Matter in Marx
Was Marx truly a “materialist”? This book argues that the more interesting question is what kind he developed. It provides a surprising answer: a materialism without matter. On this basis, new light is shed on the base-superstructure analogy, progress, and political action.
As the world faces pressing issues like climate change, chemistry is central to overcoming these global challenges. This book explores advanced, interdisciplinary research, showing how to transform challenges into opportunities for a sustainable world.
Quality Assurance in Higher Education
This book collects chapters from all over the world on quality assurance in higher education. It highlights successful and challenging models, providing diverse perspectives to bridge gaps in understanding and implementing sturdy quality systems among nations.
Symbol and Metaphor in Opera
This study examines symbolism throughout the history of opera, from its mythological roots to contemporary works. It analyzes how allegory, metaphor, and imagery impart the enduring mystic and meaning of this rich genre, while reflecting on its future.
This book details the intricate connection between natural polysaccharides and polymers, examining their shared characteristics. It describes how, as renewable resources, biopolymers offer advantages for green technologies. Essential for students, researchers, and manufacturers.
Everything You Need to Know About Black Holes
What are black holes? They may hold the key to unifying Einstein’s gravity and quantum mechanics. Are they the final stage of a collapsing star? Or do primordial black holes reveal a different origin? This book presents the latest insights into these enormous challenges.
An accessible guide for students of biochemistry, medicine, and life sciences to understand biochemical tests and their clinical interpretation. This book covers routine analyses, how modern labs work, lab automation, metabolic disorders, diagnostic enzymology, and more.
A Study in Guilt
Why do some feel the crushing weight of guilt while others feel none? This book investigates the psychology of remorse through harrowing events like WWII and the Jallianwala Bagh massacre, and the literary complicity of Hamlet’s friends, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern.
Intelligent and Smart Computing
Explore the latest advances in intelligent computing and their application to real-life problems like energy management, healthcare, and autonomous vehicles. Case studies reveal the effectiveness of smart solutions, making this book valuable for researchers and practitioners.
Authority and Contest
In 19th-century Britain, diverse groups from elite naturalists to radical artisans vied for cultural authority using “science.” This study explores the pivotal role of periodicals in shaping these debates, revealing the dynamic interplay between science, culture, and power.
Andreas Gryphius and T.S. Eliot’s “The Dissociation of Sensibility”
A new appraisal of Andreas Gryphius, the great Baroque poet, through T.S. Eliot’s “Dissociation of Sensibility.” Supported by new translations, it shows how Eliot illuminates Gryphius as Gryphius illuminates Eliot. Both suffered the cataclysm of civil war and despair.
A Study of Daisaku Ikeda
This book explores the philosophical and religious work of Daisaku Ikeda, framing it as a philosophy of action. With a strong spiritual and religious reference, Ikeda’s work interprets the human through emancipative will, translating philosophy into practical social engagement.
Arab mythology is made up of nonrational beliefs, which lie beyond scientific verification and are rooted in feeling. In this space, similar to emotions like love or hate, beliefs in deities, spirits, and supernatural forces thrive without requiring proof.
Dialogue Across Divides
This is the untold story of the Pugwash Conferences, Nobel Peace Prize winners who played a behind-the-scenes role in the world’s most intractable conflicts, from the Iran nuclear issue to talking to the Taliban, carving out a niche as contributors to diplomatic breakthroughs.
The history of spices and plantation crops is deeply entwined with colonialism, trade disputes, and revolution. This comprehensive work explores their antiquity, cultural significance, and global spread, revealing how these plants have historically shaped the world order.
The Real Estate Learner’s Guide
For students of real estate, this reference book assembles fundamental concepts and terms about what can be done on, to, and with land. With directions for further reading, it aids learning and prepares students for a career in land, property, and valuation.
This second volume on Grotta Mora Cavorso presents multidisciplinary analyses of the cave’s Neolithic occupation. Discover one of the largest collective burial caves in the Mediterranean, revealing its complex and multi-layered use as a ritual place in central Italy.
Whistleblowing and Whistleblowers in Africa
This book examines whistleblowing’s crucial role in combating corruption in Africa. Drawing on case studies and lived experiences from across the continent, it provides deep insights into the challenges whistleblowers face and the mechanisms for promoting accountability.
This book provides details and implications for digitizing sustainable business, health, and environment. Understand the management opportunities, values, and challenges of using Artificial Intelligence (AI) to enable improved, responsible results and awaken new ideas.
Essays on Italian History (1911-1920)
Before Fascism, a newly unified Italy sought recognition as a European Power. This book collects essays on this pivotal decade, from the colonial war for Libya (1911-12) and intervention in WWI (1915), to its post-war political actions in Eastern Europe and Fiume.