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How can we achieve lasting social and political equality for women? Leda Pérez tackles this thorny question in Searching for Democracy by interrogating egalitarianism in Latin America, where nearly 20% of women work in domestic service. She examines how women's participation in society, labor,...

The 18th-century 'interregnum' between the Safavid and Qajar dynasties remains woefully understudied in Iranian history, regarded as a turbulent and inconsequential gap between two major dynastic periods. This book, however, argues that this period saw the emergence of the idea of Iran as the...

Explorers on Screen: Adventure! Danger! Romance! brings together essays that break new ground on films featuring explorers and adventurers from the Age of Exploration to the present. It focuses on fictional and dramatized representations, rather than biopics, as these create the most interesting reflections...

Myung-Wha Kim is an acclaimed Korean playwright, critic, and director. This book marks the first translated play collection by a female Korean playwright and captures her individual style and powerful drama.The four plays in this collection are translated into English by Walter Byongsok Chon,...

Hegel famously argues that the patriarchal, bourgeois nuclear family is a rational institution worth defending. Scholars have asked what exactly to do with this seemingly outdated part of his social and political philosophy. In particular, they have wondered whether Hegel's concept of the family...

Silent Medievalisms investigates the prevalence of medieval narratives and tropes during cinema's silent era and explores the ways that silent movies use the past to communicate political, national, propagandistic, and social meanings in their present moment. Groundbreaking films such as Joan the Woman (1916),...

50 Devotions for Navigating the Loss of a Loved One- Helps you process your grief, find your footing, and flourish again after loss- Includes journaling prompts and guided prayersPopular culture would have us think that grief is a linear process. Something to move through...

High Quality Psychosocial Interventions Research is the second edition of the book High Quality Psychotherapy Research, written by Drs. Patricia Areán and Helena Kraemer. Like the original book, this fully updated version serves as a comprehensive primer on the clinical trial research pipeline as...

Offering an innovative and illuminating new reading of Spinoza and NovalisThis rigorously researched study reframes our understanding of the intellectual currents in Germany around 1800 through a careful reinterpretation of its key thinker, Novalis, in conversation with Spinoza's philosophy. Siarhei Biareishyk presents an alternative...

Wangari Maathai grew up under Kenya's green canopies and learned early that trees mean shade, soil, water, and life. When hills were cleared and streams thinned, she answered with something small but powerful: a seed. That seed became the Green Belt Movement-neighbors planting together,...

What if a single spark of curiosity could light up the world? On a stormy night, a curious boy named Nikola watched lightning split the sky. That spark of wonder grew into a lifetime of ideas-ideas that helped bring safe, steady light to homes...

Sketch, Ask, Build-A Curious Kid's Guide to Big IdeasWhat if a simple sketch could spark a soaring idea? Meet Leonardo as a curious kid who looked closely, asked bold questions, and turned brave tries into discoveries. This engaging, black-and-white, cartoon-illustrated book invites readers ages...

Meet the girl who counted a path to the stars. Katherine Johnson loved numbers from the start-steps on the porch, stars in the sky, and every puzzle in between. That fearless curiosity carried her from a small-town classroom to NASA, where her careful calculations...

To eat in Hong Kong is endlessly fascinating and exciting. A mere dot on the map of China, and home to seven million migrants, Hong Kong boasts a food scene that is breathtakingly rich and varied. Tony Tan explores this vibrant city through 80...

AlvarAalto's work is strongly influenced by his experience of nature - especially inthe deep forests of his Finnish homeland. But he also visited the sites ofantiquity on several trips to the Mediterranean and the Orient.This bookexplores the dominant theme of nature in Aalto's work...

Advances in Hospitality and Leisure (AHL), a double-blind, peer-reviewed journal published annually since 2004, aims to promote seminal and innovative research outputs related to hospitality, leisure, tourism, and lifestyle. Specifically, this journal encourages researchers to investigate new research issues and problems that are critical...

