Polarization, Populism, and the New Politics
From Turkey to the USA, the effect of populism is felt more than ever. This volume considers the role played by conventional and new media in its rise. Investigating countries such as Spain and the UK, it will appeal to readers interested in polarization and post-truth studies.
This book tackles modern methods in the modelling of extreme data, such as floods and hurricanes. It provides the latest statistical methods to predict these random phenomena and minimize damage, offering both an applied and theoretical orientation.
This volume analyzes the economies of Russia and other post-Soviet states. It offers a comparison of their economic progress, highlighting the differences and similarities between them. This book is useful for students, professors, and businessmen.
This is the first book to apply expressive writing to L2 academic writing. Its techniques are particularly helpful for L2 students who have difficulty expressing themselves in English. The book will appeal to lecturers, linguists, psychologists, and teachers.
This book explores the interdependence between environment and economics, searching for solutions to environmental problems. It provides an overview of the field with case studies and policies, making it a useful introduction for students, teachers, and academicians.
An Introduction to Nutritional Medicine
Charles Darwin meets Hippocrates, the father of medicine. In this imagined dialogue, the two great thinkers provide a useful introduction to nutritional medicine, tackling controversial topics like supplements, probiotics, and how to define “junk food.”
The Fairy-Tale Vanguard
The fairy tale has long been a laboratory for authors to experiment with literary boundaries. This essay collection adopts a historical approach, offering case studies on English, French, German, and other texts from the 17th to 21st century by authors like Andersen and Coover.
Despite its key role in medicine, epidemiology is faltering. No other specialty can track diseases in populations, assess health risks, or evaluate medical care. A lesson from COVID-19 is that enhancing this work is crucial for public health. This volume shows how.
This book advocates teaching peace through transformative literary works. It offers original poetry, critiques of fiction and film, and an exploration of peace studies to improve academic skills and foster curiosity, solitude, and self-development through writing.
Once considered an archaic concept, the Sublime has returned to the critical agenda. This book asks why. Spanning philosophy, politics, popular cinema, and digital cultures, these essays explore the relevance and urgency of the Sublime for today’s world.
Homecoming Trails in Mexican American Cultural History
Critical essays by specialists from Mexico, Germany, and the US reexamine Mexican American cultural history from a 21st-century global perspective. The jargon-free essays explore biography, nationhood, and globalism, from Imperial Spain to modern US influence in Latin America.
This corpus-based study examines how US and UK newspapers used reporting strategies to shape public opinion on the Second Gulf War. It reveals that the choice of strategies is not only ideologically-driven, but also highly determined by country, style, and genre.
Global Arts Leadership in the Digital Age
Leading voices in the arts discuss how technology—from AI and crypto to the metaverse—is creating today’s most iconic cultural products. Through case studies and expert commentaries, this book offers a manual with tangible tools for all cultural practitioners.
Stress in Plants
This book provides an overview of the challenges of increasing crop productivity for a growing population. It links plant activity to tolerance and adaptation, offering strategies to counter the impact of environmental stress, a threat magnified by climate change.
An Introduction to Georgian Art Music
This book journeys through 20th-century Georgian art music, reflecting the country’s turbulent history from independence through Soviet occupation. It shows how the music’s roots were shaped, how socialist realism made its imprint, and how a new generation shifted away from it.
This book reveals how masked activists in Saudi Arabia use social media to challenge a patriarchal society. It connects their hidden online identities to influential newspaper columns, investigating the true extent and consequences of a Saudi woman’s freedom of expression.
This book explores the history of Econophysics for the lay-reader. It traces the emergence of the field, from the philosophers and scientists who contributed, to the institutions, books, and conferences that nurtured the subject.
Freedom of Navigation in the Exclusive Economic Zone
This book examines the EU’s initiatives on ship-source pollution. It analyzes this first regional approach to criminalize pollution beyond international standards, and asks how this will impact the freedom of navigation for other States in the exclusive economic zone.
This book examines the reception of visual arts across cultures and times. It focuses on the migration of images: how they travel from one medium to another, and how they migrate from an artefact into the human body, a process explored through various disciplines.
PostGender
A collection of articles by leading researchers on gender, sexuality, and performativity in Japanese culture. This volume considers representations of the body across contemporary art, manga, photography, and performance art.
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