Key Issues Confronting the Black Community in Denver, CO
This volume highlights critical issues in Colorado’s Black and Brown communities—from policing and equity to prisoner reintegration—and offers solutions. It contains essential tools for educators and leaders, providing a model for urban communities nationwide.
Vignettes Relating to Kathakali and Shakespeare
For lovers of the performing arts, especially Kathakali, the dance drama of Kerala. This book uniquely compares Shakespearean plays and characters to the stories and characters in Kathakali, offering a completely new perspective.
Explore how marketing culture fuels economic growth through creative industries and tourism. By contrasting Western and non-Western theories, this book forges critical new methodologies for intercultural business, challenging conventional wisdom.
An Interactive Approach to Enhancing Early Word Learning
This volume translates complex research on child language into accessible strategies for parents and professionals. It informs best practices for building vocabulary from the ground up, enhancing word learning even before infants produce their first words to prevent delays.
Understanding Bollywood
Explore how Bollywood films reveal the cultural politics of India. This book analyses the on-screen evolution of Indian women, charting their journey from subjugation to empowerment and the fight for human rights.
From Nonlinear Dynamics to Trigonometry’s Magic
This book unravels the mathematics of nonlinear dynamics using simple trigonometry. A tutorial for beginners and experts, it examines the fundamental example of Chaos, the Lorenz-Haken equations, with an original approach. For physicists, mathematicians, and students alike.
Celebrating Flamenco’s Tangled Roots
This collection of essays poses questions about queerness, race, and the dancing body. The contributions come together across disciplines in the whirling, raucous, and messy spaces where the body is free—to celebrate its questioning and the wisdom and knowledge it holds.
This book applies Saint Augustine’s ethics to contemporary social justice. In dialogue with modern political philosophy, it offers new frameworks for addressing 21st-century challenges and prepares readers for today’s most urgent social justice debates.
The 2011 Arab uprisings echoed similar waves of change from the 1950s. This book analyzes the revolutionary periods of Egypt in the 1950s and 2010s, comparing them to provide insights into the people’s demands for change and their struggle for dignity.
This book is a literary journey through Salman Rushdie’s cross-pollinated gardens, where reading is a quest. It explores his sorcery with language, the dark season of the fatwa, the lush sensuality of his novels, and his Quichotte, a Don Quijote for the internet age.
Foundational Social Ritual Practices of Parish Life
What makes a parish strong? This book argues it begins not with structures, but with relationships. Discover the foundational ingredients of community and how social rituals, like sharing a meal, forge the bonds that make a parish truly thrive.
Second Person Plural Forms in World Englishes
While Modern English uses a single “you,” many dialects have plural forms like “yous.” This investigation, based on a 1.9 billion-word corpus, explores these forms across 20 varieties of English, uncovering their distribution and role in the speaker-hearer relationship.
The Psalms are a key text of world literature, but archaic language can be an impediment for modern readers. This book provides a compact apparatus for exploring the text, including descriptions of places and events and a practical index to find psalms for real-world problems.
This book presents a new theory of capitalism where disequilibrium and “imperfect competition” are the functional norm. It shows that equilibrium is a functional anomaly that causes crises, and details the principles of crisis-proof policies and behavior.
Art and Anatomy in Nineteenth Century Britain
In early 19th-century Britain, art and science collided. Artists studied dissection to capture life, while anatomists learned to draw for accuracy. This book uncovers their mutual dependence and how anatomical truth became a measure of beauty, through three pioneering figures.
The Life and Work of Isidore Snapper (1889-1973)
Professor of Medicine on three continents, POW of the Japanese, US war consultant, and lover of a CIA agent. Isidore Snapper was a medical celebrity and one of the last great generalists—a brilliant physician from an era now extinct.
Post-Newtonian Hydrodynamics
This book develops post-Newtonian kinetic and phenomenological theories, deriving hydrodynamic equations and exploring astrophysical applications like stellar structure, Jeans instability, and galaxy rotation curves. For physicists, astrophysicists, and advanced students.
This book describes 100 years of change in American medicine through the extraordinary and inspiring life of Halsted Reid Holman. A visionary leader, he challenged orthodoxy and injustice, navigating the tension between healthcare as a basic human right and as a business.
Who really wrote the Letters of Paul? Anonymous editors saved him from oblivion but distorted his message, adding anti-Jewish and misogynistic texts alongside the beautiful praise of love. This book reconstructs the first edition, removing 2000 years of changes.
This is the first book to apply expressive writing to L2 academic writing. Its techniques are particularly helpful for L2 students who have difficulty expressing themselves in English. The book will appeal to lecturers, linguists, psychologists, and teachers.
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