The Floating Towns of Tomorrow
As climate change and population growth challenge our world, floating cities offer a solution. This book proposes viable urban planning and architectural solutions for coastal cities, starting with a pilot project in Singapore. For all who wish to rethink our cities.
Strategies for E-Learning in Teaching English as a Foreign Language
This book explores strategies for integrating digital technologies in EFL teaching. It provides practical applications to enhance language acquisition, engagement, and interactivity, reshaping pedagogy by bridging traditional methods with contemporary digital resources.
These essays explore Claire Messud’s fiction and its complex narration of cosmopolitan entanglements. Foci include emigrant identities, 1960s Pop Art, and 9/11 trauma. This collection also provides an interview with the author.
This book covers new deep neural networks that synthesize their optimal structure in online mode. Based on the principle of self-organization, this approach solves a wide class of Data Stream Mining problems, including pattern recognition, forecasting, and classification.
This book explores the elastic-anisotropic properties of rocks, showing that velocity, density, and anisotropy increase with metamorphic transformations. It also details an acoustopolariscope for analyzing rocks, anisotropic alloys, plastics, ceramics, and gemstones.
Applications of Nuclear Materials
This book covers recent developments in nuclear science and technology and its applications. Covering both fundamental and advanced aspects in an accessible way, it elaborates on the use of nuclear materials in sectors like health, energy, and forensic science.
Local Integration of Refugees in Cameroon
As wars provoke forced migration in Africa, Cameroon has become a safe haven for refugees. This book explores the crises causing this migration, the international legal bases for humanitarian assistance, and the sustainable measures taken by the UNHCR and its partners.
Norman McLeod Rogers was Canada’s Minister of National Defence, and heir apparent to the Prime Minister, when he was killed in a mysterious plane crash. This book presents the story of his brief, but brilliant, career and his tragic death.
The Musical World of Alan Hovhaness
This book explores the work of American-Armenian composer Alan Hovhaness in the context of East-West cultural interactions. It analyzes Armenian, Indian, Japanese, and Korean musical traditions in his works, evaluating his complex identity and the phenomenon of “Armenian-ness”.
This book explores Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR), highlighting its concepts, business principles, and practices with a special emphasis on India. It exhibits cases of successful businesses where CSR has enabled them to achieve sustainable targets.
This book explores the intertwining worlds of social media and educational pedagogy. It critically examines the benefits, challenges, and ethical considerations of integrating platforms like Twitter, Facebook, and TikTok into the modern educational landscape.
This book explores history and Althusser’s ideology in selected novels by Charles Dickens and Orhan Kemal. Their works reveal the historical and ideological background of their contexts, showing how English and Turkish literature reflect traces of contesting ideologies.
Rescuing the Social Function of the Economy
Brazil is not a poor country. Its key challenges—deep inequality, environmental disaster, and financial chaos—stem not from a lack of resources, but from a political system where powerful elites drain the nation’s wealth. This book explains how to combat these structural issues.
With an irreverent tone, the author debunks modern physics using common sense and experimental evidence. He proposes a new unifying model where all events are connected, from the subatomic to galaxies. This provocative read requires no advanced scientific knowledge.
This is the first English poetry anthology of Du Mu, a distinguished Tang dynasty poet. Translator Zhang Zhizhong’s philosophy of “spirit over form” is embodied in this collection, which will interest those studying Chinese culture and poetry.
A Holistic Perspective on Harold Pinter’s Drama
This book explores Harold Pinter’s plays, from his comedies of menace to his memory and political works. It analyzes the thematic constants—intrusion, anxiety, silence, and power games—that define the term “Pinteresque” and connect his entire dramatic oeuvre.
In an age of Capitalist cultural crisis, this book studies the relationship between culture and Capitalism to understand the struggle for Socialism—for a society based on a free culture and a free humanity.
This book provides fascinating insights into actinomycetes and their synthesis of bioactive molecules like enzymes and nanoparticles. Microorganisms are a huge reservoir of resources for innovative applications and should be explored for antibiotics, enzymes, and nanoparticles.
This second volume uses vector optimization to model economic systems. Chapters cover decision-making and modeling within companies, in market systems, and for forecasting.
For students and dental professionals, this text illustrates important concepts in dental anatomy and occlusion. It presents a step-by-step wax build-up technique to guide the fabrication of dental restorations with optimal longevity, aesthetics and function.