From private chambers to public galleries, this volume explores how princes displayed their collections. Ten essays examine the art of exhibition across European courts from the sixteenth to the early nineteenth century.
Hospitality and Tourism in Transition in Central and Eastern Europe
This book analyses hospitality and tourism development in Central and Eastern Europe during the transition period (1990-2015). Authored by native specialists from eleven countries, it offers an insider’s view for lecturers, researchers, students, and all interested in the region.
Aberšek embarks on an ambitious journey of providing potential explanations of how to optimally meet the needs and requirements of our future society, shedding light on issues related to teaching and learning based on contemporary trends from the field of information technologies
Research Methodology for Engineers and Architects
A practical guide to research methods for engineering and architecture students. This book uses real examples from the Palestinian environment to demonstrate a pragmatic approach, bridging the gap between theory and application. An essential textbook and reference.
Pedagogies of Difference and Desire in Professional Learning
This book explores what we can learn from images shared among professional communities on social media. It traces how professional learning unfolds online and considers how we can use these images as pedagogical resources, opening up windows into professional life for students.
“In Search of …”
This collection by international researchers advances qualitative inquiry in youth studies. It offers ways of adapting and remixing methods for a transforming world, with fresh interpretations useful to students, scholars, and researchers.
This book evaluates Mexico’s National System of Researchers (SNI) within the international scientific context. It assesses this research elite’s role and transcendence to recognize the impact and success of Mexico’s research policy.
Explore creativity from the perspectives of philosophers, psychologists, neuroscientists, and artists. This unique, interdisciplinary book examines how to cultivate creativity, its healing power in therapy, and its relationship to the brain.
Ordinary Chondrites from North-East India
A spectroscopic study of meteorites from North-eastern India. This book uses Raman and infrared techniques to analyze silicate minerals in ordinary chondrites. For readers interested in planetary materials, it includes a list of Indian meteorites and a glossary of terms.
Knowledge in Action
With authorship from community partners and universities, this book highlights the challenges of university-community engagement and outlines how Australian universities defy these obstacles through innovative projects that create positive socio-economic change.
Golda Meir’s Foreign Decision-Making Process
Kremer Asaf focuses on Meir’s foreign decision making processes during her tenure as Israeli Prime Minister. She exposes the political-diplomatic aspects of foreign policy, using interviews and analysis of hundreds of formerly secret documents from various national archives.
With contributions from Bulgaria, Croatia, Indonesia, Italy, Portugal, Slovenia, Switzerland, Turkey, and the USA, this text provides significant theoretical and empirical studies of various aspects of hospitality and tourism from the perspectives of both tradition and innovation
Changing Values, Attitudes and Behaviours in Ireland
This book charts a changing Ireland over a highly significant period. Using data from the European Social Survey, Europe’s most rigorous social science survey, it maps political, social, and attitudinal changes and places them within a broader European context.
This book questions how different sociological and theoretical approaches contribute to explain crises phenomena, and considers how crises processes and their effects on human social existence demand a re-thinking of the role of the social sciences in society.
Video Vision
This volume unpacks the use of video as a research tool, exploring ethics, methodology, and analysis. It presents cutting-edge research with practical strategies for data collection and presentation, accessible to students and useful for social scientists.
This book presents a rigorous, comprehensible mathematical analysis of linear, nonlinear, automatic, and optimal control systems. Offering applicative solutions illustrated with engineering examples, it will appeal to scientists and engineers in research, design, and industry.
Beyond Public Engagement
University collections are central to producing knowledge and engaging the public. However, their complexity encompasses a diversity of other issues. This volume discusses the problems, challenges, and opportunities of academic heritage beyond public engagement.
Academic endeavors have long been separate from local communities. This book closes the gap by exploring ways academia and the communities it serves can collaborate to create authentic and applied learning environments.
Systemics helps us navigate our increasingly complex world. This book provides an easy-to-read introduction to this new science for students and professionals, covering everything from basic concepts and systems thinking to modeling and organizational transformation.
This book focuses on designing error correction techniques for compressed video over wireless channels. It presents adaptive solutions that exploit different importance classes in video data to ensure better quality. A reference for researchers and developers.