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Joy Dr Malik-Hasbrook
Learn about the importance of nervous system regulation and how it helps to make us feel safe and connected - with each other and within ourselves.
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Prof. Dr. Dirk Wiemann
"A systematic analysis of contemporary verse novels and how textual gaps serve as symbolic interventions into current debates on the planetary and the post-national"--
Dr Zorana Ivcevic Pringle
Based on twenty years of research, a Yale University scientist explains how to make ideas into realities and dispels the myth that creativity is a trait that you're born with…
Dr Timothy S. Murphy
The first comprehensive study of the works of William Hope Hodgson, one of the true innovators of Weird fiction, this book examines the Weird novels and stories upon which his…
Dr Martha Deiros Collado
From toilet training to tantrums, from mealtimes to meltdowns, a revolutionary guide from the Dr Julie Smith of child psychology.
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'Parenting doesn't come with a manual…
Dr Matthew Thomas Payne
This book explores the influential work of Eugene Jarvis, designer of the wildly-successful arcade games Defender, Robotron: 2084, NARC, Smash TV, and Cruis'n USA, among others.
Embracing a variety of…
Dr. or Prof. Michael Chapman
A representative overview of some of the most pressing concerns in contemporary literary criticism in South Africa, demonstrating literary form's shaping power in the interpretation of politically contentious content.
Rather…
Dr. or Prof. Adeline Soldin
An intersectional investigation of identity formation in Marcel Proust's magnum opus.
As metonyms for broader categories such as class, sexuality, and ethnicity, the three most discussed identity groups in Proust's…
Prof. or Dr. Jeff Smith
"Connecting several crucial developments in America's nationally formative period, this book shows how seemingly separate debates and movements in literature, religion, and politics reflect shared anxieties over the problem of…
Dr Lucy R. Nicholas
Roger Ascham is often classified as 'a great mid-Tudor humanist' and he is perhaps best known for his role as tutor to Elizabeth I. His most famous works, The Scholemaster…
Lucia Dr Perez-Diaz
See below the surface of Earth and discover the secrets that lie beneath our feet
Why do volcanoes erupt? What causes earthquakes? Why do we have continents? Unearth the answers…
Dr Thomas L Muinzer
Introduces readers to the major rulings from around the world that centre on climate change as a core focus.
Dr Toni Viva Munoz
As a ninth-generation Bordercana, Toni and her family are a mestizo mix of Native American and Mexican American heritage. They never left the Border. Growing up, she was never made…
Dr Jeffrey F. Keuss
Exploring how Shusaku Endo, Ta-Nehisi Coates, Thomas Merton, Marilynne Robinson, Cormac McCarthy, and Octavia E. Butler engage with social justice and activism, this book explores the significant role that literature…
Dr. John P. Wilson
Spatial Data Science will show GIS scientists and practitioners how to add and use new analytical methods from data science in their existing GIS platforms. By explaining how the spatial…
Dr Peter J. Bentley
A new title in the popular Bite-sized Chunks series, this book will be an expert-led guide to all the relevant science and history of AI.
This book makes available Ronald Knox's hitherto unpublished lectures on Virgil's Aeneid delivered at Trinity College, Oxford, as part of a lecture course on Virgil in 1912. Written with Knox's…
Dr David W.F. Stifler
This book focuses on Lucian of Samosata, a Syrian writer of the Greek language in the second century CE, and his engagement with contemporary debates regarding the form and register…
Dr Anne Sophie Refskou
This book shows that Shakespeare's dramatization of compassion, far from expressing a sense of universal empathy, stages a conflicted emotion available to be solicited, manipulated and at times even monopolized…
Dr. Carolyn Owen-King
British Masculinity in Transatlantic Cinema explores the Hollywood careers and stardom of British male actors who had fought in the first World War.
