This book offers insights into how the myth of Medea reflects cultural concepts rooted in our cognition. It analyzes the application of figurative mechanisms in verbal, visual, and music modes, exploring one of the most thrilling themes in literature and performing arts.
Literary Misogyny and Praise of Women in the Middle Ages
This book examines two major traditions in medieval literature: the praise of women and misogyny. It explores misogyny from the Church Fathers to secular authors and discusses the major literary works that praised women as a response to their misogynist counterparts.
Sex, Gender, and Engineering
This timely book examines sexual harassment in engineering in the context of #MeToo. It provides a window into the experiences of individuals, presents effective strategies for practitioners to reduce harassment, and outlines where future research is needed.
Though trapped by the anthropocentrism of the Western tradition, Giorgio Agamben’s work provides conceptual tools to move beyond the limits he himself cannot cross. This book analyzes these limits in his philosophy while exploring the powerful potential that lies within them.
This innovative collection emphasises the contribution of women to resolving conflicts through creative, nonviolent tools. Drawing on the work of women from diverse countries, it discusses their achievements and provides a study of how, and why, gender matters in building peace.
Mastering the Art of Enjoying Wine
This book presents a wine tasting method based on neurobiology, gastronomy, and the science of how the human brain processes pleasure. While written for the beginner, this unique approach offers valuable insights that wine professionals can also benefit from.
This volume explores the gendered subaltern’s struggle against multiple levels of marginalization. Through theatrical interventions, it underscores how the body becomes a site of identity, oppression and resistance, and interrogates notions of family, society and identity.
Therapeutic Journalism
This book shows how emotional literacy and clinical psychology can create a therapeutic form of journalism. It presents a new model to analyze information through an emotional lens, empowering students to inform with empathy and see a shattered world with a fresh pair of eyes.
This book proposes a framework for rethinking world literature in nomadic terms. A unique, itinerant scholarly autobiography, it exemplifies how literary and cultural comparisons are shaped by real-life circumstances, violence, and wars across the globe.
This easy-to-follow guide provides the necessary steps in discretizing continuous systems. It covers sampling, reconstruction, stability analysis, and the synthesis of digital controllers, including a practical guide to PID speed control of a DC motor using an Arduino card.
Countdown to the Global Financial Crisis
This book traces the pattern of crises in US investment banking to a culture established at the birth of the United States. Exploring the humble beginnings of Lehman Brothers, it offers a cautionary tale of how the mighty have fallen.
This book details excavations at Sarakenos Cave, Greece’s largest prehistoric inhabited cave. It explores the cultural sequence from Neanderthals around 40,000 years ago to the Bronze Age, reconstructing the ancient environment based on pollen samples.
Frans Hals in America
Frans Hals was one of the most gifted masters of Dutch seventeenth-century art. This book explores the narrative of Hals in America, from his rediscovery by Gilded Age collectors to the thorny issues of attribution and the impact of a dynamic art market over a century.
Organizational Culture in the Middle East
This volume provides new insights into organizational behaviour in Lebanon. It explores topics like corporate entrepreneurship in SMEs, the effect of leaders’ emotional intelligence on employee commitment, and the impact of corporate social responsibility on customer trust.
The Co-Design of an Online Campaign for an Inclusive Community
This volume shows how communication builds our perception of “us” versus “others,” a cultural obstacle that can lead to radicalisation. We can prevent this with participation and counter-narratives, as shown by a European project that pushes the reader beyond prejudice.
New Thoughts on Old Books
Why continue reading “classic” texts today? This book is not a defense of the literary canon. Instead, professors of English offer thoughtful, engaging, personal responses, inviting readers to revisit “old assignments” in new terms.
The sun is a powerful source of energy, yet we fail to use it efficiently. This book explains the significance of light spectra and intensity manipulation through innovation for enhanced electricity production by solar devices.
This book critically examines the US COVID-19 crisis, arguing the nation’s response was out of proportion to the actual threat. This led to needless suffering, driven by the misrepresentation of public science by government officials and the news media.
What became of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth’s artistic and cultural traditions after its lands were absorbed into the Russian, Austrian, and Prussian empires? This book explores the art and architecture of the region’s diverse peoples from the 18th century to 1864.
The first English-language book on the psychoanalytical clinical setting in Japan. It introduces the actual clinical practices of Japanese psychoanalysis, covering basic theories like neutrality and transference, and Freud’s Wolfman and Rat Man cases.
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