The Lake Poets in Prose
Focusing on their prose, this collection challenges assumptions about the Lake Poets. Far from idealistic dreamers or “Jacobins,” they consistently challenged the government, defended democratic impulses, and argued from a complex and surprising religious standpoint.
To address diverse student needs, education must move to an inclusive, student-centric approach. This volume highlights diversity and inclusion practices, helping educators understand and address the challenges students face.
How do affect and cognition shape managerial decisions? This book unpacks their interplay at the individual, group, and organizational levels, revealing how these powerful influences can be harnessed or mitigated.
The Psalms are a key text of world literature, but archaic language can be an impediment for modern readers. This book provides a compact apparatus for exploring the text, including descriptions of places and events and a practical index to find psalms for real-world problems.
Japan’s Military Power
Japan’s leading submariner, Hideki Nakamura, delivers a bestselling insider’s account of the problems facing the Self-Defense Forces. He reveals how legal, political, and operational restrictions dangerously undermine the SDF’s ability to fight and partner with other countries.
Energy and Humanity
This book describes human civilization from an energy perspective, showing how mastering energy catapulted our species to supremacy. It weaves a fascinating story from Stone Age tools to climate change, discussing the dark side and the future of renewables.
This book challenges the idea of progress that treats nature as an inexhaustible resource. It proposes a revolutionary alternative: harmonious progress that respects nature’s boundaries, defining a clear action plan using renewable energy, smart grids, and green settlements.
This book compares Hegel’s and Aquinas’s Trinitarian studies, renouncing the separation of philosophy and theology. Beneath their very different idioms, a near-perfect harmony is found, offering enriched participation in thought’s self-understanding.
The triple bottom line is a framework for achieving economic and social balance while maintaining ecological systems. This volume details the state of the art of this approach, indicating where there is debate, overlooked theory, and unresolved problems.
Psychotherapy in Pain Management
This timely, neuroscience-based guide presents the Clinical Biopsychological Model for treating chronic pain. It offers novel strategies for addressing negative memories, interpersonal stressors, and depression, with detailed guidance for assessment and treatment.
This series of critiques explores three literary forums. “Modern Sonneteers” shows that the sonnet thrives still. “Homage to Hilary Mantel” offers new analyses of the pre-eminent novelist. “Critical Letters” gathers pensees on literature written during the COVID-19 pandemic.
This book on comparative anatomy will be useful to medical and high school students. It provides a better understanding of phylogenetically determined anomalies and malformations in the development of internal organs in humans.
This book presents research on the mathematical modelling of the blast furnace process. It describes models for gas dynamics, heat transfer, and reduction, detailing an analytical study method that complements experimental work. Includes solutions to practical smelting problems.
Agricultural Development in Andhra Pradesh
This book examines fifty years of agricultural development in India through a case study of Andhra Pradesh. It explores the impact of the green revolution and major policy shifts like globalization and liberalization on land use, input usage, and rural institutions.
This book describes experiments for modifying clinically used anticoagulants. It establishes the structure of the synthesized products through X-ray analysis, identifies unexpected new structures, and highlights their usefulness through biological and pharmacological experiments.
This book reconstructs Deleuze and Guattari’s micropolitics toward a philosophy of ‘becoming-revolutionary.’ It challenges practices that allow people to choose their own oppression, searching for new modes of thinking and resistance for a people- and world-to-come.
Quatrains of Omar Khayyam, Astronomer-Poet of Persia
Omar Khayyam’s validity as a poet is highly debated. This book focuses on 100 quatrains authenticated by Persian authorities. To bring out Khayyam’s true voice, this unique bilingual volume provides the Persian originals side-by-side with literal English translations.
This study investigates the validity of the Chinese Proficiency Test (HSK) from the classroom to society. It addresses pedagogical issues in CSL teaching, provides implications for the HSK’s development, and helps test developers and users build assessment literacy.
This book provides a comparative study of the Sartrean no-self and the Deleuzean rhizomic self, tracing the shift from Sartre’s nihilistic self in modernist fiction to the celebratory Deleuzean self in postmodernism, which may be a possible alternative for survival in crisis.
Scholars and educators present their experiences with authentic experiential learning in translation and interpreting programmes. This collection will inspire educators to consider this pedagogical option. This updated second edition includes new chapters.