The Cyprus Detention Camps
In 1946, Jewish Holocaust survivors seeking to immigrate to Israel were intercepted and deported to detention camps in Cyprus. This largely inaccessible saga is now brought to light through previously unknown sources, eyewitness interviews, maps, and timelines.
A manual on constructing and using mathematical models of infectious disease transmission in animals. With veterinary examples, it shows how models inform disease control strategies, making it valuable for clinicians, policy makers, civil servants, and interested readers.
Neuro-intervention is one of medicine’s most exciting specialties, but it can be a source of misfortune. This book shows that problems in the field are not outlying incidents, but are systemic, insidious, and ubiquitous issues affecting research, education, and publications.
Glucose transporters are vital for metabolism, and disturbances in their function can be fatal. This book discusses the link between these proteins and disease, including their potential as an anticancer and antidiabetic therapeutic target.
40 Years After In Vitro Fertilisation
Marking the 40th anniversary of IVF, this collection gathers its principal actors to summarize the technique’s achievements, current state, and future. It provides a passionate story of IVF’s evolution, understandable to health professionals and the lay public alike.
Shattering the myth of an apolitical Nietzsche, this book reveals him as a 19th-century reactionary. It traces his lifelong war on modernity—from feminism to democracy—in his quest to forge a new, counter-revolutionary politics.
This book evaluates financial behaviour in the new economy. As changing technology alters consumer habits, businesses must use innovative methods to survive tough competition and influence financial decisions.
China and the Global Media Landscape
This book explores how Chinese media became a global force, remapping the world’s media landscape. It examines how China’s system is shaped by others, while its own “going out” strategy influences film, broadcasting, the press, and the Internet worldwide.
Jerusalem in Muhammad’s Strategy
This book is the first to study the political relationship between the Prophet Muhammad and Jerusalem. It reveals that Muhammad was the true planner of the Muslim conquest of Jerusalem, showing how he shaped the city’s image and built its status in the Muslim mind.
Art in Rome
This volume covers Rome’s major artistic and architectural masterpieces from antiquity to the present. Organized topographically by area and chronologically by period, it is an engaging and informative guide for students, scholars, and erudite travelers.
Contemporary Indian English Poetry and Drama
This anthology of essays maps contemporary Indian English poetry and drama, exploring new themes and techniques in the post-globalization era. It considers whether the canon has widened to include innovative forms and generate novel perspectives.
This book is the most complete description of a photochemical reaction first described 110 years ago. The reaction between a carbonyl compound and an alkene yields an oxetane ring with high selectivity—a key structure in many naturally occurring and bioactive compounds.
How can a translator recreate the hybrid identity of characters who perform masculinity and ethnicity through non-standard language? Using Gautam Malkani’s novel Londonstani and its Italian translation, this book tackles the challenges of translating vernacular literature.
This book breaks frontiers. It deals with human beings and their intrinsic relationship with time in the space of a week. In a search for the days’ identities, the book identifies the particular characteristics of each day, revealing that we are literally the days of the week.
Story by Story
A psychiatrist and a philosopher listen to stories of illness, discovering that to understand an illness is to establish the right relation between what is being suffered and who is suffering. This approach resists medical prejudice by focusing on the person, not the condition.
Legal Issues in the Digital Economy
Artificial Intelligence and the collaborative economy are blurring traditional legal categories and creating new requirements for worker protection. This book analyzes the ongoing changes, challenges, and opportunities from a European Union law perspective.
Use-wear Analysis on Quartzite Flaked Tools
Despite its frequent use for stone tools, there is a lack of research on use-wear on quartzite. This handbook fills that gap, proposing a new method for students and analysts that uses scanning electron microscopy to overcome the obstacles posed by the rock’s irregular surface.
Challenging theories of mass migration, this book shows that Mesolithic hunter-gatherers used a dense maritime network to transfer domesticated species from the East. Based on 25 years of excavations, it reveals how these Aegean populations drove the Neolithisation process.
Human Resource Management at the Crossroads
This book contains studies on the challenges of Human Resource Management. It analyzes how technology impacts the future of work, employee well-being, the management of careers and diversity, employee commitment, and other key topics facing HRM managers today.
This book simplifies environmental management for hospitality students and practitioners. It explains how global environmental problems affect the industry and outlines processes for waste management, energy, and water conservation with a global perspective.
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