This book introduces the theory of price determination in agricultural and food markets. For advanced students, it covers neoclassical theory, unique institutions, and topics like imperfect competition, price volatility, and futures markets. Includes case studies and exercises.
This book shows why control and happenstance are crucial to methodology and statistics. Control reduces ambiguity, while tests of statistical significance rule out happenstance as an explanation for research results, demonstrating that research impartiality is possible.
This book offers insights on current topics in development economics. The authors question common strategies like financial globalization and ask whether education has really been a factor in development. They address gender effects, leapfrogging, and the role of fiscal policy.
For millennia, Indigenous Australians have engineered the landscape with sophisticated knowledge. This book recognizes their ingenuity, grounded in sustainability and respect, and presents a much-needed challenge to a Western engineering worldview.
This volume explores the latest computational breakthroughs in science and technology, investigating topics from artificial neural networks to fake news detection. The book will be of great use to researchers and scholars in science and engineering with an interest in computing.
The Economics of Keynes and Uncertainty in Theory
For nearly a century, economics has failed to fully understand Keynes’s ideas. This book argues that this is due to a failure to recognize his central theme: uncertainty. It builds upon Keynes’s ideas on uncertainty and conventions to offer an alternative view of his work.
Mindreading in the Classroom
This book explores how educators can teach young people to understand the minds of others, helping them navigate identity and relationships. Based on cutting-edge social neuroscience, it translates research into practical, culturally-informed strategies for educational practice.
3D printing is a swiftly evolving technology revolutionizing manufacturing and medicine. This book elucidates its history and process, focusing on its applications and recent advances in the field of dentistry, which have enhanced patient survival and life expectancy.
The crises of the Anthropocene pressure us to rethink education. This volume responds to these challenges, casting fresh light on contemporary research methodologies fit for the future, exploring post-qualitative inquiry, arts-based methods, and co-design with teachers.
Tectonochronology
This book highlights new findings and methods in tectonochronology for the accurate dating of geological processes. It explores topics like mineral formation, dating deformation, and the influence of stress and fluid, with case studies from Chinese geology applicable worldwide.
Sparks From Spartacus
Who was the real Spartacus? To the ancient elite, he was a dangerous rogue. To later ages, a noble, tragic hero. For the first time, this richly illustrated book presents his continuous story from ancient sources, revealing the man behind the myth and his lasting legacy.
The Glory of the ‘Byzantine’-Ottoman Continuum
This is the hidden story of Ecumenical Romanity, the ‘Byzantine’-Ottoman Continuum. It reveals the profound philosophical and religious unity between Roman Christianity, Islamic Sufism, and Judaism—a historical reality long opposed by the West.
Did Shakespeare write the 17th-century drama Thomas of Woodstock? For over 150 years, scholars have debated the question. This anthology of articles and book extracts introduces readers to both sides of this fascinating literary controversy.
The Seven-String Guitar in Russia
This definitive history of the seven-string guitar in Russia explores its cosmopolitan origins, diverse repertoire, and unique sound. It details the tradition’s connections to the country’s cultural and political context, including the role of the Russian Roma in its formation.
Teaching Students with Disabilities
Written by leaders in the field, this book presents the most current best practices for teaching students with disabilities. It covers fundamental and innovative pedagogies, making it an excellent resource for special educators, administrators, counselors, and psychologists.
Biodiversity as a Source of Medicines
Renowned experts explore biodiversity’s potential for developing new medicines. Discover strategies for transforming scientific discoveries into marketable drugs, demonstrated with practical examples, case studies, and a look at biotechnology and regulatory status.
Agroforestry as a Nature-Based Solution
This groundbreaking book offers a practical roadmap to sustainable development through agroforestry—an innovative system that integrates trees, crops, and livestock. It shows how to enhance productivity, restore lands, sequester carbon, and build resilience to climate change.
This book surveys the history of the Burroughs Corporation, from its days as an early mainframe vendor to its merger with Univac to form Unisys. Burroughs developed one of the most innovative computer architectures, whose advanced designs survive today as a counterpoint to IBM.
This series showcases cutting-edge research in sustainable science and engineering. It promotes a multidisciplinary approach to reduce hazardous substances and deliver impactful environmental outcomes, advancing knowledge in line with the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).
Global waste threatens our ecosystem, but it also presents an opportunity. This collection of essays discusses transforming underutilized biomass waste into value-added products, covering sources, techniques, and policies for a circular economy.