Navigating asylum

Navigating Asylum delves into these pressing issues by examining the nuanced narratives shared by asylum seekers, interpreters, and refugee status determination officers (RSDOs).

Pile foundations, volume 1

Pile Foundations: Design and Construction, Volume One delivers practical guidance for the design and construction of pile foundations. An essential reference for geotechnical engineers, consultants and postgraduate students in geotechnical design.

Life, power, resistance

Life, Power, Resistance offers a clear and accessible framework for understanding this transformation, not as abstract theory, but as lived experience shaped by intersecting identities.

The changing deathscape

The Changing Deathscape: The Policy and Practice Implications of Alkaline Hydrolysis for the UK explores the various issues associated with introducing a new approach to end-of-life body disposition into the UK, drawing on existing practice, evidence and knowledge.

Imagining queer time

Imagining Queer Time delves into the ageing experience of older same-sex couples in Scotland by studying the intersection of their past, present, and future, and by exploring their life stories in historical and political contexts.

Power in the pews

Uses the life of a notorious early twentieth century Black evangelist to shed light on a transformative era for Black religious leadership and its perceived authorityPower in the Pews explores one man’s meteoric rise to religious fame to illuminate how Black ministers’ power in urban Black life c...

Plato’s republic comes to baghdad and cordoba

This book provides a detailed description of how the Islamic philosophers, Alfarabi, Ibn Bajja, and Averroes, adapted Plato's Republic to address the challenges of their own time.Scholarship has researched the material transmission of Plato in the medieval Islamic world, but Islamic philosophers'...

Maritime strategy for medium powers in the twenty-first century

An up to date analysis of what it means to be a medium maritime power and of the challenges facing medium-power navies and their governments when dealing with twenty-first century security and strategy issues.This book provides an up to date analysis of what it means to be a medium maritime power...

A critical companion to john audelay

The first comprehensive study of Audelay's life, manuscript, patronage, and musical background. All the extant writings of the fifteenth-century poet John Audelay are preserved in what is now Oxford, Bodleian Library, MS Douce 302, compiled at Haughmond Abbey, east of Shrewsbury, c.1426. In it, A...

The political economy of ghana in the long twentieth century

A major study of modern Ghana's political economy, tracing how cocoa shaped the country's economic transformation, political change and enduring inequalities.This is the first study of the interaction of politics and economics of Ghana across the whole 'cocoa era', the period from when the countr...

Dictionary of british crests volume v: medieval ordinary

This volume continues the major project of creating a reliable means of identifying British medieval coats of arms, which began in 1940; it will be of interest not only to heralds, but also to aid historians, archaeologists, genealogists, and antiquaries.This book of Crests follows a series of fo...

We've got questions!

Everything you need to know to curate and structure the best trivia night in town.Do you love trivia? Is your brain a trap for seemingly useless information? Are you looking for a way to harness that power and wield it as a weapon to bring people together?We've Got Questions! contains the tools y...

The enchanted garden

A soulful guide to witchcraft through gardening – The Enchanted Garden blends magickal ritual with horticultural wisdom to transform any green space into a sacred sanctuary. A beautifully photographed and deeply inspiring journey into nature-based spirituality.

Wedding folklore

An engaging exploration of wedding traditions across the Western world, uncovering the origins and meanings behind courtship, betrothal and marriage customs, from ancient rituals to modern celebrations.

Women and political participation

This book explores the gendered effects of devolution and its ramifications in terms of new institutionalism, social movement theory and ideas of social justice and political citizenship. The authors expand upon research from central and local government in Wales and situate it in a wider context...

Zwischen eros und begehren

Was bisher Leben und Bewusstsein, Sprache und Geist genannt wurde, steht in den neuen biomedizinischen, soziokulturellen und kommunikationstechnologischen Verkörperungen zur Disposition. Diese neuen Sozio-Technologien führen zu einer tiefgreifenden anthropologischen Entsicherung, die eine offensi...

Festkörperphysik

Aufgrund seiner didaktisch anspruchsvollen sowie modernen und klaren Vermittlung wird dieses Lehrbuch seit Jahren hochgeschätzt. Die Autoren präsentieren nicht nur Festkörperphysik in all ihrer Breite, sondern führen auch leicht verständlich und strukturiert in weiterführende Spezialthemen ein. N...

