This volume is a forum for conservators, scientists, artists, and heritage managers on the complex task of preserving our changing heritage. It unites theoretical reflections, scientific studies, and the vital experiences of all partners involved.
Christian–Muslim Dialogue
This book provides an intimate glimpse into the beliefs, attitudes and experiences of Australian Christians and Muslims towards each other. It highlights the factors that inhibit and/or motivate interfaith engagement, drawing on diverse fields like social psychology and history.
This book introduces a new analytical framework for cultural linguistics. By incorporating semiotics into cultural conceptualization, it offers new insights into the interplay between language and culture, shedding light on culturally-constructed concepts.
This book tackles the effects of co-occurring substance abuse and mental health disorders on offenders transitioning from incarceration. Offering an inside look at a community reentry program, it uncovers how these disorders jeopardize the transition back into society.
Reflections on Poetry and the World
This collection brings together 40 years of essays by philosopher Emily Grosholz. She brings poetry into relation with ethics, politics, science, and imagination, admiring all the more the distinct wisdom of poetry. These essays show how poetry deepens our understanding of life.
A reflection is made here on the relationship between language and music, two unique, innate human capacities. The text provides a clear explanation of the centrality of melodies and rhythm to foreign language learning acquisition.
Digitalization leads to complex applications encoded by simple Boolean variables. However, their exponential growth creates challenges. This book gathers research on the Boolean domain to help readers solve these real-life scientific and practical tasks.
The sun is a powerful source of energy, yet we fail to use it efficiently. This book explains the significance of light spectra and intensity manipulation through innovation for enhanced electricity production by solar devices.
In FATA, “the most dangerous place in the world,” a heroic tribal resistance against the Taliban and Al-Qaida has been widely ignored. Based on extensive ground research, this book reveals the indigenous people’s blood-soaked struggle for the first time.
The Importance of Becoming a Medical Educator
A medical degree alone is not enough to make an effective educator. This book gives doctors the understanding and tools they need to better teach their students, colleagues, and patients by addressing topics like adult learning theory, motivation, and teacher assessment.
A must-read for owning or leasing real estate in the US. This guide covers the step-by-step buying process, answers common questions, and includes material on leasing. Learn the language of the business with a summary of important terms, a glossary, and review questions.
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.
Strategies for E-Learning in Teaching English as a Foreign Language
This book explores strategies for integrating digital technologies in EFL teaching. It provides practical applications to enhance language acquisition, engagement, and interactivity, reshaping pedagogy by bridging traditional methods with contemporary digital resources.
Radio and Society
Radio remains a key medium, developing despite and because of the digital age. This collection of contemporary research explores its history, cultural force, and internet developments, providing new insights into the media and ultimately, ourselves.
Navigate global standards for ballast water management. This guide covers the technology, regulations, and risk strategies to prevent marine bio-invasions and addresses the urgent need to manage existing threats, even in the Arctic.
The Caribbean in a Changing World
This two-volume set is a critical reflection of the evolution of Caribbean countries since the demise of the West Indies Federation in 1962. It examines Caribbean societies in comparative and general ways, covering aspects of their ongoing development and challenges.
The studies in this volume treat language not in isolation, but as based on cognition and affecting the human mind. Covering fields from grammar and metaphor to gesture and pragmatics, this is a valuable contribution to the interdisciplinary field of Language and Cognition.
Selected Topics on Antenna Synthesis
This volume provides essential tools for developing antennas. It moves beyond classical synthesis to focus on synthesizing desired radiation patterns and optimizing phase patterns to eliminate shadowing effects, while strengthening the reader’s engineering style of thinking.
Views on Eighteenth Century Culture
Using the Portuguese architect and city planner Eugénio dos Santos as a reference point, contributions to this text provide insights into the Enlightenment in Portugal and its relationships with other European cultural movements in fields such as philosophy and literature.
This book focuses on the nanoparticle-based modification of oxide powders for enamels, paints, ceramics, and insulators. It presents studies on the properties and physical processes that occur in these materials when irradiated with accelerated electrons and protons.
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