Our world needs nurses now more than ever. Facing a significant shortage, the nursing profession offers complex, challenging, and rewarding roles. This book provides an overview of these vast opportunities and may persuade you to choose this rewarding profession.
A Small and Medium Enterprise’s Guide to Innovation and Growth
Unlock the potential of AI with this guide for SMEs. Break down complex concepts into actionable strategies to innovate, grow, and compete. Learn how to harness AI to streamline processes, enhance decision-making, outpace industry giants, and thrive in an AI-driven future.
This book studies how hidden and malicious intent in business decisions led to collapses like the 2008 Great Recession. It proposes a conceptual AI-augmented model, based on a cancer analogy, to detect and correct these destructive decisions before they harm the economy.
In 2020, the COVID-19 pandemic transformed education. This book showcases invaluable insights and solutions for language educators and learners, exploring the strategies that defined language learning during a global crisis and providing a roadmap for the future of education.
This book interrogates the controversial civil-military relations debate in Zimbabwe. It demonstrates the complexity of the relationship between military institutions and civic societies, particularly in developing countries, and brings this history up to date.
The Rehabilitation of Historic Schools in Portugal
This book examines the adaptation of heritage schools for 21st-century needs. Using rehabilitated schools in Portugal as a case study, it assesses the effects of design decisions on cultural values, showing how material conservation can enhance the intangible.
This is the first book to present the direct method for solving inverse problems in X-ray spectroscopy, scattering, tomography, and reflectometry. It discusses the theory for multilayer structures and the phase problem in electron structural crystallography.
Recent Trends in Translation Studies
This volume offers a snapshot of current perspectives on translation studies within the socio-cultural framework of Anglo-Italian relations. It covers historiography, literary translation, specialized translation, and multimodality through methodologically rigorous case studies.
How did Colin Rowe become one of the 20th century’s most influential architecture teachers? This book uncovers his provocative methods—irony, paradox, and subversion—by drawing on his private notes, sketches, and talks to reveal the mischief behind the master.
This volume provides a theoretical background for labelling disaster victims and protecting their information. It discusses information processing and AI techniques to assist in disaster response and will be of interest to researchers in disaster, emergency, and data management.
This book uses complexity research to overcome the categorizations and opposites that limit our descriptions of existence. It offers innovative philosophical insights to arrive at a unified vision of nature and society, governed by the same laws of non-linearity.
This book explores the human psyche (‘soul’) and its usefulness in a techno-scientific revolution that is often blind to its subject: the human being. It makes a strong intellectual case for the soul by examining consciousness, synchronicity, suffering, and death.
Human annihilation has never been so easy. AI is our most transformative revolution, yet we lack a common moral language to prevent an apocalypse. This book provides the first global bioethical analysis of AI, creating a compelling framework for our shared survival.
This volume examines past and contemporary Maghrebean texts to explore what it means to be Maghrebean. Scholars focus on the importance of poetics in (re)making roots and (re)tracing routes, mapping the history, art, and literature of the Maghreb region.
“God became man that man might become God.” This book shows how Hegel fleshes this thought out, stripping away false materialist interpretations of his philosophy to reveal its continuity with the Biblical belief in “the power to become the sons of God.”
The Labeled Multi-Bernoulli Filter
This guide to labeled multi-Bernoulli filters for multi-object tracking combines essential theory with practical code examples. Learn to develop your own dependable tracking systems, easily adapted for applications in robotics, automotive engineering, and public safety.
Challenges at the Syntax-Semantics-Pragmatics Interface
This volume addresses significant issues in linguistic theory and description across a wide range of languages. Using the perspective of Role and Reference Grammar (RRG), these analyses exemplify the theory’s ability to formulate cross-linguistic generalizations.
The Cinema of Tunde Kelani
The first definitive publication on Tunde Kelani, one of Africa’s finest filmmakers. This collection of scholarly articles explores his cinematic oeuvre, visual craft, and how his works represent the African worldview, culture, and history.
This book is a socialist study of radicals and revolutionaries since the French Revolution. It argues for their vital role in creating modern society, showing how their struggles for democracy, freedom, and socialism have changed the world for the better.
This book presents the direct integration method, a tool for analyzing the elastic response of nonhomogeneous solids to thermal and force loadings. By reducing elasticity problems to integral equations, this method provides efficient, closed-form solutions for these materials.