bluuebunny/crossref_metadata_2025 huggingface dataset:
Biosensors as freshness indicator for packed animal and marine products: A review
Authors: Milintha Mary T. P. , Kumaravel B. , Nagamaniammai G. , Karishma S. , Essa M. M. , Qoronfleh M. W. , Chacko L.
Published: September 2023

There is growing interest in food quality and safety, thus creating the demand for the development of highly sensitive devices to detect freshness and quality of perishable food. The development of on-package dual sensor and smart packaging systems is gaining momentum at the end of the supply chain management, regarding the quality of packed marine products. The colour change provides a clear indication of the quality to the consumers. Simultaneously, the manufacturers can track the quality of the packed marine products, at any point in time, to take an appropriate call depending on the quality. The on-package double sensors were built dependent on two pH pointers, and applied to screen the freshness of marine products. Methyl red (MR) and bromocresol purple (BCP) are commonly used pH indicators to detect the freshness of marine products. Once the marine products start spoiling, the MR changes from red to yellow, while the BCP changes from yellow to purple, based on the pH. Therefore, the label can be used as a simple and practical freshness indicator to continuously monitor and detect the quality of packaged products by data capturing, and also collecting it by cloud computing and the internet of thinking (IoT).
Production of a mixed fruit juice powder using mixture analysis and a fuzzy model
Authors: Aryaee Hadis , Zare Davood , Ariaii Peiman , Mirdamadi Saeed , Naghizadeh Raeisi Shahram
Published: September 2023

The present work aimed to find a mixed fruit juice powder with high antioxidant activity and sensory score. A two-step fuzzy algorithm and fuzzy toolbox were applied to produce acceptable sensory data for the mixture analysis design. The mixture design was then analysed using two responses of sensory and antioxidant activity, and the optimised beverage consisted of red grape (20.4%), mulberry (75.6%), and strawberry (4.0%). As compared to single fruit juices, the selected mixture yielded high content of phenolic compounds with desirable antioxidant activity and sensory score. Spray- and freeze-drying were then compared for the fruit juice powder production from selected mixed juices formulated with 20% maltodextrin (DE = 20). A significant (p < 0.05) difference was observed between the powder yield (82.0% in comparison to 51.7%), free radical scavenging activity (85.6% in comparison to 75.4%), and total phenolic content (2958.8 in comparison to 2791.4 mg GAE/L) of the freeze- and spray-dryer, respectively. Furthermore, the spray-dried powder was much lighter than the freeze-dried powder, with a lower chroma index, redness, and higher hue angle. Overall, freeze-drying was less destructive than spray-drying in the powder production from the mixed juice.
Use of serum copper and zinc levels in the diagnostic evaluation of endometrioma and epithelial ovarian carcinoma
Authors:   Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Acıbadem Maslak Hospital, Istanbul, Turkey, Utkan Korun Zeynep Ece , Erdem Mehmet , Erdem Ahmet , Onan Anil , Bozkurt Nuray , Öktem Mesut , Biberoğlu Kutay
Published: September 2023

Objective: The aim of this study is to evaluate serum copper (Cu) and zinc (Zn) levels in patients with epithelial ovarian cancer and endometrioma. Materials and methods: We included 21 epithelial ovarian cancer patients, 47 endometrioma patients, 31 healthy women of reproductive age, and 10 healthy women in menopause. Cu and Zn levels and Cu/Zn ratios were compared. Results: In the endometrioma group, Cu levels (P = 0.04) and Cu/Zn ratio (P < 0.01) were higher, while Zn levels (P < 0.01) were lower compared to the control group. The threshold value of 1.15 with 62% sensitivity and 61% specificity was calculated for the Cu/Zn ratio using the ROC curve (AUC = 0.688; P = 0.005). In the ovarian cancer group, Cu levels (P ≤ 0.01) and Cu/Zn ratio (P = 0.02) were higher, whereas Zn levels (P ≤ 0.02) were lower compared to the control group. The Cu/Zn ratio threshold value of 1.37 was calculated with 76% sensitivity and 90% specificity (AUC = 0.829; P = 0.004). The Zn level was lower (P = 0.02), and the Cu/Zn ratio was higher (P = 0.01) in the ovarian cancer group compared to the endometrioma group. Conclusion: The threshold value of the Cu/Zn ratio for ovarian cancer could be determined with a specificity of 90%, whereas the sensitivity and specificity of the Cu/Zn ratio for endometrioma were low. Key words: copper – zinc – ovarian cancer – endometrioma – copper zinc ratio
Bilateral tubal ectopic pregnancy after spontaneous conception
Authors:   Departmnet of Gynecology and Obstetrics, Mulacova Hospital in Pilsen, Czech Republic, Botsyurko Ruslan , Smoligová Vendula
Published: September 2023

