As Los Angeles became multi-national, its novels changed greatly. This volume highlights brilliant fiction from Latino/a, African-American, women, and LGBTQ writers who transformed genres, alongside rediscovered novels that explored 20th century class conflicts.
Climate change, over-indebtedness, and demographic aging put pressure on future generations. This book explores how corporate and financial social responsibility can leverage intergenerational harmony and ensure a sustainable future for humankind.
American Policy Discourses on China
This book’s compelling analysis examines the narratives surrounding US-China relations from early American perspectives to the present, revealing enduring perceptions of China that continue to significantly influence policy in the world’s most important bilateral relationship.
Tomorrow through the Past
This first collection of scholarly essays on Neal Stephenson examines his novels from The Big U to The Baroque Cycle and his non-fiction. The collection includes a new interview with Stephenson, making it essential for readers and scholars alike.
Explore the wave and vibration equation, emphasizing singular solutions and physical content. This book covers applications from tsunamis and storm breakers to the ringing of bells and collapsing towers. For students, researchers, and engineers in physics and applied mathematics.
Sir Stanley Rous and the Growth of World Football
This book takes the life of FIFA president Stanley Rous (1895-1986) as a lens to understand football’s global rise. It charts his ascent from a Suffolk village to the top of world football, through two World Wars, the 1948 Olympics, and volatile post-colonial diplomacy.
Ethnographic Discourse of the Other
This book explores the ‘Other’—the oppressed and marginalized sections of society. This interdisciplinary volume discusses and theorizes the pragmatic concepts and issues related to these groups in contemporary South Asia.
Food in American Culture and Literature
Carving a unique space in food studies, these multifaceted essays blend cultural analysis with history and sociology. These cultural critiques force the reader to consider what food means, and will mean, in the United States.
This is the first in-depth English analysis of the nine short poems, or romances, by Spanish mystic Saint John of the Cross. Focusing on the Trinity, it explores their literary, theological, and mystical elements, tying them to San Juan’s better-known works.
China Beyond the Binary
This book brings together Ancient Chinese stories, great novels, and modern online literature. It is a magic combination of stories and academic studies, with ideas from writers from different backgrounds, forming a picture of China and its relationship with other cultures.
This book offers strategies for developing the online classroom into a deep learning community. Anchored in educational theory, it shows how a strong sense of community ownership enhances students’ ability to master content through shared authority, voice, and peer connection.
Contributors to this book accept an evolutionary account of life, mind and religion. However, they hold divergent views on the relation of mind to brain, the validity of religious belief, and how even Christ may be seen as an aspect of the evolutionary process.
This volume explores the application of formal methods from mathematics to architecture and urbanism. From geometry to shape grammars, it examines the potential of these tools to create new problem-solving languages and advance the digitalization of the field.
Enhanced Learning Environments
This book looks beyond buzzwords for the ground truth in how technology can enhance education. It makes a strong case for how innovations like immersive virtual reality, accessible Hollywood technology, and the metaverse can create a new frontier for future-focused learning.
This book explores patterns in Jewish history, diagnosing a national neurosis as the cause for four previous fiascos. It explains what must be done in the twenty-first century to prevent past tragedies from recurring and secure the future of the Jewish nation.
A Special Model of Classical Reception
This volume traces the influence of epics like the Odyssey across a vast geographical and cultural space. It analyzes modern and contemporary tales from around the globe, focusing on how major political phenomena can have on universal creativity.
This book delves into the foundations of physics and our understanding of the universe. It covers cosmology from origin myths to dark energy, focusing on the open problems and unsolved puzzles that inevitably intertwine physics, astrophysics, and philosophy.
Active sports tourism is a rapidly developing sector. Less expensive, with greater economic impact and more respect for the environment, it includes everything from extreme sports to ‘slow adventure’. This book provides a complete international picture of the phenomenon.
This book applies Saint Augustine’s ethics to contemporary social justice. In dialogue with modern political philosophy, it offers new frameworks for addressing 21st-century challenges and prepares readers for today’s most urgent social justice debates.
The Value of Mathematics and Computing in Contemporary Art
Artists have always used the tools of their time. Today, computers and mathematics enrich the panoply of tools an artist can deploy. This book reveals the immense artistic qualities and intellectual values of works created with our growing mathematical knowledge.
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