Between Memory and Mythology
This volume examines the relationship between myth and memory, exploring how war narratives are used to construct modern identities. These essays show how political elites engage in mythmaking to shape national and cultural self-perception.
This collection of peer-reviewed studies offers deep insight into the financial and banking sectors of new EU-member countries. Through original research, it compares their development to established countries and explores their prospective integration into the EMU.
This book focuses on the calculus of variations, combining partial differential equations with geometry to solve nonlinear problems. It provides the latest developments in multidimensional optimization and optimal control for researchers, engineers, and students.
The Power of the Line
The development of material culture was a contribution to the mathematization of the human mind. This book distinguishes between two dichotomous development paths in Europe and the Near East: the measuring stick metaphor and the object collection metaphor.
A Clinical Guide to Organisational Health
Is your organisation healthy enough to survive? This book treats it like a living organism, using a holistic diagnostic model to explore its core functions—Survival, Protection, Operations, Information, Language and Strategy (SPOILS)—and build fitness.
Carers’ Stories
This book shares the stories of six carers, including gay and lesbian partners. They found health and social care services to be a burden, not the person with dementia. Discover the strategies that support people to maintain a sense of identity and wellbeing.
One Magisterium
An author with work in neuroscience, religion, and cognitive science tackles the Big Issues of science, faith, and innovation. The remarkable conclusion: by paying attention to ontology, or levels of being, algorithms work better and damaging culture clashes disappear.
This book provides a kaleidoscopic view of Chinese folk customs from ancient to present times. Although some old customs are no longer prevalent, these traditions have had an undeniable impact on contemporary life, offering insights into an overlooked aspect of Chinese culture.
Interactivity and the Online Media Sphere in Nigeria
In an age of technological development, the mass media industry must innovate to stay relevant. Interactivity is a necessity. This book provides insights into the interactivity basics of an ideal media website, highlighting its nature in the Nigerian online media sphere.
“Imperialists in Broken Boots”
This book argues that in Southern Africa, ‘poor white’ was not a narrow economic category but a term for those who threatened to collapse racial, sexual, and class boundaries. It studies writers who either embraced this threat or argued for a solution.
Kılıç re-reads Milton’s Paradise Lost in the light of his political views as reflected in his earlier political pamphlets. He argues that, using his epic poem as a medium of expression, Milton created a political subtext which reflected the social panorama of his England.
The Anonymous Society
An anthropological look inside 12-Step groups. This in-depth study explores how ritual, therapy, and anonymity combat addiction, revealing the vital role these associations play in contemporary society.
This overview of teaching psychology internationally incorporates research from psychologists in over 30 countries. A must-read for instructors, psychologists, and students interested in the international aspects of the discipline.
Explaining Financial Scandals
Recent financial crises are rooted in two main problems: a lack of effective corporate governance and the excesses of financial innovation. Drawing on scandals from Enron to Lehman Brothers, this book proposes a new paradigm, “enlightened sovereign control”.
With no scan or blood test for migraine, diagnosis relies entirely on language. This book explores the vital relation between words and pain, considering how persons with migraine make their experience ‘readable’ and how fictional texts ‘perform’ migraine.
“A Warr So Desperate”
This book examines how John Milton, the famed champion of liberty, justified the brutal reconquest of Ireland. It situates his work within the anti-Catholic and ethnic prejudices of the time, arguing for his complicity in the colonial campaign.
This book explores fragments of tragedy in postmodern film. While postmodernism broke the continuous chain of tragedy from Ancient Greece, its aspects persist in films with themes of chaos, violence, paranoia, and alienation.
Ismail engages with problematic issues arising when translating and interpreting classical Arabic texts, which represent a challenging business for many scholars, especially with regards to religious works.
Looking Beyond Words
This book challenges the view of gesture as marginal in language learning. It shows that communication is multimodal and demonstrates, through research in Italian language classes in Canada, how gesture enables a richer experience for both teachers and learners.
Rapid, non-destructive techniques are transforming the evaluation of body and carcass composition, offering a more accurate, efficient, and animal-friendly approach. This book reviews the use of these techniques for sheep and goats, and discusses future trends in the field.