Flying at 70,000 feet, carrying nuclear weapons at Mach 3+ for thousands of miles, the North American Aviation XB-70 Valkyrie was not merely going to redefine military aviation, but the very nature of warfare itself. The XB-70 flew so fast and so high it...

The great Medieval battle at Tewkesbury, occurring on Saturday, 4 May 1471, saw the House of Lancaster finally defeated in the series of bloody conflicts known today as the Wars of the Roses.After the Lancastrians were defeated at the Battle of Towton in 1461,...

Although Julius Caesar was winning the ongoing civil war with the Pompeian faction, his murder on the Ides of March (44 BC) plunged the Republic into a further civil war and one closer to Rome itself. Mark Antony attempted to seize command of the...

A memoir of Bill Gillanders, a Scottish medic and SOE operative, recounting daring wartime service from France to Yugoslavia.At the outbreak of the Second World War, a young Scottish professional athlete competing in the Highland Games circuit enlisted in the Army. As he was...

The three main constituent companies of the Southern Railway had different policies for tank engine design. The London & South Western built tank engines for suburban, branch and heavy goods work, the London, Brighton and South Coast had many designs for express passenger, mixed...

There are very few directors for whom you can say "that's his or her brand of film", but the legendary John Hughes is undoubtedly one of them. He presented a different perspective on growing up, showing parents to be much more human than movies...

PC George William Gutteridge was a well-liked and respected village policeman for Stapleford Abbotts in rural Essex, where he lived with his wife and two young children. While on his beat out on a lonely country road in the early hours of the morning...

Dr Raoul McLaughlin presents ancient sources for the Atlantic Celts, providing new, annotated translations of Roman texts. These describe contact and conflict between Rome and the Celtic peoples of Britain and Ireland. This book is a valuable resource for anyone interested in the Celtic...

We take brands for granted: they surround us and pervade our everyday life. But have you ever wondered where they come from, and why they became successful?The histories are sometimes remarkable: how did Reebook emerge from a town in North West England to become...

The Kray Twins aka Ronnie and Reggie ruled London's Gangland underworld during the 1960s with a ruthlessness rod of iron that still shocks yet captivates young and old alike to this very day. Their calculated rise to power involved fear, extortion, violence and murder...

Gabriele Esposito offers a clear, concise overview of the Wars of the Roses, the complex series of civil wars that ravaged the Kingdom of England for three decades, from 1455 to 1487. Stemming from a rivalry between two cadet branches of the Plantagenet dynasty,...

The scientific study of consciousness features a vast array of conflicting theories, but cross-disciplinary exchange between researchers from different camps is not always prevalent. This book seeks to address these complexities by providing a thorough introduction to the field while remaining accessible to those...

A closely annotated translation of Merleau-Ponty's lecture notes on literary languageInvestigations into the Literary Use of Language presents an annotated translation of Maurice Merleau-Ponty's lecture notes from one of the two courses that he gave during his inaugural year teaching at the Collège de...

In The Happiest Disappointment, Riley sets out determined to succeed, only to find herself facing detours, doubts, and unexpected challenges. Things don't always go the way she imagined, and at times, it feels like everything is working against her. But through it all, Riley...

Discover the girl who turned curiosity into the world's first computer idea! ✨Before computers filled classrooms and pockets, a young girl named Ada Lovelace looked at numbers and saw more than sums-she saw patterns, poetry, and even music.In this beautifully illustrated children's book, readers...

Second Printing. There were a couple of unknown and unintentional errors in the book, so this is a second printing, rectifying those errors. Balls-Town: A Community of History, Friends, Neighbors, and Lingering Spirits.Every life, every death tells a story.Long before the Towns of Milton...

The volume offers insight into the history of early modern Europe by bringing to the fore personal stories and identities that were articulated and negotiated in relation to the notions of privacy in writing by both elite figures and non-elite groups living in the...

With the threat of rising sea levels, natural disasters and shifting weather patterns, the Cayman Islands finds itself in need of a radical approach to save itself from climate disaster. Any plans for a path forward necessitates a detailed explanation and analysis of the...

