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Novel Molecular Oncotargets and Nano-Oncotherapeutics

Edited By: Biswajit Mukherjee

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Explore the latest findings on the tumor molecular microenvironment's role in cancer progression. This book highlights new therapeutic targets based on apoptosis, autophagy, and tumor signaling, and reveals how nanoformulations are revolutionizing the future of cancer therapy.

Explore the latest findings on the tumor molecular microenvironment’s role in cancer progression. This book highlights new therapeutic targets based on apoptosis, autophagy, and tumor signaling, and reveals how nanoformulations are revolutionizing the future of cancer therapy.

Natural Law

Historical, Systematic and Juridical Approaches

Edited By: Alejandro Néstor García Martínez, Mario Šilar, José M. Torralba

£44.99

Amid renewed interest in natural law theory, this volume provides an overview of its history, key authors, and ongoing research. An excellent introduction and reference text, it offers a solid basis for understanding human goods without bias.

The Beautiful, the Sublime, and the Grotesque

The Subjective Turn in Aesthetics from the Enlightenment to the Present

Edited By: Michael J. Matthis

£34.99

This book of essays explores the tension between subjectivity and objectivity from the Enlightenment to the Postmodern world. It focuses on the aesthetic theories of Winkelmann, Hume, and Kant, examining the beautiful, the sublime, and the grotesque.

Wretched Refuge

Immigrants and Itinerants in the Postmodern

Edited By: Jessica Datema, Diane Krumrey

£34.99

This book reimagines the immigrant experience as part of a larger motif: the postmodern itinerant. As a figure of displacement and dispersion, the itinerant suggests a cosmopolitan response to anxieties about global hegemony in works by Diaz, Lahiri, and others.

Processes of Immigration in Rural Europe

The Status Quo, Implications and Development Strategies

Edited By: Stefan Kordel Igor Jelen, Tobias Weidinger

£64.99

This anthology sheds light on the diversity of in-migration, its specific implications for development and strategies for coping. The contributions encourage theoretical discussions, and provide stimuli for practitioners involved in migration and development issues.

History and Politics

Remembrance as Legitimation

Edited By: Adam Jarosz, Ralph Schattkowsky

£64.99

History and politics are interlinked. Politicians consistently use historical arguments, (re)interpreting the past and deciding what should be remembered. A prepared narrative of the past can become a powerful instrument to influence reality and consolidate power.

Beautiful China

By: Lina Unali

£41.99

Unali discusses the centuries-old familiarity between Europe and China, exploring European nations’ admiration for the distant Asian country, and their attempt at capturing the meaning of its ancient culture and language.

Enemies Within

Cultural Hierarchies and Liberal Political Models in the Hispanic World

Edited By: María Sierra

£47.99

This volume provides historical perspectives on the debate on forms of government and political legitimacy in the Hispanic dimension of the Atlantic world, where modern politics was based on a series of exclusions that were explained as natural and necessary.

Celebrating the Achievements of the Older Generation

Living Life to the Full

By: John Croucher

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This book celebrates the achievements of those in advanced years. It includes a fascinating mix of familiar names and hidden gems who prove that “age is only a number.” Be inspired by the astonishing feats of over 100 people who triumphed in their golden years.

Collected Essays on Philosophers

Edited By: Colin Stanley

£47.99

This volume brings together, for the first time, essays authored by the influential British existential philosopher Colin Wilson on seventeen other philosophers from across the globe, including some of those he met personally to discuss their ideas.

Exchanges and Correspondence

The Construction of Feminism

Edited By: Claudette Fillard, Françoise Orazi

£44.99

This challenging survey of “feminism-in-the-making” spans from the 18th century to the present, across the globe. A fascinating chorus of voices emerges, throwing light on women’s growing consciousness and the struggle for their rights.

Academic Identities—Academic Challenges? American and European Experience of the Transformation of Higher Education and Research

Edited By: Tor Halvorsen, Atle Nyhagen

£49.99

EU reforms promote the US university system as a model for economic growth. This book demonstrates that this contradicts basic European values, ignores the social costs of copying an elite system, and neglects crucial issues of elitism and democracy.

Muon Physics

By: Nicolai Popov

£64.99

The muon is vital to particle, nuclear, and atomic physics, and a key component of the Standard Model. Muonic processes provide crucial information on the weak interaction. This book explores the various aspects of muon physics, highlighting the most recent experiments conducted.

Palestinian State Formation

Education and the Construction of National Identity

By: Nubar Hovsepian

£34.99

This book examines education's role in building a Palestinian state. The Palestinian Authority has two contradictory functions: state-building and resistance. Will its education system promote a resistance identity or a state-building identity?

This book examines education’s role in building a Palestinian state. The Palestinian Authority has two contradictory functions: state-building and resistance. Will its education system promote a resistance identity or a state-building identity?

New Beginnings in Literary Studies

Edited By: Willie van Peer

£44.99

This volume shows there is much more to analysing literature than traditional studies. It demonstrates, in non-technical language, how diverse perspectives from psychology to computer science can offer new insights into literary texts, their readers, and effects.

Scent and Scent-sibilities

Smell and Everyday Life Experiences

By: Kelvin E. Y. Low

£39.99

Though often ignored, smells shape our social world. This pioneering book explores how smell constructs boundaries of race, class, and gender. It reveals how scents offer insights into social relations and power structures, using Singapore as a case study.

Labour Regulation in the 21st Century

In Search of Flexibility and Security

By: Pietro Manzella

£44.99

The economic crisis proved the EU's flexicurity strategy inadequate. These papers investigate 21st-century labour regulation, exploring the essential balance between flexibility and security from a comparative and transnational perspective.

The economic crisis proved the EU’s flexicurity strategy inadequate. These papers investigate 21st-century labour regulation, exploring the essential balance between flexibility and security from a comparative and transnational perspective.

Marginal Urbanisms

Informal and Formal Development in Cities of Latin America

Edited By: Felipe Hernández

£52.99

This collection reflects on urban development strategies that have been implemented recently in Latin American cities. It argues that infrastructural insertions need to be considered as the baseline for urban development, not as its main goal.

As Time Goes By

Portraits of Age

Edited By: Joy Charnley, Caroline Verdier

£49.99

This volume provides literary analyses of ageing through writers from Cervantes to Cixous. Exploring universal themes, these essays offer portraits of what age is, has been, and might be, demonstrating literature's power to reflect social trends.

Mnemosyne and Mars

Artistic and Cultural Representations of Twentieth-century Europe at War

Edited By: Manuel Bragança, Dominique Jeannerod, Peter Tame

£49.99

Explore the enduring cultural legacy of war through its powerful representation in literature, film, theatre, and music.

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