The Post-Independence Dilemma
This book re-examines the post-independence condition, revealing how the end of empire gave way to new forms of domination. Engaging with Achebe, Ngũgĩ, and Rushdie, it challenges myths of liberation and shows how art can resist empire’s legacies.
This book covers the vampire from its classical image to contemporary interpretations related to psychology, capitalism, gender, and race. It analyzes how the figure evolved to express ideas of power, disease, and the complexity of human nature. Highly accessible and engaging.
Artificial Intelligence (AI) for Climate Change Mitigation
As the planet faces unprecedented climate threats, artificial intelligence offers vital solutions. This book explores how AI can revolutionize disaster readiness, resource management, and sustainable development, illustrating how to build a more resilient and sustainable world.
Biotechnology of Neglected and Underutilized Legume Crops
This book shines a spotlight on the hidden heroes of agriculture: underutilized legumes. From drought-resistant beans to nutrient-rich pulses, these crops offer real solutions for sustainable farming, global nutrition, and restoring ecosystems.
This book explores the dark labyrinths of the criminals from Dickens’s greatest novels, including Oliver Twist and Great Expectations. It supplants his image as the Santa Claus of Victorian society with another Dickens: one who understood the dark souls of his age.
Climate Change and Geology
Uncover the ancient secrets of the Earth and discover how climate change is reshaping our planet. This book reveals the dynamic relationship between geology and our ever-changing climate, exploring the science behind melting glaciers, rising sea levels, and extreme weather.
Explore how Natural Language Processing (NLP) can unlock human emotions and psychological patterns. Analyzing language as a window into the mind, this book bridges technology and psychology, detailing innovative approaches to emotion prediction and psychological profiling.
Learning Approaches
This book critically describes the major learning theories, from behaviorism to constructivism. It explores key research and its practical implications for the classroom, making it a valuable resource for teachers, educators, students, and researchers.
With soaring tuition and student debt, how did higher education get into this situation? This book explores how colleges became reliant on new revenue streams, asks who should be paying, and identifies key outcomes for the future of the academy.
Things Said For, Against, and About Beauty
A corrosive energy gnaws at Western culture. This book looks to 2500 years of history, showing the power of beauty to shape and enrich our civilization. It asks if today’s crises are rooted in the repression of beauty, and dares to suggest that “Beauty can save the world.”
Plasma instabilities are a major obstacle in achieving stable confinement in fusion devices. This book combines rigorous analysis with advanced simulations to uncover their dynamics and present practical strategies for mitigation, paving a path toward viable fusion energy.
This book analyzes the psychosocial impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on children, presenting targeted interventions and a Resilience Model for professionals and caregivers. It offers practical strategies to address stress, foster well-being, and prepare for future pandemics.
Human Settlements and Social Dynamics
This guide explores how human settlements shape social life, bridging planning theory and on-the-ground practice. It presents practical strategies for current challenges—like rapid urbanisation and climate change—to help readers create inclusive, resilient, and equitable places.
Civil Disobedience in Contemporary Turkey
This book examines civil disobedience in Turkey, from the Saturday Mothers’ silent protests to environmental sit-ins. Drawing on eyewitness accounts, it explores the power of peaceful resistance, linking local struggles to the philosophies of Gandhi and Martin Luther King Jr.
Contextual Confluence
This book explores the radical mutuality of media, literature, and culture. Through Black feminist ethics, postcolonial female visibility, and ecological reimaginings, it reveals literature as a living archive of resistance, reinvention, and reconciliation.
This book provides updated scientific data on the interactions of clay and clay minerals with human health, from topical mud therapy to advanced biomedical applications like clay-drug hybrid materials, drug encapsulation, and the formation of bactericidal surfaces.
Medical Assistance in Dying
This book offers a critical analysis of medical aid in dying (MAiD). While supporting MAiD based on the notion of rational suicide, it shows how inconsistent international protocols raise moral and legal concerns. It provides a framework to analyze and reform these protocols.
In an era of chaos and uncertainty generated by disinformation, social networks and artificial intelligence enhance post-truth. This book analyzes the evolution of the media system, how AI changes the communicative paradigm, and how it can be challenged by human intelligence.
This book charts Britain’s transition from the ancient to the medieval world by examining the changing concept of Nature. It explores this shift among both prominent thinkers and regular people, whose lives are interpreted through translated and examined Anglo-Saxon poetry.
Understanding Creativity
An artist and research scientist investigates how artists use their eyes and how brains mediate skill and creativity. He explores the science/art debate, the meaning of ‘insight’ and ‘inspiration’, and how these ideas relate to the realms of art, science and everyday life.
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