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Culture at the Crossroads

From Epistemological Meanderings to Interdisciplinary Praxis

Edited By: Asma Hichri, Samira Mechri

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This collection explores the interfaces of culture, gender, and power. It moves beyond conventional conceptions to suggest a holistic view of culture that enacts the dynamics of power, nationality, class, gender, and ethnicity in an ever-shifting transnational context.

Advances in Munda Linguistics

Edited By: Shailendra Mohan

From £30.99

This volume on Munda linguistics makes a major contribution after a long gap in research. Combining diverse scholarship, it is an essential reference for scholars interested in Munda languages, typological studies, and the cultural and linguistic dynamics of South Asia.

The Basics of Intra-Operative Neurophysiological Monitoring for the Clinician

A Practical Guide

Edited By: Chulananda Goonasekera, Emma-Jane Smith

From £32.99

This practical, illustrated book provides a simple overview of Intra-operative neuromonitoring (IONM) to ensure neurological integrity during surgery. Uniquely authored by an experienced multidisciplinary team, this guide is an invaluable source for all staff and trainees.

Modern Raman Microscopy

Technique and Practice

By: Alexander Rzhevskii

From £32.99

This book presents confocal Raman microscopy, a powerful technique to noninvasively characterize complex samples with sub-micron resolution. It highlights the key aspects of this technique for practical application, appealing to researchers, engineers, and novice users.

Hybridity in Contemporary Commercial Organizations

Implications for Employee Trust

By: Ijeoma Jacklyn Okpanum

From £31.99

Commercial organizations adopt multiple templates, creating hybridity. While this offers a competitive advantage, it also presents tensions and contradictions with negative consequences for employee trust. This book explores individual-level responses to this multiplicity.

Dr Samways Writes to the Editor

The Life and Times of an Exceptional Physician (1857-1931)

By: Tom Treasure

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After early achievements in physics and medicine, Dr Daniel Samways’s prestigious career was thrown off course by tuberculosis. He turned to general practice, but his undiminished scientific curiosity was revealed in prolific writings that continue to resonate today.

Philosophical Imagination

Thought Experiments and Arguments in Antiquity

Edited By: Boris Vezjak

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This book shows how ancient philosophers used thought experiments to convey theories and promote scientific knowledge. By analyzing historical examples like Plato’s Ring of Gyges, it provides new insights into how philosophical hypotheses helped promote scientific discovery.

The Making of Geography as a Secondary School Subject

A Perspective from Australia

By: John Mortimer, Tom O’Donoghue

From £32.99

This is the first history of geography as a senior school subject in Western Australia (1917-1997). Based on primary sources, this book contributes to international research on curriculum history and offers a model for future studies for other subjects and regions.

The Modern Theory of Cognition

By: Abraham Solomonick

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This book propounds a different conception of producing ideas, introducing semiotic reality—signs and sign systems. It shows how the interplay of three realities (the material world, signs, and the human mind) gives rise to new notions like metathinking.

A Reading of Virgil’s Aeneid Book 2

The Fall of Troy

By: Paul Murgatroyd

From £29.99

For students and the general reader, this book offers a detailed literary analysis of Virgil’s Aeneid 2, one of the most famous parts of the poem. It enhances critical appreciation and enjoyment, making the epic come alive with exercises and topics to extend engagement.

Case Studies in Child Psychiatry

Learning from Our Patients

By: Graham Martin

From £29.99

This book presents case studies from a therapist's lifelong career, showing how seriously ill young people and their families shaped their practice. It focuses on suicidal young people and the therapeutic process that led to their successful recovery.

This book presents case studies from a therapist’s lifelong career, showing how seriously ill young people and their families shaped their practice. It focuses on suicidal young people and the therapeutic process that led to their successful recovery.

Philosophy of the Act and the Pragmatics of Fiction

By: Tahir Wood

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This ground-breaking work explains the power of literary fiction. It expands the field of pragmatics to give due to the three fictional actors—author, character and reader—by bringing together Anglo-American pragmatics and European philosophy.

Quantifying the Sustainability of Public Debt

Time-Varying Evidence from a Developing Country

By: Cansın Kemal Can, Necmiddin Bağdadioğlu

From £29.99

High public debt can be hazardous, culminating in a crisis that permeates all sectors of the economy. This book provides a practical and straightforward framework for public debt sustainability analysis, underpinned by a real-world application of the model.

Literature, Theory and the History of Ideas

An Updated Compendium

Edited By: Arshad Ahammad A., Nada Rajan

From £29.99

How do power structures shape our notions of identity, gender, and culture? This collection interrogates these crucial questions across literature, film, and cultural theory, making it a vital resource for scholars and students.

The Fifth Fiasco, or How to Escape the Traps ‎of Jewish History in the Twenty-First Century

By: David Passig

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This book explores patterns in Jewish history, diagnosing a national neurosis as the cause for four previous fiascos. It explains what must be done in the twenty-first century to prevent past tragedies from recurring and secure the future of the Jewish nation.

The Quality of Life

Essays on Cultural Politics, 1978-2018

By: Richard Pine

From £37.99

Spanning 40 years, these essays explore the political dimensions of cultural life. They include seminal papers that pioneered the concept of Cultural Democracy and close readings of novels and plays that explore how all forms of self-expression have a political message.

Venezuela in the Gordian Knot

Lessons for Rebuilding Democracy and Economic Prosperity

By: José Noguera-Santaella

From £37.99

Once Latin America's wealthiest country, with the world's largest oil reserves, Venezuela is a failed state. How did this happen and how can it get out? This book diagnoses the 40 years of populism that allowed Hugo Chavez to rise and resulted in the nation's impoverishment.

Once Latin America’s wealthiest country, with the world’s largest oil reserves, Venezuela is a failed state. How did this happen and how can it get out? This book diagnoses the 40 years of populism that allowed Hugo Chavez to rise and resulted in the nation’s impoverishment.

The Synthesis and Structure of Some 4-Hydroxycoumarins and Their Pharmacological Activity

By: Ilia Manolov

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This book describes experiments for modifying clinically used anticoagulants. It establishes the structure of the synthesized products through X-ray analysis, identifies unexpected new structures, and highlights their usefulness through biological and pharmacological experiments.

The Napa Valley Wine Industry

The Organization of Excellence

By: Ian Malcolm Taplin

From £25.99

This book tells the story of how Napa became a pre-eminent site for iconic wines in a short space of time. After early struggles, a 1960s re-emergence fostered a collective commitment to quality, building a brand that would be identified as amongst the best in the world.

Entrepreneurship and Industry 4.0

Balancing Entrepreneurial Exploration and Exploitation

By: Krishna Raj Bhandari

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Industry 4.0 unleashes new business models and insights for decision-making. This book explores how entrepreneurs can balance exploration and exploitation in i4.0, using technologies like AI and Big Data to make intelligent decisions and create value with unmatched efficiency.

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