This volume explores the descendants of Iberian Jews forcibly converted to Catholicism. Focusing on the 18th-century exodus from Portugal to Brazil, it examines the contemporary search for Jewish roots. After centuries, how authentic is their lost Sefardi heritage?
Relating the achievements of women dental professionals in the 100 years since (some) women first achieved the right to vote in the UK, this volume profiles women working in all aspects of dentistry during the period, and celebrates those who are a credit to their profession.
Muslim Women Seeking Power, Muslim Youth Seeking Justice
This volume explores employment equity for Muslim women and the identity of Muslim youth in an age of Islamophobia. It offers a worldwide perspective on overcoming discrimination, developing the idea of peaceful resistance and patience in the face of persecution.
The Emotional Lives of Young People with Autism
This study questions the American Psychiatric Association’s definition of autism, offering evidence that even non-verbal children have an emotional life. Drawing on interviews with parents from three cultures, it shows children with autism have emotional competence.
This book explores research topics in graph theory and its applications, from strongly perfect graphs and reconstruction conjectures to transport networks. It is ideal for researchers interested in exploring new areas of graph theory and its applications.
The Amerindian Microcosm
Explore the epic history of the Americas, from hunter-gatherers to vast cities. This book uses revolutionary genomic science to trace the past, present, and future of Native peoples, uncovering a story essential to all humankind.
This third volume explores UA’s rising enrollment and new student governance. It covers the university’s rise to national academic respect, the birth of the “Crimson Tide,” the Million Dollar Band, the UA/Auburn rift, and its response to WWI and the women’s rights movement.
The Maghreb-Europe Paradigm
This book analyzes migration, gender, and identity for North African migrants in Europe. From sociological studies to literature, it debates notions of dispossession, cultural identity, and otherness, exploring the complex expressions of ‘exile’ and ‘pain’.
This volume explores how healthcare can be improved by the humanities. Drawing on fiction, art, and history, it offers innovative perspectives on healing, illness, and patient care, showing why an interdisciplinary dialogue is needed to enrich both medicine and the humanities.
This book discusses how labour law and welfare systems will be affected by the ongoing transformation of work. It considers the impact of demography, the environment, and technology in the context of the Fourth Industrial Revolution to provide a picture of the future of work.
This book covers Pulsed-Electrochemical Honing (PECH), a hybrid finishing process for intricate components like gears. It details the fundamentals, parameters for finishing straight bevel gears, and recent developments in tools, technologies, controls, and operations.
Voices from Far Away Lands
In an era of global tension, stories from international lives offer vital insights. These compelling essays explore our search for identity, community, and belonging in a changing world.
As focus shifts from trade liberalization to simplifying procedures, this book discusses WTO provisions on trade facilitation. It covers the existing Goods Agreement, its relevance for developing countries, and the prospects for future agreements on services and investment.
This work explores the philosophical basis for phenomenological structuralism, giving a hermeneutical approach to understanding and resolving the structure/agency problematic of the social sciences.
Traditional doctrine finds limitations in doxastic dialectics—the exchange of opinions. This book affirms doxa’s cognitive autonomy, arguing that it opens conditions for an alternative truth and is the exclusive procedure for establishing the fundaments of axiology.
Between a Past and Present Consciousness
This book traces how Caymanians overcame fragmented identities of race and class to forge a singular nationality. Now, this cultural solidarity is being tested by astonishing numbers of immigrants keen to become Caymanians themselves. Can this modern identity survive?
This book focuses on the critical contribution of Hamlet Studies (1979-2003), an international journal featuring research from global critics. It brings together textual criticism, critical thought, and performance studies, creating a valuable guide for students and teachers.
The Fairy-Tale Vanguard
The fairy tale has long been a laboratory for authors to experiment with literary boundaries. This essay collection adopts a historical approach, offering case studies on English, French, German, and other texts from the 17th to 21st century by authors like Andersen and Coover.
An exhilarating tour through the mesmerizing world of Nobel Prize-winner Orhan Pamuk. This book examines nine novels spanning three decades, detailing the thematics and craft of Turkey’s foremost novelist in a style shorn of dry pedantry and jargon.
This volume addresses phenomenology’s overlooked insights on values, exploring the phenomenology of intersubjectivity. It is distinct for its focus on the ethical and existential dimension, covering thinkers from Husserl and Heidegger to Levinas.
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