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This book is about how the activities of the Chinese sojourners in wartime India caused great concerns to the British colonial regime and the Chinese Nationalist government alike and how these sojourners responded to the surveillance, discipline, and check imposed by the governments.

The first biography of Elizabeth Wiskemann - historian, journalist, intelligence agent - delving into her lives in 1920s Cambridge, Nazi-era Germany and Eastern Europe, and post-war European reconstruction in Italy and West Germany, as a female pioneer in the male-dominated spheres of journalism, government service, and academia.

The new edition of Fundamentals of Computational Neuroscience build on the success and strengths of the previous editions. Completely redesigned and revised, it introduces the theoretical foundations of neuroscience with a focus on the nature of information processing in the brain.

We often talk about someone being aware of a fact, perhaps in order to criticize, excuse, admonish, or inform. Paul Silva presents a comprehensive case against the view that factual awareness is knowledge or even essentially related to knowledge, arguing that knowledge is just one species of factual awareness, which is a more basic type of state.

This is an interesting book of conversations, which not only endorses the life and thoughts of Ashok Vajpeyi, but also praises poetry in general. He makes the mystery of the world visible to us by speaking with/of poetry. Throughout these conversations we encounter a poet who sets his own pace through poetry, music and painting.

This book deals with the interface between identity, culture and literature. It studies questions of cultural identity and gender in Hindi plays of the 19th- and 20th- centuries and the interplay of poetics and politics, as revealed in the work of several influential playwrights.

The book is aimed at providing a short introduction to the divergent ways in which space and place evince themselves in literature. With suitable illustrations from some very well- known canonical texts the book offers a brief survey of the possible ways of looking at the seemingly impossible relationship between Literature and Geography.

Paul Katsafanas examines the role of devotion as an ethical stance in human life. Devotion typically involves treating certain values, goals, or relationships as inviolable, incontestable, and invulnerable to argument. Katsafanas argues that devotion can be reasonable, and suggests how it can avoid deforming into fanaticism.

Cardiopulmonary Transplantation and Mechanical Circulatory Support provides a comprehensive review of the field. Suitable for all tiers of healthcare professionals managing such complex patients.

Throughout history, American literature has provided an escape from the classroom; yet authors like Twain, Melville, and Ellison remain key figures in high school and college curricula. This book offers an account of this paradox, examining the contentious but ultimately generative relationship between literary and scholastic culture in the US.

This book advances ongoing debates on democratic backsliding and autocratization with specific reference to Africa. It offers a carefully developed theoretical framework and, unlike many previous studies, adds an international dimension to the analyses of autocratization processes on the continent.

A new approach to reading Dante's La Comedia Divinia through the lens of art history. Dante, Artist of Gesture brings Dante's canonical text into conversation with the visual art of his time to suggest the importance of visual cues to the reading and interpretation of the text itself.

The first critical analysis to embrace a wide and representative selection of John Addington Symonds's work, beyond his famous essays. It explores Symonds as a complex thinker, with an ambitious vision of the queerness of the world itself, and follows his engagement with the art and literature of classical antiquity.

The book argues that collective skill formation systems remain attractive for firms and governments. However, continuous and profound adjustments will be needed if they are to fulfil their objectives in terms of equity and efficiency.

This handbook shows the unexpected richness and diversity of key phenomenological and post-phenomenological thinkers in an aim to help management and organization scholars to understand a huge variety of contemporary phenomena such as AI, digitalization of organizational processes, remote work, financial markets, and much more.

This book promotes the concept of Biodiversity Litigation as a common notion of environmental law and investigates litigation in a variety of countries and from various perspectives. It opens the space for more creative legal thinking when dealing with and analysing biodiversity-related disputes.

Concealing Caste opens a window into the experience of women and men in India who, though born into communities stigmatized as 'untouchable,' are perceived as 'high caste' outside the home.

This book offers the first systematic treatment of the idea of a critical theory of world society. Malte Frøslee Ibsen develops a reconstruction of the Frankfurt School tradition as four paradigms of critical theory, in original interpretations of the work of notable theorists.

Tax Crimes and Enforcement in the European Union addresses the preventative and prosecution challenges of tax crimes, money laundering, and corruption. The book combines legal and social science methods while analysing law in practice, suggesting future solutions for tax law and policies on enforcement in the EU.

Consistency in sentencing is regarded as essential for a fair system. Achieving Consistency in Sentencing brings together theoretical and practical considerations of the concept of consistency to examine how these can be realised. The book provides readers with an analysis of the various shapes that guidance takes and examines their efficacy.

Explores the intersection between medicine and medieval Iberian literature with a particular emphasis on melancholy and its links to depression and lovesickness.

Modern Irish and Scottish Literature: Connections, Contrasts, Celticisms explores the ways Irish and Scottish literatures have influenced each other from the 1760s to the contemporary era.

Considers lyrical works and the reception of Petrarch's poetry in sixteenth- and early seventeenth-century England. It explores these themes in the light of development of literary canons, poetic imitation, and production, from Thomas Wyatt to William Shakespeare.

This volume draws together contributions from leading international scholars in ancient philosophy to explore central issues in the moral psychology of Plato, Aristotle, and the Hellenistic schools.

A new five volume critical text edition of the only surviving ancient commentary on Plato's Timaeus, in which Proclus encompasses seven centuries of philosophical reflection on Plato's cosmology. Each volume is preceded by a substantial introduction.

This volume explores the creation and reception of Piranesi's three colossal neoclassical candelabra. Caroline Van Eck's study explores the intense interest taken by producers and consumers of art objects in objects that made the classical live again in the late 1700s and early 1800s.

Pavlov's research was foundational to the twentieth-century understanding of physiology and psychology, yet much of his work remains untranslated from the original Russian language. In this book, Olga Yokoyama translates the third volume of Pavlov's Complete Works, as well as his last unpublished paper. The volume also contains the papers from the sixth edition of Twenty Years of Objective Study of the Higher Nervous Activity of Animals. His concept of the conditional reflex has influenced human thought far beyond physiology, raising philosophical questions of the mind and its relationship to the psyche, creativity, and individual freedom.

Administrative Justice in South Africa 2e offers a clear, comprehensive and applied explanation of the principles and framework of administrative justice in South Africa. The text addresses both judicial and non-judicial means for control and enforcement, as well as procedural aspects of administrative law. Practical in its approach, the text provides valuable focus on the application of principles in case law, problem-solving methodology and specific procedural aspects of administrative justice.The second edition includes a new, unique chapter that considers the implications of administrative justice for the creation of administrative mandates, as opposed to mere control of administrative action once taken, thus employing administrative justice in a more proactive manner.

Public administration plays an integral role at every stage of social policy creation and execution. Program operators' management decisions shape policymakers' perceptions of what can and should be accomplished through social programs, while public administrators wield considerable power to mobilize tangible and intangible resources and fill gaps in policy designs.

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