This book explores the construction of the fin-de-siècle adventure hero: set against a romanticised vision of the past and a nostalgic ideal of gentlemanliness, but also forward-looking in terms of forging a future for Britain through the imperialist dream.
The project offers a collection of new interdisciplinary critical autoethnographic engagements with Helene Cixous ecriture feminine and work Three steps on the ladder of writing.
The project offers a collection of new interdisciplinary critical autoethnographic engagements with Helene Cixous ecriture feminine and work Three steps on the ladder of writing.
This edited book brings together a diverse group of environmental science, sustainability, and health researchers to address the challenges posed by global mass poisoning caused by heavy metals contamination of soil and plants.
This book presents evidence-based translational research in Nutri-Ayur through the integration of traditional knowledge of Ayurveda, Genomics, and modern medicine.
This book considers how the presence or absence of writing can influence a culture’s distinctive styles of visual art, proposing that many of the most profound developments in the art world are directly correlative with a cultural transition from orality to literacy (that is, from a culture which only has a spoken form of language, to one which has both a spoken and written form).
Fermentation-based processing advanced with global food systems as humanity started to organize the domestication of agriculture from plant and animal sources.
The relationship between Johannesburg's Market Theatre and the economic and political forces of South Africa's apartheid regime was both complex and somewhat ambiguous.
This book offers a comprehensive overview of the ways in which research and perspectives from the social sciences and humanities can be combined for a more effective understanding of climate change and its impacts.
This book examines the history of aging and old age during the Qing dynasty, a pivotal period marked by rapid population growth that resulted in the largest elderly population in imperial China.
This book covers sugar, salt and milk fat from a chemical perspective, and presents an overview of the role of these ingredients in our food, focusing on their flavors, satiety-inducing properties, nutritional impact, and health effects.
This book adopts a transatlantic approach to consider literature and cultural products produced by authors confronted with the experience of migration, working from or looking in the direction of the Global North.
This book provides a unique analysis of how the History of Science became institutionalized in Latin America during the last two decades of the 20th century.
This book introduces probabilistic modelling and explores its role in solving a broad spectrum of engineering problems that arise in Information Technology (IT).
This book provides a unique analysis of how the History of Science became institutionalized in Latin America during the last two decades of the 20th century.
In her biography of writer Flannery O'Connor (1925-1964, nee Mary Flannery), Mary Carpenter introduces young readers to one of the most renowned American authors.
Poetry, for Jed Rasula, bears traces of our entanglement with our surroundings, and these traces define a collective voice in modern poetry independent of the more specific influences and backgrounds of the poets themselves.
Sources of Evil: Studies in Mesopotamian Exorcistic Lore is a collection of thirteen essays on the body of knowledge employed by ancient Near Eastern healing experts, most prominently the 'exorcist' and the 'physician', to help patients who were suffering from misfortunes caused by divine anger, transgressions of taboos, demons, witches, or other sources of evil.
This book presents evidence-based translational research in Nutri-Ayur through the integration of traditional knowledge of Ayurveda, Genomics, and modern medicine.
