Existing methods for studying the piezooptic properties of crystals are imperfect and lead to significant errors. This book introduces 2D-polarimetric and interferometric methods that increase experimental accuracy and ensure reliable results for photoelastic properties.
Today’s tech-savvy students learn visually and dislike traditional assessment. This book shows teachers how to make the assessment process fun and interactive. Introduce highly interactive applications and make your classes more active in the learning process.
Trial and Error in Journalism and Communication Education
This book explores teaching journalism and communication in a changing media environment. Bringing together professors and students from across Europe, it offers training proposals and insights to strengthen university teaching for professional communicators in the digital age.
Theoretically Speaking about Literature
This book offers a practical insight into critical interpretation. By discussing a single text from the perspective of eighteen distinct theories, it makes complex ideas accessible and gives readers a comprehensible guide to the beliefs that underpin criticism.
This collection of Charles T. Goodsell’s works on public administration brings together ‘outlandish’ essays inspired by art and public space with more orthodox topics. The author’s methodological biases, placed in full view, assure controversy and encourage new scholars.
Master the core methods of statistical research. This practical guide covers key techniques, from sampling to interconnection analysis, teaching you how to apply them effectively and interpret your results with confidence.
Based on large-scale research, this book challenges standard views to help create affirming spaces for trans*+ individuals in healthcare and education. It dives into controversies in media, medicine, and mental health, offering provocative questions and illuminating answers.
Tomorrow’s Media
This collection of essays from an impressive group of media and broadcasting experts sheds light on where we have come from and where we are going. A unique work of interdisciplinary research, this book exists at an intersection between technology and the arts.
This book provides critical research on the representation of ideologies in electronic media for children and young adults, including TV cartoons, animation, videos, and computer games. It will appeal to anyone interested in cultural studies, sociology, and ideology.
The Digital Generation Reaches Maturity
This book explores the changing landscape of business and consumer behaviour, shaped by digital disruption and post-pandemic conditions. It identifies emerging trends, considering context and generation, to help you understand our world and develop better products and services.
Imperial Japan’s Allied Prisoners of War in the South Pacific
On the South Pacific island of New Britain, Imperial Japan imprisoned over 10,000 Allied soldiers and civilians. More than half died. What motivated such inhumane treatment? This book traces the genesis of Bushido and surveys prisoners’ recollections to find the answer.
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.
Now more than ever, we must reconsider what borders and frontiers mean. This collection analyzes their representation in literature, philosophy, and cinema, drawing on global examples to find what unites us in our shared humanity, rather than what divides us.
Teaching effectively online requires different instructional strategies than face-to-face teaching. The chapters in this volume identify the best communication practices for teaching in the varied environments of online learning.
Explore state-of-the-art research in infrastructure management, from innovative 3D-printed concrete to computer vision-based maintenance. This book is essential reading for engineers and contractors paving the way toward sustainable and resilient infrastructure.
The Univac Corporation
This volume tells the story of the Univac 1100 series. It pioneered the concept of a computer family, a multidimensional OS supporting interactive and batch processing, and evolutionary designs with upward compatibility that protected its customers’ investment.
Black American Women’s Voices and Transgenerational Trauma
This book explores neo-slave narratives by black American women, showing how authors write through the transgenerational trauma of slavery. It demonstrates how traumatic memory is inscribed on the female body and how storytelling enables black women’s voices to be heard.
Plants experience stress from environmental changes. This book is a comprehensive reference on plant responses to both biotic and abiotic stress, consolidating topics that other books cover only in isolation. It details this essential aspect of plant life and adaptation.
Using ordinary language and facts of experience, Bishop Butler’s philosophy is a guidebook to happiness. This book presents his work as a bridge joining ancient wisdom with modern experience, offering ways to live without the error and distraction that lead to misery.
This is the first work comparing Margaret Drabble with key Iraqi novelists, including Ahmed Saadawi. It analyses physical and soft violence in their novels, arguing they are interwoven and that soft violence can cause as much psychological and literal damage as hard violence.
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