Alice Munro’s Bestiary
Inspired by medieval bestiaries, this alphabet book juxtaposes medieval illuminations with Alice Munro excerpts featuring animals. It explores how Munro troubles the boundary between human and non-human, solving some enigmas of her stories while suggesting new riddles.
Indian Environmental Impact Assessment Practice
This book critically examines the components of Indian EIA practice and highlights the learnings. Using a case study method, it will benefit academics and researchers, and will also be handy to environment ministries, EIA professionals, and project proponents.
Learn the fundamentals of the Finite Element (FE) method in structural mechanics. This book teaches you to develop FE models, analyze systems statically and dynamically, and convert real-world problems into practical applications using the included MATLAB codes.
Key articles from the 2023 AusAct conference address innovative post-COVID discussions on how the Performing Arts can survive crisis. Chapters explore the significant role of acting teachers in our education sector and their contribution to the international creative economies.
American Policy Discourses on China
This book’s compelling analysis examines the narratives surrounding US-China relations from early American perspectives to the present, revealing enduring perceptions of China that continue to significantly influence policy in the world’s most important bilateral relationship.
This study of medieval travel writings from Europe and East Asia reveals a common literature of encounter. It shows striking similarities in how Eastern and Western travellers behaved in the face of difference, offering a precious lens into the world before globalization.
Surface-Enhanced Raman Spectroscopy (SERS) is revolutionizing water quality monitoring. This book explores its application for detecting pollutants, toxins, and pathogens at minute concentrations, equipping you with knowledge for efficient on-site and laboratory analysis.
This book explores urban renewal in post-industrial regional cities through an in-depth study of Geelong. While architecture is key to change, an intersectional perspective reveals contested pasts, from the dispossession of First Nations people to the exploitation of immigrants.
Abiezer Coppe is one of the most exciting writers of the seventeenth century: a prophetic writer full of passion, fury, wit, and naked sincerity. He is not afraid to speak directly in the voice of God to condemn the hypocrisy and corruption of his era.
This ground-breaking volume shows how leading Islamists use Islamic legal theory to create a liberal theory compatible with secularism. This rests not on a break with heritage, but on rediscovering it by shifting focus from what God said to what He intended.
This collection of essays highlights education’s role as a cornerstone of society, crucial for human and social development. The book explains various pedagogical prescriptions for improving the human condition by exploring the key relationship between the school and society.
Systemics helps us navigate our increasingly complex world. This book provides an easy-to-read introduction to this new science for students and professionals, covering everything from basic concepts and systems thinking to modeling and organizational transformation.
Conceptualizing Semantic Relevance between Word Roots
Uncover the hidden semantic links between word roots. This book reveals how similar core components create shared meanings across diverse language families, offering profound insights into the nature of language and culture.
Photographs of Interpreters
This book rescues photographs of interpreters: from diplomats trusted by Nixon to indigenous guides making first contact in the Amazon. Each image is analyzed as a performance, a moment expressing geopolitical power, and an act of salvaging lives lost in the sea of history.
Bridging the Gap between L2 Acquisition and Processing
This volume offers a critical review of research in second language (L2) acquisition and processing, focusing on differences between L1 and L2. Examining syntax, morphology, and speaking skills, it provides valuable perspectives for researchers, educators, and students.
Exploring Christian Identity from Late Antiquity to the Middle Ages
This book challenges the popular view that all Byzantines linked faith, Hellenic culture, and Roman rule. It explores the resistance of St. Maximus the Confessor to the emperor’s power in the church, revealing that many did not recognise the office of the emperor as holy.
This book offers a comprehensive delineation of Persian syntax using the Principles & Parameters approach. It examines Universal Grammar and its significant implications for first and second language acquisition, translation, and language typology.
A. D. Hope and the Ambivalence of Modernity
How did A. D. Hope react to modernity? What did he prize, what did he dislike, and how did he make use even of what he disliked? This book offers fresh answers to such questions from some of Australia’s best-known scholars.
A Concise History of Japan
Although modern Japan is well known, its long history of governance, rituals, and conflict is not. This book summarizes the history of Japan, including the incidents and monuments of historical significance, from the Jomon period to the end of the Heisei period.
Living Better with Low Back Pain
Low back pain is a frustrating dilemma, but the medical system is often ineffective. This book dispels the myths around common diagnoses and treatments, presenting recent medical research in a practical way. Gain insight, reassurance, and find your way to a better back.
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