Computer use creates health risks, from muscular tension and poor diet to mental stress and Zoom fatigue. This book offers practical measures for employees and employers, with recommendations on diet, physical activity, and healthier online meetings.
This book explores Web-based learning technologies for English for Specific Purposes (ESP) in higher education. Presenting results from quasi-experimental research, it highlights the effectiveness of these tools in enhancing student vocabulary acquisition and learning.
This monograph covers symmetries on a symplectic manifold, giving rise to quantum field theory via phase space and the Wigner function. This approach describes quantum chaos, introduces gauge symmetries, and leads to Symplectic Schrödinger, Klein-Gordon, and Dirac equations.
This book analyzes the relationship between image, music, and audiences in mainstream culture. Studying works like The Lord of the Rings, Harry Potter, and Blade Runner, it explores how audiovisual media shapes the way we understand reality.
Literature and the Arts since the 1960s
This collection of essays explores the imaginative wake of the rebellious late 1960s. Focusing on the awakening moment of May 1968, it discusses the impact of the era’s challenges to power and its rich consequences for literature and the arts.
This book explores two pillars of dynamic systems engineering: modeling, analysis, and control, and model-based fault diagnosis. It equips readers with the tools to detect, isolate, and mitigate defects, providing the skills to identify and remedy potential system failures.
Sir Stanley Rous and the Growth of World Football
This book takes the life of FIFA president Stanley Rous (1895-1986) as a lens to understand football’s global rise. It charts his ascent from a Suffolk village to the top of world football, through two World Wars, the 1948 Olympics, and volatile post-colonial diplomacy.
Anatomy and Evolution of the Giraffe
Explore the legendary fossil beds of Samos, where ancient myths explained the bones of giant mammals. This book uncovers the island’s paleontological history, compares the anatomy of the giraffe, okapi, and extinct Samotherium, and maps the geology of these famed bone quarries.
From Nonlinear Dynamics to Trigonometry’s Magic
This book unravels the mathematics of nonlinear dynamics using simple trigonometry. A tutorial for beginners and experts, it examines the fundamental example of Chaos, the Lorenz-Haken equations, with an original approach. For physicists, mathematicians, and students alike.
This book provides a framework for recruiting and retaining long-term volunteers, especially in health programs. It details a screening process to improve cost-efficiency by considering the motivations of volunteers, offering a novel way of conceptualizing volunteering.
This book highlights physicochemical parameters and micro-constituents used to determine the botanical and geographical origins of honey, in combination with chemometrics. It is the ultimate research guide for honey uniqueness, appealing to academics and practitioners alike.
A knowledge-rich society cannot sustain itself without wisdom. This book defines wisdom as a science, arguing its application should be as commonplace as arithmetic to transform a chaotic civilization into a wise one.
Scholars claim satire is too aggressive to persuade. But what if they’re looking in the wrong places? This study finds genuine satiric impact in the middlebrow delight of P.G. Wodehouse, G.K. Chesterton, and Nancy Mitford, commercially driven writers who defended their work.
Ambassador Joseph Grew’s 1927-1932 diary provides valuable historical insight into the difficult modern US-Turkey relationship. It details the foundation of their diplomacy and offers prescient analysis of the Turkish Revolution, which still influences politics in Turkey today.
Learning and Long-Term Illness
Nearly 40 years after it was written, Susan Sapsed’s diary was rediscovered. It told a story of personal illness, practitioner misunderstanding, and patient frustration. Using psychoanalytic frameworks, this book invites a mature Susan to reflect on her younger self.
This book explores technology business incubation in India. It maps the role of various actors in the incubation process, provides an overview of the innovation ecosystem, and examines how the country’s science and technology culture influences its overall development pathway.
This volume addresses pivotal problems about our planet’s environment and ecology. It highlights inter-related topics from agriculture to global health and concludes with an ethical analysis of the multiple, overlapping challenges that require urgent attention.
This book introduces the concept of state harm to explain the poor social conditions on Native American reservations. It shows how the psychological and emotional traumas of colonization, relocation, and assimilation have manifested as generational harm.
Aristotelian Metaphysics as a Unifying Paradigm for 21st Century Science
This book updates Aristotle’s foundational principles to remedy the fragmentation of knowledge. It provides a rational framework and common language for all, seeking answers to the question “why?,” not just “how?”, creating a unified approach to knowledge.
This book uses empirical evidence to challenge the monolithic picture of English in Cameroon. It argues the country harbours different World Englishes, a complex sociolinguistic landscape comparable only to South Africa that challenges nation-based World Englishes paradigms.