Use-wear Analysis on Quartzite Flaked Tools
Despite its frequent use for stone tools, there is a lack of research on use-wear on quartzite. This handbook fills that gap, proposing a new method for students and analysts that uses scanning electron microscopy to overcome the obstacles posed by the rock’s irregular surface.
Returning to the Long Revolution
The key to motivating change lies in a radical re-imagining of democratic citizenship. We must reconfigure ourselves from being passive consumers to active citizens, empowered to participate in and take responsibility for remaking the communities in which we live and work.
A Multidimensional Perspective on Corruption in Africa
Leading African policymakers argue that tackling corruption is key to eliminating poverty and inequity. This book offers strategies for mobilizing citizens toward accountability and transparency to build stronger national integrity systems for a sustainable Africa.
Gags and Greasepaint
A personal memoir of Vic, the “Sequin Queen” of Irish repertory theatre, recounted by her granddaughter, one of the last travelling artistes. A hymn to the artist whose home was the road… one final tread of the magic footboard.
This book provides vital information on loss and trauma for counselors and therapists. It fills a critical gap in graduate training by offering conceptual frameworks, rich descriptive cases, and a review of interventions for working with traumatized and bereaved clients.
This book argues that contemporary fashion is a performative-conceptual turn. It presents a new approach from visual semiotics, where fashion emerges as a visual code for our hyperreal societies, combining cybernetics, fetishism, and transgression.
Civil Liberties in Real Life
US authors explore ‘What is civil liberty?’, examining how and why marginalized groups used freedoms of speech, religion, and assembly in their struggle for equality. This must-read covers topics from the influence of consumerism to free speech in the classroom.
Unlocking the persuasive power of Romantic music. While musical rhetoric is often linked to the Baroque, this book reveals how Romantic composers built powerful arguments into their works, shaping our cognitive responses through musical structure.
This book explores language research in the digital age. Using authentic data, it investigates L1 syntactic structure, L1-L2 contact, and L2 pedagogy. It provides valuable insights into Romanian and English, highlighting new research avenues for language specialists.
Lessons from Political Leadership in Africa
Leadership is the blueprint to transform Africa into a global powerhouse. This book calls for a new generation of bold, passionate, inspiring leaders to fight corruption, make a difference, and change the future towards a bigger, better, and brighter tomorrow!
This book investigates the fate of Shakespearean supernatural dimensions in the Age of Reason. Using adapted versions of Macbeth, Hamlet, and The Tempest, it explores two main strategies used to “rationalize” the supernatural: its omission or its aestheticization into spectacle.
Use your favorite Rock-‘n’-Roll song titles to see how English grammar and style work—and it’s fun! Using songs from the 1950s to today, this book makes the patterns of English strikingly visible through the music you love.
This book explores the connection between information structure and syntax, examining phenomena like topic and focus fronting in English and Spanish. It argues that differences in word order across languages are the consequence of feature inheritance in the sentence periphery.
This scholarly edition of Lincoln Steffens’ muck-raking classic dissects Gilded Age corruption in America’s cities. With new analysis and historical context, it reveals the timeless moral and social-political phenomenon of corruption and the nature of reform.
New Thoughts on Old Books
Why continue reading “classic” texts today? This book is not a defense of the literary canon. Instead, professors of English offer thoughtful, engaging, personal responses, inviting readers to revisit “old assignments” in new terms.
The Nexus between Poverty and Corruption
This book analyses the complex corruption that undermines democracy, development, and human rights in Africa, with profound consequences for the poor. As there is no blueprint solution, it proposes a holistic, multi-pronged approach to the corruption and poverty epidemic.
This panoramic view of the Shi‘ite presence in North Africa and the Iberian Peninsula examines the seminal role of Shi‘ite Imams, dynasties, revolts, and scholars. By re-examining the religious and political history of the region, this work makes a revolutionary contribution.
In 18th-century China, Jesuits defied a papal ban on Chinese Rites. Teodorico Pedrini was sent to enforce orthodoxy. To silence him, they imprisoned him, bringing him near death. His writings reveal their plot and cast a new perspective on the proscription of Christianity.
As tales of holy people moved across cultures and time, their meanings transformed. While basic storylines remained, changing details reveal important shifts in attitudes. This volume presents case studies from early China to Christian, Muslim, and Jewish contexts.
By using both modern and ancient sources, this volume explores the relationship between official religion and popular belief in Greece, as illustrated by the relations between competing ideologies, and the relationship between ideology and mentality.
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