Central to Yoruba fashion is the role of women in its making. This book shows how textile commodities, entangled in global economic histories, created a local industry that portrays new ways of work—revealing a critical, but often neglected, aspect of being Yoruba.
This book addresses sustainable urban development, covering governance, green technology, and the environment. It is a reference for local stakeholders making policy and planning choices to protect the environment and to provide for equitable housing, health, and education.
This book uses scientific advances to understand the degradation and characterisation of historical materials. It highlights multidisciplinary procedures for analyzing precious, small samples, and is of interest to the public, scientists, and the conservation community.
This book examines why the global mining industry lacked a representative group for so long, and how it finally formed one at the turn of the millennium in response to global environmental policy and the emerging focus on sustainable development.
Peripheral Europe
This book connects the EU’s mismanagement of the financial and refugee crises to the integration of the post-socialist East. By turning Europe’s social contract into a cultural one, this process has betrayed core democratic values, both East and West.
Our food system contributes to climate change, social injustice, and a public health crisis where diet is implicated in one in five deaths. We are told it is the consumers’ fault, but this deflects attention from the policies that created the problems. This book examines them.
Mexican Mural Art
Prominent critics offer new 21st-century interpretations of the art, lives, and times of Mexican muralists José Clemente Orozco, Diego Rivera, and David Alfaro Siqueiros. These essays respond to a surging interest in Mexican mural art for a wide readership.
This book investigates the translation potential of names in children’s literature using *Harry Potter*. It proposes a new functional name-translation model, arguing that while some functions are lost in translation, other important ones are brought to the spotlight.
The Business of Heritage
Archaeology is a global business. This collection of papers by international specialists examines how heritage consultancy protects the past and develops archaeological knowledge. From NASA’s space facilities to Roman ruins, this book provides global insights.
Unconventional Aeronautical Investigatory Methods
The 1972 crash of Alitalia flight AZ 112 killed 115 people and was blamed on pilot negligence. This book reveals the truth: the disaster was not an accident but a criminal act, a symptom of the geopolitical tensions gripping Italy and Europe in that decade.
This guide provides a clinical and forensic approach to personality disorders, comparing the categorical (ICD-10) and dimensional (ICD-11) classifications. With diagnostic and therapeutic guidelines, it will appeal to psychiatrists, psychologists, and students.
Karen Barad’s Feminist Materialism
This book is an immanent critique of influential theorist Karen Barad. It explores the consistency and application of her theory of “agential realism,” which connects feminist theory, philosophy, and science through concepts like “intra-action,” derived from quantum physics.
A New Approach to Mindfulness
This innovative book uses 100 short stories to approach mindfulness. The stories encourage you to examine your life as you ascend from the ‘Base Camp’ of self-awareness to the ‘Summit’ of new personal and collective understanding.
Intercultural Communicative Competence and Individual Differences
This book offers a critical overview of intercultural communicative competence (ICC). As a novel contribution, it frames ICC in relation to learner variables like motivation and communication apprehension, proposing and testing a new, data-driven model for L2 communication.
Digital transformation has changed marketing, but its impact on consumer behaviour still requires exploration. This book sheds light on the challenges and solutions for companies, investigating customer experience, influencer marketing, and trust for the online consumer.
Religious Messages in the Media
Can religious messages be transmitted through the media? This book analyzes the relationship between media and religion, arguing that media can only convey religious messages superficially and are unsuitable for mediating deep spiritual content or evangelization.
Alpha-fetoprotein (AFP) delivers toxins to cancer cells for targeted chemotherapy. More importantly, AFP+toxin harnesses the patient’s immune system to attack cancer by depleting suppressor cells, activating a natural immune response with promising results in patients.
Minors’ Crimes in Saudi Arabia
This book investigates key problems in Saudi Arabia’s juvenile detention system: lack of codification, misclassification of crimes, and inconsistent penalties. Through an analysis of court cases in Riyadh, it clarifies the traditional classification of juveniles’ crimes.
This book introduces human motor control and neuroplasticity, explaining how the nervous system adapts to physical activity, training, and rehabilitation. Integrating research with clinical applications, it is an essential text for students, researchers, and clinicians.
This unique book unravels the authority and limitations of coast guards in maritime law enforcement. Based on the author’s experience as a Commissioner General, it provides practical insights by examining international law, comparative studies, and key cases.