The first deep dive into how social determinants of health fuel disparities for people with epilepsy. Through ground-breaking research into low-income communities, this book exposes the social and economic roots of inequity and charts a path toward health justice.
The Shakespearean Search for Archetypes
Shakespeare’s mythopoetic figures are not transcendental but are batteries of condensed cultural meaning. This book finds in these archetypes the explanation for why his work responds through time to perspectives as different as psychological, feminist, and postcolonial.
This volume explores British depictions of Bulgaria as a dystopian land from the 18th century until its 1878 Liberation. In these travel narratives, the Bulgarian nation is an antithesis to the civilised British, until its National Revival comes to question this depiction.
Integrated Marketing Communication
A valuable resource for students, academics, and practitioners of integrated marketing communication (IMC). It details the principles and practices of IMC before presenting a step-by-step process for preparing and executing a plan for any given brand.
Master English phrasal verbs. This comprehensive resource provides a list of verbs with easy definitions, usage examples, and exercises. It’s an essential tool for non-native speakers seeking to achieve native-like fluency and master an unpredictable part of the language.
Twelve original essays explore the afterlives of nineteenth- and twentieth-century writers in biofiction and the biopic. Featuring case studies on Charlotte Brontë, Henry James, and Virginia Woolf, this volume situates these genres in their cultural and ideological contexts.
This collection re-examines the work and life of Arthur Conan Doyle from multiple perspectives. It considers overlooked aspects of his oeuvre, offering fresh perspectives on his fiction and his relationship to contemporary writers and movements.
The edTPA Assessment for Special Education Pre-Service Teachers
This book assists the Special Education pre-service teacher in preparing a successful edTPA portfolio, a requirement for teacher certification in most states. It provides detailed guidance, best practices, and proven strategies for creating a high-quality portfolio.
Managerial Compensation and Financial Performance
This book explores the link between managerial compensation and financial performance in India’s manufacturing sector. It breaks down complex ideas to show how pay structures impact executive decisions and company success, offering strategic insights for leaders and policymakers.
Nurses are motivated by compassion, but how does this ‘soft’ value fit into modern, evidence-based healthcare? This book answers that question, showing that compassion is not old-fashioned but an indispensable necessity for high-quality, evidence-based nursing care.
Trussed Frames and Arches
This book details 72 statically determinate truss schemes, providing compact formulas for deflection. For engineers and theorists, these formulas are a reliable test for numerical calculations, are especially effective for large trusses, and warn of hidden dangerous properties.
Food Safety, from Farm to Fork
This volume explores global food safety issues, presenting key findings from scientific studies. It details threats along the food chain—from pathogens, pesticides, and heavy metals to allergens—and shows how adhering to good practices is crucial in ensuring safe foods.
Development and Decay of Public Administration in Bangladesh
This book analyzes the development and decay of public administration in Bangladesh, revealing how the British “steel frame” of bureaucracy provides its basis. Though post-colonial governments tried to form their own bureaucracy, they failed to retain its prestige and glory.
Experiential Marketing in an Age of Hyper-Connectivity
This rigorous, informative resource is a playbook for every scholar, student, and practitioner of experiential marketing. Learn the state of customer experience, how to expand a customer base, and use cutting-edge sensory marketing to create hedonic experiences.
This book confronts the tension between federalism and separatist agitations in Nigeria. Amid the clamour for restructuring and threats of secession, it offers practical and theoretical insights to reposition Nigeria’s federalism for national unity and stability.
This book offers a biopolitical analysis of the Harry Potter series. Applying the theories of Foucault, Hardt, and Negri, it reveals how the fantasy world both perpetuates power inequalities and provides a dissident perspective on power relations.
This book explores proper names: what they are, why we need them, and how they work. It focuses on the use of names in our thoughts and in communication, as tools we use to single out objects of discourse and convey information about them.
This linguistic study is for anyone interested in cognitive semantics and pragmatics. It establishes a relationship between illocutionary and discursive features of speech acts, emphasizing the shift from arbitrariness to iconicity of linguistic expressions.
In essays, reviews, and interviews, an acclaimed film critic lays out a Christian approach to film. He shows how blockbusters, documentaries, and indies can speak to Christians and how Christian voices can enrich conversations around their meaning and relevance.
Theologian and philosopher Paul Tillich believed that to fully live, one must do so on the boundary. This book applies his work to pedagogy, demonstrating how a “Tillichian” approach can diminish students’ existential anxieties and prepare them to live in the modern world.