The Art of Maria Tomasula
Maria Tomasula’s captivating still lifes contrast luscious beauty with disturbing features like pierced flowers and isolated organs. This first comprehensive monograph unravels her complex iconography, rooted in her Mexican American heritage, Catholicism, and European tradition.
Complex Art Conservation and Preservation Problems
For the first time, this book examines Egon Schiele’s painting technique through his 1918 work, “Stadtende/Häuserbogen III.” A conservation campaign uncovered hidden portrait sketches, unmasked a forged signature, and identified the original frame, guiding future preservation.
For some Afrofuturists, going beyond the human is a response to the long struggle for equality. While the term is new, this book argues the ideas are not, tracing roots back over a hundred years and comparing proto-Afrofuturist authors with writer Octavia Butler.
This book sheds light on controversial questions about interventions on religious heritage buildings. Since Vatican II, the renewal of Catholic churches has been problematic for historic buildings. How can we reform what has already been reformed?
Goddess Mystery Cults and the Miracle of Minyan Prehistoric Greece
The cradle of the Mystery Cults is the Aegean, where initiates achieved cosmic consciousness. This book argues that prehistoric Minyans and Minoans, possessing advanced pre-Flood knowledge, sailed the Atlantic and reached the copper mines of America in the third millennium.
The World of South African Music
This Reader is a selection of influential, rare, historic, and contemporary texts on South African music, chosen to provide a deep understanding of the music itself. Indispensable to scholars and enthusiasts, it is vital for those looking for a way into this world.
This book exposes the ‘unseen’ challenges of qualitative research. First-person accounts from diverse multicultural contexts reveal how researchers navigated ethical tensions, unequal power relations, and linguistic barriers. An invaluable resource with practical recommendations.
China and the Global Media Landscape
This book explores how Chinese media became a global force, remapping the world’s media landscape. It examines how China’s system is shaped by others, while its own “going out” strategy influences film, broadcasting, the press, and the Internet worldwide.
This book details the reinvention of librarians and archivists as memory makers for the digital age. Learn the methods to turn a flood of data into valued information, combining the art of curation with the science of recordkeeping to assume control in the Digital Memory Age.
This textbook explains the physical processes governing the formation and evolution of planetary systems. Designed for undergraduates, the theory is developed from first principles, covering planetary dynamics, magnetic fields, and the fluid dynamics of circumstellar disks.
CLIL in Spain
A significant contribution to CLIL, this book links classroom initiatives with teacher education. It provides practical suggestions and raises issues for reflection, noting that without proper teacher education, the full potential of CLIL cannot be realised.
Neighborhood Organization and Social Control in Changing Urban China
Using large-scale survey data, this book assesses the neighborhood social control system in a changing urban China. It conceptualizes this system through multiple levels of control and highlights the importance of cross-cultural studies of neighborhood effects.
Is mental ability one general factor, as psychometrics claims, or many specific ones, as neuropsychology suggests? This debate has critical implications for education and social issues. This book gathers diverse experts to explore the nature of human mental abilities.
Fiction Unbound
This book shows how Bernardine Evaristo is not simply a “multicultural” writer. It reveals an author who questions concepts like “Englishness,” race, and gender, giving marginalized characters the chance to tell their own stories.
Empedocles of Acragas
Empedocles of Acragas is known as a philosopher, healer, excellent orator, miracle-maker, and engineer. Scholars, students and specialists will find in this book an analysis of his revolutionary writings, and confirmation that he was a multi-faceted and important thinker.
Informational Linguistics
This book describes the innovative paradigm of informational linguistics. Informational knowledge is in high demand, particularly in information technologies. This book is oriented toward improving the skills of structuring knowledge and distinguishing priorities.
This collection of essays addresses the absence of African voices in global bioethics. It explores issues from medical research and traditional medicine to reproductive health, showing how universal bioethics can be firmly anchored in local, continental realities.
This book covers the author’s field experiences as an ethnographer in Central America and an applied anthropologist in the US. It highlights the importance of incorporating ethnography into work tasks across a range of social fields and diverse socio-cultural groups.
Raymond Queneau’s Dubliners
An exploration of two comic, erotic, and feminist novels by Raymond Queneau set in Ireland. This book examines Joycean influences and a surreal version of the Dublin Uprising, solving puzzles to reveal *Les Œuvres completes de Sally Mara* as a subtly integrated literary work.
The Unity-Based Family
Danesh and Nasseri discuss creating loving and united marriages, nurturing and happy families, and rearing healthy and successful children. They provide new concepts and practical strategies on how to achieve these noble objectives in our rapidly changing and challenging world.
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