Academic Press imprint: 6422 books
Two Loves I Have
A New Reading of Shakespeare's Sonnets
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2016
Perhaps the most astonishing set of personal poems ever written, Shakespeare's Sonnets have both delighted and puzzled readers down the ages. Two Loves I Have is a reading of the sequence that brings the four characters involved to life. The 'fair, kind and true' young man to whom the majority of...
The Poetic and Real Worlds of César Vallejo (18921938)
A Struggle Between Art and Politics
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2015
The world-renowned Peruvian poet César Vallejo (1892–1938) was also a journalist, essayist, novelist and would-be dramatist. A Struggle between Art and Politics reviews the evidence – literary and historical – now reliably to hand, and assesses the often conflicting body of opinion his work...
Mythical Indies and Columbus's Apocalyptic Letter
Imagining the Americas in the Late Middle Ages
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2015
With his letter of 1493 to the court of Spain, Christopher Columbus heralded his first voyage to the present-day Americas, creating visions that seduced the European imagination and birthing a fascination with those "new" lands and their inhabitants. Columbus's epistolary announcement travelled...
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Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2012
Written by distinguished scholars from multiple perspectives, this account widens the interpretative scope on religious life among the pre-Christian Scandinavian people. The religion of the Viking Age is conventionally identified through its mythology: the ambiguous character Odin, the forceful Thor,...
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Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2016
This book demonstrates an integrated model of clinical psychology practice where disorders are understood as the outcome of multiple interacting factors across different levels of analysis: biological, psychological and psycho-social. Using real-life case studies with expert analysis and interpretation...
Echoes of the Holocaust
Historical Cultures in Contemporary Europe
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2003
The result of a research project conducted by Swedish scholars, this text examines interpretations and representations of the Holocaust in European societies, primarily focusing on the most recent decades. Using specific case studies, the articles in this anthology study how, when and why the collective...
The Hospitality and Tourism Industry in China
New Growth, Trends, and Developments
Language: English
Release Date: June 27, 2018
Here is an insightful look into the great changes in the hospitality and tourism industry in China in recent years. The steady growth of the GDP in China, the increasing middle-income population, lifestyle changes of the Chinese people, and fast infrastructure development (speed trains, airports,...
by Ravi Gupta, S. R. Pandi-Perumal, Ahmed S. BaHammam
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2018
Written for sleep technologists, Clinical Atlas of Polysomnography provides basic information regarding normal sleep, sleep disorders, and electrophysiology that is outside of the scope of the AASM manual (AASM Manual for the Scoring of Sleep and Associated Events). It aims to act as a guide through...
Dictator, The Revolution, The Machine
A Political Account of Joseph Stalin
Language: English
Release Date: October 3, 2016
It is a commonplace wisdom that from the authoritarian roots of the Bolshevik revolution in 1917 grew the gulags and the police state of the Stalinist epoch. The Dictator, the Revolution, The Machine overturns that perspective once and for all by showing how October was inspired by a profound mass...
The Lost Worlds of Rhodes
Greeks, Italians, Jews and Turks Between Tradition and Modernity
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2013
Four peoples, each with its own culture, language and faith, shared a small Mediterranean town and experienced, each in its own way, the upheavals of war, modernity, emigration and occupation. With the German takeover in 1943, the Holocaust in 1944 and the beginning of Greek rule in 1947, this multiethnic...
Catalonia Since the Spanish Civil War
Reconstructing the Nation
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2012
Catalonia since the Spanish Civil War examines the transformation of the Catalan nation in socio-economic, political and historical terms, and offers an innovative interpretation of the determinants of its nationalist mobilisation. With Franco’s and Spanish nationalism’s victory in 1939, and the...
‘Paracuellos'
The Elimination of the ‘Fifth Column' in Republican Madrid during the Spanish Civil War
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2016
This book examines the most polemical atrocity of the Spanish civil war: The massacre of 2,500 political prisoners by Republican security forces in the villages of Paracuellos and Torrejón de Ardoz near Madrid in November/December 1936. The atrocity took place while Santiago Carrillo – later Communist...
Mexico and the Spanish Civil War
Political Repercussions for the Republican Cause
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2016
Based on first-hand diplomatic, political, and journalistic sources, most of which are previously unpublished, Mexico and the Spanish Civil War investigates the backing of the Second Republic by Mexico during the Spanish Civil War. This path-breaking account reveals the operations in Spain of Mexican...
Friend or Foe?
Occupation, Collaboration and Selective Violence in the Spanish Civil War
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2016
'Today with the Red Army captive and disarmed, the Nationalist [nacionales] troops have achieved their final military objectives. The war is over.' With these two sentences, on 1 April 1939, General Franco announced that his writ ran across the whole of Spain. His words marked a high point for those...