Objective: Presentation of a case report of a rare case of bilateral tubal pregnancy in a female patient after spontaneous conception. Observation: We present a case of a 26-year-old female patient first hospitalized in the Gynecology Obstetrics Clinic of the Pilsen University Hospital, where a laparoscopy was indicated for suspicion of ectopic tubal pregnancy during which a left-sided salpingectomy was performed for a macroscopically clear finding of a tubal pregnancy on the left side, this finding was also confirmed histologically. Subsequently, the patient was discharged to home care. During a follow-up examination by a district gynaecologist, the patient complained of a recurrence of pain in the lower abdomen, on collection of hCG (human chorionic gonadotropin) its increase was detected and the patient was sent for a control gynaecological examination to Mulacova Hospital in Pilsen. On the examination in the outpatient clinic, she reported significant lower abdominal pain and collapsed during transvaginal ultrasound and was hospitalized. Subsequently, diagnostic laparoscopy was indicated during hospitalization, during which tubal pregnancy on the right and hemoperitoneum were macroscopically evident. A right-sided salpingectomy was performed for this finding with subsequent hCG drop, resolution of the discomfort and histological confirmation of tubal pregnancy on the right. Conclusion: The incidence of such cases without prior ovulation stimulation is 1 out of 200,000 pregnancies and an estimated 1 out of 725 to 1 out of 1,580 ectopic pregnancies. Even so, bilateral tubal or heterotopic ectopic pregnancy should be considered in the differential diagnosis, as both conditions can be immediately life-threatening. Key words: bilateral tubal pregnancy – ectopic pregnancy – heterotopic pregnancy
The efficacy of human papillomavirus vaccination in the prevention of recurrence of severe cervical lesions
Authors:   Department of Gynecology and Obstetrics, 3rd Medical Faculty, Charles University and University Hospital Královské Vinohrady, Prague, Czech Republic, Sehnal Borek , Pichlík Tomáš , Halaška Michael J. , Větrovská Monika , Babková Anna , Drozenová Jana , Robová Helena , Rob Lukáš
Published: September 2023

Objective: A review of current knowledge on the efficacy of human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccination in preventing recurrent severe cervical lesions after excisional surgical treatment. Methods and results: HPV infection is necessary for the development of most cervical precancerous lesions and cervical cancers. Currently, three prophylactic vaccines against HPV infection are available on the market: bivalent Cervarix, quadrivalent Gardasil (formerly Silgard) and nonavalent Gardasil9. All three prophylactic vaccines show high effect in preventing the development of precancerous lesions. The highest efficacy is achieved in the HPV naive population. The surgical excision of severe cervical precancers is the standard approach. However, guidelines regarding HPV vaccination at the time of conisation are not clearly determined. Women diagnosed with severe cervical lesions have mostly not been vaccinated against HPV so far. Therefore, it is beneficial to understand the importance and efficacy of HPV vaccination at the time of conisation in preventing recurrent precancerous lesions. The exact value of HPV vaccination in the context of surgical excision of precancerous lesions remains unclear, but vaccination is definitely valuable in reducing the risk of recurrence. Vaccination timing seems to be more favorable before surgery. However, the ideal timing of vaccination is not established. Some of these questions are likely to be answered by the results of ongoing randomized controlled trials. Conclusion: Adjuvant HPV vaccination in the setting of surgical treatment for cervical precancerous lesion is significantly associated with a reduced risk of recurrence. HPV vaccination should be strongly considered as adjuvant therapy, especially in young patients undergoing conisation for a severe cervical lesion. Key words: human papillomavirus – vaccination – HPV vaccine – efficacy – cervical precancerosis – recurrent cervical dysplasia
Follitropin delta – experience from clinical practice
Authors:   GYNEM IVF, Prague, Czech Republic, Frühaufová Kristýna
Published: September 2023

New recombinant gonadotropin-follitropin delta produced on human cell lines PER.C6 shows the same glycosylation profiles as human follicle stimulating hormone in comparison with recombinant gonadotropins produced on animal cell lines. The aim of the article is to summarize published data. Key words: infertility – assisted reproduction – anti-Müllerian hormone – ovarian hyperstimulation syndrome
Effect of Dietary Rumen Protected Methionine on Postpartum Fertility Parameters in Multiparous Dairy Buffaloes (Bubalus bubalis)
Authors: Ranjan Sagar , Singh Prahlad , Singh Navdeep , Singh Narinder , Honparkhe Mrigank , Grewal Ravinder Singh , Mohindroo Jitender
Published: September 2023

