The Fables of Ulrich Bonerius (ca. 1350)
This book provides the first English translation of Ulrich Bonerius’s The Gemstone, a popular 14th-century collection of fables. Through didactic animal tales in the Aesopian tradition, Bonerius instructs his audience on vices and virtues, warning of human shortcomings.
Master the essentials of electromagnetic radiation. This guide for STEM newcomers demystifies lasers with a unique emission-based classification, corrects common misconceptions, and explores key research and commercial applications where they excel over non-laser sources.
A Literary, Philosophical and Religious Journey into Well-Being
This volume traces the concept of happiness through the history of thought, from early Greek philosophy to contemporary psychology. As the volume shows, happiness appears in many forms, all connected with the human sense of approaching oneness with the world or with the divine.
The Social and Solidarity Economy in Latin America
This book explores the Social and Solidarity Economy (SSE) in Latin America, highlighting its challenges and possibilities. It analyzes solidarity alternatives in the capital market and the emergencies that occur in order to humanize the capitalist system.
Eurasian Intermodal Supply Chains
This book offers an up-to-date, Eurasian perspective on the unprecedented changes in logistics and supply chain management. Using cases, models, and a simple step-by-step format, even beginners will grasp the dynamic systems approach and build models from scratch.
Jacques Maritain in the 21st Century
Rejecting egocentric isolation and totalitarianism, Christian philosopher Jacques Maritain promoted the human person in authentic community. His quest for liberation contributes to our understanding of 21st-century movements for sustainability, human rights, and democracy.
The Great 1976 Tangshan Earthquake
In 1975, China predicted the Haicheng earthquake, saving thousands. Eighteen months later, jubilation turned to despair when the unpredicted Tangshan quake killed over 250,000. This book explores this epic success and failure and offers a viable future for earthquake prediction.
This book takes a historical and geometrical approach to Einstein’s General Theory of Relativity. It details the latest developments in the field, including cutting-edge research on gravitational waves, black holes, and cosmology.
The Painting of Stephen Cook
The first critical study of artist Stephen Cook, this monograph situates his work within post-war British figurative art. Featuring over 50 colour plates, most previously unpublished, it reveals an art of rigorous observation that uncovers a reality beyond the everyday.
A History of Livestock and Wildlife
History credits manufacturing for the rise of the West, but the truth is wilder. This book uncovers the essential, overlooked role of animals—how the plunder of wildlife and the harnessing of livestock truly fuelled the economic growth that created the modern world.
This book examines the intersection of technology and criminal law in India. It addresses how innovations like AI are reshaping crime and law enforcement, discussing critical issues like cybercrime and data privacy, and highlighting the need for adaptable legal frameworks.
This book proposes a method for estimating lithium battery state of charge (SOC) by fusing deep learning and filtering algorithms. It uses BiLSTM neural networks to overcome the limitations of standard LSTM, resulting in improved feature extraction and greater accuracy.
A vital collection on intercultural practices in European health and education. Featuring cutting-edge research with diverse clients, it examines diversity, sources of tension, and paths to resilience and wellbeing.
This book explores statistical physics, focusing on subjects from condensed matter to black holes. It discusses gas-liquid transitions, the entropy of earthquakes, the hadronization of the quark-gluon plasma, and the phase diagram of quantum chromodynamics.
An adventure into the hidden connections that unite science and the humanities. Discover how mathematics can be a humanistic subject and science a branch of literature, where discoveries can be examined like fairy tales and rigor is a form of aesthetic research.
This book examines the link between individual entrepreneurship and the competitive performance of an industry, using Kenya’s leather industry as a case study. It refocuses attention from knowledge-based industries to primary sectors that are typical of African economies.
Writing about Latin American Sovereignty
Rejecting Western definitions of epilepsy, many Africans choose traditional healing. This book explores indigenous health practices in Africa, with case studies from Zimbabwe, to reveal attitudes toward medication and propose a new model for management that combines both worlds.
This book provides the “picture of reality” for the quantum world that eluded Einstein. It offers a realistic interpretation compatible with all experimental evidence, plus new perspectives on dark energy, dark matter, and stellar collapse, summarizing 50 years of research.
This book provides a deeper understanding of the autobiography as a genre and a data collection method. It presents various forms of autobiographies, with a unique focus on foreign language education, and applies a wide variety of qualitative and quantitative analytical tools.