As the world faces pressing issues like climate change, chemistry is central to overcoming these global challenges. This book explores advanced, interdisciplinary research, showing how to transform challenges into opportunities for a sustainable world.
A Study in Guilt
Why do some feel the crushing weight of guilt while others feel none? This book investigates the psychology of remorse through harrowing events like WWII and the Jallianwala Bagh massacre, and the literary complicity of Hamlet’s friends, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern.
Andreas Gryphius and T.S. Eliot’s “The Dissociation of Sensibility”
A new appraisal of Andreas Gryphius, the great Baroque poet, through T.S. Eliot’s “Dissociation of Sensibility.” Supported by new translations, it shows how Eliot illuminates Gryphius as Gryphius illuminates Eliot. Both suffered the cataclysm of civil war and despair.
William Stevens Fielding was one of Canada’s most influential statesmen. From journalist to premier of Nova Scotia, he became Laurier’s finance minister and heir apparent, negotiating the 1911 free trade agreement before returning as finance minister under Mackenzie King.
A Study of Daisaku Ikeda
This book explores the philosophical and religious work of Daisaku Ikeda, framing it as a philosophy of action. With a strong spiritual and religious reference, Ikeda’s work interprets the human through emancipative will, translating philosophy into practical social engagement.
Histories of Housing
This book bridges historical housing narratives with contemporary challenges in architecture, urban planning, and sustainability. Through global case studies, it highlights housing’s evolution, offering actionable insights and inspiration for future design and policy innovations.
The Hidden People of Uganda
Weaving historical analysis with harrowing personal testimony, this book uncovers the hidden realities of Uganda’s brutal civil war—from child abduction and mass displacement to the lasting shadows of violence still cast today.
Neuroscience in Criminal Law
This work assesses how neuroscience informs the protection of fundamental rights in Canada. We analyze the application of ‘neurolaw’ in cases involving cruel punishment for adolescents, the capacity to consent, and the decriminalization of certain psychoactive substances.
Communication for Development
In Northeast Nigeria, where insurgency fuels a malnutrition crisis, this book shows how strategic communication becomes a lifeline. Based on fieldwork during the Boko Haram conflict, it presents a groundbreaking analysis of Communication for Development (C4D) in action.
Pharmaceutical Discourse in English and Italian
This book investigates how language in UK and Italian patient information leaflets shapes understanding. Through linguistic analysis, it evaluates the impact of legal compliance on readability, exposing the tension between regulatory needs and patient-centred communication.
This collection of research papers exploits optoelectronic methods in food, textile and geo sciences. Some discoveries break new ground, such as the ecology of waterfalls and the colours of clays. The challenge is to build your own apparatus.
Situational English Level I
This book immerses students in lifelike contexts that integrate the four core language skills: listening, speaking, reading, and writing. Engage with thought-provoking passages and dialogues to build grammar, vocabulary, and fluency for confident, effective communication.
Technical Nerve Conduction
This guide to electrodiagnostic examination (EDX) offers technical tools for nerve conduction studies. With over 90 figures and 50 tables of normal values, it focuses on potential pitfalls, providing their causes and solutions. It includes “10 Commandments for EDX Practice.”
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.
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.
Emotionally Absent Parents
This book is a mirror for the traumatized, transforming the past into a healing journey. Literature becomes a reflective tool, allowing readers to grow out of childhood trauma by empathizing with literary children. Acknowledge the repressed past; the child shows us who we are.
The Holy Ascetic as a New Adam
Challenging the traditional “Greek East” and “Latin West” divide, this book examines literary portrayals of holy ascetics. Through an analysis of “New Adam” and “garments of skin” motifs, it shows how Byzantine and Western saints were seen as redeemers of the created order.
This book has a strong focus on practical applications of Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning, tested in a real environment. Covering many domains from smart cities to bioinformatics, the presented solutions aim to simplify, but not constrain, daily life.
This book is an in-depth exploration of modern Situation Centers (SCs)—essential components of national security. It examines their foundations and strategic role, focusing on the integration of big data and AI, cybersecurity, military applications, and future developments.
Rationality in Economics
A critical look at how scientists model human rationality. This book traces today’s complex mathematical models of choice back to their flawed, unpragmatic roots in medieval thought, offering a new taxonomy for understanding how we decide.
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