Out of control

Dyke uses a planetary perspective on the sustainability challenges we face to think about human civilization in a new way, providing a clear route to a flourishing future for humanity.

David's sling

Throughout Western history, the societies that have made the greatest contributions to the spread of freedom have created iconic works of art to celebrate their achievements. Yet despite the enduring appeal of these works—from the Parthenon to Michelangelo’s David to Picasso’s Guernica—histories ...

Nazi-communism

Nazi-Communism: Why Marxist-Leninists and Nazi Fascists Are Ideological Twins is a provocative, meticulously argued treatise that dismantles the conventional narrative separating Nazism from communism. Drawing on extensive historical, philosophical, and economic analysis, Kaiser demonstrates that...

The shutdown sequence

Weighing personal loss against collective ecological sorrow, The Shutdown Sequence confronts the impact of human activity on the people and places we call home.In tech, a “graceful shutdown” refers to the controlled process of stopping a system in an orderly way, allowing it to finish all active ...

Oppian’s marine dialectic

Oppian’s Halieutica is at its heart a dialectic enterprise. Although it purports to impart technical information on zoology and fishing, in reality it probes and challenges ancient ideas about the position of humanity in the natural world, the psychology of non-human animals, and questions of vir...

A journey to utopia, vol. i

Shangshan xiaxiang, or the rustication of urban youth, shaped the lives of seventeen million Chinese citizens in the Mao era and has remained a controversial topic today. The author is both a participant in and a persistent observer of this historical drama. Rejecting the statist view which extol...

Code blue

In the summer of 1992, patients at a veterans’ hospital in mid-Missouri began dying under suspicious circumstances—but the institution meant to protect them was busy protecting itself. Three decades on, Jake Adelstein comes home to his native Missouri to take up the case his father never stopped ...

Handbuch werke der geschichtsphilosophie

Das vorliegende Handbuch stellt von Herodot bis Habermas die klassischen Werke der Geschichtsphilosophie vor, die von namhaften Experten kommentiert und in ihrer Bedeutung für das Verstehen der Gegenwart erschlossen werden. Berücksicht werden dabei auch historische, literarische, soziologische un...

The kids aren't all right

The 1975 shooting attack on a Brampton high school was, at the time, North America’s deadliest school assault carried out by a student.In May 1975, a sixteen-year-old student entered his high school — Brampton Centennial Secondary School — where he unpacked two rifles and proceeded to fatally sho...

Mass movements of the chinese cultural revolution

Using a social movement perspective with statistical models, this monograph demonstrates that participation in the Red Guards movement during the CR was motivated by the desire to improve social status or maintain existing positions in the social hierarchy. A strong relationship is noted between ...

Philosophical readings of virgil

The philosophical background of Virgil’s works has been studied with different positions and conclusions since Antiquity, and has provided inspiration and suggestions that have stimulated innovative developments through the ages. This book explores the philosophical – and often ‘creative’ – inter...

Echoes, ripples, wake

Grasping traces means understanding past events, seizing absences, questioning the present, and apprehending the coming of potential futures. Traces are found in languages and rituals, in recipes and practices, in art and culture. We aim to explore such traces and their readings, because they pla...

Twisting tongues

What does multilingual poetry do in a post-digital public space?  In this book, comparative literature scholars Elisabeth Friis and Karin Nykvist discuss how multilingual poetry in Scandinavia today is a powerful intervention in poetics as well as in politics. In the wake of globalism and new pat...

Crónica de 1344

The book series Beihefte zur Zeitschrift für romanische Philologie is among the most renowned publications in Romance Studies. It covers the entire field of Romance linguistics, including the national languages as well as the lesser studied  Romance languages. The series publishes high-quality mo...

New frontiers on freedom of expression

The International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions (IFLA) is the leading international body representing the interests of library and information services and their users. It is the global voice of the information profession. The series IFLA Publications deals with many of th...

Narrating women: greek literary texts (200–600 ad)

This volume discusses how women were narrated in extant literary texts from the third to the sixth century AD and how they can be narrated now in the cases when the paucity, disconnectedness and / or bias of late antique sources make it difficult to reconstruct ancient narratives pertaining indiv...

