Kwame Nkrumah and Félix Houphouët-Boigny
This book discusses the divergent approaches to African independence of two great leaders, Kwame Nkrumah and Félix Houphouët-Boigny. It identifies the impact their differences had on Africa and explores why, despite vast resources, it remains the world’s poorest continent.
Translation in the Digital Age
New technologies challenge translation and interpreting. This volume introduces “Translation 4.0″—the application of internet technology to communication between humans and machines—and explores the consequences for research and the profession.
Fan Culture
Explore the shifting dynamics between fans, scholars, and creators. This accessible collection tackles the core ethical questions of fan studies through popular fandoms like Doctor Who, Star Wars, and Twilight.
The contributions on Lee’s work here include new interpretations from diverse critical angles, including US literary and cultural history, Southern studies, sociological theory, gender studies, stylistic analysis, translation, and pedagogy.
Globally, over two thirds of soils are affected by constraints, causing significant yield loss. This book brings together global experts to outline the most successful strategies to manage these constraints for sustainable food production worldwide.
The ‘New’ Documentary Nexus
The rise of digital media has caused paradigm shifts in documentary. This book explores central questions about interactive documentary, developing methods to analyze this dynamic field for documentary theorists, media scholars, and students of media and communication studies.
Muslim Women Seeking Power, Muslim Youth Seeking Justice
This volume explores employment equity for Muslim women and the identity of Muslim youth in an age of Islamophobia. It offers a worldwide perspective on overcoming discrimination, developing the idea of peaceful resistance and patience in the face of persecution.
A Political History of Post-WWII Architecture in Europe
Has architecture lost the connection to public and private life? This book explores architecture from a political perspective, examining how it has mirrored political developments in Europe since the Second World War to reveal the meanings generated from this relationship.
Modern challenges cause stress and poor health. This book develops the concept of ‘emotional health’ as a bio-psycho-socio-cultural balance, bridging medical treatments with alternative therapies to highlight new solutions to these problems.
This readable, non-technical collection of essays explores the digitalized world, offering a comprehensive presentation of communication issues, trends, data, and future developments.
This book highlights clinical examination methods and describes signs and symptoms in psychiatry. It provides a practical, up-to-date approach, focusing on fundamentals while avoiding complexity. Written for postgraduate doctors, novices, and other mental health professionals.
Prominent administrative law scholars discuss how the law has adapted to the COVID-19 pandemic and can prepare for future emergencies. The book also considers the digitization of administrative law, a topic that will increasingly shape public law in the future.
This study examines the language in historical accounts of discovery, exploration, and settlement from the 16th to 19th centuries. It analyzes how genres like journals and travel books were used to inform and persuade, conveying factual, personal, and ideological knowledge.
This book explores how Shakespeare used pagan mythology to reframe the Christian conflicts of his day. It offers a powerful new reading of The Winter’s Tale, one of his most spiritually rich and emotionally demanding plays.
This collection of current, forward-looking research tackles key issues in the interplay between cognition and language learning. Responding to the need for innovative work, this volume brings researchers together to open new debates. For students, teachers, and researchers.
Putin’s war in Ukraine is a stark violation of international humanitarian law. This book analyzes the International Criminal Court and alternative judicial avenues to hold perpetrators accountable for war crimes and secure justice for the victims.
This book illustrates how human impacts on the environment and climate change affect health. It highlights innovative approaches and models for sustainable healthcare, setting out a vision of ecological principles to guide sustainable health developments for future generations.
Essays on Education and Popular Culture
This volume is devoted to simple but deep readings of the subtle and not-so-subtle messages in films, and to the interpretation of the silences that are strategically delivered through the mass media. It will serve to promote mass literacy and mutual understanding.
The Recovery of Palestine, 1917
Weintraub illustrates how General Edmund Allenby, having been raised on the Bible, exploited Prime Minister David Lloyd George’s request for help to capture Jerusalem in 1917. He explains how, despite a hard-fought desert war Jerusalem finally fell, with its sacred sites intact.
Engineering of Solid Rocket Motors
This book explores the systems engineering, production processes and performance issues of solid rockets. It discusses state-of-the-art techniques and recent developments, appealing to rocket scientists, students, and professors.
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