Present study was planned to assess dietary supplementation of rumen protected methionine (RPM) peripartum on blood profile and postpartum reproductive outcome in 18 multiparous Murrah buffaloes. Animals were randomly assigned to 3 treatment groups of 6 each, and fed diets supplemented with RPM 20 g day-1 (Group 1); 10 g day-1 (Group 2), and standard control diet (Group 3). RPM feeding was introduced from day 30 prepartum till day 60 postpartum. Progesterone, estradiol, IGF-I, and biochemical parameters were estimated starting day 21 prepartum to day 57 postpartum. Size of dominant follicle and corpus luteum were assessed across the treatment days postpartum. Progesterone concentration varied from 0.32±0.06 to 3.85±0.44 ngml-1, 0.41±0.05 to 2.03±0.12 ngml-1, and 0.35±0.08 to 1.82±0.11 ngml-1 in Groups 1, 2 and 3, respectively. Corresponding estradiol levels ranged from 16.00±1.09 to 243.16±4.67 pgml-1, 13.16±0.60 to 228±5.06 pgml-1, and 13.66±0.66 to 218.9±4.36 pgml-1 and IGF-I from 77.83±8.81 to 149.50±4.69 ngml-1, 77.33±2.95 to 128.41±3.85 ngml-1, and 62.66±2.20 to 124.50±5.57 ngml-1 in Groups 1, 2 and 3, respectively. Variations in blood glucose, BUN and creatinine were observed across the days in all the treatment groups. Estrogen to progesterone (E/P) ratio varied (p<0.05) among the treatment groups. Lower values of E/P in Group 1 were depictive of estrogen dominance, whereas higher E/P in Group 3 signified dominance of progesterone. Conception rates in Groups 1, 2 and 3 were 83.33%, 50.00% and 33.33%, respectively. Varying (p<0.05) progesterone and estradiol levels were indicative of positive role of dietary RPM. Dietary RPM improved follicular structures and increased production and reproduction outcomes.
Impact of Different Therapies on Haemtological Parameters and Therapeutic Outcome in Subclinical Endometritic Buffaloes
Authors: Verma Sanjeev Kumar , Kumar Rajesh , Singh Bhoopendra , Srivastava Sushant , Verma Rajesh Kumar
Published: September 2023

The objective of this study was to compare the effect of administration of intrauterine dextrose, s/c levamisol and intrauterine PGF2α on haematological indices and therapeutic response in endometritic buffaloes. Twenty eight repeat breeder buffaloes with subclinical endometritis were randomly assigned into four groups. Seven animals were kept as Control (untreated C), and the rests were assigned to three treatment group, i.e., T1 (Dextrose I/Ut, 50 mL 4 times on the day of estrus), T2 (Levamisol s/c, @ 2.5 mg/kg b.wt. on day 0, 7 and 14 of the cycle), and T3 (PGF2α I/Ut, @ 0.25 mg in 0.5 mL saline twice, on the day of first and next estrus). Following treatment the values of Hb, TEC and PCV elevated significantly and TLC values dropped to normal or near normal in all three treatment groups as compared to control group. Furthermore, the post-treatment neutrophils and lymphocytes counts were elevated significantly in all four groups. However, there was no any definite pattern of eosinophils and basophils. The therapeutic response (clinical recovery) was 14.29, 71.43, 85.71 and 42.86 % in T0, T1, T2 and T3 group, respectively. The corresponding conception rates were 0.00, 60.00, 66.67 and 66.67 %. The results conclude that, Dextrose intrauterine, Levamisol s/c, and PGF2α intrauterine can be used effectively to manage subclinical endometrtitis in buffaloes.
Richard Hooker
Authors: Hobday Philip
Published: September 2023

For some, Hooker and Anglicanism are basically reformed; for others, fundamentally Catholic; for some embodying a ‘middle way’ between Roman Catholic and Protestant extremes; and for others simply confused and incoherent. This book challenges those perceptions by showing that ‘reformed’ and ‘catholic’ are not intrinsically opposed. Reading Hooker alongside a representative theologian of each tradition (the ‘catholic’ Aquinas and the ‘reformed’ Calvin) on theological method, Hobday shows there is much greater congruity between theologies and theologians often considered in tension.

On the role of scripture in theology, the theological capacity of human reason, and the place of tradition, these 3 theologians have far more in common than many subsequent commentators have understood. This book shows how both Hooker and the Anglicanism he defended in such elegant prose, can be coherently both ‘catholic’ and ‘reformed’ (rather than one, or the other, or some middle way). Relocating Hooker, and Anglicanism, in this way reveals them to be rich, fruitful conversation partners in ecumenical dialogue and theological debates across Christian traditions.
Linguistic Descriptions of the Greek New Testament
Authors: Porter Stanley E.
Published: September 2023

The chapters in this volume provide descriptions of various important topics – such as linguistic theory, metaphor, rhetoric, orality and textuality – in Greek linguistics from a Systemic Functional Linguistics (SFL) perspective. This approach has been foundational to Stanley E. Porter’s long and influential career in the field of New Testament Greek. Each chapter provides deep insights into Porter’s understanding of SFL, based upon how he positions it in relation to other linguistic models or how he utilizes it to describe topics within Greek and New Testament studies. The topics Porter covers in this volume include rhetoric, cognition, orality and textuality, as well as studies on linguistic schools of thought and on traditional grammar.
Land and Legal Texts in the Early Modern Ottoman Empire
Authors: Taylor Malissa
Published: September 2023

Using Arabic and Ottoman Turkish sources drawn from three genres of legal text, this book is the first full-length study in decades to investigate the evolution of Ottoman land law from its "classical" articulation in the sixteenth century to its reformulation in the 1858 Land Code. The book demonstrates that well before the nineteenth century the tradition of Ottoman land tenure law had developed an indigenous form of property right that would remain intact in the Land Code. In addition, the rising consensus of the jurists that the sultan was the source of the land law paved the way for the wider legislative authority that the Ottoman state would increasingly assert in the Tanzimat period of reform. Demonstrating the profound and ongoing adaptation of a legal tradition that was at once both Ottoman and Islamic, it revises our understanding of the relationship between the modern Islamic world and its early modern past, and what kind of intervention was represented by reform in the 19th century.
Rethinking Gender, Ethnicity and Religion in Iran
Authors: Kian Azadeh
Published: September 2023