Decolonial becoming

This book analyzes the decolonial becoming of Indigenous communities, teachers, and youth in language policy. It focuses on decolonizing efforts towards hegemonic language ideologies in Nepal’s language education policies and practices. It emphasizes ideological analyses with Indigenous Yakthung ...

The three graves of anna szenes

This volume seeks answers to the question of why Anikó Szenes (1921–1944), a Jewish girl born and assimilated in Budapest who was murdered at the age of twenty-three, has three graves. What is the story behind these three places? Who were the people involved in this process, and what role did the...

Star by star

An invigorating tale of suffragettes and heroes, courage and survival, as World War One ends, a pandemic sweeps the land – and women get to vote!Stella has always looked forward to changing the world. It’s what she was brought up to do, by a suffragette mother who knew all about fighting and rebe...

The eternal return of clara hart

In this Kirkus Prize-shortlisted YA sensation, a teen boy becomes trapped in a time loop of the day of his classmate’s death and must confront toxic masculinity, his own complicity and the courage it takes to change the future. Wake up. Friday. Clara Hart hits my car. Go to class. Anthony rates t...

How to make an incel

How to Make an Incel provides a much-needed, triangulated analysis of the journey into inceldom, bridging the growing discussion between structural and experiential approaches in incel research.

Integrating esg into management practices

Integrating ESG into Management Practices covers sustainable business strategies, social responsibility, ethical governance, real-world case studies, and future ESG trends for ethical leadership and long-term success.

Belonging in uk business schools

What can business schools do to address key difficulties supporting students with particular needs? The chapters brought together by the editors explore the challenges faced by students who are disabled, neurodiverse, from widening participation backgrounds and students who regularly disengage.

Centring youth voice in school exclusion

Taking a multidisciplinary approach from Linguistics and Participatory Research, Centring Youth Voice in School Exclusion explores the discriminatory discourses at play in school exclusion, as narrated by excluded young people themselves.

Mathematical engineering and the information sciences

The ebook edition of this title is Open Access and freely available to read online. Thomas Kailath is a giant of the mathematical and statistical signal processing fields. This volume, with contributions from leading authorities in their fields, is meant to honor his productive career.

Pile foundations, volume 2

Pile Foundations: Design and Construction, Volume Two delivers practical guidance for the design and construction of pile foundations. An essential reference for geotechnical engineers, consultants and postgraduate students in geotechnical design.

Thomas clarkson’s latin essay

Abdallah laroui and the politics of loss in modern arab thought

Playing the repertory before shakespeare

The dog messenger

Cultivate an unbreakable bond with your dog by discovering who they are and what they need to thrive.Dogs are born into this world with a story and everything they need to thrive — they don't need obedience training to be the best version of themselves. In The Dog Messenger, canine behaviour cons...

How to finish your knits

Learn essential knitting finishing techniques with clear step-by-step guidance on mattress stitch, seaming, blocking, weaving in ends, and sweater construction. Featuring detailed illustrations, practical advice, and three timeless sweater patterns to help knitters create polished handmade garments.

§§ 516-534

All volumes of commentary on Book 2 of the German Civil Code (BGB) may also be purchased by partial subscription. The reduced partial subscription price applies.

Plastics technology

This introductory book covers the entire spectrum of the plastics technology/engineering, from raw material to finished plastic products. It is intended not just for university/college students in plastics technology and other engineering disciplines but also for beginners to the field in general...

Thermal analysis of inorganics

This book provides an overview of the thermal analysis of inorganic materials and presents a large number of practical examples. The main techniques used for sample measurements are differential scanning calorimetry (DSC), thermogravimetric analysis (TGA), thermomechanical analysis (TMA), and dyn...

Health diplomacy in the indo-pacific region during the covid-19 pandemic

What happens to diplomacy when a global health crisis undermines trust, institutions, and state credibility? This book shows how COVID‑19 pandemic transformed health into a strategic instrument of foreign policy in the Indo‑Pacific. It explores how states, such as China, Japan, South Korea, and T...

