This collection explores current issues concerning glycolipids and their connection with diseases, the immune system, cancer, and infections. It offers a comprehensive presentation of current trends, data, and developments in health sciences, pharmacology, and industry.
This study discusses bioethics, with a particular philosophical focus on the tensions and potential dilemmas of “the four principles approach”. It hypothesises that respectful care can be built up to be a leading notion to guide our daily actions and bioethical practices.
Beyond Imagined Uniqueness
This collection of essays explores nationalism in historical and contemporary settings. Adopting an interdisciplinary approach, these studies suggest that despite globalization, historically rooted social, cultural, and political forces keep national identity alive.
Did Somebody Say Ideology?
This volume explores the foundations of Slavoj Žižek’s work, focusing on his theory of ideology. Essays investigate key aspects of the philosopher’s thought and employ his theories in new contexts, demonstrating how his critique fosters innovative research.
How to Do Things with Tense and Aspect
In Slovene, performative acts like promising use the imperfective verb, which implies the act isn’t complete. How, then, is a promise made? This book uncovers a 19th-century debate that laid the foundations of performativity half a century before Austin.
Practices of Ethics
For social sciences researchers confronted with ethical dilemmas, this book provides examples of ethical reflection. It deals with complex ethical questions that arise during fieldwork which find no clear guidance from professional codes, showing a new empirical approach.
The Mediterranean Basin’s high biodiversity and 8000 years of history face a great threat from urbanisation and habitat destruction. Both its historical heritage and geography are at risk. This book synthesises knowledge to increase awareness and save the basin.
In a globalized world, new media are dissolving linguistic boundaries, creating a pressing need to reconfigure identity. This book explores the centrality of language in this process, bringing together cultural and social perspectives from a range of disciplines.
Harbors, Flows, and Migrations
Here, thirty-two American Studies scholars from around the world interrogate the manifold significance of ports and the exchanges they enable or restrain, casting a decentered look onto the complex positioning of the United States in its relationships with the rest of the world.
This text contains research on various aspects of environmental migration in the context of international law. It focuses on the emergence and development of regulation in the field of environmental migration at the global and regional levels.
Towards Impact and Resilience
This book clarifies the challenges of Agricultural Education and Training (AET) in sub-Saharan Africa, offering practical solutions and innovative models to advance agricultural development and cultivate leaders and change-makers at all levels.
Unlocking Opportunities in Sub-Saharan Africa
Emerging markets in sub-Saharan Africa present vast opportunities, but their volatility makes sustainable profitability a major challenge. This book provides a framework, using cases and illustrations, to help organisations navigate these markets and achieve lasting success.
This thought-provoking collection presents many voices exploring themes of female and trans* masculinities, gender equality, and the lives and activism of LGBT*IQ artists. It travels across time telling gender-crossing stories of creative resistance for readers of queer culture.
Shining Humanity
This collection tells the tale of eleven ordinary Bosnian women peace builders who bore witness to horror but chose to live in hope. In the darkness of war, they showed genuine humanity and dared to imagine a life beyond violence and fear.
The Gothic rewrites the past through nostalgia and perversion. This collection examines how novels, films, and music use this transgressive drive to break down boundaries between past and present, norm and deviation, and other and self.
This collection highlights the divisive issue of the admission of women into the sacramental diaconal priesthood of the Christian Church from the Orthodox theological perspective, although the contributions also offer theological argumentation for the wider Christian community.
Add 20+ years to your life. Based on 1000+ studies, this book unveils a data-driven system for fighting aging. Use a simple point system to track the daily choices in food, exercise, and mindset proven to extend your lifespan.
Mishaps and medical emergencies are a risk in any dental clinic, especially when treating children. This guide provides a problem-solving approach for immediate and efficient management, ensuring every dentist can reduce complications and handle any clinical situation.
Jehovah’s Witnesses in Europe
The religious association of Jehovah’s Witnesses has existed for about 150 years in Europe. This volume documents the history of Jehovah’s Witnesses in Romania, Scandinavia and Finland, countries in which this religious community has had some troubles in the past.
The recent financial crisis has challenged accepted economic paradigms. This book offers a broad overview of recent developments in international economics, providing new theories, empirical insights, and practical policy recommendations.
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