This title offers a comprehensive examination of the events surrounding the shooting of Michael Brown by a police officer on August 9, 2014, and their aftermath, and will serve to generate an on-going dialogue about the role race and class play in the criminal justice system.
While China’s engagement across Africa has grown, there has been a dearth of attention on its relationship with Eritrea. Based on field research and robust data, this book fills that gap, providing a clear-eyed, comprehensive examination of China-Eritrea relations.
Betraying the Event
This volume offers a critical reconsideration of victimhood, exposing its cultural and political constructions. It examines how language can be manipulated to devise a vicious reversal of victim/victimizer positions, raising awareness of the consequences.
This book presents a panorama of language policy in the Mediterranean. It explores international law, bilingual education, language revival, and the issue of feminization in languages like French, Italian, Spanish, and Greek. An excellent source for scholars.
Explore the lives and discoveries of marine biologist Edouard Chatton and his Nobel Prize-winning pupil, André Lwoff. This tribute presents, for the first time, Chatton’s beautiful, annotated educational course boards, showcasing their scientific and artistic talents.
Living with the AK-47
This book explores Hezbollah through extensive ethnography in its Beirut stronghold and training camps. Focusing on micro-narratives, it reveals how volunteers become militants, scripting a rich tale of ‘resistance’ and everyday life that offsets stereotypes.
This collection of articles by musicologists, performers, sound engineers, and educators explores leading ideas in music technologies and the cognition of classical and contemporary music.
This book introduces a new scientific approach to the economy: Socioeconomic Safety Management (SSM). Using risk models and analogies with engineering reliability, it shows how economic efficiency can increase when problems of socioeconomic safety are explored and managed.
Emblems of Adversity
These essays explore the complex political articulation in Yeats’s poetry, where politics and history are inextricable from aesthetics. The biographical, national, and historical are envisioned—apocalyptically—as emblems of adversity.
The Italian Emigration of Modern Times
Patrizia Famà Stahle investigates diplomatic issues that arose between Italy and the United States over a series of lynchings of Italian immigrant labourers before World War I. The work explores a significant epoch in Italian economic and diplomatic history.
This two-volume book provides a multifaceted view of major approaches to the study of political discourse. It builds on previous political discourse perspectives and provides new insights into this research area, while combining theoretical and methodological considerations.
Jane Austen’s Emma
Combining an academic’s knowledge with a fan’s enthusiasm, this chapter-by-chapter companion to Jane Austen’s Emma offers lucid and surprising interpretations that will illuminate the novel for first-time and experienced readers alike.
American “Outsider”
This book jettisons preconceptions of America, throwing back the curtains on the hidden lives of Irish-American Pavees. Journey with these “people of the road”—shy migrants who live in the shadows of rumour, hearsay, and a hot summer sun.
Living Better with Low Back Pain
Low back pain is a frustrating dilemma, but the medical system is often ineffective. This book dispels the myths around common diagnoses and treatments, presenting recent medical research in a practical way. Gain insight, reassurance, and find your way to a better back.
Pluralism, Pragmatism and American Democracy
Callaway defends democratic individualism against more collectivist and corporatist tendencies in contemporary neo-pragmatism, and draws upon up-to-date political analysis in order to justify America’s long republican tradition.
This conference proceedings considers how literature and art explore different systems of values and principles of conduct, and how they can teach us to cope at times of trial. The essays here address themes of virtue and character formation from the Bronze Age to the present.
Topicality and Representation
This book explores how topical concerns shaped Islamic figures in Elizabethan plays like Peele’s Battle of Alcazar and Percy’s Mahomet and his Heaven. It argues these characters were formed by contemporary issues, rendering the term ‘representation’ debatable.
Totalitarian (In)Experience in Literary Works and Their Translations
This book explores totalitarianism in 20th century literature through a cross-linguistic analysis of works by Huxley, Orwell, Miłosz, and Konwicki. Using the Natural Semantic Metalanguage framework, it examines how the totalitarian experience shaped their writing.
The boundaries between bodies and technologies are changing how we experience the world. How close are we to a world where machines are indistinguishable from their creators? This book explores the relationship between technology and embodiment.
Neurodegenerative diseases like Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s are a severe threat to public health. This book offers a survey of the latest developments at the convergence of neuroscience, nanotechnology, and healthcare, providing vital insights to aid the fight against them.