Classics in Hagiography
As new heroes, Christian martyrs and saints shaped a new worldview. But to what extent was the classical heritage decisive in building their profiles? This volume explores how hagiographic texts always benefit from engaging with the rich and enduring classical tradition.
Justice and American Intercollegiate Athletics
This book is about an accomplishment of justice in intercollegiate athletics. Through acts of connection, departure, and reconnection, competitors with directly opposed interests joined to create enduring patterns of centered belonging.
This book bridges the gap between theory and creativity in musicianship. It moves beyond the idea of theory as rigid and creativity as wild, providing a discussion of the creative drive in theory and how these ideas shape performance through illuminating examples.
Current residential design is failing to meet new demands. In a world facing environmental, economic, and social change, this book argues that homes must offer greater choice, adaptability, and circularity. It explores innovative solutions and case studies for today’s challenges.
Healthcare with Machine Learning
Machine learning is revolutionizing healthcare. This book makes the complex subject simple and actionable for healthcare professionals and data scientists. Through exciting examples and live cases, it bridges theory and practice, showing how algorithms are impacting patient care.
Political Economy of Financial Systems
Why did identical financial systems lead to contrasting outcomes in South Korea and India? This book argues that the efficiency of finance depends not just on its structure, but on the wider political-economic context and its relations with the market.
Barbara Longhi of Ravenna
This book provides new impetus to the study of female art. Through an analysis of Barbara Longhi’s paintings, it expands research beyond women’s lives and careers to look at the spiritual aspects of their work, revealing the importance of devotional art and female creativity.
The Making of a Jungian Analyst
In the crucible of training analysis, a woman confronts her own shadows to become a Jungian analyst. Guided by a tough supervising analyst—a Holocaust survivor—and a flood of dreams, she discovers the guiding force of the Self in the second half of life.
Macrobicyclic Cryptands
The only book to explore all aspects of cryptand chemistry. It covers synthetic methods for different types of cryptands, especially unexplored chiral cryptands, and their use in catalysis, fluorescence sensing, photonic devices, and the stabilization of metal nanoparticles.
This book examines four innovative women playwrights of 21st-century Spain. By foregrounding female protagonists, their plays explore female autonomy and the search for selfhood against gendered oppression, showcasing important innovations in contemporary stagecraft.
In Argentina, Chile, and Spain, playwrights addressed the national traumas of dictatorship by creating “posttraumatic theater.” This book argues these plays represent national crises by taking on stylistic features that mimic the symptoms of posttraumatic stress disorder.
Experimental Archaeology and Neolithic Architecture
How did preliterate people build complex monuments like Stonehenge without a plan? This book argues Neolithic builders used rudimentary techniques: ropes to set out the design, finger reckoning for measurement, and the sun’s shadow for orientation.
C. S. Peirce and the Deconstruction of Tradition
Philosophy needs a fresh imagination to move beyond traditional schools. This book argues Charles Sanders Peirce is the thinker to overcome this impasse, guiding readers through his dialogue with tradition and his own ontology, epistemology, and logic.
Based on recently declassified World Bank documents, this study examines the post-war intervention in Southern Italy. This international effort created the only period of convergence between Italy’s North and South, providing crucial insights into today’s “Southern Question.”
The uncanny is what is frightening, yet it arises from the familiar, disturbing our sense of home and self as unresolved pasts resurface. This book explores representations of the uncanny in language, literature, and culture.
A Journey into the Human Experience of Incurable Disease
This book critically investigates the uniquely human experience of and response to illness and treatment, which affects the body, the mind, and the very core of human existence and identity. Without hope, there is no future; without healing, no holistic recovery.
Towards Sustainable Energy
Hailing renewables as the solution to climate change is an overoptimistic diagnostic. This book analyzes all primary energy sources, concluding the transition to an energy system with acceptable emissions is far from smooth. Mankind is at a crossroads with difficult decisions.
Studying Shanghai and Nanjing, this book examines the behavior and impact of pollutants in developing metropolises. It offers innovative solutions, including a method to distinguish human-added trace metals in soil from natural levels. A guide for researchers and policymakers.
Physicians and Their Literary Work
This book connects medicine and literature, analyzing how the medical profession shaped the work of doctor-authors. It reveals how they built a unique literary identity, changing our perception of the human being. For doctors and literary scholars alike.
Beyond defining moments like the Bay of Pigs, this book reveals lesser-known events: Che’s adventures, Castro’s possible link to JFK’s assassination, and Cuba’s silent wars. Utilizing sources previously available only in Spanish, it corrects the record on the Cuban Revolution.