Stress in Plants
This book provides an overview of the challenges of increasing crop productivity for a growing population. It links plant activity to tolerance and adaptation, offering strategies to counter the impact of environmental stress, a threat magnified by climate change.
This volume presents research on gas-discharge plasma for creating powerful, tunable excilamps. It details the application of these studies to develop efficient blue-green and ultraviolet radiation sources for specialists in plasma physics and quantum electronics.
Contested Tourism Commodities
This book explores tourism’s contested niches, from slum tourism to trophy hunting. It traces how marginal pursuits explode into the mainstream, causing controversy as they are commodified, packaged, and sold while the lines between acceptance and outrage blur.
Malaysian Literature in English
This collection of essays by acclaimed international critics investigates major writers of Malaysian literature in English. It explores key thematic trends—including gender, ethnicity, and nationalism—and the unique challenges of writing in a postcolonial nation.
This book addresses the complex N-body problem, providing a general approach to show that many mass configurations can be solved deterministically. It gives the reader the tools to master binary, trinary, and quadruple structured configurations for real and theoretical work.
A comprehensive guide to the science of ceramics in dentistry, detailing their structural, chemical, physical, mechanical, and optical properties. This book covers fabrication methods and clinical aspects, enabling students and clinicians to improve their knowledge.
The central challenge for educational neuroscience is using brain research to improve teaching and learning. Learning occurs through changes in the connections between neurons, a process optimized when ideas are considered from a multidimensional approach.
Regarded as a problem play, Measure for Measure dramatizes King James’s view that justice should be tempered with mercy. Its themes of sex and the death penalty are treated with an ambiguity that pleased the king, while allowing Shakespeare’s own response to differ.
Modern Raman Microscopy
This book presents confocal Raman microscopy, a powerful technique to noninvasively characterize complex samples with sub-micron resolution. It highlights the key aspects of this technique for practical application, appealing to researchers, engineers, and novice users.
A Review of the Art of Translation
Unlocking the dialect poetry of ancient Iran’s Baba Tahir. This analysis revisits Edward Heron Allen’s classic translation, exploring the gap between literal words and implied meaning while illuminating the poet’s life and the art of translation itself.
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 book explores craniofacial anatomical variations in rare facial clefts using advanced imaging. It provides in-depth knowledge to establish personalized therapeutic practices and improve patient rehabilitation in highly complex cases.
This book illuminates the problem of women in Chinese philosophy through the lives of two Taiwanese female philosophers. It links the marginalization of female theorists with the unrecognized contribution of Taiwanese philosophy, revealing both stem from discourses of exclusion.
Communicating English in Specialised Domains
This volume honors Maurizio Gotti’s academic career and his significant contributions to specialized discourses, lexicography, and the history of English. This collection brings together essays by scholars who have interacted with his ideas in these fields of enquiry.
This collection presents cross-disciplinary explorations of the Goddess in South Asian cinema. Analyzing films from across South Asia, including India, Nepal, and Bangladesh, it highlights regional and cultural differences and commonalities in the representation of the divine.
Drawing on a life of work in Africa, this book explores cross-cultural communication. It dismantles myths about African languages, arguing that Africans are not “anglophone” or “francophone,” but afrophone. Why do some international projects succeed while others fail?
This book analyzes the agricultural landscape of Sub-Saharan Africa, focusing on maize. It details the maize value chain, projects future productivity growth, and identifies key investment areas, providing actionable insights for policymakers, NGOs, and donor organizations.
This book reports on a large-scale study using integrated reading-into-writing tasks to improve academic reading. It offers practical insights into reading processes, making it essential for applied linguists, EAP instructors, and language assessors.
The Life and Novels of Isabella St John
In the generation after Jane Austen, Isabella St John went further with her sharply satirical picture of the English upper class. Born an aristocrat, her novels use authentic inside knowledge to boldly tackle women’s rights and social injustice with humour and acute observation.
Clinical lymphology offers highly effective methods to treat a wide range of pathologies, from inflammatory to cardiovascular and autoimmune diseases. These simple, cost-effective techniques significantly expedite patient recovery and shorten treatment duration.