Critical Essays on Bernard Stiegler
As Bernard Stiegler’s philosophy emerges as a dominant force, this compendium offers a comprehensive examination of his ideas and their impact on contemporary thought. Immerse yourself in this insightful exploration of Stiegler’s enduring intellectual legacy.
Antimicrobial Coatings for Biodegradable Polymers
This book provides new insights into methodologies for the preparation of antimicrobial coatings using diverse nanoparticles. These can be applied to medical textiles and hospital devices, reinforcing polymers’ functionality, even against microorganisms resistant to antibiotics.
This book presents one hundred solved problems in Classical Mechanics to support students of Physics and Engineering. Detailed solutions feature practical applications, numerical examples, and result analysis. Key topics include Newtonian, Lagrangian, and Hamiltonian Mechanics.
This book shows how Geographic Information Systems unveil territorial injustice: the disproportionately higher exposure of vulnerable communities to pollution. Using case studies from ten Latin American countries, it demonstrates how law and GIS can build fairer public policies.
A. D. Hope and the Ambivalence of Modernity
How did A. D. Hope react to modernity? What did he prize, what did he dislike, and how did he make use even of what he disliked? This book offers fresh answers to such questions from some of Australia’s best-known scholars.
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.
This book guides researchers on applying sociotechnical theories to information systems (IS) research. The first to combine multiple theories, it provides guidelines on how to apply the six most employed ones, including actor-network theory and the technology acceptance model.
This collection explores “post-narratology,” rethinking classical narratology in relation to ethnicity, culture, history, and religion. Notions of plot, voice, and character are stretched and modified to fit the cultural contexts of contemporary works in various fields.
This book shows how artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) are used to prevent security assaults on blockchain. It explores use cases and security methods, arguing that integrating AI and ML is crucial for increasing blockchain security.
Bridging diverse disciplines from the genesis of the Maldives to robotic agriculture, this book presents cutting-edge research from leading experts. It offers vital recommendations for future work, making it essential for academics, students, and practitioners.
This comprehensive study of John Gardner’s Grendel shows the novel to be much more than an ironic twist on Beowulf. It reveals three distinct fights that mirror the poem, solving mysteries that have stymied readers and assessing Grendel as a tragic hero.
Neohelice granulata, a Model Species for Studies on Crustaceans, Volume I
This book condenses three decades of research on the crab Neohelice granulata. An essential reference for students and researchers, it covers topics from embryonic development and ecology to population dynamics and the species’ ecological role in the ecosystem.
Language Teaching and Learning during the COVID-19 Pandemic
This book bridges theory and practice for online English Language Teaching (ELT). It offers innovative approaches and digital tools to help practitioners reshape their teaching, enhance online interaction, and meet the challenges of the post-pandemic era.
In Sri Lanka, poverty and civil war have created a youth mental health crisis. This book gives an overview of common psychosocial problems and the challenges practitioners face, discussing practical solutions for providing mental health services with limited resources.
The Islamic Interfaith Initiative
The rediscovery of the Covenants of the Prophet Muhammad launched an interfaith movement against extremism. This chronicle of the Covenants Initiative details its impact, from challenging ISIS to influencing the 2018 acquittal of Asia Bibi by Pakistan’s Supreme Court.
Christians’ and Muslims’ Responses to the COVID-19 Pandemic in Nigeria
This collection of essays engages Christians and Muslims’ responses to the COVID-19 pandemic from theological, sociological, and gender perspectives. It presents coping mechanisms for religious institutions and offers strategies to adopt for future pandemics.
This book maps a path to sustainable global peace. Scholars from many disciplines offer approaches to the crises we face—from politics to the environment. Their essays suggest how, together, we can actively create a peace-filled world where human flourishing is possible for all.
Radio at the Edges
This collection engages with alternatives to mainstream radio, addressing the impacts and challenges of community and pirate radio. It will appeal to scholars and students of radio studies, as well as those interested in alternative media systems.
This book challenges traditional consensus on groundwater flow. Revising the theory’s mathematical and physical foundations, it improves analytical equations, debunks myths, and bridges the gap between steady-state and time-dependent calculations from a new perspective.
Macedonian Foreign Policy
This book provides an overview of modern Macedonian political history, with a comprehensive analysis of the 1990s events that led to independence. It also determines the role of the political elite and the foreign policy significant to the creation of the young republic.