Baltic Postcolonial Narratives
This book explores postcolonialism’s difficult entry into the Baltic literary domain. It provides timely insights by analyzing Lithuania’s best postcolonial novels from the last decade of the Soviet period and the more recent post-Soviet era.
This volume explores the history, art, and culture of Florence through three unique festivities where sacred and secular values intertwine. Discover how these traditions continue to shape the city’s character, revealed through both famous and lesser-known works of art.
What matters in personal survival? If there is no permanent self, should we be altruistic?
Seven selected papers explore the self from interdisciplinary and comparative perspectives, drawing from analytic, historical, and non-Western traditions to argue their points.
In his Meditations, Descartes sought the first principles of human knowledge, rejecting the senses for intuition and meditation. This book explains his reasoning and provides textual support, while a final critical chapter shows the failures of his approach.
This book describes the principles of microwave circuit theory, bridging electromagnetic fields and circuit analysis. It explores scattering, admittance, impedance, and transmission matrices in detail. Learn analysis methods for complex networks, aided by numerous diagrams.
Six chemical elements make up 98% of the human body, but what remains is equally important. This book is about the other elements that are vitally important for some animals and plants, as well as a few that are deadly or used as protection by others.
The World of Coronaspeak
This book explores Coronaspeak, the global language born from the COVID-19 pandemic. Covering jokes, slang (‘jab’), and new coinages (‘elbow bump’), it highlights the capacity of words to adapt to shock and social disorder, arguing they are part of disaster management.
This book explores how innovative technology can facilitate a post-COVID transition to a net-zero carbon economy. It examines the roles of central banks, green finance, and digital payments in addressing transition risks and achieving a sustainable future.
This study challenges paradigms of female representation in enigmatic Renaissance masterpieces. Using female agency as a unifying lens, it interrogates why paintings of figures like Venus and the Madonna were crafted, by whom, and for whom, disrupting long-held assumptions.
Contemporary Arts Across Political Divides
In a world devastated by crisis, what can art do to create democratic spaces? Artists, activists, and curators analyze how to bridge political divides and foster dialogue. Using global case studies, this book pushes for a broader, more conflict-oriented understanding of art.
Philosophies of the Future and the Non-Human
This book questions what it means to be human in the face of technological developments like AI, cyborgs, and autonomous robots. It explores the profound ethical and philosophical consequences, asking: How should we think of human existence in this new and emerging world?
Gender and National Development
Women are the unsung heroes driving national development, yet their stories are seldom told. Stereotyped and marginalized, their voices are taken away, leading to gender inequality. This book highlights how to actualize social justice, proving women are vital to social change.
This book analyses COVID-19 threats and healthcare management in lower-income countries. Researchers and epidemiologists contribute studies to improve decision-making, presenting models for post-pandemic treatments and evidence on social inequalities and new medicaments.
Facilitating Parents’ Agency in Child and Adolescent Mental Health
This book shares the incisive narratives of parents of a struggling child in adolescent mental health services. Though often under-consulted, their experiences provide clinicians with effective ways to engage them as a valued resource for the child’s recovery.
Performance Trends in Postliberation Zimbabwe
This collection theorises the dynamic ways Zimbabwean and African artists perform. It examines an interactive movement that fuses performer and spectator, while challenging the dominant Anglocentrism in critical performance pedagogies.
Process-Philosophical Perspectives on Biology
Traditional reductionistic metaphysics fails to explain the complexity of life. This book explores process metaphysics to advance our understanding of biological concepts, ascribing subjective interiority and intrinsic value to all living beings, from microbes to animals.
A New Perspective on Sexual Orientation
Common perspectives on sexual orientation are inaccurate. This book establishes criteria for a robust theory, evaluates major perspectives, and proposes the first novel theory in decades: a four-component approach that explains many fascinating sexual orientation occurrences.
This book explores the medicinal use of selected African plants. It details each species’ botanical characteristics, traditional medical use, and biological activity, while also proposing unique and original medical usages. An essential reference for medical practitioners.
The Impact of the British Oboist Léon Goossens
This study reassesses Léon Goossens’ contribution to British oboe playing. It explores his pivotal role as a catalyst for new compositions that created a library of British oboe music, addressing a void in the repertoire and ultimately restoring the instrument’s status.
A History of Police Reform in England and Wales
This comprehensive history of police reform charts its evolution from the 18th century to today. The first study of its kind, it explores the key reforms that shaped the modern police service, revealing their enduring legacies and their underlying flaws.
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