Covering the Pahlavi modern nation-state as well as the Islamic regime, this book examines the crucial shifts that affected Sunnite and subaltern women after Shi’ism became the state religion after the Iranian Revolution. Focusing on women in the Baluchistan and Golestan provinces of Iran, Azadeh Kian analyses and explores issues of racism, linguicism, ethno-centrism, Shi’a centrism, and patriarchal and chauvinistic ideologies in Iranian society. Based on quantitative and qualitative surveys taken throughout Iran, comprised of over 7000 married women and 100 interviews with a sample of Sunnite and subaltern Persian women, Kian reveals how social hierarchy and power relations based on gender, class, ethnicity and religion operate. She argues that women have been at the heart of the process of national and ethnic re-construction as women as potential mothers are expected to reproduce national and ethnic boundaries. By examining the family institution as a site of power and analysing family dynamics and women’s everyday lives, Kian argues the politics of ordinary Iranians and the relationship between state and society can be better understood.
Britain’s Man on the Spot in Iraq and Afghanistan
Authors: Wilks Ann
Published: September 2023

A little-know figure now, Sir Henry Dobbs was at the heart of Britain’s imperial administrations of Iraq and India in the twilight decades of the Empire. Drawing upon a recently discovered trove of meticulous records and correspondence, in this book Ann Wilks reconstructs the professional life of this career civil servant and Britain’s longest serving High Commissioner of Iraq to give a unique picture of life in Britain’s most important colony and one of its most newly acquired. The book reveals the nuts and bolts workings of colonial administration, as Dobbs in his letters details the problems Britain encountered as it conquered the former Ottoman province of Mesopotamia during WWI, as well as crises and decisions of singular and lasting significance, such as settling the borders of Imperial India and Afghanistan and establishing those of the future state of Iraq, the first of Britain’s colonies or protectorates to become independent, a process which Dobbs oversaw. In his negotiations on the 1921 Anglo-Afghan Treaty, he manoeuvred between the different views in London and Delhi with great dexterity to negotiate alone with the Amir and to arrive at what he considered an acceptable agreement. In the crisis over the 1922 treaty between Britain and Iraq, Dobbs not only disregarded the unhelpful approach recommended by London but risked using his own wholly unauthorised tactics to achieve a breakthrough. The ‘man-on-the-spot’ perspective offered by Dobbs, written contemporaneously, thus provides a unique source on key international treaties from an insider who was though a man of his time and its prejudices nonetheless an advocate for Iraqi independence, curious about the peoples over whose lives the administration he served ruled, and frequently at odds with attitudes displayed by his famous superiors, such as Sir Percy Cox.
Decolonizing Contemporary Gospel Music Through Praxis
Authors: Beckford Robert
Published: September 2023

Robert Beckford shows how the black British gospel music tradition is in crisis after it became distanced from the 'roots' of the gospel in the US that influenced it.

The book develops a revolutionary gospel music genre or ‘social gospel,’ in two stages. The first stage is a reshaping and retooling of the theological and theo-musicological structures of contemporary gospel music, based on a socio-political reading of black British music production. The second stage is a practical guide, a theo-musicological reflection on the production of the author’s album: Jamaican Bible Remix.

To reveal how these tracks are cut-and-mixed in the recording studio, the second part of the book consists of case studies of individual songs from the album (Incarnation: no blacks, no Irish, no dogs,’ and ‘Magnificat’). The book ends with a call for a post-logocentric black liberation theology situated within the black radical sacred music tradition of the African Caribbean diaspora.

The album can be accessed at www.canterbury.ac.uk/arts-and-humanities/school-of-humanities/religion-philosophy-and-ethics/research/jamaican-bible-remix
The Dark Side of Early Soviet Childhood, 1917–1941
Authors: Gorshkov Boris B.
Published: September 2023

The Civil War and early Soviet food policies left millions of children homeless and starving in Russia in the first half of the 20th century. Child mortality rates reached 95% in certain areas, and all of these problems remained endemic throughout the 1920s and 1930s. In The Dark Side of Early Soviet Childhood, 1917-1941, Boris B. Gorshkov investigates the causes of this prolonged homelessness and starvation, the conditions faced by huge numbers of children, and the state’s unsuccessful efforts to solve these horrendous issues. Gorshkov pays particular attention to the critical role of the secret police (the VChKa and the NKVD) in this story and draws on a range of previously unused archival sources to reveal the full extent of the suffering of children in Russia at this time, as well as the interconnected causes behind it.
19th-Century Hungarian Political Thought and Culture
Authors: Hörcher Ferenc , Tóth Kálmán
Published: September 2023

This volume presents the ideas of the main actors of the political scene in the Hungarian Kingdom during the long 19th century (1790-1920). Organised around key political thinkers, the book considers the most significant paradigms of thought associated with these figures and the critical political events of the day.

