Between English and Arabic
This book is a comprehensive practical course in translation between English and Arabic, invaluable to students. It balances theory and application, covering key lexical, grammatical, and stylistic issues to help develop skills to a graduate standard.
Creative Manoeuvres
Creative Manoeuvres is a collection of writings on the role of creative practice in the formation of knowledge. Contributors, who are both academics and creative writers, explore how knowledge is embodied in art through their own ‘creative manoeuvres’.
Shakespeare, Our Personal Trainer
Experts from literary, theatre, and scientific fields present Shakespeare’s works from different perspectives. Deploying a range of filters such as nutrition, comics, and street art, they show how the Bard can still be relevant to our lives in the 21st century.
Decoding Wireless Communications
Decode the intricacies of wireless technology. Through relatable analogies, this guide makes complex concepts clear. Explore everything from MIMO-OFDM to the future of 5G, AI, and the IoT. An enlightening journey for curious beginners and seasoned professionals alike.
This text evaluates the effects of the economic reform that began in the 1970s on regional development in Jiangsu province in China, using detailed case studies which clarify several fundamental ideological and institutional concepts that have shaped the nation’s economic reform.
Medical Specialisation at the London Hospital
The development of specialty skills in the late 19th and 20th centuries transformed medicine. For the first time, patients could expect accurate diagnosis and effective treatment. Specialty skills defined innovations in hospital and family practice, a legacy that continues today.
Queer Rebellion in the Novels of Michelle Cliff
Ilmonen highlights Jamaican-American author Michelle Cliff’s literary rebellion against the colonial, gendered and racist norms of Western Modernity. She also considers myths, rites, and cultural memory as sites of healing in the midst of colonial bodily politics.
Child and Family Welfare explores welfare from theoretical and empirical perspectives, discussing dimensions like emotional welfare and life satisfaction. This volume is a practical tool for the public and professionals involved in promoting children’s rights.
Exploring Travel and Tourism
These essays examine the significance of travel and the tourist experience over the last two hundred years. From Borneo to Cuba to Niagara Falls, the authors unpack the meanings of nationality, postcolonialism, place, gender, and class in travel studies.
Of Treason, God and Testicles
This monograph analyses in what shape the interplay between widespread political and ideological Cold War convictions and Cold War notions of masculinity found its way onto British and American cinema screens during the early days of the conflict.
“This Shipwreck of Fragments”
This book examines Caribbean cultural identities beyond the popular perception of hybridity. Drawing on literature and music from the Hispanic and Francophone Caribbean, it reveals troubled pasts and current problems eclipsed by the “tropical getaway” myth.
Martyrdom and Ecstasy
This interdisciplinary study explores shahadat (sacrifice and martyrdom), a key concept in Persian culture. The author discusses its origin, evolution, and modern interpretation, showing how it has shaped Iranian identity and social and political attitudes.
Surrounded by Water
This work investigates the physical and human geography of Sardinia, the second largest Mediterranean island, with its complex and varied features. Each chapter offers an analysis of a specific facet of the island, complemented with insights gained from in-depth research.
The 21st century is marked by a geopolitical power shift from West to East, creating challenges more difficult than any in the past. Will this new era be defined by rivalry between a weakening US and a rising China? This volume provides expert insights.
Microhistory and the Picaresque Novel
This is the first book to combine scholarship on the picaresque novel with microhistory. This innovative volume brings together expert scholars to reveal how microhistory can shed new light on classic novels and their marginal protagonists.
Transnational Resilience and Change
This global collection explores the strategies Gypsy, Roma and Traveller communities use to preserve their identities and cultures. It examines cultural maintenance but also takes a critical stance on the implications of cultural isolation for these groups.
Perspectives
Essays on Romantic, Victorian, and Modern literature, from Blake and Keats to Yeats. Marked by originality and simplicity, the discussion is as lucid and expository as it is deep and scholarly, making it accessible to non-specialist and academic readers.
Gohar’s study focuses on convergence to pure strategy Nash equilibria in plurality voting games and other scoring rules. It investigates restrictions on the number of iterations that can be made for different voting rules, considering weighted and equi-weighted voting settings.
This book describes how the liver coordinates metabolism, immunity, and more. It places these functions in clinical contexts, from alcohol-related and metabolic liver disease to cancer and sepsis, and shows how diet and activity affect health via the liver’s regulation.
Critical Reception of Arundhati Roy
Arundhati Roy is equally loved and disparaged. This book delves into the kaleidoscope of reactions to her writings that mediate her identity as a writer, activist and celebrity, exploring how factors from her Booker win to sedition charges shape how her work is read.