Starving armenians

Immigrant family life is often depicted as centered on food, but Joan’s Armenian-American family is obsessed with not eating. The daughters are expected to stay waif-like to attract wealthy American husbands and are taught to restrict their food from an early age.With the help of her childhood fr...

Intro to game programming using directx 12

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Deep north uprising

Palms in concrete

Front and center

A critical edition of the fift booke of amadis de gaule

This is an original-spelling, critical edition of The Fift Booke of Amadis de Gaule. The fifth volume of the Iberian Amadis cycle, Las Sergas de Esplandián, was composed in Spanish by Garci Rodríguez de Montalvo and first printed in 1510. It was later translated into French by Nicolas de Herberay...

Baqīʿ al-gharqad in medina

The sectarian rift between Sunnism and Shiʿism has been a hallmark of Islamic history early on. Their constant rivalry manifested itself in a number of forms, such as the veneration of the Imams among Shiʿites, including the erection of domes over their graves. The most important focal point in t...

The jesuits and the age of enlightenment

What role did Jesuit humanism, education, global missions, and science play in shaping Jesuit participation in the cultural history of the Enlightenment, and why did so many Jesuits and former Jesuits become critics of the legacy of the philosophes by the end of the eighteenth century? What role ...

The metaphysical synthesis of john of damascus

Smilen Markov’s monograph on the metaphysical synthesis of John Damascene depicts a paradox ontological structure: the single man, whose ontological position is conditioned by non-being, participates in the life of the Origin of being. The term ‘historical interconnections’ denotes the basic elem...

Pokémon crochet squirtle book & kit

An official Pokémon crochet kit! Make your own adorable Pokémon, with simple crochet patterns and step-by-step photos, plus all the materials you need to make Squirtle.

Time and agency in horace and prudentius

Millennium transcends boundaries – between epochs and regions, and between disciplines. Like the journal Millennium-Jahrbuch, the Millennium-Studien pursues an international, interdisciplinary approach that cuts across historical eras. The editorial and the advisory board represent a broad spect...

Local dynamics and state formation in europe (1600-1900)

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Crises in our times

The series Nord Studies in Reality Formations is Nord University’s official outlet of transdisciplinary research. Each volume addresses understandings of reality in our time and what the societal implications could be, discussed from various perspectives.

Deutsche kaufleute in südostasien

Die Schriftenreihe wird herausgegeben von der Gesellschaft für Unternehmensgeschichte. In ihr werden die mit dem Preis für Unternehmensgeschichte ausgezeichneten Dissertationen, Habilitationen oder Monographien sowie unabhängige kritische Unternehmensgeschichten und gelegentlich Tagungsbände sowi...

Argentinian women’s writing and the anglophone book market

The book series “Latin American Literatures of the World” presents an innovative understanding of literatures written in Latin America and the Caribbean. Informed by current perspectives on world literary studies and cultural theory, it focuses on works that deal with the multiple global connecti...

Sacred cultures in global politics

Sacred Cultures in Global Politics examines how religious and cultural rhetoric functions as a tool of political power, drawing on cases in ten countries across six continents. In twenty chapters organized around the themes of Indigeneity, Identity, and Inclusivity, the contributors trace how pol...

Wine, women, and witless kings

The series Deuterocanonical and Cognate Literature Studies (DCLS) is concerned principally with research into those books of the Greek Bible (Septuagint) which are not contained in the Hebrew canon, and into intertestamentary and early Jewish literature from the period around the 3rd century BCE ...

Design with canva in easy steps

Design with Canva in easy steps shows how to get started with Canva (both the online version and the mobile app), and progress, to enable you to get designing like a pro in no time.

Extremist voices

Concerning nonviolence and the color line in the twentieth century

Mix & match mosaic crochet

Create millions of unique crochet projects using 100+ modular mosaic motifs. This first-of-its-kind guide includes base patterns, tutorials, and endless options to personalize everything from blankets to accessories with bold, modern style.

Cross stitch alphabets

A collection of 50 cross stitch alphabets featuring themed designs from florals to animals. Includes clear charts, techniques, and ideas for creating personalized gifts, samplers, and keepsakes.

