The Philosophy of Chemistry
This volume connects chemistry and philosophy by exploring chemical practice. Chemists and philosophers collaborate to reshape concepts, address current challenges, and foster inventiveness. Prefaced by Nobel Laureate in Chemistry, Roald Hoffmann.
Giacomo Meyerbeer
This volume presents the libretto for Meyerbeer’s final grand opéra, L’Africaine. A fictional treatment of Vasco da Gama’s voyage, it is a mixture of history and fairytale. In this edition, the original text and its English translation are on facing pages.
Expand your academic vocabulary with the 570 most frequent words from university and school textbooks. Each word includes pictorial illustrations to aid memorization, plus parts of speech, synonyms, antonyms, and an example sentence to show it in its proper context.
This book explores topical issues in language and literature. It examines Cameroon’s linguistic colonial legacy, translation as a creative exercise, translator education, and the clash between Confucian and communicative classroom teaching in China.
This volume contains more than forty-six previously unpublished lectures and personal documents by Bernard Eugene Meland, a leader in constructive theology. These writings give the reader a deeper understanding of Meland’s methods and thought.
This book addresses ideological changes of the 19th-21st centuries and their impact on Spanish language and culture. It focuses on ‘otherness’ in its various dimensions, arguing that the vision of the other is ultimately a reflection of the self.
This volume offers a cross section of current directions in music analysis. Music analysis is presented as a vibrant, multi-faceted field of research that constantly re-examines its own postulates while establishing dialogues with other disciplines.
The Future of Post-Human Sports
Is winning the only thing? This book offers an alternative way to understand the future of sports. It presents a new theory to go beyond existing approaches and will fundamentally change the way we think about training and winning, with enormous implications.
This volume analyzes the relations between multinational empires and the idea of the nation. Topics range from colonialism and the Great Powers to the Great War, decolonization, ethnic conflicts, the dissolution of empires, and the East-West conflict.
The first International Handbook of Forest Therapy unites over 50 global experts to define this evidence-based public health approach. Drawing on three decades of research and the latest developments, this milestone work sets the baseline for its worldwide implementation.
What is “soft power”? Chinese scholars debate how influence is won through admiration, not just military force. This volume assesses the concept in the United States, asking whether China can rival American prestige and what it means for US-China relations.
The Future of Post-Human Transportation
Is transportation a destructive force or a glorious wonder? This book rejects these extremes, offering a new theory to fundamentally change how we think about transportation, with enormous implications for the human future and its “post-human” fate.
The Clinical Presentation of Parkinson’s Disease and the Dyadic Relationship between Patients and Carers
This book offers a study of Parkinson’s disease, focusing on the neuropsychological changes that impact patients and their carers. It emphasizes the patient-carer relationship, providing explanations and strategies to alleviate the difficult aspects of care-giving.
Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) is a tool for poverty reduction, but attracting it is not the end. This book argues a nation’s absorption capacity is paramount, exploring the ‘Vicious-Circle of Poverty’ and providing new frameworks for plausible poverty reduction approaches.
Fuel for the Future
Explore leading research on transforming low-rank coals into affordable, high-quality fuel for clean power generation. This book charts a course toward secure, zero-emissions energy from an abundant global resource, vital for industry and policymakers.
From fan-generated translation to user-generated translation, non-professional subtitling has come a long way since its humble beginning in the 1980s. This volume provides a comprehensive review of the current state of play of this user-generated subtitling phenomenon.
A dinosaur book like no other, this irreverent chronicle of science and pseudoscience finds humour in absurdity and takes the reader on a journey through some of the numerous bizarre ideas of young-Earth creationism which have infiltrated grade-school science textbooks.
Insanity and Genius
For scientists, beauty is truth. But the author sought truths from a different way of knowing—one not of logic, but of expression. This book explores the greatest minds struggling to understand the deepest truths of the human condition.
European Dictatorships
How did Europe become a “Europe of the Dictatorships“? To understand this process, one must look at the transitions. This book traces Europe’s history from WWI, through the shift from fascist to communist states, to the history of the Eastern Bloc.
Around the Point
This unique collection brings together scholars to explore Jewish literature across numerous languages. A significant endeavor, this volume tackles essential questions of Jewish identity, literary history, cultural influence, and Holocaust literature.