This text explores the processes and transformations in rocks associated with the onset of metamorphism. It is aimed at graduates as well as researchers in the field.

J.L. Austin famously distinguished between constative utterances that convey information and performative utterances that perform actions. In this volume, Douglas Robinson argues that Austin’s distinction can be used to understand…

Fusing theory with advice and information about the practicalities of translating, Becoming a Translator is the essential resource for novice and practicing translators. This fourth edition remains invaluable for students…

Mia Kankimaki blends travelogue, memoir, and biography as she recounts her enchanting travels in Japan, Kenya, and Italy while retracing the steps of ten remarkable female pioneers from history.

One of the most exciting theories to emerge from cognitive science research over the past few decades has been Douglas Hofstadter’s notion of strange loops, from Goedel, Escher, Bach (1979)…

Thomas, exposed once to Majken’s blood during her fight with John to save his life, is becoming vampyric. Soon the symptoms are so bad he is unable to deny he…

Paquita Delprat and explorer Douglas Mawson became engaged on the eve of his 1911 Antarctic expedition. Mawson was to be away for fifteen months, and their life would begin after…

This book is an exploration of grandparents’ relationships with adult children and grandchildren in divorced families. It asks what part grandparents might play in public policy and whether measures should…