The Central and the Peripheral
The division between secure centres and unknown peripheries is obsolete. How can we find our way in a world where peripheries become centres and centres turn into peripheries? This book explores how this problem is dealt with in literature and culture.
This book uses a systems biology approach to understand complex cancers. It analyzes cellular networks to identify key biomarkers for drug targets, and presents the design of a multiple-molecule drug for therapeutic treatment with fewer side effects.
The Power of the Word
From jokes and propaganda to poetry and silence, twelve authors explore the power of the word. This volume provides insights that will allow readers to see the word as a powerful instrument for changing the world in which they live.
Research in Management Accounting
This book addresses the gap in management accounting research focused on Malaysia. It provides research-oriented articles on key issues and is an essential reference for researchers, academics, managers, accountants, and policy makers.
Das examines the theories of nation and national identity in both the West (according to the theories of Benedict Anderson and Salman Rushdie) and in the East (in the light of the works of Jawaharlal Nehru) as they apply to the novels of Arundhati Roy and Kiran Desai.
This volume explores D. H. Lawrence’s search for an ideal primitive society. Combining literature and photography, it analyses Sicilian and Sardinian society, offering new perspectives on *Sea and Sardinia*, including its ecological approach, gender roles, and local identity.
Deconstructing Reaganism
This book explores Reagan’s political legacy in American films. While many films from 1980-2000 seem to celebrate family stability and social order, they create an unsettling mythology that reveals the inherent contradictions and paradoxes of Reaganism.
I See Me, You See Me
This book showcases the state of the art in eye tracking research by bringing together work from a wide range of application areas. This peer-reviewed selection of chapters provides an overview of the latest research that will inspire and guide students and developers.
Montaigne’s Essays
Montaigne’s essays probe the intimate feelings, anxieties, and hopes of daily life. This blend of his observations with the author’s offers a mirror to your own experiences, and the solace of knowing that his wisdom applies precisely to your world.
Looking for the Ancient Greeks
A response to Antonio Damasio’s work on the feeling brain, this book offers new perspectives on life’s biggest questions. It shows how Ancient Greek culture developed a system to create the integrated psyche that modern neuroscience claims is so vital for us today.
The Politics of Memory in Post-Authoritarian Transitions, Volume Two
This text debates how interpretations of the past served the realization of transitional objectives in various countries. It considers how governments’ remembrance policies made a new citizen, changed a political culture and justified a vision of society promoted by new elites
Change of Object Expression in the History of French
This study explains why the object of certain French verbs shifted from indirect to direct in the 15th-16th century. It argues a change in the prepositional system drove the shift, linking it to other major grammatical changes of the period.
This book presents the development and implementation of a Smoothed Particle Hydrodynamics (SPH) numerical model for studying the initial spread of oil on a calm sea. The results are in concordance with James Fay’s pioneering predictions for oil slick diameters.
Life and Work of Pauline Viardot Garcia, vol. I
Once famous, now obscure, Pauline Viardot Garcia was one of the most important singers of the 19th century. A superb singer, composer, and pianist, she was a muse to composers, a friend of Chopin and George Sand, and loved by Ivan Turgenev.
This monograph provides comprehensive description of the structure of Cameroonian Pidgin, including an overview of its socio-cultural context, writing system, sounds, word formation, word classes and sentence structures, in addition to a corpus of 540 Cameroonian Pidgin proverbs.
Teilhard’s Proposition for Peace
Teilhard de Chardin sowed the seeds of peace throughout his writings. This book distills the essence of his case for peace, navigating the complexity of his thought and inviting the reader to confidently “see” the basic unity which underlies all that is.
These twelve essays explore the fundamental role played by punctuation in the two semiotic fields of text and image. By bringing together authors from various fields, they offer new insights into the possibility and nature of the encounter between visual and textual creation.
This book explores the shifting portrayal of World War II in Hollywood films. Adopting a comparative study, it discusses WWII films made during the Bush administration after 9/11 and those produced during the presidential campaign of Obama.
This publication brings together work presented at the 4th International Conference on Corpus Use and Learning to Translate, and includes contributions on the use of multilingual corpora in teaching scientific translation and trans-collocations in parallel corpora, among others.
Composed in the 1630s, Giambattista Basile’s The Tale of Tales (the Pentameron) is a wicked parody of the Decameron. Among its fifty stories are the earliest literary versions of famous fairy tales such as Cinderella, Rapunzel, and The Sleeping Beauty.