Mankind is in an arms race with drug-resistant pathogens. This book reveals how benign bacteria become pathogenic by acquiring new genes and proposes a third strategy beyond drugs and vaccines: achieving herd resistance by enhancing our protective intestinal microbiota.
An Introduction to Viticulture, Winemaking and Wine
This book describes the science of growing grapevines and transforming them into the world’s many wine styles. It covers everything from harvesting to how to taste, buy, store, and sell wine. Intended for novice growers, winemakers, sommeliers, and students.
This book explores story, narrator, character, time, and space. It upgrades the theory of the unreliable narrator and introduces three new categories: commentators, interpreters, and evaluators.
This book explores how Irish playwrights engaged with the Easter Rising, the Troubles, and other conflicts. It analyzes their plays in historical context, revealing insights into humanity and resilience amid deep republican, unionist, and denominational divides.
Get answers to your headache questions. Experienced authors cover common issues: diagnosis, triggers, lifestyle, and medical management for everything from migraine to concussions. This book is an excellent resource for patients, their families, and clinicians.
Second Language Learning and Cultural Acquisition
This volume focuses on cultural influences in language teaching and learning, shedding light on how cultural differences can hinder learners seeking native-like competence. It offers scholars and language teachers a new direction in language acquisition.
This book investigates what songwriters read before they start singing. It explores the complex intertextual connections between popular songs and literary works, showing how lyrics adapt material from sources like poems, novels, plays, films, the Bible, and Shakespeare.
This book examines four innovative women playwrights of 21st-century Spain. By foregrounding female protagonists, their plays explore female autonomy and the search for selfhood against gendered oppression, showcasing important innovations in contemporary stagecraft.
Facilitating with Stories
This book connects theory and practice for professionals working with stories. It offers a unique inquiry into the ethics and philosophies of facilitation, supporting educators, facilitators, and consultants towards more effective and considered practice.
Pediatric glycometabolic disorders are often considered a specialist field, but the diagnosis of type 1 diabetes, hypoglycemia, and metabolic syndrome is not. This book provides the trainee pediatric specialist with robust preliminary knowledge of the field.
From a lethal poison to one of medicine’s most versatile agents. This book is a compilation of botulinum toxin’s uses in the oral and maxillofacial regions, detailing its pharmacology and applications for TMJ disorders, bruxism, facial palsy, cosmetology, and more.
Recent Studies on the Image of Edessa
This volume presents the latest historical and theological developments in the study of the Image of Edessa. International experts bring their findings together to shed new light on the icon and reach a deeper understanding of this fascinating object.
This book considers love and laughter in the four romans galants of Aymé Dubois-Jolly. Though the love is unashamedly erotic, the novels are redeemed by comic elements and elegant prose, with nods to the literary giants of the eighteenth century.
This ground-breaking book analyzes the impact of colonial railways in North India (1860-1914). It details the wide-ranging economic, social, and environmental effects in Uttar Pradesh, revealing how railways created new opportunities while also deepening regional inequalities.
This book explores how racism and cognitive bias in public schooling breed student achievement gaps. It shows how educators transmit social and racial inequities and offers a set of interventions to build healthy school climates where every student is welcomed and honored.
This multidisciplinary book explores COVID-19’s impact across the sciences and humanities. It offers varied perspectives on the pandemic’s challenges and solutions, with a specific focus on Indonesia. For researchers, students, the public, and policy makers.
The Running of Hospitals
A senior NHS administrator charts the health service’s growth during a major reforming period, 1965-1985. This collection of noteworthy articles, brought together for the first time, is essential for anyone interested in the history of the NHS.
Journeys through the Ideological Unconscious
This book introduces the concept of the ideological unconscious, analyzing its expression in Spanish literature from feudalism to capitalism. It uncovers the historical intertwining of the ideological and the libidinal, upending assumptions in history and cultural theory.
Introductory Fish Biology
Master the biology of fishes with clarity. Drawing on over 40 years of experience, this guide blends the latest research with nearly 300 vibrant photographs and figures, making it an essential resource for any introductory course.
We worship the Father, but do we truly know him? While we focus on Christ and the Spirit, the first Person of the Trinity is often neglected. This book explores his distinct nature, challenges our assumptions, and reveals how knowing the Father will transform your faith.
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