Me and My Hormones
This jargon-free book offers a comprehensive account of hormone conditions affecting all ages. It covers common issues like puberty timing, thyroid disorders, diabetes, and weight, bringing clarity to how hormones impact your health, growth, and well-being.
Mobilizing Narratives
In a world defined by forced migration, who is free to move and who is not? This volume uncovers the injustices of (im)mobility—driven by war, climate change, and inequality—as powerfully represented in literary texts.
Half a century after his death, is E. M. Forster still relevant? Some find his novels old-fashioned; others, inspiring. This book explores Forster’s legacy, offering new interpretations of his work and his place within British and world culture.
Liberal Arts Perspectives on Globalism and Transnationalism
As globalization expands, reactionary forces like nationalism and populism have exposed its blind spots. This volume gathers leading scholars to analyze the human cost of immigration, the threats of online technologies, and other pressing challenges of our interconnected world.
Shamanic Dialogues with the Invisible Dark in Tuva, Siberia
In Tuva, Siberia, shamanism’s revival has a dark side: assault sorcery and an epidemic of curses. This book follows a shaman’s counter-rituals and haunting dialogues with spectral assassins and dead ancestors to reveal the unsettling world of “dark shamanism.”
Personal essays illuminate the effects of whiteness in the workplace. Combining storytelling and scholarship, this collection makes a compelling case for changing the individuals and systems that perpetuate disparities in opportunity, advancement, and well-being.
Precision medicine requires “magic bullet” drugs that are effective without side effects. This book summarizes the key requirements for developing them and offers a new paradigm for site-specific drug delivery, essential for professionals in drug development.
In Virginia’s Shenandoah Valley, a false myth denies the history of enslavement. This book challenges it by refocusing on the narratives of two enslaved individuals, asserting they were astute historians who knew they were amending the historical record that had kept them absent.
A growing gap separates professional film critics from younger movie-goers. A new breed of critic is needed for this new generation of fans. This book examines five categories of film reviewers to help aspiring critics decide what type of critic they want to be.
Victoria Ocampo’s account of Rabindranath Tagore’s stay in Argentina is an important document tracing Indo-Argentine contact. This first English translation includes a critical introduction, notes, and an annotated bibliography for scholars and readers.
Introduction to Field-Being Philosophy
Lik Kuen Tong’s Field-Being philosophy offers a new metaphysics. Rethinking the universe as “activity,” “relationality,” and “betweenness,” this future-oriented philosophy lends itself to addressing current issues such as climate change, global relations, and difference.
The Stock Market Boom and Crash of 1929 Was Not a Bubble
After the 1929 crash, Yale Professor Irving Fisher argued the boom was warranted. While his view was dismissed in favor of “irrational exuberance,” this book shows why Fisher was right, pointing to the Smoot-Hawley Tariff as the cause of both the boom and the crash.
Modern challenges cause stress and poor health. This book develops the concept of ‘emotional health’ as a bio-psycho-socio-cultural balance, bridging medical treatments with alternative therapies to highlight new solutions to these problems.
This book argues the Kiev Leaflets, the oldest Slavic manuscript, do not originate from the Bulgarian-Macedonian area. Instead, linguistic and historical evidence, including a prayer against the Hungarians, points to the Eastern Obodrites in modern Ukraine between 894 and 900.
Democratic Consolidation and Europeanization in Romania
Experts analyze Romania’s multi-dimensional transformation after 1989. This volume depicts the stages of democratic transition, Europeanization, and recent setbacks, providing a balanced and complete understanding of Romania’s post-communist challenges.
Origins of Capitalism and Jewish Ethics
This book critically analyzes Werner Sombart’s link between Jewish ethics and the spirit of capitalism. It follows a little-investigated avenue of exploration, analyzing the origins of capitalism to generate new perspectives on the relationship between economy and religion.
Corporations Have Almost as Many Constitutional Rights as Individuals
This book explains how, over 225 years, US Supreme Court decisions have enshrined corporations with constitutional rights, transforming them from individual freedoms to corporate entitlements used to evade government regulations.
This study explores representations of mental health in literature, focusing on works by 21st-century French women writers. It situates these portrayals in relation to current attitudes and practices, and discusses the benefit of their translation for an Anglophone readership.
Servant Leadership in Management Practice
This book reviews servant leadership in the context of foodbanks and their volunteers. Through personal narratives, it explores issues of supportive management and organization, underlining the importance of the unpaid workforce and the future of these vital community services.
This volume explores dance’s role in modern Greek society, from ballet to contemporary genres. It uncovers factors affecting its development over the last century and asks why dance has yet to be established as an academic discipline, inspiring future artists to advocate for it.
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