Agripreneurship Management
Dive into the world of agripreneurship. This guide offers practical insights, case studies, and tools for aspiring agripreneurs to turn agriculture into a profitable and sustainable venture. Discover how to unlock the potential of the agricultural sector and make your mark.
Rehabilitating Heckscher-Ohlin
Comparative advantage, the cornerstone of international trade, lacks a theory consistent with the data. This book rehabilitates the popular but rejected Heckscher-Ohlin model by endogenizing technology and focusing on natural resources within a framework of vertical trade.
Honoring the work of Gyula Klima, this volume explores key issues in medieval logic, metaphysics, and epistemology. Contributions offer significant new insights on Ockham’s semantics, intentionality, Aquinas on genus and species, and Aristotle on demonstration.
Moving Bodies, Wandering Minds
This book explores the connection between movement—both physical and mental—and creativity. Research shows physical activity has cognitive benefits like improving memory, while intentional mind-wandering can enhance creative ideation. This book summarizes this fascinating link.
Transformative Technologies in Healthcare
Artificial Intelligence is transforming healthcare. This book explores the dynamic intersection of technology and medicine, delving into core AI principles, groundbreaking case studies, and the ethical and regulatory challenges of integrating these powerful new tools.
A scholarly study of the material culture of burghers in 17th-18th century Lithuania. This book analyzes urban houses, interiors, furnishings, and symbolic signboards, alongside everyday life, including festivities and inns. For historians of Eastern Europe’s urban legacy.
The Afterlives of Narratives
This book analyzes how narratives are reinterpreted in British theatre. Discussing case studies from Shakespeare to Zadie Smith, this volume interrogates adaptation and appropriation, exploring the dialogic relationship between source texts and their contemporary reimaginings.
Empathy connects us, but social isolation and polarization are driving us apart. A lack of empathy causes society to suffer, making it harder to work with others. How can we learn to demonstrate more empathy? This book sheds light on that question.
This book charts the history of Romanian semiotics before introducing new concepts like conversational history—for analyzing literary texts—and existential rereading. It also features a collaborative linguistic study and a unique Database of Romanian Love Charms.
The American 1950s will not be left alone. This book addresses this enduring phenomenon through its Portuguese proponents, from the arrival of rock ‘n’ roll to the contemporary retro scene. Through interviews, it reveals why this American aesthetic continues to fascinate.
This book investigates how myth and folklore in Indian fiction are paradoxically used to generate new modes of writing. It explores this stylistic innovation, the use of an ‘oral narrative style’, and the relationship between women and folklore in South Asian tradition.
Psychological Well-being
Explore the complexities of mental and emotional health, from the biological and social factors that influence well-being to the mind-body connection. This guide offers practical tools for resilience and self-care while addressing modern challenges in an ever-changing world.
A. N. Whitehead was one of the 20th century’s most significant thinkers. His concepts are in a perpetual state of development within contemporary scholarship. This volume probes these modern assessments across education, arts, ethics, community, medicine, psychology, and AI.
This book explores how contemporary fiction confronts global challenges by reshaping genre conventions. It highlights how hybrid narratives address themes of identity, memory, and survival, offering critical insights into literary innovation in the twenty-first century.
Mechanism Design for Public Goods and Environmental Externalities
This book discusses crucial environmental problems, like global warming and nuclear disasters, by applying the unique Gorman-Lancaster-Sen’s approach. It provides a new way of thinking about the environment as a public good for students, professors, and policy makers alike.
Child Obesity
This book investigates the complex facets of childhood obesity, analyzing evidence on epigenetics, ultra-processed foods, and food marketing. It concludes with recommendations for health professionals, parents, and policy makers to create change for our society’s future health.
Frontiers of Gerontology and Geriatrics
As the 21st century witnesses a retirement boom, ‘Elderly Care’ has become a global priority. This compilation of published research is a training manual to groom professionals to care for older persons, featuring Indian and Arabian scenarios, exercises, and question-answers.
Drawing on experiences from practitioners across the globe, this book re-visualizes language assessment. It provides effective, inventive concepts for teachers and developers to create assessment tools that reflect authentic, needs-based language use.
Globalized Injustice
This volume unearths the pervasive injustices shaping our world. It highlights the lived experiences and resistance of marginalized groups while challenging readers to recognize oppression, foster solidarity, and embrace the possibility of transformation.
This collection offers thought-provoking studies on monolingual, bilingual, and heritage language acquisition, as well as L2/L3 learning. It provides fresh insights into how heritage languages differ from their homeland counterparts and how cross-linguistic influence operates.