Tuberculosis is a leading cause of death, but its multidrug treatment often causes adverse effects. This practical clinical guide is for health personnel managing TB. It details drug side effects on the body’s systems and offers clear therapeutic strategies for their management.
Oxidation and Reduction Processes in Vivo and in Vitro
This book introduces a novel electrochemical method for assessing oxidative stress and antioxidant activity. It presents potentiometric determination as a preferred tool for monitoring health, disease, diet, and sports, with future applications in wearables and telemedicine.
This book is relevant to agricultural extension theory and practice. It identifies the background, personal, and environmental factors influencing achievement motivation in the leadership role of extension agents, based on an original study in Iran.
This title will serve to provide the reader with the communicative and language skills necessary to function in modern society. It identifies the descriptive functioning of language, as well as the communicative processes involved in its usage.
This book uses food and feasts as a tool to understand the social organisation of the Newāḥ of Nepal. It details life-cycle rituals and kinship obligations to exchange food, considering married daughters’ special role, to show how sharing is an integral part of their culture.
Fairytales—A World between the Imaginary
This book investigates Basile’s masterpiece, Lo cunto de li Cunti. It examines his use of metaphor to critique baroque society and conveys his utopia of a more just world, while also proposing a new interpretation of the tales’ female characters.
Giacomo Meyerbeer
Meyerbeer’s first opera, Jephtas Gelübde, transforms the Biblical tale of a tragic vow into a rescue opera. Containing the seeds of his future genius, the music points towards Weber and Wagner, realizing a powerful story of love and duty.
What makes a life worth living? This book argues that autonomy is the foundation of dignity and the source of the meaning we crave. A life poor in this meaning, regardless of its wealth or success, is a life lived in the cellar of human existence.
Giacomo Meyerbeer
This volume presents the pieces of music—from fragments to whole scenes—not used in the final performing edition of Meyerbeer’s L’Africaine. These unused variants remain a crucial source for the history and future of this great opera.
Romualdo Marenco
In Manzotti’s spectacular allegorical ballet Excelsior, the rise of human civilization is an embittered struggle between Light and Darkness. As inventions triumph, Marenco’s exhilarating music celebrates an apotheosis of light, progress, and peace.
Sons of Crispin
This study affords a rare insight into the “secret” associational life of Scottish shoemakers. It investigates the Royal St Crispin Society (1817–1909), which devised and practised unique rituals based on shoemaking legends and traditions.
In these thought-provoking essays, Irish Catholic writers from diverse backgrounds examine a wide range of issues: liturgy, politics, culture, and bioethics. This collection explores the Catholic tradition as lived in Ireland, offering an encouragement to fidelity.
Matriculture, Shamanism, and the Authority of Women
This book explores intersections between matriculture—the cultural worlds of women—and power in societies worldwide. Contributors analyze the forces that support or suppress women’s authority and agency, pointing to the social benefits of a thriving matriculture for all.
Chinese, Kurds, Iranians and the Silk Road
This book explores the little-known history between China and the Kurdish people since the tenth century. It reveals Kurdish lands as key trade and cultural hubs on the Silk Road and uncovers a shared memory: China as an idealized world, a utopia embedded in Kurdish folklore.
Short Stories by Marie Belloc Lowndes
Novelist, short-story writer, and journalist Marie Belloc Lowndes (1868-1947) was one of the most prolific writers of her day. This collection of short stories brings her most popular and culturally significant works of short fiction to modern audiences for the first time.
Multidimensional Poverty among Social Groups in Kerala
This book investigates multidimensional poverty among social groups in Kerala, India. It highlights the disparity hidden within the state’s famed human development achievements, revealing an intra-state mirage and exploring the socio-cultural barriers facing marginalized groups.
This critique presents Plato’s leading doctrines in close connection with the man himself. It explores the relationship between author and text, with chapters on Socrates, Plato’s aesthetics, The Republic, and the Sophists.
Random Thoughts
This collection of critical essays ranges from Shakespeare to Rushdie, covering Indian, British, and African writers. Addressing poetry, fiction, and drama with a fresh approach, the book is a valuable resource for students, teachers, and researchers of English literature.
Few books focus on French missions in Britain’s sphere of influence. This work explores the unique experience of French missionary Eugène Casalis, who became a king’s advisor and is still hailed as one of the men who built the nation of Lesotho.
A unique hybrid of historical Gothic, this novel is set amid the sanguinary events of post-revolutionary France. It follows Countess Adelaide de Narbonne’s rebellion against male authority, connecting her story with that of Charlotte Corday, Marat’s murderer.