This book highlights marine pollution in Tunisia’s Bizerte Lagoon, offering insights into contamination sources. It presents the first study of pesticides in the aquatic ecosystem, assessing the lagoon’s environmental quality against global health standards.
Second Language Learning and Cultural Acquisition
This volume focuses on cultural influences in language teaching and learning, shedding light on how cultural differences can hinder learners seeking native-like competence. It offers scholars and language teachers a new direction in language acquisition.
Family Economic Adversity and Later-Life Physical Health and Well-being
This book presents a framework linking family economic adversity to later-life health. It details five biopsychosocial pathways, with particular attention to how enduring couple relationships shape these outcomes over the life course and guide future research.
Responsible Reproductive Choice in the 21st Century
With reproductive rights under threat, this vital book examines pregnancy termination from historical, social, and legal angles. It builds a justified and balanced argument for choice, grounded in a compelling ethics of responsibility.
Illustrated Glaucoma Case Presentation
Explore the intricate world of glaucoma through captivating cases in this stunning illustrated book. From common scenarios to challenging puzzles, this book provides clinical insights for a deeper understanding of glaucoma’s complexities.
An essential guide exploring the intersection of energy, public international, and environmental law. It covers fossil fuels, renewables, energy economics, diplomacy, and dispute settlement, providing a holistic view for practitioners of international law and management.
This book describes wireless channels for mobile communication system design. It explains mobile propagation and analyses multi-path channel properties, validated by experiments. Topics include street cell design, antenna diversity, and SU/MU-MIMO channel models for 5G systems.
The Diarists of 1940
Witness 1940 unfold in real-time through the unfiltered diaries of seven key figures. From Nazi propagandist Göbbels and Italy’s Foreign Minister to a British General and a persecuted German Jew, they recorded history as it happened, without the benefit of hindsight.
Sexual Pain, a Thorny Embrace
Sexual difficulties can arise from medical conditions or cancer treatment, leading to pain and straining intimacy. This book helps couples understand the link between illness and sexuality, offering awareness and solutions through clinical cases and therapeutic approaches.
Linguistic Mapping of the Regional Varieties of Khasi
This linguistic analysis of Khasi varieties uncovers intricate regional variations. Using innovative GIS mapping, it highlights dialect borders and explores vowel and consonant patterns. The study reveals fascinating lexical and phonetic differences among the varieties.
Populism and Illiberalism in Western Societies
Radical right forces threaten to supplant liberal democracy. This book offers a fresh perspective on the populism behind this challenge, applying Niklas Luhmann’s theory of autopoietic social systems to analyze its rise in Britain, Europe, and the United States.
The Politics of Nuclear Power in Finland
A Finnish nuclear deal with Russia’s Rosatom reveals the invisible bonds of trust that hold a community together. An eye-opening look into the cultural roots and hidden forces that drive high-stakes political decision-making.
This book presents fundamental studies on EEG analysis, introducing a new method for analyzing synchrony to differentiate diseases like schizophrenia and depression. It also covers sleep analysis, choosing an optimal reference electrode, and includes free software tools.
Uncovering Machiavelli’s sources, from Livy to Boccaccio, these essays trace surprising connections to Shakespeare and Mantegna, revealing how and why Christian authors drew on the pre-Christian world.
The Foundations of Urban Education
This volume explores key 21st-century issues impacting urban schools. It prepares teachers by focusing on theoretical and historical foundations, discussing topics like the achievement gap, charter schools, teacher pay, culturally relevant pedagogy, and teacher motivation.
This book sums up over half a century of research in derivative spectroscopy. For the first time, it offers the big picture of all spectroscopic and non-spectroscopic derivative methods, with reproducible calculations, serving as a practical guide for researchers and students.
Multicultural and Intercultural Identity Recognition
This book explores the debate between multiculturalism and interculturalism. Reviewing philosophical approaches and the role of religious dialogue, it examines the limits of multiculturalism to propose a new intercultural paradigm—a third way tailored for the Italian context.
Unveiling Migration and Education in Marina Budhos’s Fiction
This work offers penetrating insights into the lived experiences of resilient young immigrants. Using intersectionality as a framework, it unravels the interplay of race, gender, and class, nurturing empathy and advocating for a more compassionate society.
The Inklings and Culture
How did authors like C. S. Lewis and J. R. R. Tolkien come to shape the imagination of millions? This first collection of its kind explores the legacy of their diverse literary art—inspired by Christian faith—that continues to speak hope into a hurting and deeply divided world.
This collection presents research on modality in the English language. It includes comprehensive analyses of modal verbs in diverse genres, including non-literary texts, contributing to the current knowledge on the system of modal verbs in English.