Beginning with an introductory overview of 19th-century Hungary in a European context, which includes the main features of Hungarian political thought, 19th-Century Hungarian Political Thought and Culture explores the fundamental characteristics of the country’s political system and the geopolitical background to political discourse in the region at the time. The contributors reflect on the stories of some of the most influential voices, as well as their networks, impacts and legacies. Through this, the book is able to offer novel insights into how Western political culture was perceived and adapted in a country long considered by many to belong to the European periphery.
Jobs and Bodies
Authors: McIvor Arthur
Published: September 2023

Public health is in the limelight now like never before in times of Covid-19. Radically changing work locations and patterns have jolted society to reflect more on the ways that employment affects the body and the mind. This comes on top of a contemporary stress epidemic in the workplace, whilst Brexit provides another level of threat to workloads. This book provides historical context and insights to aid our understanding of this contemporary crisis, critically examining the history of a neglected area drawing from an extensive array of sources.

Arthur McIvor explores the history of health and safety from First World War to the present, drawing extensively upon workers own personal stories of occupational accidents, disasters, injury, disease, overwork and disability. This book traverses the stories of TNT poisoning and overwork in wartime, through to the asbestos and black lung disasters, to the modern-day ‘epidemics’ of stress, burn-out and Covid-19. It develops conversations around the harms caused by work, how people lived with occupational illness and disability, around risk and work-health cultures, and the economic violence characteristic of industrial capitalism and neoliberal economics, as well as discussing the agency of big business and advocacy of workers and victims. Focusing on class, gender, disability and race, this book uses an impressive array of primary sources, including government reports and enquiries drawing upon workers’ testimonies, Mine and Factory Inspectors Reports; HSE papers, newspapers and trade union records. The result is a truly original piece of work which will transcend the fields of social history, oral history, labour history and gender studies.
The Stuff of Life
Authors: Morton Timothy
Published: September 2023

‘An old teapot, used daily, can tell me more of my past than anything I recorded of it.’ Sylvia Townsend Warner

There are many ways of telling the story of a life and how we’ve got to where we are. The questions of why and how we think the way we do continues to preoccupy philosophers. In The Stuff of Life, Timothy Morton chooses the objects that have shaped and punctuated their life to tell the story of who they are and why they might think the way they do. These objects are ‘things’ in the richest sense. They are beings, non-human beings, that have a presence and a force of their own. From the looming expanse of Battersea Power Station to a packet of anti-depressants and a cowboy suit, Morton explores why ‘stuff’ matters and the life of these things have so powerfully impinged upon their own. Their realization, through a concealer stick, that they identify as non-binary reveals the strange and wonderful ways that objects can form our worlds.

Part memoir, part philosophical exploration of the meaning of a life lived alongside and through other things, Morton asks us to think about the stuff, things, objects and buildings that have formed our realities and who we are and might be.
Philosophy of Lyric Voice
Authors: Simecek Karen
Published: September 2023

Carefully considering the difference in the philosophical potential of page poetry and performance poetry, Karen Simecek argues that it is only by considering them side by side that the unique cognitive value of each can be realised.

Focusing on spoken word poetry reveals the importance of voice and embodied words to the differing epistemic rewards of engaging with contemporary works of poetry in both private reading and live performance. This concept of embodied voice progresses a new line of thinking in the cognitivism debate and unlocks the philosophical value of engaging with poetry. Simecek’s discussion of performed poetry also advances discussions of affect and experience in contemporary analytic aesthetics which raise new insights and connections within the field.

The moral significance of the differing effects of poetry finds comprehensive articulation through a rich philosophical analysis of the thoughts and affects which arise in particular contexts. Simecek concludes that when page poetry is treated as paradigmatic, this enables reflection in the singular, whereas taking poetry in live performance as paradigmatic enables reflection on what is shared and shareable with others.
Knossos
Authors: Whitley James
Published: September 2023

Knossos is one of the most important sites in the ancient Mediterranean. It remained amongst the largest settlements on the island of Crete from the Neolithic until the late Roman times, but aside from its size it held a place of particular significance in the mythological imagination of Greece and Rome as the seat of King Minos, the location of the Labyrinth and the home of the Minotaur.

Sir Arthur Evans’ discovery of ‘the Palace of Minos’ has indelibly associated Knossos in the modern mind with the ‘lost’ civilisation of Bronze Age Crete. The allure of this ‘lost civilisation’, together with the considerable achievements of ‘Minoan’ artists and craftspeople, remain a major attraction both to scholars and to others outside the academic world as a bastion of a romantic approach to the past.

In this volume, James Whitley provides an up-to-date guide to the site and its function from the Neolithic until the present day. This study includes a re-appraisal Bronze Age palatial society, as well as an exploration of the history of Knossos in the archaeological imagination. In doing so he takes a critical look at the guiding assumptions of Evans and others, reconstructing how and why the received view of this ancient settlement has evolved from the Iron Age up to the modern era.

