This book explores Sherpa culture, a distinct lifestyle preserved despite outside influence from tourism and modernisation. As the Sherpa language is oral, outside accounts often suffer from mistranslations. Written by a Sherpa, this unique work overcomes these barriers.
A Comparison of Effort Estimation Techniques on Software Projects
This book compares industry approaches to software effort estimation, from traditional function points to agile story points. Using real-life case studies, learn to apply each technique immediately and answer the question all managers dread: “How is your project going?”
Entrepreneurship and Employment in the Caribbean Community
This book examines the labour market in hydrocarbon-rich CARICOM states. It reviews successful entrepreneurship case studies and provides policy recommendations to address employment problems, offering lessons for policymakers in mineral-rich countries.
Russia-Eurasia Relations
Across the world, there are regions caught between identity and power. This book analyses the great powers’ challenges in Eurasia within the framework of strategic interests, conflict, and cooperation.
Dark Heritage Tourism in the Iberian Peninsula
This collection explores dark tourism in the Iberian Peninsula, examining how sites of death and suffering are transformed into dissonant heritage that forges powerful collective identities.
Post Qualitative Inquiry in Academia
A student quits college on her first day. Ten years later, she gets an imaginary second chance. This book troubles academic barriers through innovative writing, offering multiple entryways to speculate on future educational possibilities for all.
Breaking the Cycle of Women’s Paid Domestic Work in Brazil
This book portrays the life stories of Brazilian domestic workers and their daughters, who are the first in their families to get a higher education. It explores their social mobility through the mother-daughter bond that transforms trauma into empowerment.
Dutch Newspapers on War Victims and Their LSD-treatment by Jan Bastiaans
A controversial LSD treatment for concentration camp survivors was championed by Dutch newspapers against medical criticism. This book explores how the media’s focus on victimhood blurred the lines of diagnosis and paved the way for the modern concept of PTSD.
This collection of essays explores sacred groves in Africa and Asia, offering perspectives on the cultural and spiritual dimensions of biodiversity conservation. It brings center-stage the complex interaction between the ‘sacred’ and ‘secular’ in our threatened world.
Third-Party Risk Policies in the Netherlands
Keeping people safe in the densely populated Netherlands means balancing public health against the profits of industries creating hazardous risks. This book explores this balancing act, offering valuable insight into how sustainable policy can be achieved for all.
This textbook presents the foundations of electrochemistry, necessary to understand chemical power sources like batteries, hydrogen production, and corrosion protection. It is a systematic presentation from theory to practice, outlining concepts, formulas, and research methods.
Capital Punishment in Popular Culture, Toys, Games, and Nursery Rhymes
This book highlights how the death penalty and murder have influenced toy making, pop culture, art, and music. It also addresses issues of equality and injustice in death sentencing, featuring illustrated toys and dolls representing famous trials and murderers.
Entropy, Seismology and the View of Cosmology
To understand the universe, we must look not to space, but to what is hidden under our feet. Regularities in Earth’s seismicity, revealed by new seismic parameters, lead to a theory of entropy seismology with applications in earthquake prediction and even modern physics.
Power and Propaganda in French Second Empire Theatre
In Second Empire France, authorities used the stage for propaganda. This book explores how Napoléon-themed dramas, intended for a working-class audience, were censored to strengthen the regime, shaping collective memory and myths of national identity.
Celebrating Paolo Grigolini’s 50-year legacy in non-equilibrium statistical physics. This collection explores his pioneering work on the quantum-classical connection, anomalous diffusion, and new methods for detecting scaling in time series.
An inner journey on the path of Japanese calligraphy, this book uniquely combines theory with practice. It rediscovers the creative synergy of handwriting in the digital age, revealing a contemplative act of writing by painting and painting by writing.
Professional Discourse across Medicine, Law, and Other Disciplines
This volume explores the interface between medicine, law, and other disciplines through the lenses of language, discourse, and communication. Contributions cover issues in bioethics and law, nursing ethics, risk management, social inclusion, and environmental ethics.
This book bridges the gap between theory and creativity in musicianship. It moves beyond the idea of theory as rigid and creativity as wild, providing a discussion of the creative drive in theory and how these ideas shape performance through illuminating examples.
Greece Between East and West
This book examines Greece’s pivotal role between East and West, exploring the tension between “westernisation” and the enduring values of its eastern legacy. This is explored through culture, politics, music, historical cities, and more. With a Foreword by Roderick Beaton.
Discourses on Disability bridges academic and personal voices from India to deconstruct ableism. Narratives from people with disabilities examine how it feels to exist in a world of cultural taboos, challenging the systemic silence around disability in India.
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