Binicewicz analyses issues associated with the contemporary and memory in the Polish-German borderlands, showing it to be a complex, multidimensional cultural and geographic area.
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.
Scientific Programming
Calvo offers an introduction to computer programming, numerical analysis, and other mathematical ideas that extend the basic topics learned in calculus. He illustrates how mathematicians and scientists write computer programs.
Varian Studies Volume One
The Roman emperor misnamed Elagabalus is a mythic monster of depravity or an anarchist saint. This volume explores the historical individual, Varius, behind the legend: a boy-priest made emperor at fourteen and murdered before eighteen. It rescues him from centuries of fantasy.
Medical Education in Western India
“Medical knowledge is not communicable to the natives.” Despite this 1832 declaration, Governor Sir Robert Grant, Dr Charles Morehead, and philanthropist Sir Jamsetjee Jejeebhoy created a medical college in Bombay that went on to rival those in Europe and America.
This collection explores the vital role of modern university language centres. Covering technology, creativity, methodologies and plurilingualism, its chapters show how to integrate theory with the best practices from real contexts for effective and successful language teaching.
This monograph considers the status of the verse novel as a genre and traces its mainly English-language history from its beginnings. The discussion will be of interest to genre theorists, prosodists, narratologists and literary historians.
The Skill Approach in Education
This book is a guide to teaching essential skills for a changing world. It covers language, science, math, psycho-social, and visual arts skills, explaining how to prepare and implement activities to help students succeed in school and beyond.
Politics and Peasants in Interwar Romania
This title discusses the integration of peasants into the nation building project of Greater Romania with a focus on social and cultural practices. It advocates a shift from a multiple top-down perspective to an analysis concentrating on regionally diverse rural societies.
A chance discovery revealed a unique 1504 globe, hand-engraved on an ostrich egg and linked to Leonardo da Vinci. It shows secret knowledge, riddles, and is the first to name countries like Brazil. This book details 500 years of mystery, scholarship, and forensic testing.
The essays here represent a selection of the papers presented at a conference on “The Future of Human Rights in the UK” held in Brighton in 2016. They are designed to make the reader ask themselves: what does the future of human rights in the UK look like?
This collection considers the challenges for the EU as an international actor deeply influenced by migration. It centres on aspects related to East-West migration, such as the economic importance of migration and the impact of migration on both sending and recipient countries.
Jews in an Illusion of Paradise
Focusing on exemplary Jewish poets, artists, and critics once celebrated but now forgotten—not due to taste, but to social and political issues. This book examines their repressed anxieties and the clash with a culture that rejected their “otherness.”
Letellier delves into the relationship between the Bible and the world of music, an association that is recorded from ancient times in the Old Testament, and one that has continued to characterize the cultural self-expression of Western Civilization ever since.
This monograph explores the material culture of the Early Bronze Age in Azerbaijan’s Mil-Karabakh region. It examines settlements and grave monuments, providing classifications and pictures of the artifacts discovered within them.
This anthology explores how laws shape and oppress mothers—and how they resist. Bringing together diverse voices, it shines a light on the experiences of racialized, LGBTQ+, Indigenous, and criminalized mothers, challenging how societies define and support motherhood.
Poor drug solubility is a pivotal challenge in pharmaceuticals, limiting the efficacy of new drugs. This comprehensive guide systematically explores solubilization approaches, from salt formation to nanoparticles, delving into fundamental principles and the latest advancements.
My Life as A Forensic Sociologist
A forensic sociologist involved in criminal trials, Dr. Erickson acts as an expert witness for the defence or prosecution. This is the real-life story of her involvement with violent crime, visiting scenes in the dead of night to uncover discoveries for her testimony.
Additional Miscellaneous Rare Tumours of the Kidney
Rare kidney tumours are often misdiagnosed, leading to poor prognosis. As these tumours are not covered in most surgery and urology textbooks, this book details miscellaneous rare tumours of the kidney which all clinicians should know about to improve diagnosis and treatment.
This book is a collection of exquisite coloured photographs illustrating Jordan’s diverse wild medicinal and aromatic plants. It discusses 281 species from diverse habitats, with information on taxonomy, chemical constituents, healing properties, and uses in folk medicine.