World War I and the Birth of a New World Order
This volume re-evaluates the impact of World War I on Eastern Europe, particularly Romania, revealing lasting effects still felt today. Using case studies and memoirs, it offers fresh perspectives on social changes, women’s emancipation, new boundaries, and national minorities.
This book presents a simplified deliberation of fractional calculus for beginners and researchers. It shows why classical Newtonian calculus fails to describe actual systems, and discusses applications of non-integer differentiation in different areas of science and engineering.
Medical knowledge is not just for doctors. Since the principles of life are largely universal, studying human medicine reveals much about all living beings. Yet disease, an unavoidable part of existence for every species, is often treated as chaos beyond the laws of life.
This book presents a theory of infrasound propagation in the atmosphere’s fine-scale layered structure. It explains experimental data from pulsed sources by developing a theory of how anisotropic inhomogeneities are formed by internal gravity waves and vortex structures.
This collection of essays explores environmentalism from varied research fields. It introduces a multilateral understanding of environmental consciousness, suggesting the study of nature must aim for interconnections between disciplines to protect the ecosphere.
Polish and Irish Struggles for Self-Determination
This book explores the little-known links between the Polish and the Irish. Subject to foreign rule, both nations fought for independence and were among the first to grant women voting rights, revealing a shared struggle for autonomy, mutual assistance, and self-organization.
This collection offers a glimpse into the challenges and opportunities of globalization for youth in Africa and its diaspora. It issues a call for action to governments to tap into the energy of its youth through education, agriculture, sport, and technology.
This book explores strategic management with a focus on innovative business models and the new economy. It covers the principles of the sharing, circular, and networked economies for academics, students, and business practitioners seeking to transform their organisations.
In post-Gadhafi Libya, the dynamics of religion, tribalism, oil, and ideology dominate the struggle for a new political order. This book examines Libya’s current political and state administration, studying past and present processes rooted in its social and cultural structure.
When Energy is Released from Atoms
The Manhattan Project was the largest, most costly, and influential scientific project in history—a work of collective knowledge from a human race on the edge of obliteration. This book shares stories of its central characters, technical standards, and profound historical legacy.
The Smoot-Hawley Tariff Act is often blamed for worsening the Great Depression. This book presents an alternative view, arguing the Act was the Republican Party’s attempt to close an output gap caused by a new power technology: electric unit drive (EUD).
Traumatic Experience and Repressed Memory in Magical Realist Novels
This book explores how magical realism gives literary representation to the historical trauma of the Holocaust, slavery, and apartheid. It analyses how unspoken memories, particularly those of female victims, become narratives that highlight a universal experience of trauma.
Critics question the merit of psychotherapy without scientific verification. A common answer is that it’s a hermeneutic discipline, not a science. Is that answer viable? This book maintains that today’s hermeneutical apologia is a dodge, not a defense.
The Essays of Chitta Ranjan Das on Literature, Culture, and Society
The essays of Chitta Ranjan Das present a different vision of the post-colonial imagination. This book offers radical new pathways, breaking conventional boundaries between the periphery and the centre, literature and life, and East and West.
We see our social environment not as it is, but as we believe it to be. This book uses numerous examples to show that people with different beliefs produce different images of the same object, interpret them differently, and struggle to communicate through them.
This volume provides new insights into the complex contexts of legal discourse across digital media. It addresses topical issues of web technologies and social media in professional communication, providing a multifaceted overview of ongoing research and knowledge in the field.
This book focuses on applying Content and Language Integrated Learning (CLIL) methodology within English for Specific Purposes (ESP) classes. CLIL combines language learning with professional subjects, building bridges between higher education and the professional world.
Tales for Shakespeare
Was Shakespeare a plagiarist? Discover the original tales behind seven of his most beloved plays. This collection presents the full source texts in modern spelling, with introductions, notes, a new translation, and a fascinating look at the Bard’s creative process.
A Philosophical Look at Keynes and Hayek
This book examines the crossing between philosophy, semiotics, and economics. Reconsidering the contributions of Keynes and Hayek through the semiotic approach of Charles S. Peirce, it creates new conceptual frameworks to rethink the paths to complexity in our world.
The triple bottom line is a framework for achieving economic and social balance while maintaining ecological systems. This volume details the state of the art of this approach, indicating where there is debate, overlooked theory, and unresolved problems.
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