Knossos had a particular place in the mythological imagination of Greece and Rome as the seat of King Minos, the location of the Labyrinth and the home of the Minotaur. Through the investigations of Minos Kalokairinos, Sir Arthur Evans and others it is now indelibly associated in the modern mind with the lost civilisation of Bronze Age Crete. Evans’ discovery of ‘the Palace of Minos’ led to its association with the ‘lost race’ of theMinoans’ has profoundly affected the way in which Aegean Bronze Age archaeology has developed. This view however only relates to a relatively brief period of the site’s occupation

For Knossos is one of the most important cities in the ancient Mediterranean. It remained amongst the largest settlements in the island of Crete from the Neolithic until the Late Roman times, for most of which time it seemed to have been some kind of self-governing political community. This book takes the story of Knossos from its origins in mythology through the discovery of its history through successive generations of antiquarians, travellers scholars, historians and archaeologists. It provides a period-by-period description of its development from its origins at the very beginning of the Neolithic through the glory days of the ‘palace’, its flourishing as an independent polis (or citizen-state) down to its abandonment in the early Middle Ages – and after.
Zero Waste Fashion Design
Authors: Rissanen Timo , McQuillan Holly
Published: September 2023

Zero Waste Fashion Design combines practical examples, flat patterns and more than 20 exercises to help you incorporate this sustainable technique into your portfolio. There are also beautifully illustrated interviews with innovative designers, including Richard Lindgvist, Mary Beth Bentaha and Daniel Desanto to show how sustainable practice continues to evolve within industry.

Industry pioneers, Timo Rissanen and Holly McQuillan, offer flexible strategies and easy-to-master zero waste techniques to help you develop your own cutting-edge fashion designs. This updated edition includes new content on integrating 3D design into a zero waste process, additional coverage of the historical context of zero waste around the world, and expands on the related technique of subtraction cutting to make this the ultimate practical guide to sustainable fashion design.
Advantage China
Authors: Garlick Jeremy
Published: September 2023

The influence of the People’s Republic of China on world affairs is increasingly keenly felt: in Asia, in Africa, in Latin America and in Europe and North America too. But what are the reasons for China’s rise and how can the West adapt?

Advantage China explores these essential questions and the political, economic and cultural factors behind the answers. From the economic and demographic pressures of China’s domestic economy to the expanding economic influence of the Belt and Road Initiative, Jeremy Garlick looks beyond Western misperceptions of China’s rise to argue for new approaches to the international political order, particularly in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic.
Using Graphic Novels in the Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM) Classroom
Authors: Boerman-Cornell William , Ho Josha , Klanderman David , Klanderman Sarah
Published: September 2023

This book provides everything STEM teachers need to use graphic novels in order to engage students, explain difficult concepts, and enrich learning. Drawing upon the latest educational research and over 60 years of combined teaching experience, the authors describe the multimodal affordances and constraints of each element of the STEM curriculum. Useful for new and seasoned teachers alike, the chapters provide practical guidance for teaching with graphic novels, with a section each for Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics. An appendix provides nearly 100 short reviews of graphic novels arranged by topic, such as cryptography, evolution, computer coding, skyscraper design, nuclear physics, auto repair, meteorology, and human physiology, allowing the teacher to find multiple graphic novels to enhance almost any unit. These include graphic novel biographies of Stephen Hawking, Jane Goodall, Alan Turing, Rosalind Franklin, as well as popular titles such as T-Minus by Jim Ottoviani, Brook Gladstone’s The Influencing Machine, Theodoris Andropoulos’s Who Killed Professor X, and Gene Yang’s Secret Coders series.
The British Aircraft Industry during the First World War
Authors: Jenkins Tim
Published: September 2023

In this book, Tim Jenkins examines the factory worker poisonings and suspect government procurement procedures that resulted in Allied success in the air during First World War.

The early development of aircraft during World War I was an important yet dangerous part of the war effort seen in the First World War and although many descriptions of daring aerial combat have been written, the risk to those involved in the manufacture of such machines remains less well known. Tetrachlorethane, a poisonous solvent contained in aircraft dope, was responsible for a number of civilian deaths in aircraft factories and although the British knew the substance to be lethal, they were much slower than their American and German counterparts in sourcing alternatives.

In this groundbreaking book, Tim Jenkins explores the use of Tetrachlorethan and brings to light the concerns and warnings voiced by the international medical profession. His examination considers the government's reasons for its use of the poisonous solvent to create a compelling yet scholarly account which takes in corruption, negligence and wartime manufacture. This book will be vital to scholars studying military production during the First World War.
Affect as Contamination
Authors: Wolodzko Agnieszka
Published: September 2023

Bringing the concept of contamination into dialogue with affect theory and bioart, Agnieszka Anna Wołodźko urges us to rethink our relationship with ourselves, each other and other organisms. Thinking through the lens of contamination, this book provides an innovative approach to understanding the leaky, porous and visceral nature of our bodies and their endless interrelationships and, in doing so, uncovers new ways for thinking about embodiment.

Affect theory has long been interested in transmission or contagion but, inspired by Spinoza and Deleuze, Affect as Contamination goes further, as contamination is concerned with the materiality of bodies and their affective encounter with other matter. This brings urgency to the notion of affect, not only for bioart that works with risky bodies but also for understanding how to practise our bodies in the age of biotechnological manipulation and governance.

Using challenging and transgressive bioart projects as provocative case studies for rethinking affect and bodily practice, Wołodźko follows various ‘contaminants’ from blood, hormones and viruses - including COVID-19 - to food, glitter and plants. This takes the form of both personal accounts of encounters with the contaminations of bioart and critical analyses of aesthetic, material and technical objects, with each one highlighting in different ways the risky and uncertain nature of contamination.

