Plastic Power
This book offers an interdisciplinary framework for understanding global transformation. It reveals how human consciousness and global structures co-evolve, forging new forms of power through symbolic-material struggles over meaning, legitimacy, and resources.
Forensic Chemistry
For Chemistry students and professionals, this book broadens the scope of forensic chemistry beyond criminal investigations into civil and labor law. Presenting real cases and modern analytical techniques, experts show how chemistry can serve Justice in all its legal dimensions.
Sign languages cannot be captured with symbols designed for sounds. This book introduces the main writing systems developed to put them on paper, focusing on SignWriting and Typannot. It examines their graphic forms, usability, and the challenge of creating a script for the body.
Translating Horror
This collection of essays examines the translation of horror in literature and cinema. Considering authors like H. P. Lovecraft and Stephen King, this volume probes the boundaries between originals and their retellings, revealing how translation is part of the telling of horror.
Haptics of ‘Home’ and ‘Homemaking’ in South Asian Literature
This volume addresses critical questions of migration, displacement, exile, and identity in contemporary South Asian diasporic literature. Featuring works by experienced and young scholars, it is a fundamental contribution to the study of postcolonial diasporic writing.
Ariadne’s Thread and the Labyrinth of Myth
Follow the threads connecting Greek myth, ritual, and literature from Homer to Late Antiquity. This collection reveals how stories shaped the polis and morals, with new insights into the enduring power of supplication and the complex agency of female figures.
Profiles in Mass Murder
The atrocities of Stalin, Hitler, and Mao were not inevitable products of broken systems. This analysis reveals how their unique personalities and personal choices—not systemic dysfunction—unleashed the 20th century’s greatest violence.
Value as Optics
This book explores the genesis of value to create a meeting point for science and religion. Bringing giants like Whitehead, Merleau-Ponty, and Taylor into dialogue, it establishes that our disposition to the world is not rationalistic but relational—one of mutual inherence.
Gender, Social Justice and Sustainable Development
Focusing on Gender and Development in South Asia, this research identifies bottlenecks in women’s empowerment. Unlike other collections, this volume moves beyond analysis of the problem to discuss innovative solutions for breakthrough progress and accelerating development.
An Evaluation of Fantasy as Antifantasy
This study challenges traditional views of fiction. It proposes that fictionality is a fundamental aspect of reality with cosmological significance, arguing that imagined worlds and consciousness are intertwined with the fabric of the universe, revealing its hidden structures.
A Family Journey Through Time
Tracing his ancestors through centuries of seismic change, the author reveals the gripping story of four working families. Theirs is a powerful testament to resilience, community, and the triumph of the human spirit in the face of spectacular adversity.
This book tells the stories of non-native English teachers working transnationally. Through fears, tensions, and triumphs, it explores their transformation—likened to a butterfly’s metamorphosis—as critical moments shape their evolving sense of selves in a borderless existence.
The Funding of Economic Misery
In today’s financialised global economy, the pursuit of riskless returns by the wealthy systematically erodes the real economy. Special interests have reshaped financial systems to expand their wealth, suppressing economic activity and general prosperity.
Technology and African Education Democratization
Uncover Côte d’Ivoire’s bold 1970s experiment in educational television. This study explores the political stakes of mass media education and reveals critical lessons on technology, power, and the future of learning in Africa.
This book presents a new framework of foraminiferal descendence based on ancestor–descendant relationships. This methodology reveals key features evolved on multiple occasions, proving that classical classification should be abandoned for a new, descendence-based grouping.
Sparks From Spartacus
Who was the real Spartacus? To the ancient elite, he was a dangerous rogue. To later ages, a noble, tragic hero. For the first time, this richly illustrated book presents his continuous story from ancient sources, revealing the man behind the myth and his lasting legacy.
The Theopoetics of Space
Martyr, war hero, mystic. This book traces John Randal Bradburne’s pilgrimage to a leper colony in war-torn Zimbabwe, where his poetry sought to sanctify the land and defend the dignity of its patients—a mission that ultimately cost him his life.
A major foraminifer diversification began in the Late Ordovician with multilocular tests. Their evolution saw walls change from agglutinated particles to microcrystalline calcite, leading to the major diversifications of the Mesozoic and Cenozoic Eras.
This guide bridges ancient wisdom and modern pharmacology to explore ginger’s therapeutic power. It examines bioactive compounds like gingerol and their effects on inflammation, digestion, and chronic disease, offering an evidence-based resource for health practitioners.
Sustainable Trade
Amidst global crises, the trading system is at a crossroads. This book outlines a bold agenda to reshape international trade into a force for common prosperity, the planet, and human rights. It is a call to action showing a more just, sustainable world economy is achievable.
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