Hebei Women’s Normal Education Pioneers
The six chapters of this text tap into the best elements of Chinese traditional culture to show respect to the pioneers of Hebei women’s education and its contemporary potential, giving insights into social, cultural, economic and political movements throughout Chinese history.
An insightful exploration of sensation and synaesthesia in film and new media. These essays examine how cinematic experiences create immersive environments that stimulate our senses and mind, from perception and movement to olfaction, abstract cinema, and interactive art.
The Legacy of János S. Petőfi
János S. Petőfi was a founder of Text Linguistics. In this volume, his colleagues and disciples discuss his enormous impact on linguistics, literary theory, rhetoric and semiotics. Essays consider topics like coherence and the analysis of literary and multimedial texts.
Drawing on contemporary developments in cultural studies, the papers in this anthology cover multiple forms and genres—including novels, films, documentaries, magazines, and commercials— in order to shed light on new sensibilities in postmillennial texts and media.
This collection of essays challenges patriarchal readings of sacred texts. By redefining key terms in the Bible and Qur’an and reexamining global traditions, it uncovers gender parity and argues that as societies evolve, so must our understanding of faith and gender roles.
The use of glycated haemoglobin was a major step in antidiabetic treatment and led to the identification of cell receptors. The aim of this study is to explore how one such cell receptor, RAGE, offers new therapeutic possibilities for diabetes, ageing, and Alzheimer’s disease.
The importance of overcoming the urgent issues concerning the sustainability of our planet cannot be overstated. The contributions gathered here highlight these pivotal global issues and their potential long-term resolutions from a number of interrelated perspectives.
This publication asks whether FODMAPs have contributed to the rapid rise of irritable bowel syndrome (IBS) and inflammatory bowel disease in Japan, showing that the disease can be improved by a strict diet based on a deep understanding of the patient and their diet.
The Historical Origin of the African Economic Crisis
This book answers major questions on African development related to international trade and finance. It explores the economic interaction between Africa and the West (in the past) and China today, considering the continent’s future development in light of its experiences.
Literature’s Contributions to Scientific Knowledge
Interdisciplinary scholarship holds the promise of the unification of all knowledge. Through its wide-ranging analysis, this volume demonstrates, ¬in a careful and original manner, how literary fiction has contributed to the scientific understanding of human nature.
Explore the revolutionary work of David Hilbert, a giant of 20th-century mathematics. This book examines his axiomatic method, his famous 23 Problems, his program for the foundations of mathematics, and his crucial contributions to relativity and quantum physics.
Empedocles of Acragas
Empedocles of Acragas is known as a philosopher, healer, excellent orator, miracle-maker, and engineer. Scholars, students and specialists will find in this book an analysis of his revolutionary writings, and confirmation that he was a multi-faceted and important thinker.
Aboriginal People and Australian Football in the Nineteenth Century
This book will revolutionise the history of Indigenous involvement in Australian football and cricket in the second half of the nineteenth century. Exploring the emergence and the suppression of their sporting talent, it shows how their successors did not come from ‘nowhere’.
The Failure of Augustus
Though he had a proud and clear aim, in the end, Augustus was defeated by his own persistence. Using contemporaneous sources and Augustus’ own words, Judge’s study explores this downfall. It also argues for the primacy of original sources in historical interpretation.
This text evaluates the promises, myths, and critiques of sustainable consumption from a wide range of perspectives, covering individual consumptive choices and the carbon footprint of cities, as well as resource sharing and environmental entrepreneurism.
Currencies and Cultures
A symbiotic relationship exists between a currency and its culture and society. Currencies and Cultures offers insights into how cultural institutions can strengthen citizens’ values and beliefs and enhance the process of trade and exchange for the betterment of their people.
This publication explores phenomenological structural sociology, specifically the use of phenomenological structuralism in an effort to resolve the structure/agency problematic of the social sciences within structurationist sociological theory.
Popular Music, Ethnicity and Politics in the Kenya of the 1990s
Okatch Biggy was the single most dominant benga artiste of the 1990s. Mboya analyzes Biggy’s songs as works of art, identifying the aesthetic and rhetorical conventions that are deployed in the songs, and exploring the central messages of the music, and their significance.
This book introduces Arabic heritage from the post-Abbasid era to the nineteenth century, a period often labelled one of decadence. Exploring topics from Arab history and science to literature and political movements, it is a valuable resource for students and researchers.
It is vital that the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) captures more value from its industries’ global value chains. This study offers a basis upon which governments and regional organizations may adopt beneficial and effective international trade policies to achieve such an aim.
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