IoT, AI, and Blockchain are transforming daily life, enhancing sectors like healthcare, cities, and agriculture. This comprehensive survey covers the integration of these technologies, their smart applications, and the open issues and future challenges ahead.
This volume addresses how world-class research universities are led and managed internationally and within the post-Soviet Central Asian context. It offers critical insights for universities responding to globalisation while aiming to be world-class and also locally relevant.
Experiences of Migration
This book asks what migrants experience, finding answers not in academic studies, but in literary fiction. It argues that fiction offers ‘sensate knowledge’—an interconnection of senses and intellect—by relating stories to concepts like hospitality, courage, and hope.
Mini Implants in Orthodontics
Master mini implants in orthodontics with this essential guide. Explore their history, design, and clinical applications through case studies and expert insights. This authoritative resource bridges the gap between theory and practice for professionals and students.
Issues and Challenges in Trade
This book is a study of the issues and inter-linkages concerning trade, environment and sustainability. It suggests approaches for understanding their complexities in order to achieve balanced economic development, international cooperation and policy coherence.
Media and COVID-19
This book dives into media dynamics during the COVID-19 pandemic, exploring how traditional and social media coped with uncertainty and the surge of misinformation. Through a case study of Israel, it reveals key lessons for journalists, policymakers, and media consumers alike.
The form of money is changing. Are new digital currencies safe? Should the central bank issue its own? This nontechnical book answers these questions, exploring everything from blockchain and Bitcoin to the life-changing, phone-based money already used by millions.
Stratified Nature in Women’s Writing
This book presents a diverse collection of essays about women writers and nature. Ranging across time periods and the globe, it approaches the nature-focused work of women-identifying writers through several conceptual frameworks.
This book presents a tool for legal translation that compares concepts across legal cultures. Based on their overlap, it navigates translators toward reasoned solutions. Includes case studies from English common law and Slovak continental law. For practitioners and academics.
This book explores urban renewal in post-industrial regional cities through an in-depth study of Geelong. While architecture is key to change, an intersectional perspective reveals contested pasts, from the dispossession of First Nations people to the exploitation of immigrants.
Explore the intricate connections between history, ethnicity, mythology, and literature. This book unravels how historical events, cultural myths, and ethnic heritage weave together to create multifaceted identities and shape the values of contemporary times.
This book reconsiders teaching and learning in media studies, arguing that many academics have been slow to respond to transformations in digital media. It critically reassesses key debates in the field and asks: is media studies still relevant in its current form?
Towards a Complex Model of Interpretation of Recognition
Recognizing an Other is how we create belonging. When people are perceived as a radical Other, the risk is exclusion, if not aggression. Through case studies of migrants, this book clarifies misrecognition and its subsequent dehumanization to help build a shared, fairer society.
Survivors of Suicide
Surviving after suicide means being stigmatized. This stigma darkens the lives of the bereaved, creating a whirlwind of anger, shame, and guilt. This book finds answers to the challenges survivors face in reconstructing their daily lives and how they cope with them.
The COVID-19 pandemic brought challenges and innovation to English for Academic Purposes (EAP). This volume shares the experiences and reflections of EAP practitioners, teacher trainers, and leaders on how their response to the crisis has shaped our future ‘new normal’.
Unlocking Opportunities in Sub-Saharan Africa
Emerging markets in sub-Saharan Africa present vast opportunities, but their volatility makes sustainable profitability a major challenge. This book provides a framework, using cases and illustrations, to help organisations navigate these markets and achieve lasting success.
This book explores the rich cultural meanings in Vietnamese picturebooks. It’s a tool for intercultural understanding, a vital connection to heritage for Vietnamese children at home and abroad, and a step toward a society built on harmony, equality, and love.
This book provides a clear understanding of the fundamentals of materials science and engineering, written in simple language with practical examples. It is immensely useful for students of various engineering and science fields, as well as for technical professionals.
This book bridges the gap between human behavior and brain physics, aiming to unite the sciences and the humanities. It argues that the origin of our life world, including the immaterial mind, is reconcilable with the known fundamental laws of physics.
Peacebuilding in Volatile Communities
This book explores the history and ongoing challenges of peacebuilding in Nigeria. It analyzes efforts to address armed banditry and community tensions, offering practical recommendations for sustainable peace. A vital resource for scholars, policymakers & practitioners.