Stratified Nature in Women’s Writing
This book presents a diverse collection of essays about women writers and nature. Ranging across time periods and the globe, it approaches the nature-focused work of women-identifying writers through several conceptual frameworks.
Climate Crisis and Sustainable Creaturely Care
Global academics tackle the climate crisis through the lens of creation care. This volume reviews the damage to our environment and how our misuse of resources threatens all life, offering a global voice on our impact and presenting creation care as a way out of this crisis.
The form of money is changing. Are new digital currencies safe? Should the central bank issue its own? This nontechnical book answers these questions, exploring everything from blockchain and Bitcoin to the life-changing, phone-based money already used by millions.
Multidisciplinary Humane Perspectives on Education
How can education help humanity realize its full potential? This book addresses equality, inclusiveness, and conflicting pressures in education, arguing that it must make every member of the human community accountable to the others.
Democracy of the Oppressed
This book assesses the impact of India’s MGNREGA scheme on Adivasi/Indigenous people. It uncovers rampant corruption and inefficiency in the scheme’s implementation, while also providing new data showing the policy can be an important tool for mitigating violent conflict.
This volume examines bilingualism and multilingualism, covering second, third, and heritage language acquisition. Through critical analysis, it investigates new approaches to language learning and teaching, offering frameworks for understanding multilingualism.
Issues and Challenges in Trade
This book is a study of the issues and inter-linkages concerning trade, environment and sustainability. It suggests approaches for understanding their complexities in order to achieve balanced economic development, international cooperation and policy coherence.
Mini Implants in Orthodontics
Master mini implants in orthodontics with this essential guide. Explore their history, design, and clinical applications through case studies and expert insights. This authoritative resource bridges the gap between theory and practice for professionals and students.
This book overcomes the traditional dichotomy between knowledge and values. Drawing on European critical rationalism from Kant to Husserl, it illustrates a new conception of knowledge, showing its value and limits for scholars and anyone interested in a new image of science.
Science and Biotechnology in Africa
This volume provides a selection of papers from the conference “Translational Science and Biotechnology Advances in Africa.” Encompassing fields from biomedical and pharmaceutical sciences to agriculture, it reflects the tangible advancement of science in Africa.
In 18th-century Britain, castrato singers challenged cultural and sexual norms. This book investigates fears that their sensual Italian music could feminize men and weaken the nation, while also examining the castrati’s contributions as cultural leaders.
Jewish Humor
Explore the evolution of Jewish humor from the Bible to today. Tracing its development across Eastern Europe, the US, and Israel, this book reveals how historical experience, survival, and wisdom created a truly unusual sense of humor.
IoT, AI, and Blockchain are transforming daily life, enhancing sectors like healthcare, cities, and agriculture. This comprehensive survey covers the integration of these technologies, their smart applications, and the open issues and future challenges ahead.
This book argues that all rationality is social and explains the far-ranging consequences. It highlights the need for methodological reforms and for changing social scientific theories in economics, sociology, and psychology.
Informed by Indigenous researchers and daily walks, this volume links scientific findings on deep time evolution to embodied interactions with rocks, trees, and weather. It explores ancient Gondwana, the first songbirds, and brings hope to young people facing climate change.
This book explores therapies for treating aggression in people with a psychiatric disorder, but one obstacle appears insurmountable: is psychopathy an untreatable disease? It reviews studies on these interventions before refocusing on the heart of the interpersonal relationship.
This lucid account of J. M. Coetzee’s South African career provides an inside view of apartheid madness. Linking his nonfictional thought with his fiction, it suggests the insanity of apartheid lies in the social deformation and pathological attachments it encourages.
This introductory textbook for undergraduates presents the physical background, mathematical modeling, and dynamical analysis of linear vibrations in discrete and continuous systems, offering analytical solutions and key engineering applications.
This book challenges conventional views of infection, arguing that epidemics are irrevocably linked to culture, class, and power. Experts from diverse fields present a collaborative approach to find solutions that may determine whether people live or die.
This book takes a step-by-step, data-driven approach to HR analytics. Learn to use visualization and machine learning tools to solve issues like controlling attrition and improving performance, deriving valuable insights to support your HR strategies and make better decisions.