E-book Russian Literature: A Very Short Introduction

Rather than presenting a conventional chronology of Russian literature, Russian Literature: A Very Short Introduction explores the place and importance in Russian culture of all types of literature. How and when did a Russian national literature come into being? What shaped its creation? How have the Russians regarded their literary language? The book uses the figure of Pushkin--'the Russian Sh…

E-book Critical Landscape Planning during the Belt and Road Initiative

Landscape architecture participates in development. Whether that participation isself-reflective or uncritical, complicit or compromised, this discipline has had signif-icant impacts on development practice and academia that are often unacknowledgedoutside what is otherwise a relatively narrow professional field. In the ways land-scapes are planned and studied, for instance, both geographic inf…

E-book Projectile Science: The Physics Behind Kicking a Field Goal and Launch…

What are the forces behind ballistics? Why do rocks and rockets soar through the air in an arch? The game is on the line. Suddenly, you hear the crack of a bat and the roar of crowd. Where will the ball land? How far will it travel? Is it a home run? You might think that hitting a home run or nailing a three-pointer is just luck, but there are many forces at work that determine if you’v…

E-book Business School Internationalisation in a Changing World

This is the Open Access edition of Global Focus from the European Foundation for Management Development (EFMD). Global Focus has become one of the most authoritative resources for in-depth analysis and updates on international management development. With features, topical reports, thought leadership and insight from leading experts from academia, business schools, companies and consultancies, …

E-book Méliès Boots : Footwear and Film Manufacturing in Second Industrial …

M -? -?   (?–??),  was called Georges Méliès, was the most accomplished filmmaker of cinema’s first decade, and one of its most prolific. (Hereafter, I refer to him by his surname only, unlike other members of the Méliès family.) When I set out to write a book about Méliès, I imagined it as a comprehensive study of the entirety of Méliès…

E-book Jeremy Bentham and Australia : Convicts, utility and empire

Jeremy Bentham’s writings on Australia, new authoritative editions of which are now published in a volume entitled Panopticon versus New South Wales and other writings on Australia1 in The Collected Works of Jeremy Bentham, have had a profound and enduring influence across a number of fields. For instance, according to the historian John Gascoigne, s…

E-book Innovations in Teaching History: Eighteenth-Century Studies in Higher …

An essential teaching companion offering practical strategies for enhancing learning for all teachers of history in higher education. The study of the eighteenth century has been a growth area in university research and teaching in recent decades. Although widely taught in history departments, the eighteenth century also presents challenges, including new students’ unfamiliarity with the peri…

E-book Manhattan Project: The Birth of the Atomic Bomb in the Words of Its Cr…

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E-book Ranaviruses : Lethal Pathogens of Ectothermic Vertebrates

The family Iridoviridae currently contains fi ve genera, two of which infect invertebrates ( Iridovirus and Chloriridovirus ) and three that infect only ectother-mic vertebrates ( Lymphocystivirus , Megalocytivirus , and Ranavirus ; Jancovich et al. 2015a ). Lymphocy stiviruses and megalocytiviruses only infect fi sh, whereas, as indicated above, r…

E-book Care Technologies for Ageing Societies : An International Comparison

Technology in policy discourses is frequently cited as pivotal for ameliorating the global ‘crisis’ in care, delivering positive outcomes, and is increasingly part of care provision and arrangements across the world. This Policy Press Short will explore how, in different national contexts, technology is being deployed to contribute to the sustainability of care relationshi…