This lucid account of J. M. Coetzee’s South African career provides an inside view of apartheid madness. Linking his nonfictional thought with his fiction, it suggests the insanity of apartheid lies in the social deformation and pathological attachments it encourages.
The Sociology of Longevity
For the first time, this book analyzes how socioecological factors influence our probability of becoming a centenarian. It presents global evidence on the factors affecting life expectancy and contributes applicable knowledge on how to become a healthy centenarian.
Belonging and Place-Making in a Neoliberal Waterfront Area
This book explores how privatisation and elite developments transform urban waterfronts into exclusive spaces. It argues these policies affect the distribution of owners and renters and change the meaning of home. Using a case study, it examines the feelings of tenure groups.
How Adaptations Awaken the Literary Canon
This book illuminates how reimagining narratives creates empowerment. It explores adaptations—from classic literature to fairy tales—that retell and awaken the literary canon, interrogating conventions and revealing the unique power of reframing stories.
This book addresses the complex N-body problem, providing a general approach to show that many mass configurations can be solved deterministically. It gives the reader the tools to master binary, trinary, and quadruple structured configurations for real and theoretical work.
King James and the Theatre of Witches
This book analyzes the “witch plays” of Renaissance England and their response to King James I. Once a fevered witch-hunter and author of *Daemonologie*, the monarch saw his beliefs both catered to and subverted on stage by dramatists like Shakespeare and Jonson.
The Introduction of Coronary Care Units (1960-1985)
Did Coronary Care Units (CCUs) substantially lower deaths from myocardial infarction? Was the research justifying the enormous investment scientifically sound? This book explores these questions, considering medics like CCU-defender Bernard Lown and critic Ivan Illich.
An Anthology of French and Francophone Singers, from A to Z, 2nd Edition
This richly illustrated mini-dictionary offers portraits of the greatest singers of the French language. Discover how classic and contemporary artists have constructed the musical landscape, influenced the French language, and nourished our collective imagination.
This book reveals overlooked keys to Jane Austen’s work: the link between ill-assorted married couples, heredity, and inheritance laws. Her heroines are keen observers of the resulting social ills, and their personal developments mirror the momentous changes in their world.
The Young Dante
This book explores Dante’s formative Florentine years, a crucible of great importance. Focusing on the Vita Nuova and early poems, it shows how the young poet took archetypes from ancient-medieval tradition and reshaped them to pave the way for his own work.
Selahattin Ülkümen, a Turkish diplomat, is the only Muslim designated “Righteous among the Nations” for saving 42 Jews from the Nazis at his own risk. The remarkable story of this hero is an important but little-known aspect of Holocaust history. This book fills that void.
As Los Angeles became multi-national, its novels changed greatly. This volume highlights brilliant fiction from Latino/a, African-American, women, and LGBTQ writers who transformed genres, alongside rediscovered novels that explored 20th century class conflicts.
English in Non-English-Speaking Countries
This book presents English teachers’ practices and challenges of teaching non-native students. These experiences provide a perspective on contemporary teaching in a non-English-speaking country and serve as a guidebook for new scholars in the field.
This book analyzes the agricultural landscape of Sub-Saharan Africa, focusing on maize. It details the maize value chain, projects future productivity growth, and identifies key investment areas, providing actionable insights for policymakers, NGOs, and donor organizations.
This book covers special and general relativity, tensor calculus, Einstein’s field equations, and cosmological models. It also provides a lucid introduction to alternative theories of gravitation. Including examples and exercises, it is an asset for every student and researcher.
Early Public School Football Codes
Puddings, bullies, squashes. These were the names for the brutal melee of early football, when half a school battled the other. Uncover the lost codes that existed before the FA and RFU rewrote the rules and nationalised the game.
This unique collection of essays reflects the authors’ lived experiences in interreligious dialogue. This timely book will appeal to anyone seeking to deepen one’s faith or wanting to learn how to live harmoniously with religious others.
This critical study of Hughes’s poetry from 1957 to 1989 explores how his fascination with violence developed into a vision of cosmic energy. It charts his transition from a poet of ‘blood and guts’ into a messiah of ‘bio-centric life’.
Will future migration be organized and humane or deadly and chaotic? This book argues that to meet their structural labor shortages, developed countries must stop building useless walls and start co-managing migration by financing training in countries of departure.
This is the first comprehensive study of Nikolaos Mantzaros in English, the pre-eminent composer in the evolution of classical music in modern Greece. It explores his development as a composer with strong Italian affiliation and his role as an educator and theorist.
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