Affect as Contamination is an urgent and original meditation on just what it means to be living, and practising our bodies, in an era where biotechnology contaminates all aspects of our lives.
Girl Culture in the Middle Ages and Renaissance
Authors: Williams Deanne
Published: September 2023

Deanne Williams offers the very first study of the medieval and early modern girl actor. Whereas previous histories of the actress begin with the Restoration, this book demonstrates that the girl is actually a well-documented category of performer and a key participant in the drama of the Middle Ages and Renaissance. It explores evidence of the girl actor in archival records of payment, eyewitness accounts, stage directions, paintings, and in the plays and masques that were explicitly composed for girls, and, in some cases, by them.

Contradicting previous scholarly assumptions about the early modern stage as male-dominated, this evidence reveals girls’ participation in medieval religious drama, Tudor civic pageants and royal entries, Elizabethan country house entertainments, and Stuart court and household masques. This book situates its historical study of the girl actor within the wider contexts of 'girl culture', including girls as singers, translators and authors. By examining the impact of the girl actor on constructions of girlhood in the work of Shakespeare – whose girl characters register and evoke the power of the performing girl – Girl Culture in the Middle Ages and Renaissance argues that girls’ dramatic, musical and literary performances actively shaped medieval and early modern culture.

It shows how the active presence and participation of girls shaped medieval and Renaissance culture, and it reveals how some of its best-known literary and dramatic texts address, represent, and reflect upon girl children, not as an imagined ideal, but as a lived reality.
When Migrants Fail to Stay
Authors: Loftus Donna , Searle Rebecca , Smyth Terry , Evans Tanya , Worth Eve
Published: September 2023

The aftermath of the Second World War marked a radical new moment in the history of migration. For the millions of refugees stranded in Europe, China and Africa, it offered the possibility of mobility to the ‘new world’ of the West; for countries like Australia that accepted them, it marked the beginning of a radical reimagining of its identity as an immigrant nation. For the next few decades, Australia was transformed by waves of migrants and refugees. However, two of the five million who came between 1947 and 1985 later left. When Migrants Fail to Stay examines why this happened.

This innovative collection of essays explores a distinctive form of departure, and its importance in shaping and defining the reordering of societies after World War II. Esteemed historians Joy Damousi, Ruth Balint and Sheila Fitzpatrick lead a cast of emerging and established scholars to probe this overlooked phenomenon. In doing so, this book enhances our understanding of the migration and its history.
Navigating Womanhood in Contemporary Botswana
Authors: Starling Stephanie S.
Published: September 2023

Seismic social change is underfoot in Botswana, and gender relations are in flux. This book explores what it means to be a woman today in Botswana. The government’s enactment of extensive legal reforms, national programmes, and international instruments has gone a long way towards ensuring gender equality on an official basis. However, conventionally defined gender roles continue to present major obstacles for women.

Exploring the social construction of womanhood in Tswana culture, this book questions how gendered expectations are shifting in the context of a rapidly changing environment. The concept of womanhood as a mark of status and responsibility is interrogated, and the social consequences of failing to meet the criteria for womanhood are explored. Stephanie S. Starling considers the multiple and often contradictory burdens women face, the strategies they employ, and the sacrifices they make to meet their obligations. Caught between traditional expectations and modern desires, women share stories of agency, creativity and struggle in defining their own paths. A reflexive account of the fieldwork is offered, confronting the ethical challenges of cross-cultural research from a feminist standpoint. This book is essential reading for scholars and students of gender and culture in Southern Africa and will appeal to anyone interested in qualitative interviewing and feminist methodology.
Social Media in Musical Theatre
Authors: Boffone Trevor
Published: September 2023

This book introduces readers to the widespread phenomenon of how social media platforms such as YouTube, Twitter, and TikTok become an extension of long-standing aspects of musical theatre engagement.

Although casual observers may dismiss social media’s import, social media has revolutionized the field of musical theatre since the early days of Web 2.0 with spaces such as AOL, LiveJournal, and Myspace. Now, as social media continues to grow in relevance, the nuanced ways in which digital platforms influence musical culture remain ripe for study. Social Media in Musical Theatre moves beyond viewing social media merely as a passing fad or a space free from critical engagement. Rather, this volume takes a serious look at the critical role social media play in musicals, thus challenging how social media users and musical theatre-makers alike approach digital spaces.

This book introduces the relationship between musical theatre and social media in the 21st century as well as methods to study social media’s influence on musicals through three in-depth case studies organized around marketing on YouTube, fan engagement on Twitter, and new musical development on TikTok.
The Paralysis of Analysis in African American Studies
Authors: Ferguson Stephen C.
Published: September 2023

The Paralysis of Analysis in African American Studies provides a philosophical examination of Black popular culture for the first time. From extensive discussion of the philosophy and political economy of Hip-Hop music through to a developed exploration of the influence of the postmodernism-poststructuralist ideology on African American studies, Stephen C. Ferguson II argues how postmodernism ideology plays a seminal role in justifying the relationship between corporate capitalism and Black popular culture.

