Contemporary Practices in Bio-art
This book explores Dendro-art, a new subdivision of Bio-art focused on the human-plant relationship and recreating vanished species. The author, an artist with academic training, offers a unique perspective, examining the works of bio-artists from both the inside and out.
This collection of essays challenges patriarchal readings of sacred texts. By redefining key terms in the Bible and Qur’an and reexamining global traditions, it uncovers gender parity and argues that as societies evolve, so must our understanding of faith and gender roles.
Statistics for Linguists
An accessible introduction to statistics for linguists. Concepts are explained in non-technical terms, with step-by-step SPSS instructions for the most widely used statistics, including t-tests, ANOVA, non-parametric, and mixed-effects procedures.
Evolution and I discusses and sheds light on human knowledge and evolution from a range of perspectives including morals and ethics, sex and gender, religion, artificial intelligence, and microorganisms, with often surprising conclusions illuminating who we are as humans.
The first book on ‘engagement’ in Religious Education, this collection breaks new ground by creating a dialogue with ethics. It offers fresh insights for the 21st century, aiming to make Religious Education a more stimulating and enjoyable experience for all.
Nat Turner in Black and White
This book reveals how writers imagine cautionary Nat Turner-tales, making him a misunderstood and polarizing figure. By locating the Turner Insurrection within historical race trauma, writers expose the lasting impact of slavery and frame rebellion as heroic.
Based on 13 years of empirical study, this unique book covers the application of satellite remote sensing in disaster management, with a focus on human factors. It provides an overview of the technology and its uses for practitioners and researchers in the field.
Digital English as a Lingua Franca
This book investigates the aesthetics of informal online communication. Using sentiment analysis, it demonstrates that the style of these texts is influenced by how we associate emotions and opinions with specific words and syntactic patterns.
The Irish Celebrating
This collection of essays explores the dual aspects of celebrating in Ireland—‘the festive’ and ‘the tragic’. Insightful essays examine how feasts, literature, and commemorations have shaped Ireland’s past, present, and national identity.
Ethnicity and Englishness
This book explores nationality, groups and religion through the inner lives of second-generation immigrants in England. It analyses the reasons for prejudice between groups and suggests ways to deal with it.
Karen Blixen’s Existentialism
This book investigates the writings of Karen Blixen from an existentialist angle. Blixen subtly integrates the ideas of Kierkegaard, Nietzsche, and Sartre, making them accessible while offering her own ideas on existentialism’s fundamental problem: how to become who you are.
Tea in Australia
Before 1950, Australians were the world’s highest per capita tea consumers. This book tells the story of how tea became the national beverage, exploring its trade, marketing, and the evolution of social rituals like afternoon tea. The first comprehensive account of its kind.
The Scientific Revolution decentered humanity, but modern physics reveals the observer’s central role in actualizing reality. This book explores a return of science to natural philosophy, offering a new pathway to understanding our place in the Universe.
This book evaluates financial behaviour in the new economy. As changing technology alters consumer habits, businesses must use innovative methods to survive tough competition and influence financial decisions.
Mental Health in Qatar
This is the first volume to explore mental health in Qatar, a priority area in the country’s strategic vision. Experts discuss the history of mental health systems, current challenges, and treatment for all ages and special populations, including at schools and in the workplace.
Out Here
This collection of essays and stories reflects queer concerns in places peripheral to the centers of queer theory. Out here, often within the context of rampant homophobia, queer methodologies prove especially productive. Out here, queer theory is alive and kicking.
Once the leader of the French school of opera, admired by Wagner and Berlioz, Fromental Halévy is now remembered only for La Juive. This study throws light on this shadowy figure, examining his life, his many popular but forgotten operas, and their place in history.
In the high-risk world of aviation, psychology is a critical variable affecting performance, safety, and accidents. This book brings together detailed studies from the behavioural sciences to allow the reader to better understand this multifaceted relationship.
Hegel’s System of Logic
This book presents Hegel’s Logic as a total system where everything, from physics to theology, finds its true place. Following the logic’s own development, it reveals how Logic is “the form of the world” and re-establishes metaphysics as the true theologia—the mind of heaven.
Corporations Have Almost as Many Constitutional Rights as Individuals
This book explains how, over 225 years, US Supreme Court decisions have enshrined corporations with constitutional rights, transforming them from individual freedoms to corporate entitlements used to evade government regulations.
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