Illustrated Glaucoma Case Presentation
Explore the intricate world of glaucoma through captivating cases in this stunning illustrated book. From common scenarios to challenging puzzles, this book provides clinical insights for a deeper understanding of glaucoma’s complexities.
Responsible Reproductive Choice in the 21st Century
With reproductive rights under threat, this vital book examines pregnancy termination from historical, social, and legal angles. It builds a justified and balanced argument for choice, grounded in a compelling ethics of responsibility.
Family Economic Adversity and Later-Life Physical Health and Well-being
This book presents a framework linking family economic adversity to later-life health. It details five biopsychosocial pathways, with particular attention to how enduring couple relationships shape these outcomes over the life course and guide future research.
This book highlights marine pollution in Tunisia’s Bizerte Lagoon, offering insights into contamination sources. It presents the first study of pesticides in the aquatic ecosystem, assessing the lagoon’s environmental quality against global health standards.
Curating Organizational Memory
Our most trusted organizations are burdened by an accumulation of knowledge. As this book shows, by incorporating forgetting into their strategies for change, they can evolve. Forgetting is an unexpected theory of organizing that can challenge ossified institutional practices.
This book explores the p53 protein’s role in malignant hematologic diseases, impacting clinical management. It focuses on Chronic Lymphocytic Leukemia’s progression to Richter Syndrome, where mutations lead to low survival and non-response to chemotherapy.
Patient-Based Medicine
This book addresses the chasm between conventional medicine’s focus on symptoms and what truly benefits the patient. It reveals how this approach can be dangerous and introduces effective alternative approaches which can lead to betterment or even complete remission.
This book presents insights into manganese oxides, materials with important technological applications in magnetic refrigeration and sensors. With elegant and didactic mathematical proofs, it will interest both researchers and the general reader interested in the subject.
To prepare students for the 21st century, we must change the way we teach them to think. This book instils a love of critical thinking in students and teachers, covering its history, methods in language teaching, and providing reading and writing activities.
Very-Large-Scale Integration Physical Design
This book presents an innovative, automated approach to fix Timing-Design Rule Check (TDRC) violations in VLSI chip design. Using TCL scripting to streamline the Engineering Change Order (ECO) process, it achieves an 87% violation fix rate with minimal global timing shifts.
Using Kristevan theory, this book studies female characters from novels as “subjects in process” overcoming psychological maladies. It traces how female subjectivity has changed throughout the Feminist Waves, from the Victorian period to the Third Wave.
A governess at an isolated country house becomes convinced that ghosts are corrupting two children, but only she sees them. This study argues her narration reveals a double consciousness, a severe indictment of the possessiveness which led to the story’s tragic climax.
Bridging linguistics and psycholinguistics, this monograph explores long-distance dependencies—phenomena that are unbounded yet constrained by grammar. It leverages the concept of similarity to unravel the interplay between formal linguistic properties and memory operations.
Sex-Based Harassment in the World of Work
This book explores the evolving jurisprudence on workplace sexual harassment. It examines the judiciary’s approach to complex issues: the ambit of ‘workplace’, handling vague or anonymous complaints, ensuring balance in inquiries, and the interplay with criminal proceedings.
This book details China’s strategy for blockchain payment systems, providing a theoretical framework for its developing role. Analyzing the efficiency, cost, and risk of blockchain in cross-border payments, it offers policy suggestions and vital insights for countries worldwide.
The American Lobby
To understand American lobbying today, look to the Gilded Age—a time with no rules, when a lobbyist’s only limit was their imagination. This work examines the controversial and scandalous tools that became the foundation of modern lobbying practice.
Private Instincts and Public Ideals
How do you choose a school? Most guides focus only on your child’s success. This collection of essays features parents who also consider the flourishing of others, equal opportunity, and diverse schools. Their stories will challenge and enrich your own parenting journey.
Black Women Activists in Nineteenth Century New Orleans
In nineteenth-century New Orleans, free women of color Marie Laveaux and Henriette Delille rejected a life of privilege. This book explores how they chose service instead, using their faith-based practices to address the needs of the city’s poor, enslaved, and disenfranchised.
Anglican Ritualism in Colonial South Africa
In the mid-19th century, a controversial wave of ritualism swept through Anglicanism. This book introduces its origins and examines how this movement, after a period of robust antagonism, took root and came to characterize the church’s ethos in colonial South Africa.
Questioning the Eco-Ethics of Future Colonialism and Terraforming of Mars
Can we escape an apocalypse on Earth by terraforming another planet? Using Kim Stanley Robinson’s Mars trilogy, this book argues this is simply the future of colonization, dooming us to repeat our mistakes. It reveals that our economic systems are the root of these catastrophes.