Deconstructing Language Structure and Meaning
Explore the latest research on Romanian syntax, semantics, phonology, and acquisition. This comparative volume draws on diverse theoretical frameworks, making it a vital resource for linguists in Romance studies and beyond.
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.
Silicon Dioxide and the Luminescence of Related Materials
This book focuses on the physics of disordered solids, challenging theories based on crystal structures. It compares data for crystals and glasses formed by the same atoms, paying particular attention to under-explored glass-forming crystals for students and researchers.
Reflections on Our Relationships with Anne of Green Gables
International readers and critics explore our relationship with Anne of Green Gables. Through studies of fan culture, translation, and adaptation, this unique collection of essays bridges the divide between a critical and deeply personal response to literature’s iconic girl.
For those who investigate the sources of vector-borne disease, this book presents procedures in straightforward language. It explains techniques for developing a comprehensive surveillance system and for detecting a disease prior to the infection of a human index case.
Bio-Art and the Environment
In a science-driven society, this book ignites a debate at the intersection of art, biology, and ethics. Can artists create living chimeras? Do we have the right to use them? And should we fund or prohibit the research that makes them possible?
This collection analyzes the Star Wars movies from diverse viewpoints—from history and politics to music and economics. The book will appeal to a wide audience, from students and academics to dedicated fans of the saga.
The Perfectly Competitive Market
Academic economics and the real-world economy are two different worlds. This book bridges the gap, using modern computer technology to create a theoretical model for a simpler, less crisis-prone economy with a higher growth rate.
The Home Workplace
The recent mass migration to remote work has made it clear our foundations are not solid. But what if this decentralization could benefit the individual, the organization, and the planet? This book provides tools to design a home workplace that serves your company and our world.
Firms use non-price strategies to reveal their products’ value and gain market power. This book shows how these strategies create long-term market power, not transient gains as often assumed. Discover measures of intrinsic value and the non-price strategies that perpetuate it.
Cities and Protests
As protests over climate change, democracy, and human rights erupt worldwide, cities become the stage. This collection explores how a city participates in these struggles, negotiating its own identity while providing answers—or not—to the protesters and their cause.
Molecular Strategies of Creatures to Survive in Acidic Environments
From bacteria to human cancer cells, organisms must survive in an “acidic world.” This book summarizes current research into the molecular mechanisms that allow life to thrive in acidic environments, opening up a new way of understanding life itself.
Neurosurgery before Science
This book traces the development of surgery from Hippocrates to the nineteenth century, analysing procedures like bloodletting and the myth of laudable pus. It demonstrates the profession’s resistance to new ideas, preferring accepted notions even when evidence confounds them.
To truly understand climate change, we must first understand ourselves. This guide explores the crisis through a multi-faceted lens—social, psychological, and cultural—revealing the core beliefs and ideologies that shape our response.
COVID-19, Racism and Politicization
This book explores the global media and government response to the COVID-19 pandemic. Examining countries from the USA to Asia, it addresses the media’s role in both countering and spreading misinformation, politicizing the crisis, and fueling racism and conspiracy theories.
The Rehabilitation of Historic Schools in Portugal
This book examines the adaptation of heritage schools for 21st-century needs. Using rehabilitated schools in Portugal as a case study, it assesses the effects of design decisions on cultural values, showing how material conservation can enhance the intangible.
Accelerated by COVID-19, the digital transformation of organizations is a critical topic. This volume evaluates the process with an up-to-date perspective from the social sciences, covering fields from human resources and finance to education and marketing.
This volume explores Platonic philosophy as a living force throughout history, from the Hellenistic age to the modern world. These studies approach Plato’s dialogues from new perspectives, shedding new light on ancient problems and the original, ever-surprising author himself.
This book provides a comparative study of the Sartrean no-self and the Deleuzean rhizomic self, tracing the shift from Sartre’s nihilistic self in modernist fiction to the celebratory Deleuzean self in postmodernism, which may be a possible alternative for survival in crisis.
This book covers research on native and second language processing, bilingualism, and syntax. It explores key linguistic phenomena and details the most representative experimental methods used in the field, from eye tracking and reaction times to event-related potentials.
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