The Distin Legacy
While the relevance of the Distin Family to the brass band movement is known, extensive new research reveals their true impact. This book examines the Distin projects as the main reason why today’s brass bands are established in their current form.
This text leads the reader on an evolutionary journey through cancer pain, palliative care, and supportive care. It highlights new research in these fields, reflecting the link between clinical activity and scientific data.
A Philosophical Look at Keynes and Hayek
This book examines the crossing between philosophy, semiotics, and economics. Reconsidering the contributions of Keynes and Hayek through the semiotic approach of Charles S. Peirce, it creates new conceptual frameworks to rethink the paths to complexity in our world.
The 2011 Arab uprisings echoed similar waves of change from the 1950s. This book analyzes the revolutionary periods of Egypt in the 1950s and 2010s, comparing them to provide insights into the people’s demands for change and their struggle for dignity.
Infections in Hematology
With resistance to antibiotics growing and new forms of infectious diseases emerging, the findings of this text—which draws on extensive clinical experience and the results of modern research to identify new directions in the field—are particularly timely.
This volume’s ten studies analyze Victorian and Neo-Victorian novels. The authors investigate preserved or recycled Victorian themes and discuss how key issues like gender, sexuality, race, and empire are used to update the great tradition for a new age.
This volume explores the latest advances in behavioural finance. Using insights from psychology to better understand the decisions made by investors and managers, it sheds new light on several financial puzzles.
The uncodified Khasi religion has no priesthood. Life-cycle rites are performed by maternal uncles, whose absence presents a crisis. This book explains how such crises are resolved, the rites used to thwart evil, and the role of the Ka Seng Khasi in preserving Khasi beliefs.
Space Systems Architecture for Resource Utilization
Space resources will transform human enterprise. This practical workbook is an invaluable guide for start-ups, students, and space enthusiasts. Learn how to start a space business, engage regulators, and coordinate teams to gain the confidence to build, live, and work in space.
This monograph explores the post-war revival of Ukraine’s economy based on world experience and advanced technologies. It offers practical recommendations for participants in reconstruction, while its approaches can be adapted for any country building a new economic model.
Creative Actions and Organizations
This 15-year study destroys the clichés of creative processes and inaugurates a reflective sociology on serendipity. By surveying 200 techniques, it presents common meta-rules of opposition, combination, and separation that determine creative behavior.
Many-body Theory
This book presents a theory of many interacting fermions, relating Landau’s theory of the normal Fermi liquid to quantum-mechanical effects. It derives the interaction function, investigates the validity of the quasiparticle concept, and estimates the ground-state energy.
Accelerated by COVID-19, the digital transformation of organizations is a critical topic. This volume evaluates the process with an up-to-date perspective from the social sciences, covering fields from human resources and finance to education and marketing.
At the forefront of linguistic research, this volume investigates generative syntax, semantics, language acquisition, and traductology. Comparing English and Romanian to other languages, it also explores the challenges of translating specialised or literary texts.
Uprooting Geographic Thoughts in India
This is the first book on the roots of Indian geographical thought. It explores Indian identity, Gandhian environmentalism, and the meeting of East and West. It reprints lead essays by Spate, Sopher, and Mukerji to assess their challenging message today.
This book offers HR practitioners and researchers a hands-on guide to measuring workplace diversity. It shows how to apply diversity indices and use regression methods to assess the organizational factors that influence age, ethnic, and gender diversity, with practical examples.
Letellier delves into the relationship between the Bible and the world of music, an association that is recorded from ancient times in the Old Testament, and one that has continued to characterize the cultural self-expression of Western Civilization ever since.
The Third Wave of Historical Scholarship on Nigeria
This volume in honor of historian Ayodeji Olukoju ventures into uncharted terrain in Nigerian history. It presents groundbreaking scholarship on underresearched topics like sexuality, youth, and crime, offering historical explanations for Nigeria’s challenges.
Anglicisms in Europe
This volume examines the influence of English on European languages, linking linguistic aspects with psychological, social, political, and cultural issues. It explores attitudes towards anglicisms, their use in specialized discourse, and their reflection in dictionaries.
Diversity in Narration and Writing
These essays take an international perspective on the novel, deepening understanding of classic authors like Flaubert and Joyce. It also offers a profound contribution to scholarship, covering Hungarian and Central European writers that have not been discussed in English before.
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