This book demonstrates fractional calculus’ use to model natural phenomena and new processes in advanced technologies. The focus is on modelling, results, and interpretations, rather than theorems. A source for students and scientists modelling nonlinear and hereditary phenomena.
Explore stancetaking’s theory and practice across diverse contexts, from political trials to informal chats. Analyzing events like the COVID-19 pandemic, this interdisciplinary volume offers key applications for teaching and improving inter-ethnic communication.
This volume engages with how the idea of the human features in African societies and scholarship. Contributors are concerned with the urgent imperative of rescuing what it means to be humane in a world being pushed towards a dystopic future by climate change and fundamentalism.
The Mysterious and Obvious in American Diplomacy
This book analyses how the Monroe Doctrine established a US policy of interference and preventive strikes. It proves this doctrine remains the basis for American diplomacy, a tool of domination used by presidents from Monroe to Trump.
East Jerusalem Palestinian Students’ Experiences in Israeli Academia
Through the captivating stories of East Jerusalem youth, this book reveals their fight for an education in Israel—a journey of navigating cultural barriers, challenging disparities, and forging identities within a landscape of conflict.
This book presents a collection of personality and psychopathology scales, developed originally in Arabic and translated into English. Suitable for surveys and large-sample studies, these scales are useful in psychology, psychiatry, epidemiology, and social sciences.
The Reality behind Barbara Pym’s Excellent Women
This book analyses Barbara Pym’s work through the image of the troublesome woman. It highlights her feminist ideas, hidden in village settings and revealed by these women. Exploring Pym’s published and unpublished writings shows her as a complex person.
This book presents 13 biographies of women in the Transcendentalist movement. While names like Emerson and Thoreau are familiar, figures like Elizabeth Peabody, Sarah Freeman Clark, and others in this volume deserve to be known for their vital contributions to the movement.
Studying at University Level
This book is a companion for entry-level higher education students. Drawing on years of teaching, the authors motivate and build confidence. We make no assumptions, but identify the core academic skills you need to thrive, and show you how to develop them.
A History of Earth’s Biota
Our understanding of life’s evolution has been transformed. The fossil record now extends an astonishing sevenfold, and new genetic evidence reveals the co-evolution of plants and animals. This book presents the wondrous tale of how all life is linked, from microbes to man.
Living, Dying, Death, and Bereavement (Volume One)
This unique book offers in-depth interviews with pioneers in thanatology—the study of dying, death, and grief. Their compelling life stories provide a comprehensive, insightful, and personal review of the field for clinicians, researchers, and interested lay persons.
This book interlinks gender, alterity, and education, with a focus on refugee education. It uniquely examines gender and alterity through both theoretical debate and empirical research, and explores the potential of Distance Education to combat inequality and discrimination.
This collection of doctoral essays in Catholic Studies shines new light on age-old issues and offers opportunities for dialogue with the contemporary world. Inspired by St. John Henry Newman’s vision of faith and reason, these works cover theology, ethics, history, and more.
In societies scarred by violence, can peace be taught? Drawing on case studies from around the world, this book shows that peace education is an essential pillar for healing the past and building a more equitable future with sustainable, resilient peace.
Key articles from the 2023 AusAct conference address innovative post-COVID discussions on how the Performing Arts can survive crisis. Chapters explore the significant role of acting teachers in our education sector and their contribution to the international creative economies.
This unique study explores how the role of the messenger has changed throughout history. It analyses the dangers they face and their power to alter events, from ancient times to the messengers we send into space and the potential visitors who may come to our planet.
While favorable to the New Deal’s motives, this book is critical of its implementation. It argues the Great Depression was caused by a technological shock that gapped productivity and income. The New Deal sought to close this gap, but its policies were doomed from the start.
Strategic indecision explains the endemic conflicts and geopolitical tensions in the Black Sea. This is the first encyclopaedia dedicated to the region’s geopolitics, written for researchers and any reader interested in international relations, history, and geography.
Scanning and Sizing the Universe and Everything in It
Philosophy often ignores the vast scale of the natural continuum for a human-centered view. This book puts our world in the context of all atomic matter, revealing the discrepancy between our ‘yardsticks’ and the reality of cosmic ‘light years’.
While many believe Earth is 10,000 years old, science confirms it is 4.56 billion. This book examines the perceived conflict between religion and science, arguing that nature and scripture derive from a single source. Their harmony is essential for the progress of humanity.
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