In an apparently incongruous development in the…
Dr Wim Van Mierlo
As a genetic study, this book uncovers the creative DNA of James Joyce's oeuvre by looking at the cultural forces that shaped him and that he in turn shaped in…
Dr Elizabeth S. Dodd
In this book, Elizabeth S. Dodd traces the contours of a lyric theology through the lens of English lyric tradition. She addresses the dominance of narrative and drama in contemporary…
Revd Dr Sam Ashton
"A theological assessment of the sexed body as it moves from creation to consummation, to explore whether the phenomenon of intersex embodiment disrupts the traditional interpretation of 'male and female'…
Dr Diwakar Kumar Singh
This book encapsulates the various historical contexts within which Nalanda assumed its significance and attained its mahavihara (mega-monastery) status. By examining sources ranging from textual to archaeological it reveals the…
Dr Ariel Zeleznikow-Johnston
A brilliant young neuroscientist explains how to preserve our minds indefinitely, enabling future generations to choose to revive us
Just as surgeons once believed pain was good for their patients…
Rabbi Dr Reuven Leigh
Reuven Leigh provides the first in-depth introduction to the pioneering philosophy of Rabbi Shalom Ber Schneersohn. Bringing him into dialogue with key continental philosophers Emmanuel Levinas, Jacques Derrida and Julia…
Professor Dr Dieter Grimm
This collection of essays from Dieter Grimm, Germany's most renowned constitutional scholar, shines a light on the jurisprudence of the German Constitutional Court and constitutional adjudication in general.
Established in…
Dr Alistair Bryce-Clegg
'An essential resource for all Key Stage One teachers' - Martin Burrett @ICTmagic, Editor of UKEd Magazine
This new edition of the bestselling Effective Transition into Year One is essential…
Of all avian groups, birds of prey in particular have long been a prominent subject of fascination in many human societies. This book demonstrates that the art and materiality of…
Professor or Dr. Kim Wheatley
This study bridges the chronological divide between the Romantic era and the first six decades of the 20th century, interpreting John Cowper Powys (1872-1963) as a major, under-recognized contributor to…
Dr. or Prof. Richard Sperber
Examines how Imperial Germany's loss of Oceania after the First World War and its post-war crises of national identity played out in a body of German exoticist literature about Oceania…
Dr Dawn Eden Goldstein
Using the eyes of history, the lives of saints, and the author's own reflections, Goldstein invites readers into the historical meaning and contemporary relevance of the Devotion to the Sacred…
Dr Ellen Gardner Nakamura
At the end of the 19th century, Japanese modernizers abandoned the traditional Chinese-style medicine that had dominated for centuries, and turned instead to Western medical theory and practice. In this…
Dr. Ian K. Smith
Getting old may be inevitable, but feeling old is not: we can age well and maximize each decade of life if we do the right things at the right time.
Dr Sandra D Wilson
Learn how to break the cycle of hurt people hurting people. In this updated edition of her classic book, Sandra Wilson helps you process pain from past relationships in order…
'An indispensable guide to addressing all the challenges of continuous provision' - Nursery World
The new and updated guide to getting continuous provision right in your setting from bestselling Early…
Rev. Dr. Gregory Morgan
This book diagnoses why natural law theory is becoming an increasingly fragmented discourse by illustrating how natural law theorists are caught in a relationship with 'secular' discourses.
Dr Monte Lee Rice
This book explores how Pentecostal meaning-full worship frees people into a cosmic liturgy that wills humanity to Pentecost. A liturgical turn has marked recent Pentecostal studies, producing a growing body…
Dr Cedric M. Koch
Why did populists rise across liberal democracies and which variety of populism gains under which conditions? Moving beyond theoretical accounts and bridging comparative politics and international relations, Koch explores such…
Dr. Daniel Jenkin-Smith
Explores the social and cultural history of bureaucratization in 19th-century Britain and France via the evolving literary portrayal of office life.
Professor or Dr. Zoran Milutinovic
A bold intervention into the lingering debates on Serbian writers Njegos and Andric in the late Yugoslav and post-Yugoslav period, which interrogates the political and moralizing (mis)use of literature.
Dr Mikel Maria Delgado
'Cats love to play: here is THE book that shows you how to join in! And your cat will thank you for it' John Bradshaw, Sunday Times bestselling author of…
Dr Robert V. Kenny
This deeply accomplished and lively monograph charts the career of a travelling French actor-manager whose impact and significance have been overlooked.
Dr Kenneth M. Ralston
Brings to light an important and unconventional teacher of literature whose way of thinking and method are relevant both in and beyond German Studies, particularly in view of the present…
Dr. Robert Lucas Scott
Retrieves Hegelian speculative experience for literary theory.
The relationship between Hegel and literary theory has for a long time been both contested and paradoxical. On the one hand, "theory" is…
Dr Joshua R. Sijuwade
By developing a new ontological argument for the existence of God, Joshua R. Sijuwade presents an innovative approach that enriches the existing discourse with fresh insights and a contemporary perspective.
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