Learn the basics of media research, from conducting experimental and survey research to understanding how the media socializes us. This book explores media’s effects, including stereotypes and prosocial impacts, and teaches critical thinking techniques.
Healing Cultures
Based on a case study of Sri Lanka, this book explores diverse healing cultures and how government action can protect or destroy them. It argues these practices are vital for community wellbeing and as intangible cultural heritage, filling a crucial gap in the literature.
Designed for EFL students, this textbook builds a solid foundation in English literature. It covers literary terms, a brief history, and selected fiction, poetry, and drama. With comprehension questions for EFL learners, this is an excellent resource for students and teachers.
This book traces the literary expression of religious fear from the New Testament to scholasticism. It reveals how Franciscan preachers, using the power of community language, forged a confident and peace-seeking theology to counter this legacy.
This book reviews the medical aspects of bilio-pancreatic malformations in adults, covering key ductal anomalies like pancreas divisum and annular pancreas. It includes a wide literature review, as well as original schematic figures and illustrations.
This book analyzes the financial, economic, educational, and technological drivers of environmental sustainability from a global perspective. It presents findings and recommendations useful for researchers and policy-makers to advance sustainable development.
This book explores story, narrator, character, time, and space. It upgrades the theory of the unreliable narrator and introduces three new categories: commentators, interpreters, and evaluators.
Putting Samotherium in its Place
This book explores the rich Miocene mammalian fossils of Samos, from the ancient Greek myths that explained them to the Barnum Brown expeditions. It compares the osteology of the giraffe, okapi, and the extinct giraffid Samotherium, and maps the island’s famous bone quarries.
Power and Propaganda in French Second Empire Theatre
In Second Empire France, authorities used the stage for propaganda. This book explores how Napoléon-themed dramas, intended for a working-class audience, were censored to strengthen the regime, shaping collective memory and myths of national identity.
This book discusses the rise and fall of “wonder drugs” that combat deadly infections. However, overuse leads to antibiotic resistance, leaving few treatment options. Explore the discoveries of major drug classes, the resistant bacteria we now face, and novel strategies.
This book covers degenerate and singular elliptic equations, which appear in applications from glaciology to fluid mechanics. Based on the author’s research, it is a useful reference for graduate students and researchers interested in differential equations.
The End of Manorial Tenure, 1841-1957
This book reveals the neglected world of English manorial tenure in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. It establishes for the first time a protracted property revolution lasting over 100 years—a massive lacuna in legal history of interest to lawyers and historians alike.
The Aging Criminal
Global experts condense the latest scientific discoveries on severe mental illness in forensic detainees into a single, easy-to-read guide. They interpret findings from genomics into new therapeutic practices. For practitioners, researchers, patient families, and specialists.
Learn Earth science as easily as playing a game with this book and the Gt Aide freeware. Designed for students and researchers, its powerful modules guide you through coordinates, gridding, and sampling—no formal GIS training required. Visualize data and master geospatial skills.
Education in Troubled Times
This volume examines how education operates in troubled times. From the COVID-19 pandemic and political manipulation to conflict situations, it explores serious challenges affecting education and suggests ways to overcome them in their respective contexts.
This book provides vital information on loss and trauma for counselors and therapists. It fills a critical gap in graduate training by offering conceptual frameworks, rich descriptive cases, and a review of interventions for working with traumatized and bereaved clients.
Aquifer characterisation is essential for groundwater modelling, but traditional methods are time-consuming and expensive. This volume explores how geophysical techniques overcome these limitations, providing high-resolution subsurface data through detailed case studies.
This anthology includes three hundred Chinese metric verses exploring Chinese culture and the author’s personal life. All verses are written in Chinese with English translations and notes, making this collection ideal for readers interested in Chinese verse or culture at large.
Celebrating Paolo Grigolini’s 50-year legacy in non-equilibrium statistical physics. This collection explores his pioneering work on the quantum-classical connection, anomalous diffusion, and new methods for detecting scaling in time series.
Amid Ireland’s self-destruction, a radical new future for these isles is proposed. This book argues for a Celtic confederation, uniting Ireland, Scotland, Wales, and England to replace a broken order with a beautiful new possibility of true belonging.