This collection offers fresh perspectives on Gissing’s place in fin-de-siècle literature. Interdisciplinary readings place him in dialogue with figures from Dickens to Foucault, challenging his status as a simple realist and revealing his complex modernity.
Populists claim the EU threatens national identity. This book argues these identities can coexist. It suggests the EU should oppose xenophobic nationalism while protecting national cultures from their true threat: globalization, not European integration.
With no approved drug for Autism, this book presents a novel approach validated by brain imaging and large clinical trials. It details a repurposed drug’s unprecedented potential to be the first pediatric treatment, describing specific cases of children who improved.
Being and Film
This book develops a “solaristic ontology” of film—a philosophical system based on Andrei Tarkovsky’s 1972 sci-fi movie Solaris. It explores the nature of film, being, and reality, building on film philosophy and the speculative turn in contemporary philosophy.
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.
Why is there something rather than nothing? What is the origin of everything? For centuries, theology and metaphysics sought answers. Today, physics and cosmology join the search for a theory of everything. The papers in this volume offer contributions to this ultimate debate.
Readings in Language and Identity
This collection studies the complex relations between language and identity from a variety of theoretical perspectives. It brings together researchers from a range of fields to advance debates about the meanings of language and identity in contemporary cultural contexts.
This is the first comprehensive book on algebraic topology. It provides a walk through its main tools, including homology groups and rational homotopy theory, and discusses real applications in fields like medicine and imagery. For students, professors, and researchers.
This collection of essays explores crisis in contemporary British fiction. Examining authors like Kazuo Ishiguro and Julian Barnes, this volume investigates crisis as a challenge to power structures, highlighting the urgent social and ethical concerns in their work.
This volume examines how trauma alters women’s identities, from individual experiences to national political abuses. The book shows that language has a transformative power for healing, as women use autobiography and memoir to free themselves and reinvent the form.
Firms use non-price strategies to reveal their products’ value and gain market power. This book shows how these strategies create long-term market power, not transient gains as often assumed. Discover measures of intrinsic value and the non-price strategies that perpetuate it.
Trúc Lâm Buddhism in Vietnam
In the 13th century, the Trúc Lâm Zen sect flourished, then faded into obscurity for centuries. How and why was it revived in the 20th century? This book analyzes the history of this forgotten sect and examines its modern revival, reform, and traditions.
The Impact of the British Oboist Léon Goossens
This study reassesses Léon Goossens’ contribution to British oboe playing. It explores his pivotal role as a catalyst for new compositions that created a library of British oboe music, addressing a void in the repertoire and ultimately restoring the instrument’s status.
Rudolf Virchow, the “Father of Pathology,” viewed life in microscopic detail and from a sweeping public health perspective. This book explores his innovations, his political life, and his fascinating work on race amid the rising anti-Semitism of 19th-century Germany.
This collection of essays explores environmentalism from varied research fields. It introduces a multilateral understanding of environmental consciousness, suggesting the study of nature must aim for interconnections between disciplines to protect the ecosphere.
This book takes a new angle on Daniel O’Connell, providing a discourse perspective on his oratorical skills and his perception by the press. It examines what rhetorical strategies he used to persuade Catholics and how he was assessed by nationalist and unionist print media.
This guide explains quantitative research in health sciences. It covers the entire process: formulating a research question, defining variables, choosing a study design, data collection, and statistical analysis. Acquire the skills to develop a complete health research project.
Zoonoses and Public Health
This book follows the One Health approach to zoonotic diseases, focusing on the main parasites transmitted from animals to humans. With contributions from renowned researchers, it covers key aspects like epidemiology, diagnosis, treatment, prevention, and control.
This historical account traces the discovery of a singular wave in 1834 to the development of modern soliton theory. It describes deep connections between soliton theory and nonlinear continuum mechanics, with wide applications for research scientists and advanced students.
In today’s vague and flexible warfare environment, military leaders need to be more versatile, with rapid decision-making capacities. This study explores why high-level commanders must now behave more like diplomats, intellectuals, and academics than ever before.