Art in the field: wildflowers

A genuine field manual that you can use at home or out on the move to find, record and practice the art and technique of drawing Wildflowers and their habitat.Packed with tutorials and practice pages, the series offers you an in-depth course in a popular area of nature study.

Four seasons of baby crochet

A beautifully textured collection of baby garments and accessories for every season, Four Seasons of Baby Crochet features 12 stunning patterns by b estselling designer Vita Apala – all designed to fit babies from newborn to two years old.

Fifty cars that changed the course of history

Fasten your seatbelt for an ultimate drive with the cars that have reshaped our world. These 50 period snapshots of world history over the last 150 years are not just about pistons and panels; they’re amazing stories of heroic people and extraordinary events.From Bertha Benz stealing her husband’...

Art in the field: fungi

A genuine field manual that you can use at home or out on the move to find, record and practice the art and technique of drawing Fungi, Mushrooms and their habitat.Packed with tutorials and practice pages, the series offers you an in-depth course in a popular area of nature study.

After screen life

A study of gender, faith and ageing among Malaysian screen workers, foregrounding Muslim women’s labour, resilience and visibility behind the screen.

More professors speak out

More Professors Speak Out is the sequel to the critically acclaimed 2025 anthology Professors Speak Out: The Truth About Campus Investigations, which gave voice to faculty members investigated by their institutions. This new volume’s stories reveal how threats to academic freedom have evolved and...

Where do we come from and where are we going

This collection of texts, written between the 1980s and 2026, commemorates the 50th anniversary of Charter 77. Led by his participation in public debates between Charter 77 signatories and other residents of the community that restored democracy in Central Europe after 1989, veteran Czech diploma...

Poppies and perseverance

Poppies and Perseverance explores India’s opium poppy cultivation as an agricultural practice shaped by beauty, legality, and survival. Tracing poppy’s journey from colonial entanglements to contemporary realities, Kawal Deep Kour’s stimulating new book shows how this delicate flower has influenc...

Using artificial intelligence in education

Using Artificial Intelligence in Education examines the integration of Internet of Things (IoT) and Artificial Intelligence (AI) technologies in the teaching of social science at the middle school level. Grounded in a clearly identified research gap, the author develops an innovative instructiona...

Chinese learning goes west

This collection adds to the growing body of scholarship about the longue durée of Western engagement with Chinese learning. We demonstrate how Chinese thought and literature exerted considerable influence on Europe and the Americas in the century preceding the Enlightenment, and continued unabate...

For shin-chi

When two children learn about their grandparents’ residential school experience, they find a way to support their journey toward healing and recovery — the third book in the Shi-shi-etko series. Mariah, David and their grandparents set off for a day in the mountains, but Yayah seems sad. “Is it b...

What came from beneath

When a derailed train plunges into the Niagara River, Abby Laws must care for her young nephew, who insists he was saved by an impossible cephalopod. Abby Laws, a buttoned-up Toronto therapist, finds her tightly controlled life upended when her ex-girlfriend, grief counsellor Karina Patel tells h...

Hub city shorts: south carolina

Hub City Shorts is a series of publications edited by Gabriel Bump, Mesha Maren, and M. Randal O’Wain, published by Hub City Press. This design-forward, collectible series of small-format books celebrates short forms from new, established, and rediscovered Southern writers. Hub City Shorts will f...

Hub city shorts: mississippi

Hub City Shorts is a series of publications edited by Gabriel Bump, Mesha Maren, and M. Randal O’Wain, published by Hub City Press. This design-forward, collectible series of small-format books celebrates short forms from new, established, and rediscovered Southern writers. Hub City Shorts will f...

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Steak and butter gal super simple

Heal your body, fuel your life, and bring joy back into the kitchen with 100 easy, comforting, and deeply nourishing recipes from Bella Ma, the Steak and Butter Gal.Inspired by Bella’s personal journey from years of chronic health struggles on a standard American diet and a restrictive vegan diet...

Baltic yearbook of international law, volume 24 (2025)

The Baltic Yearbook of International Law is published under the auspices of the Baltic Editorial Board within the framework of cooperation between the Riga Graduate School of Law and Brill/Nijhoff Publishers. The Yearbook aims to bring to the international debate issues of importance in the Balti...