Plants experience stress from environmental changes. This book is a comprehensive reference on plant responses to both biotic and abiotic stress, consolidating topics that other books cover only in isolation. It details this essential aspect of plant life and adaptation.
Israeli and Palestinian Collective Narratives in Conflict
In the “social laboratory” of Israeli and Palestinian societies, conflicting collective narratives often create obstacles to peace. This book presents a unique approach that transforms these narratives from barriers into powerful tools for promoting reconciliation.
PhotographyDigitalPainting
This anthology explores the connections between photography, the digital, and painting in contemporary art. Renowned artists, academics, and theorists investigate medium-fluidity through essays on AI generation, hyperreal photography, and art that synthesises the three mediums.
This book shares innovative methods for applied drama and theatre in African contexts, based on the work of Drama for Life. It is an invaluable volume for practitioners, artists, teachers, and researchers in Africa and globally.
Medical Education Reform in China
Due to the rapid pace of scientific progress in medicine, there is a global movement to improve medical education. This unique book describes a novel and successful example of medical education reform that may inspire medical school leaders both in China and abroad.
Based on recently declassified World Bank documents, this study examines the post-war intervention in Southern Italy. This international effort created the only period of convergence between Italy’s North and South, providing crucial insights into today’s “Southern Question.”
Honors education celebrates excellence, but sorting students by attainment raises questions of diversity, equity, and inclusion. How can honors programs be fair and inclusive? This book, born from a National Society for Minorities in Honors conference, explores solutions.
The Inklings and Culture
How did authors like C. S. Lewis and J. R. R. Tolkien come to shape the imagination of millions? This first collection of its kind explores the legacy of their diverse literary art—inspired by Christian faith—that continues to speak hope into a hurting and deeply divided world.
This book presents 15 papers by specialists on Late Antique Egypt. Articles deal with its history, from monasticism to the Arab conquest. Other contributions provide new writings and readings of texts from inscriptions, papyri and ostraca, offering a close-up look at the period.
This book uses scientific advances to understand the degradation and characterisation of historical materials. It highlights multidisciplinary procedures for analyzing precious, small samples, and is of interest to the public, scientists, and the conservation community.
Black American Women’s Voices and Transgenerational Trauma
This book explores neo-slave narratives by black American women, showing how authors write through the transgenerational trauma of slavery. It demonstrates how traumatic memory is inscribed on the female body and how storytelling enables black women’s voices to be heard.
The Economics of Keynes and Uncertainty in Theory
For nearly a century, economics has failed to fully understand Keynes’s ideas. This book argues that this is due to a failure to recognize his central theme: uncertainty. It builds upon Keynes’s ideas on uncertainty and conventions to offer an alternative view of his work.
This book offers an integrated framework to analyze four types of family violence. Drawing from psychology and sociology, it reveals both the shared risk factors common to all and the unique mechanisms specific to particular relationships, based on state-of-the-art research.
This collection of essays examines dystopian fiction in literature, TV, and games. Capturing the dilemmas of our precarious epoch, it offers new interpretations of classics like Orwell and Atwood and pop culture phenomena like The Hunger Games and Fallout.
This book defines EU development policy in Africa since the Cold War. It argues the EU fell short of its efforts to export its ‘paradise’ to Africa, limited by its inability to stand as a distinct and leading actor in international development.
The Marawi Siege and Its Aftermath
Despite the liberation of Marawi, the Philippines confronts a virulent terrorist threat. To make sense of the siege and its aftermath, this book brings together counter-terrorism experts to analyze the rise of ISIS, terror financing, and the continuing problem of extremism.
Positive Education and Work
Based on positive psychological research covering the whole lifespan, this volume critically discusses positive education and work and their connection to life-long flourishing. It will appeal to educators, researchers, and anyone interested in the foundations of well-being.
This book is a practical guide to developing a crime-prediction model by gathering and analysing big data. It covers text mining, opinion mining, and machine learning to predict rapidly-changing social phenomena and draw creative conclusions.
This book explores the thought of pragmatist and semiotics founder Charles Sanders Peirce. Contributions by leading scholars are divided into three areas: Semiotics and the Logic of Inquiry, Abduction and Mathematics, and Peirce and the Western Tradition.
Virginia Woolf’s Portraits of Russian Writers
Classic Russian fiction was crucial to Virginia Woolf’s vision of British modernism. We follow Woolf as she begins to learn Russian, invents a character for a story by Dostoevsky, ponders over Sophia Tolstoy’s suicide note, and proclaims Chekhov a truly ‘modern’ writer.
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