Computer use creates health risks, from muscular tension and poor diet to mental stress and Zoom fatigue. This book offers practical measures for employees and employers, with recommendations on diet, physical activity, and healthier online meetings.
Clinical lymphology offers highly effective methods to treat a wide range of pathologies, from inflammatory to cardiovascular and autoimmune diseases. These simple, cost-effective techniques significantly expedite patient recovery and shorten treatment duration.
The Life and Novels of Isabella St John
In the generation after Jane Austen, Isabella St John went further with her sharply satirical picture of the English upper class. Born an aristocrat, her novels use authentic inside knowledge to boldly tackle women’s rights and social injustice with humour and acute observation.
This book reports on a large-scale study using integrated reading-into-writing tasks to improve academic reading. It offers practical insights into reading processes, making it essential for applied linguists, EAP instructors, and language assessors.
This book analyzes the agricultural landscape of Sub-Saharan Africa, focusing on maize. It details the maize value chain, projects future productivity growth, and identifies key investment areas, providing actionable insights for policymakers, NGOs, and donor organizations.
Drawing on a life of work in Africa, this book explores cross-cultural communication. It dismantles myths about African languages, arguing that Africans are not “anglophone” or “francophone,” but afrophone. Why do some international projects succeed while others fail?
This collection presents cross-disciplinary explorations of the Goddess in South Asian cinema. Analyzing films from across South Asia, including India, Nepal, and Bangladesh, it highlights regional and cultural differences and commonalities in the representation of the divine.
What did the creators of the ancient Yijing (Book of Changes) think about the mind and the universe? This book explores the connections between modern quantum science and the Yijing, showing how the principles of quantum theory were also contemplated by its creators.
Communicating English in Specialised Domains
This volume honors Maurizio Gotti’s academic career and his significant contributions to specialized discourses, lexicography, and the history of English. This collection brings together essays by scholars who have interacted with his ideas in these fields of enquiry.
The rise of China will profoundly change the world. China excels at the peaceful creation of wealth, and the answers to its success lie not in “communism” but in Chinese civilization. This book explains why China is winning and will continue to do so unless we wake up.
This book illuminates the problem of women in Chinese philosophy through the lives of two Taiwanese female philosophers. It links the marginalization of female theorists with the unrecognized contribution of Taiwanese philosophy, revealing both stem from discourses of exclusion.
A Correspondence with Peter Geach (1981 – 2009)
This book presents the correspondence between the author and Professor P.T. Geach over a thirty-year period. The letters, with the author’s commentary, lead to a discussion of the Anscombe-C.S. Lewis controversy, revealing Geach’s surprising support for Lewis’s thesis.
This book explores craniofacial anatomical variations in rare facial clefts using advanced imaging. It provides in-depth knowledge to establish personalized therapeutic practices and improve patient rehabilitation in highly complex cases.
This book considers love and laughter in the four romans galants of Aymé Dubois-Jolly. Though the love is unashamedly erotic, the novels are redeemed by comic elements and elegant prose, with nods to the literary giants of the eighteenth century.
Leadership in Anaesthesia
Through the lens of leadership, discover five pioneers who forged modern anesthesiology. From William Morton’s discovery of ether to Virginia Apgar’s life-saving Score and Bjørn Ibsen, the father of intensive care, their stories reveal the birth of a medical specialty.
A Review of the Art of Translation
Unlocking the dialect poetry of ancient Iran’s Baba Tahir. This analysis revisits Edward Heron Allen’s classic translation, exploring the gap between literal words and implied meaning while illuminating the poet’s life and the art of translation itself.
Modern Raman Microscopy
This book presents confocal Raman microscopy, a powerful technique to noninvasively characterize complex samples with sub-micron resolution. It highlights the key aspects of this technique for practical application, appealing to researchers, engineers, and novice users.
Regarded as a problem play, Measure for Measure dramatizes King James’s view that justice should be tempered with mercy. Its themes of sex and the death penalty are treated with an ambiguity that pleased the king, while allowing Shakespeare’s own response to differ.
The central challenge for educational neuroscience is using brain research to improve teaching and learning. Learning occurs through changes in the connections between neurons, a process optimized when ideas are considered from a multidimensional approach.
One Republic, Multiple Fiefdoms
This book argues that public administration reform is not a purely technical process. It highlights the socio-political and cultural barriers that must be surmounted to sustain gains. It reveals a ‘hard’ environment of informal fiefdoms gripping the formal, ‘soft’ state.