Step into a world where dragons, wizards, and kingdoms clash in an epic struggle for survival. In The Conflict of Interests, Robert Jones offers an exciting continuation of his fantasy saga, where alliances are weak, love is tested, and war threatens at every turn....

This Element focuses on three Chinese productions of The Vagina Monologues (TVM, 1996), a radical-feminist play by the North American artist and activist Eve Ensler: Yin Dao Du Bai (The Vagina Monologues, 2003), Yin Dao Zhi Dao (Vagina's Way, 2013), and Dao Yin (Saying...

In Shock and Yawn, Megan Sibbett confronts state-sanctioned, mundane violence committed in the name of protection and argues that queer storytelling is an ideal avenue for recognizing, theorizing, and subverting it: Through queer stories, we have a direct window into the real-world ramifications of...

Translation and the History of Knowledge is an anthology honoring Professor Lawrence Wang-chi Wong's contributions to translation studies and Chinese translation history. This volume comprises 14 articles by leading scholars from diverse disciplines, including translation studies, comparative literature, and East Asian studies, to examine...

Author: Hongxun Hui,Liya Ma,Yi DingISBN-10: 3032097797ISBN-13: 9783032097798Publisher: SpringerLanguage: EnglishPublished: 02/20/2026Pages: 226Format: HardcoverWeight: 1.10lbsSize: 9.36h x 6.49w x 0.78d

This open access book explores the excesses, distortions and perverse effects that emerge when art and popular culture refuse reverence for nostalgic views on nature. Developing Phoebe Wagner's pioneering concept of the environmental grotesque, the book's authors argue that the problem is not ignorance...

This passage reflects on the profound struggles faced by an individual who has weathered the storms of betrayal, cruelty, and emotional abuse. Despite these dark moments, the narrator finds strength and resilience, embracing the challenges as catalysts for transformation. With a deep connection to...

The Christian family isn't a brand. It's a calling.In Being Family, Dr. Scott Keith offers a compelling vision of what it means to live out the Christian faith through the daily realities of family life. Drawing from Scripture, the Lutheran tradition, and pastoral experience,...

An exploration of contemporary speculative fiction's power to intervene in social, political, and environmental crises, this book demonstrates how the genre acts as a defense in the navigation of propagated falsehoods and the denial of firmly established scientific evidence. Speculative fiction thrives on the...

An auto-ethnographic account of a choreographic praxis developed outside of a Western framework, which engages with identity, decoloniality and transformation from a feminist perspective. Choreographing Rebellion details the methodologies employed in the dramaturgy and performance of 25 choreographic works produced by the author over...

In this imaginative, authentic book, four-year-old Elias depicts his experiences growing up in a neurodiverse family, with his autistic Mummy and brother and non-autistic Daddy.Using bright and colourful drawings, Elias thinks about what it means to have different kinds of brains and shares his...

A country's industrial policy aims at promoting the development of sectors that often relate to manufacturing and is especially important for less-developed countries as they seek to catch up economically. Industrial Development and Division of Labor re-examines the long history behind the debate on...

Introducing Environmental Communication offers a critical and interdisciplinary introduction to the field, designed primarily for undergraduate students in both specialist and general courses, as well as for postgraduate and professional learners. Its modular structure allows chapters to be used independently across a wide range...

Thanks to you, "You, the Machine" has already hit #1 Amazon Bestseller in Science & Math Ethics and Bestseller in the AI & Semantics, Computer Science, Social Aspects of the Internet, and Tech Culture & Computer Literacy Kindle categories."You, the Machine" is a timely...

The integration of artificial intelligence (AI) into health and human-centric systems reshapes the way care, well-being, and social services are delivered. By leveraging AI technologies like machine learning, natural language processing, and computer vision, these systems can better understand, predict, and respond to human...

An anthropological account of how religion helps sustain bonds within transnational families. How do faith, family, and migration intersect in the intimate lives of transnational couples? This ethnography examines Japanese-Filipino marriages in contemporary Japan to reveal how gendered Catholic practices, cultural negotiation, and the...