The Rise and Fall of Baby Boomers
The baby boomer generation reshaped the world, but now younger generations blame them for damaging the nation and planet. This fact-based, objective history contextualizes this deep generational divide, a key theme in contemporary American culture.
The numerous digressions in Pliny the Elder’s Naturalis Historia should not be regarded as mistakes. This book’s hypothesis is that these anecdotes are intentional. By analyzing them as exempla, their narrative role becomes clear, revealing Pliny’s contested skill as a writer.
Existing methods for studying the piezooptic properties of crystals are imperfect and lead to significant errors. This book introduces 2D-polarimetric and interferometric methods that increase experimental accuracy and ensure reliable results for photoelastic properties.
This is the first-ever reprinting of 27 letters by Mary Mason Fairbanks from the 1867 Quaker City cruise, one of the most famous travel excursions in American history. The letters feature cameo appearances by her fellow passenger and lifelong friend, Mark Twain.
This book examines critical issues in the intellectual disability field, including the workforce crisis, systematic underfunding, and complex regulations. Challenging economic conditions require a re-examination of our commitment to support such individuals.
The Politics of Action Research
This book frames Action Research as an inherently political practice. Through storytelling from international contributors in health, education, and business, it illuminates lived experiences, exploring the interplay of power, ethics, and future directions in the field.
Exploring the Fundamental Features of Translation
A guidebook for students, teachers, and translation specialists covering subjects from introductory to advanced levels. Its unique bottom-up strategy addresses translation issues as major concerns for researchers, simplifying the research work of any user.
Nutrition and Disease
Nutrition is essential for preventing and treating disease. Discover how plant-based diets, enhanced by modern genomics, can address global challenges like the obesity epidemic, sustainable food production, and the future well-being of our planet.
This book explains how language works, introducing the science of linguistics. Using real-world examples, it discusses linguistic issues scientifically by considering findings from research studies, allowing the reader to understand how they are embedded in real contexts.
Mobile Identities
Through international case studies, this volume uses border studies, postcolonial discourse, and globalization theory to explore identity. It argues that identities are mobile and in flux, challenging stereotypes and revealing ethnicity as a complex category.
This collection explores current issues concerning glycolipids and their connection with diseases, the immune system, cancer, and infections. It offers a comprehensive presentation of current trends, data, and developments in health sciences, pharmacology, and industry.
Achilles beyond Fury
Ten insightful essays explore the fury of Achilles. This investigation uncovers new perspectives on the wrathful warrior, from parallels with the biblical Samson and the consequences of his actions to his lasting influence in Roman iconography and contemporary cinema.
This book shows how Concretism and Neoconcretism adapted international constructivism to Brazil. It explores the debates between the avant-gardes of São Paulo and Rio that created early versions of participatory, performance, and installation art.
For patients with metastatic cancer, the prognosis remains grim and conventional chemotherapy is limited. This book lays out a novel strategy using artificial intelligence and genomic data to develop precise, personalized treatments that offer hope for an eventual cure.
Recent Scholarship on Japan
This collection of cutting-edge scholarship surveys Japanese literature from classical to contemporary. It explores works from Heian-era female authors to Haruki Murakami, relating them to Japanese society, the global context, and the vital role of translation.
This book provides insight into the fundamentals of IoT concepts, architecture, and applications. It details emerging applications—including environmental, agricultural, industrial, and medical sensing—by focusing on specific frameworks, challenges, and future research trends.
This collection of essays explores the paradoxes of freedom and the human condition. We are always faced with the same paradox: a freedom which cannot be freed from its relation to necessity. Freedom is, therefore, not really free. This is the paradox of the human condition.
Decoding Consciousness and Bioethics
How do we know if someone else is conscious? This book offers a compelling bioethical analysis of one of neuroscience’s most intriguing topics: states of consciousness, bringing together contributions from international experts in neuroscience, philosophy, law, and ethics.
This book explores how Gabonese writer Sylvie Ntsame’s novels challenge patriarchal traditions that silence women. Ntsame counters racism and the objectification of the black female body with depictions of idealized interracial love, calling for understanding between cultures.
Conrad and the Being of the World
Why does Joseph Conrad’s universe feel so opaque and withdrawn? This unique study uses Object-Oriented Ontology to explore what lies hidden in his work, shedding new light on Conrad and articulating a metaphysical structure for his world, the universe, and ourselves.