Chapters cover topics such as cultural populism, capitalism and Black liberation, the philosophy of Hip-Hop music and Harold Cruse’s influence on the ‘cultural turn’ in African American studies. Ferguson combines case studies of past and contemporary Black cultural and intellectual productions with a Marxist ideological critique to provide a cutting edge reflection on the economic structure in which Black popular culture emerged. He highlights the contradictions that are central to the juxtaposition of Black cultural artists as political participants in socioeconomic struggle and the political participants who perform the rigorous task of social criticism.

Adopting capitalism as an explanatory framework, Ferguson investigates the relationship between postmodernism as social theory, current manifestations of Black popular culture and the theoretical work of Black thinkers and scholars to demonstrate how African American studies have been shaped.
Buddhist Ethics and the Bodhisattva Path
Authors: Harris Stephen E. , Kirloskar-Steinbach Monika , Raveh Daniel , Stewart Georgina Tuari , Brink Dean Anthony , Morisato Takeshi , Mungwini Pascah , Muireartaigh Rossa Ó , Mandair Arvind-Pal Singh , Uskokov Aleksandar , O’Brien-Kop Karen , Presbey Gail M. , Sánchez Carlos Alberto , Kalmanson Leah
Published: September 2023

Santideva’s 8th century Mahayana Buddhist classic, the Guide to the Practices of Awakening (Bodhicaryavatara), has been a source of philosophical inspiration in the Indian and Tibetan traditions for over a thousand years. Stephen Harris guides us through a philosophical exploration of Santideva’s masterpiece, introducing us to his understanding of the compassionate bodhisattva, who vows to liberate the entire universe from suffering. Individual chapters provide studies of the bodhisattva virtues of generosity, patience, compassion, and wisdom, illustrating the role each plays in Santideva’s account of well-being and moral development. Harris also provides in-depth analysis of many of Santideva’s most influential arguments, demonstrating how he employs reasoning as a method to cultivate moral character.

As the first book-length English language philosophical study of Santideva’s most influential text, this will be essential reading for students and scholars of Buddhist ethics, as well as for anyone interested in intercultural ethics and the philosophy of well-being.
Mahakavi K. V. Simon
Authors: Mathai Varghese
Published: September 2023

The first English study of poet K. V. Simon (1883-1944), with sample translations, including of his 12,000-line epic Vedaviharam, and a critical biography.

Opening with the story of South Indian poet laureate (or mahakavi) K. V. Simon’s heroic life, this book escorts its global reader through the legendary Malabar Coast, transiting into the densely rich Simon verse in translation, and closing with a comparative reading of a rewarding range of texts from Simon and Milton.

When Simon's epic Vedaviharam, a verse rendition of The Book of Genesis, appeared in the Malayalam language in 1931, The Guardian hailed the multifaceted Simon as “India’s veritable Milton.” Like Milton, Simon was a polymath, poet, hymnodist, composer, religious reformer and an educator. Like Milton, he was a man of immense learning, writing prose and verse with equal brilliance. As a result of his writings – in which he exhorted the Church of his era to seek scriptural literacy rather than uphold uncritical traditions – Simon was catapulted into public life as a reformer, apologist, and a nationally known prophetic figure. In Mahakavi K. V. Simon: The Milton of the East, translations of Simon’s works cover a range, from purpose-driven topic studies to interpretive Bible commentaries, poems, and hymns.

Scholarship has so far placed Simon’s poetical work on par with the bhakti classics of Ezhuthachen, the Father of modern Malayalam, and of Poonthanam, a Hindu metaphysical poet, both household names in India. But in this study, Varghese Mathai shows how Simon distinguishes himself by his contributions to numerous knowledge fields that bridge him to world literature, modern history, colonial studies, religion, apologetics, rhetorical studies, and more.
Barcode
Authors: Frith Jordan
Published: September 2023

Object Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things.

Barcodes are about as ordinary as an object can be. They’re everywhere and impact everything from how we shop to how we travel to how the global economy is managed, but few people likely give them more than a second thought. In a way, their “ordinariness” is the ultimate symbol of their success. After all, barcodes have remained mostly unchanged (except for a few exceptions like QR Codes) for the last 50 years, and yet billions of barcodes are still scanned each day. But behind the mundanity of the barcode lies an important and interesting history.

Barcodes are objects that bridged the gap between physical objects and digital databases and helped pave the way for the contemporary Internet of Things. They were highly controversial at points and protested by consumer groups and labor unions and used as a stand-in for capitalism and surveillance in science fiction and art installations. This book tells the story of the barcode’s complicated history and examines how an object so crucial to so many parts of our lives became more ignored and more ordinary as it spread throughout the world.

Object Lessons is published in partnership with an essay series in The Atlantic.
Private International Law and Competition Litigation in a Global Context
Authors: Danov Mihail
Published: September 2023

This important book systematically analyses the private international law issues regarding private antitrust damages claims which arise out of transnational competition law infringements. It identifies those problems that need to be considered by injured parties, defendants, judges and policy-makers when dealing with cross-border private antitrust damages claims in a global context. It considers the post-Brexit landscape and the implications in cross-border private proceedings before the English courts and suggests how the legal landscape should be developed. It also sets out how private international law techniques could play an increasingly important role in private antitrust enforcement.

Comprehensive and rigorous, this is required reading for scholars of both competition litigation and private international law.

Volume 37 in the series Studies in Private International Law