Outraged and Amazed
Outraged and Amazed explores how Absalom, Absalom!’s characters resist social limits and wrest control of their identities through storytelling, resulting in a tangled, plausible but unverifiable story of the South that is both fictive and true.
Restless Travellers
This book explores literature of travel and identity. From Britain’s imperial age to North America, it examines writers who narrate journeys into distant lands, the female self, and the quest for belonging in the face of empire, race, and migration.
This volume is composed of 22 peer-reviewed contributions from the 2014 International NooJ Conference. NooJ is a linguistic development environment and corpus processor used to formalize linguistic phenomena and develop Natural Language Processing applications.
This book’s study of the love letters and romantic novels of the Napoleonic coterie reveals the emerging political landscape of the Napoleonic war period through extended metaphors of love and patriotism. It describes how these letters were largely framed by concepts of love.
Understanding Metabolic Diseases
A silent epidemic of metabolic diseases—including diabetes, obesity, and cardiovascular disease—impacts millions. These conditions disrupt the body’s energy processing, leading to severe health consequences. Adopting a healthy lifestyle is key to combatting this silent threat.
Applied Social Sciences
An interdisciplinary collection of studies tackling key economic and political challenges, from public finance to cultural heritage. Bridging theory and practice, it offers vital insights for professionals and interested readers alike.
Idiom Translation in the Financial Press
This book addresses English-Greek idiom translation in the news press. It presents a new, genre-sensitive translation model based on a novel typology from psychology, exploring the strategies and parameters that govern how idioms are translated.
A Sandy Path near the Lake
The autobiography of Kovit Khemananda, a Thai Buddhist artist and spiritual teacher. His insightful spiritual quest takes him from the monkhood to sojourns abroad, revealing a path of frustration and liberation that helps us crack the code of the human condition.
Crash Cinema
Cinema does more than simply amuse or horrify; it communicates to us about ourselves. This book analyzes the politics of representation, asking whose ‘truth’ is being represented and why, and uncovering cinema’s power to shock, surprise, and explore the taboo.
This book presents exciting findings on the sources of test score gaps, using powerful DNA-based methods to analyze race, socio-economic status, and ancestry. It also considers the policy question of how these findings should be disseminated to the public.
Edmund Burke, the Imperatives of Empire and the American Revolution
Edmund Burke advocated for America’s rights yet fiercely criticized the French Revolution. This volume presents his writings on the American Crisis, exploring the core paradox: Was this defender of colonial liberty a friend or a foe of revolution?
Fabricating the Body
Fabricating the Body draws on disability, gender, and psychoanalytic studies to situate the body as a site of identity, obligation, and exchange. It stimulates conversation on “indebted” bodies, marginalization, and the ethical costs of societal progress.
Metaphor in Focus
This philosophical guide on metaphor use bridges the gap between theoretical and empirical research. It analyses the role of metaphor across diverse domains, presenting interdisciplinary connections with linguistics, cognitive science, economics, and more.
In the Mirror of the Past
Confronted by overwhelming events, we turn to myth. These essays discuss myth in modern speculative fiction, showing how fantasy becomes a mythic mirror in which we hope to see answers to vexing questions or a reality superior to our own.
This book explores sustainable livelihood as a key to development beyond mere poverty reduction. It examines strategies for enhancing assets, covering socio-developmental aspects, natural resources, the farm and non-farm sectors, and gender.
This book focuses on designing error correction techniques for compressed video over wireless channels. It presents adaptive solutions that exploit different importance classes in video data to ensure better quality. A reference for researchers and developers.
A Journey into the Human Experience of Incurable Disease
This book critically investigates the uniquely human experience of and response to illness and treatment, which affects the body, the mind, and the very core of human existence and identity. Without hope, there is no future; without healing, no holistic recovery.
Observing Napoleon’s march from Elba to his defeat at Waterloo was Byron’s friend J.C. Hobhouse. This book presents an essay on Byron and Napoleon, Byron’s poems, and Hobhouse’s letters and mostly unpublished diary from the thick of things in Paris.
Dietary Induction Models of Nutritional Disorders in Rodents
From lab to clinic: Explore dietary models of disease in pre-clinical studies. Leading experts in nutrition and bioethics offer an essential guide to translational research, shaping future clinical work for students and health professionals.
This book investigates how Estonia, Poland and Latvia comply with the EU’s free movement of capital. It compares their laws, analyzes the link between national restrictions and cross-border capital flows, and reports the views of affected business executives.