Critical Engagements on African Literature
This is the first book devoted to Isidore Diala’s award-winning drama and poetry. The essays offer fresh insights on African literary landscapes, exploring themes of national history, ritual aesthetics, postcolonial implosions, oil politics, exile, and gender.
From Glosses to Dictionaries
This book presents the beginnings of lexicography and the first dictionaries across the world. Through case studies from Greek Antiquity to 9th-century Japan, it offers a global, comparative approach to a topic usually studied only within single cultures.
Surveillance and Memory
This book contains secret police reports from the 1948-1950 surveillance of sociologist Anton Golopentia. Including transcriptions of phone conversations and personal declarations, it provides a chilling insight into political repression at the dawn of Romania’s communist regime.
J.S. Bach’s Musical Offering survived as separated sheets, its true structure a puzzle for centuries. This book revises groundbreaking research to present a unique conception of the work’s original design, focusing on the mysterious ordering of its ten canons.
This easy-to-follow guide offers a state-of-the-art approach to optimization methods for academics and industrial engineers. It provides a comprehensive study with directly implementable Matlab code, suited to readers even without a programming background.
The essays collected here highlight new and exciting explorations of integrative approaches to the creative mind. This allows a unique and fresh look at the concept of creativity, creative cognition, and innovation.
In a context of severe environmental requirements and energy saving responsibilities, the proper use of water offers many possibilities. This book builds on work dedicated to improving combustion efficiency in engines, gas turbines, and boilers by using additive water.
The Americas and the New World Order
Written by leading experts and new scholars, this collection of essays portrays the Americas’ place in the world. Spanning the Colonial Era to the present, it explores vital issues like migration, crime, economics, and relations between Asia and the Americas.
This book analyses the terminology of marine plastic pollution. By observing its use across scientific, informative, and normative texts, it reveals how this specialized language functions in expert-to-expert communication and how its concepts are simplified for other audiences.
Taking Business Ethics Seriously
What is the “good life”? This book presents a passionate argument against the compartmentalization that separates such timeless questions from our professional lives. It makes the case for aligning business with a life worth living and treating people ethically in all realms.
The first book dedicated to exploring Thomas Jefferson’s mind through his varied personae: lawyer, politician, scientist, farmer, and more. It uncovers the core ideas that connected them all, from human betterment to his belief that beauty was always second to functionality.
Perspectives on Dance Fusion in the Caribbean and Dance Sustainability
This volume examines fusion in Caribbean dance from socio-cultural-historical perspectives. Chapters on dance fusions in other diasporic locations and the sustainability of dance are also included, offering a sense of its evolution due to globalizing forces.
This book summarizes 50 years’ work on dinitrosyl iron complexes (DNIC). After the discovery of nitrogen monoxide (NO) as a universal regulator in organisms, interest in DNIC grew. By donating NO, DNIC mimic its beneficial and detrimental effects and are its “working” form.
Facing Trauma in Contemporary American Literary Discourse
In a culture where trauma breeds fear and aggression, this book turns to literature. Analyzing works by authors like Toni Morrison and Louise Erdrich, it shows how a good story can become a space for curiosity and healing in the face of uncertainty.
Essays by clinicians, parents, and de-transitioners demonstrate how ‘transgender children’ are invented in medical, social, and political contexts. The authors reveal the harms of transgender ideology and show how adults can intervene to protect young people.
The Unknowable in Literature and Material Culture
How do we come to know the hidden, unspoken, and “unknowable”? Inspired by this question, the contributors to this volume explore fin de siècle homosexuality, Émile Zola as a seeker of concealed truths, crises of representation, and the dialogue between self and other.
This guide helps therapists and health professionals hone their clinical decision-making skills and provides the necessary tools to practice ethically.
Tale, Performance, and Culture in EFL Storytelling with Young Learners
This book explores the link between storytelling, language learning, culture, and emotions in the young EFL classroom. Discover how oral retellings of picture books can foster intercultural understanding and enhance foreign language teaching for all young children.
The Age of Emperor Akihito
This book scrutinizes historical controversies regarding the past and future of Japan in the age of Emperor Akihito. Analyzing his public discourse and his role as a national symbol, it helps the reader understand contemporary Japanese society.
Yuri Vella’s Fight for Survival in Western Siberia
A Siberian indigenous poet, reindeer herder, and activist chose to live in the forest, where he fought an oil giant to save his way of life. These essays explore his native spirituality, his struggle, and a new vision for indigenous leadership in post-Soviet Russia.
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