives on policy, theory, research, and pedagogy. It covers cognitive learning, teacher education, and classroom practices, making it essential for policymakers, researchers, and teachers.
Nat Turner in Black and White
This book reveals how writers imagine cautionary Nat Turner-tales, making him a misunderstood and polarizing figure. By locating the Turner Insurrection within historical race trauma, writers expose the lasting impact of slavery and frame rebellion as heroic.
Understanding Bollywood
Explore how Bollywood films reveal the cultural politics of India. This book analyses the on-screen evolution of Indian women, charting their journey from subjugation to empowerment and the fight for human rights.
Rethinking Thomas Jefferson’s Writings on Slavery and Race
For decades, Jeffersonian scholarship has uncritically depicted a less-than-human Jefferson: an inveterate hypocrite and racist. This book offers a provocative challenge to these stale revisionist claims, appealing to all who believe it is time to gain fresh insights.
Essays in Narrative and Fictionality
By one of postclassical narrative theory’s preeminent figures, this book reexamines foundational topics from the role of the author to the nature of fiction. It argues for a more expansive conception of narrative theory, making crucial interventions in ongoing critical debates.
This book investigates work from diverse worldviews—cultural, religious, humanist, and Indigenous. Our work lives can be more deeply understood and appreciated when exposed to perspectives different from our own, yielding new insights about relationships and crisis at work.
Issues of Identity Metamorphoses in Transitional Epochs
In our transition to a global society, what happens to our identity? This book explores how collective and individual identity have evolved during major transitional periods, providing real-life examples of change for individuals and social groups.
Survival after Treatment for Gynaecological Cancer
As gynaecological cancer survival rates improve, quality of life after treatment is vital. This is the first textbook on managing the physical and psychological effects of treatment. It is essential reading for gynaecological oncology specialists and related disciplines.
This book analyses assisted death through biopolitics, considering the inescapable legacy of the Holocaust and Nazi eugenics. It searches for a form of resistance that does not exclude marginalized groups, moving the discussion on assisted death in new directions.
This book focuses on consumer financing in China, introducing the financing situation, constraints, representative tools, and the Credit Reference System. It is an indispensable guide for financial companies and academic institutions wishing to make more sense of this topic.
This book prepares teachers in Southern Africa to effectively teach exceptional children. It provides a new framework for inclusive education, calling for a partnership between universities and schools to improve educational equity and reform teacher education.
Acetylcholine is a universal messenger, from bacteria to humans. While best known as a neurotransmitter, our understanding of its action has completely changed. This book explores its vital physiological and toxicological importance, since it can be perturbed by many substances.
Teaching effectively online requires different instructional strategies than face-to-face teaching. The chapters in this volume identify the best communication practices for teaching in the varied environments of online learning.
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