Small Farmers for Global Food Security
Modern agriculture has damaged ecosystems and diets. A growing movement of small farmers rejects this, re-creating food systems based on moral ecology—a concept that regenerates nature and serves the common good. We argue they could feed the entire world and eradicate hunger.
Membrane technology is a sustainable, low-energy solution for water treatment, but its implementation is hampered by inadequate process modeling. This book focuses on using models as a mathematical background to design, analyze, and optimize these crucial processes.
This book argues that all rationality is social and explains the far-ranging consequences. It highlights the need for methodological reforms and for changing social scientific theories in economics, sociology, and psychology.
Iranian Music Education
Explore over a century of Iranian music education, from 1900 to today. This essential guide features detailed, illustrated techniques for playing classical instruments, providing a comprehensive resource on Iranian pedagogy for musicians and educators.
This book explores global efforts to engage men in building gender equality, bridging the gap between scholarship and practice. It combines practical lessons from activists with critical understandings of men and masculinities from leading writers in the field.
Street Literature of the Long Nineteenth Century
For centuries, street literature was the main reading material of the working classes. Fascinating today for the unique light it shines on the lives of ordinary people, it has long been neglected as a historical resource, and this title is the first book on the trade for decades.
This is the first book to cover the development of Australian-composed opera from Federation (1901) to the Bicentenary (1988). It explores how the choice of national subjects and settings reflected the pursuit of a defined national consciousness for a wide readership.
The Supportive School
With young people’s wellbeing in decline, how do schools affect them? This book uses over 300 studies to identify the key factors, from peer relationships to academic pressure, and shows how a strong culture of support can make a profound difference.
Journeys through the Ideological Unconscious
This book introduces the concept of the ideological unconscious, analyzing its expression in Spanish literature from feudalism to capitalism. It uncovers the historical intertwining of the ideological and the libidinal, upending assumptions in history and cultural theory.
Constructing Interpersonality
This edited volume focuses on interpersonality in academic discourse. Its eighteen contributions explore this key issue across many genres and from various analytical approaches. A valuable tool for applied linguists, discourse analysts, students, and EAP instructors.
This book illuminates the Islamic World journal’s propaganda from 1893 to 1907. It highlights the journal’s utility in defending Sultan Abdul Hamid II’s policies and sheds light on the political views of the first Grand Sheikh of the British Isles, Sheikh Abdullah Quilliam.
Antimicrobial Coatings for Biodegradable Polymers
This book provides new insights into methodologies for the preparation of antimicrobial coatings using diverse nanoparticles. These can be applied to medical textiles and hospital devices, reinforcing polymers’ functionality, even against microorganisms resistant to antibiotics.
Scouting Frontiers
Scouting Frontiers is the first book to discuss the history of the Boy Scout and Girl Guide movements on an international scale. It examines how the world’s greatest youth movement transformed as it faced frontiers of nation, empire, religion, and gender.
This volume explores the reliability of time-dependent models using a variety of concepts and techniques. It is for research-level courses in statistics, applied mathematics, and operations research, and for researchers requiring knowledge of applied probability.
This memoir is a tale of one man’s survival despite all odds. It is an inspiring story of iron will and hope, enduring Stalin’s purges and WWII. One man’s life becomes the reflection of an entire country that has lived through decades of injustice.
Work Integrated Learning for Students
This book offers solutions to global challenges through work integrated learning (WIL). It shifts perspectives on building ethical businesses, engaging in the 4IR and gig economy, and embracing human-AI integration, propelling you to become an entrepreneurial lifelong learner.
Explore mathematical concepts from historical and cultural perspectives. This book uses original material to offer new discoveries and re-interpretations of problems, from the abacus to integral calculus. An enthusiastic and rigorous read for educators and general readers alike.
This book explores the evolution of poetic imagery, showing how poets took over metaphors from their predecessors. It follows the development of wine imagery from pre-Islamic times to the days of Abo Nuwas, and how poets built on existing imagery to create new metaphors.
Insights into Portuguese Medical History
This book uncovers the understudied history of medicine in Portugal. International scholars reveal the lives of physicians, responses to past pandemics, and analyses of medical culture, from defence against plague to the history of medicinal emeralds and spectacles.
Late Antiquity (3rd–7th c.) was a first Renaissance, shaping the Western World. This volume combines diverse methodologies, with leading scholars offering a scientific update on new research in history, archaeology, philosophy, and classical studies.
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