Searching for the Limits of Human Physical Performance
What limits how fast we can run or how long we can row, cycle, or swim without tiring? Exercise fatigue is a common feeling, but its cause remains a mystery. This book examines the historical quest to understand it through the researchers who led the search for answers.
The Quest
This volume describes the story of Troy and theories on whether it existed. It explores excavations from pathfinders like Schliemann to modern projects, and asks if an early attempt to find Troy was a clandestine mission to record local topography.
American Popular Culture
“A varied and fascinating collection of original investigations.” Scholars explore how pop culture has become our new reality, absorbing every facet of life. This book offers important insights into this maddening phenomenon’s uplifting and downgrading possibilities.
This study of Thomas Arne’s cantatas and odes reveals his evolving musical style. Restricted by his Catholic faith, Arne found an outlet in London’s pleasure gardens, setting pastiche texts from Pope and Congreve and challenging critiques of his ability to set Italian.
This book explains what makes Shakespeare’s plays funny, concentrating on the seismic shift in his writing after clown Will Kemp was replaced by Robert Armin. Written in jargon-free prose, it challenges age-old distinctions between high and low comedy for all readers.
Development Engineering
This research-backed guide shows innovators how to develop technological interventions for low-resource settings. Learn to create sustainable solutions that meet a real need, are affordable, and fit the cultural context to avoid common failures and achieve widespread use.
Lesser Civil Wars
This book explores the cycle where the Memory of war, kept alive by civilians, creates the Will to fight again. It examines these “lesser civil wars”—the battles over memory in the Ohio River Valley that incubate a nation’s will to fight.
Holocaust survivor Esther Gitman documents the saga of the Jews of Yugoslavia, focusing on Sarajevo. Her ground-breaking work reveals the integral role Sephardic Jews played from 1492 until seventy percent of the community was annihilated during WWII.
Variation is a universal phenomenon permeating language, culture, and worldviews. This book analyses variations in folklore and language—from myths and motifs to dancing and singing—as signifiers of culture, exploring issues of creativity, intertextuality, and transmediality.
New Ways of Thinking about Nursing
The research-based, technical approach to nursing is failing our patients, students, and profession. This book challenges the assumptions of modern evidence-based practice, proposing a person-centred philosophy of nursing that addresses the needs of each individual patient.
Post-Newtonian Hydrodynamics
This book develops post-Newtonian kinetic and phenomenological theories, deriving hydrodynamic equations and exploring astrophysical applications like stellar structure, Jeans instability, and galaxy rotation curves. For physicists, astrophysicists, and advanced students.
Breaking the Cycle of Women’s Paid Domestic Work in Brazil
This book portrays the life stories of Brazilian domestic workers and their daughters, who are the first in their families to get a higher education. It explores their social mobility through the mother-daughter bond that transforms trauma into empowerment.
What forces shape the lives of Punjabi women in Pakistan? This study analyzes the impact of education, media, and legislation on their socio-cultural, legal, and economic rights, drawing on extensive interviews and surveys to foster a compelling debate.
This book uses complexity research to overcome the categorizations and opposites that limit our descriptions of existence. It offers innovative philosophical insights to arrive at a unified vision of nature and society, governed by the same laws of non-linearity.
Economic Value Added for Competitive Advantage
How can competitive advantage be measured for Indian companies? This book advocates that Economic Value Added (EVA®) can be used to establish it. Based on an in-depth study, it shows that Indian companies using EVA® have a distinct advantage over competitors.
For 30,000 years, humans have created visual expressions of their sacred beings. This book investigates these interpretations of deities throughout history, exploring the psychological necessity for us to create gods and goddesses in a human-like form.
In the sphere of Indian English literature, Indian English fiction after the end of the 1980s has emerged as a new “canon”. This monograph highlights the process of literary canon formation in Indian universities, and examines such fiction as an alternative literary canon.
Managerial Dilemmas in Developing Countries
Since organizations and industries are the catalysts for sustainable development, managing them along with resource protection dilemmas is critical for developing countries. The contributions here relate to development, management, consumer behaviour, finance, and tourism.
To persuade, you need proof. But what counts as satisfactory proof varies by culture and context. This volume assembles experts to address the theme of proof in ancient Greek literature, from the lawcourts to drama and historiography, with a focus on the Athenian orators.
Connecting Criminology and Criminal Justice
This integrated criminology/criminal justice textbook presents critical perspectives on the justice system. Covering key theories, research, and crime trends in the Canadian context, it provides students with the critical skills they need to excel in social justice and beyond.
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