Feminism and Multiculturalism
This book explores cultural pluralities and their effect on women’s lives. Can multiculturalism coexist with feminist principles? Does respect for cultural traditions take precedence over women’s rights? Important voices offer new perspectives on these questions.
This collection of essays on ‘Border Studies’ offers innovative approaches to intercultural encounters, with comparative explorations of American, Latin-American, European, and Post-Colonial literature, as well as Linguistics, History, and Education.
Gender and Sexual Identity
This collection of essays examines the complexity of gender and sexuality through popular culture. Topics include the construction of masculinity, transsexuality, polyamory, and film, offering challenging ideas that push the boundaries of how we know gender.
This book presents papers by graduate students on sustaining resilience in the Asia Pacific. After identifying contemporary issues, these papers propose frameworks for resolving them from a unique multidisciplinary and multilevel perspective.
Renewable Energy
The chapters collected here summarise ten years of work on the challenges that renewable energy faces, and represent a selection of the best papers presented at the International Conferences on Renewable Energy and Power Quality (ICREPQ) from 2003 to 2012.
The Undecidable
This book offers an engagement between philosopher Jacques Derrida and author Paul Howard. It uses deconstructive theory to critique Howard’s depiction of Ireland during the Celtic Tiger era, providing an accessible overview of critical theory.
The Golden Age
This volume investigates the diverse applications and conceptions of the term ‘The Golden Age’, and its connection to feelings of nostalgia from a range of perspectives, with a strong focus on the relationship between word and image.
Following an investigation that exposed municipal corporations as bastions of privilege, the 1835 Municipal Reform Act fundamentally altered local government, ending the urban Ancient Regime in England and Wales.
The New Criticism
This volume traces the history and theories of the New Criticism school. It assesses the New Critics’ lasting influence, examining how their work has been contextualized, criticized, and valorized by subsequent theorists and educators.
Education Loan and Inclusive Growth
This book explores education loans as a tool for financing higher education in developing countries. Using India as a case study, it reveals how the system excludes the poor and formulates an action plan to make it an inclusive financing tool.
Paolo Casalegno was a brilliant and probing philosopher and one of the best minds in a generation. His essays in the philosophy of logic and language are remarkable for their rigour, originality, and fundamental insights.
The interaction of anion exchangers with metal cations is often an unpredictable, destructive process. This book shows how to control it, forming ultra-fine particles in the polymer phase. These new composites act as selective sorbents and catalysts for purifying water and air.
This collection of essays explores the intersections of public and private life in eighteenth-century Britain, an era of major change. Scholars offer fresh perspectives on canonical works, cultural exchange, fashion, gossip, and gender issues.
The Weight of the Past
The 1980 Turkish coup was a milestone of transformation, violence, and oppression. This book examines how it is remembered differently by various political groups, focusing on the contest between collective memory, identity, and power.
Introduction to Clinical Pharmacology
Built around patient presentation, this textbook advances from symptoms to diagnosis and treatment, mirroring clinical practice. It provides concise information on pharmacology, with relevant cases and questions. For medical and pharmacy students, practitioners, and pre-meds.
This book explores the internal structure of personal pronouns in Brazilian Portuguese. It shows that traditional features (person, number, gender, case) are categories made of more elemental components which define the content, shape, and syntactic consequences of a pronoun.
This volume brings together research on the poetry of less-explored modern Indian poets. The book explores the social, cultural and spiritual dimensions of these emerging poets, and will prove useful to students, teachers and all those interested in Indian English poetry.
Aesthetic Teaching Pedagogies
Inocian presents a range of teaching strategies appropriate for 21st century learners, and highlights the outcomes-based assessment of learning; the curriculum basics for arts-based teaching; and activities based on the integrated arts.
This collection of articles presents the most important research in Pragmalinguistics and Speech Practices. The book consists of two parts and will be of interest to philologists, teachers, and students.
The Semantics of Determiners
This book investigates determiners in Skwxwú7mesh Salish, which lack a definite/indefinite distinction. Instead, Skwxwú7mesh determiners are split along deictic lines. A universal correlation between the syntax and semantics of determiners is proposed.