An Analysis of the Role of Cycling in Sustainable Urban Mobility
This book analyses why cycling is returning to cities to solve the crisis of the car-centric model. It argues that it is not possible to solve this crisis without giving a central role to the bicycle as a key part of any sustainable urban mobility project.
This book links the science behind training and recovery with practical, easy-to-understand examples. It outlines simple tools and techniques to improve rugby player performance, making it an invaluable resource for coaches, players, and sports science professionals.
Design Concepts for Seismic-Resistant Buildings
This book proposes a quantitative shaking evaluation for seismic-resistant buildings, with guidance to calculate the shaking quantity scale. It also demonstrates using Artificial Intelligence to predict this scale, which is highly important for earthquake early warning systems.
The world’s first Northern Lights observatory is the focus of this account about everyday life and the epoch-making pioneering of geophysical research on Haldde Mountain in Finnmark, Norway. The book builds on private letters and memoirs about daily life and research.
Horace’s Sermones is an artwork of enormous originality. It is the work of an outsider grappling with identity during a pivotal time in Roman history, detailing a journey from ‘nobody’ to ‘somebody’ in a simultaneous invention of the poet and reinvention of a poetic genre.
The Common Touch
While figures like Shakespeare dominated the literary scene, what was the vast majority of society really reading and singing? This anthology answers that question with a selection of broadside ballads, witch trial reports, and political newsbooks.
This book argues that early British women writers created a new expressive mode for melancholy. During a time of cultural and political transitioning, they forged a melancholy aesthetic to articulate their own experiences of loss, depression, and artistic angst.
In the postmodern ironic music of composer Bojidar Spassov, old and new times, and cultural traditions emerge like carnival masks. This book is the first monograph on this paradoxical multicultural artist and the first attempt to shed light on the contemporary music of Bulgaria.
This book addresses the complex N-body problem, providing a general approach to show that many mass configurations can be solved deterministically. It gives the reader the tools to master binary, trinary, and quadruple structured configurations for real and theoretical work.
Sustainable Soil Management
Leading scientists from across the globe show how sustainable soil management can revert land degradation, improve biodiversity, and mitigate climate change. This book is essential for researchers, farmers, and land managers working toward the theme of one-health for our planet.
Dealing with Multilingualism in TV Series
This book analyzes multilingualism in TV series and explores how dubbing affects the plot and characterisation of the original shows. A specific focus on Italian dubbing provides detailed insight into this complex and fascinating phenomenon.
Ovid’s Heroides, or Letters of Heroines, is a collection of fictional letters from heroines to their absent lovers. This volume offers an essential databank for the final six poems: the three pairs of letters. It is arranged as an enlarged critical apparatus for the text.
This collection of essays re-evaluates the connections between music, fine art, and architecture during the flowering of modernism, c. 1849–1950. Through detailed case-studies, this book re-thinks modernism itself to advocate for a multiplicity of modernisms.
Traditional Sports and Games in the Contemporary World
A captivating journey from Denmark to the Basque Country and Scotland exploring traditional sports. This book reveals why these games are valuable, necessary, and fit the needs of our times, offering inspirational ideas for how to use them in practice.
Based on 60 years of research, this book reveals a powerful message: qualitative data is more informative than quantitative data. Learn how to analyze it quantitatively to extract more information, using simple illustrations of difficult topics that anyone can understand.
Vignettes Relating to Kathakali and Shakespeare
For lovers of the performing arts, especially Kathakali, the dance drama of Kerala. This book uniquely compares Shakespearean plays and characters to the stories and characters in Kathakali, offering a completely new perspective.
Language, Literature and Education in Multicultural Societies
This book presents a vivid overview of linguistic, literary and educational issues in a multicultural context. Bringing together views from specialists from several parts of the world, it handles complex themes in an accessible manner for all readers.
Energy rules the world, shaping policies and sparking conflicts in the race for domination. This book examines the subject from a multidimensional view, covering key energy zones like Russia and the Middle East, as well as the policies pursued by leading nations.
Despite a 21st-century job market that calls for proficiency in multiple languages, enrollments in university language courses have steadily declined. This timely collection of essays addresses this issue, suitable pedagogical approaches, and lessons from the COVID-19 pandemic.
Education and Society in the Middle East and North Africa
A growing number of thinkers are generating new approaches to the past, present, and future of the Middle East and North Africa. This book reflects on education and society, providing a platform for regional voices to join the global conversation and challenge outdated theories.
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