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.
What is noise and what is it doing to our world? This book is a philosophical investigation of its obnoxious movements. Starting from the statement that ‘noise is nature’, it explores how we try to order it and what happens when it remains in the realm of the obscure or obscene.
EU growth is slow, but its potential remains high. This vital trade block must find the political capacity for closer integration to close the gap between reality and potential. This book explores how, covering Brexit, capital markets, energy, and trade policy.
Becoming Scientific
Why do some people avidly engage with science while others hate it? This book explores the ‘science identities’ of diverse people through their life stories, providing strategies for educators and parents to foster and support a lifelong journey with science.
Language through Translation
This book reveals how fantasy characterization is created in an original text and distorted in its Chinese translation. Based on a linguistic analysis of translation shifts, it offers crucial insights for creative writing, translation studies, and critical discourse analysis.
The Luo People in South Sudan
Drawing on oral history and literature, this work explores the kinships, lineages, and identity of Luo ethnic groups. It reaffirms their history and migration path, aiming to evoke intellectual curiosity and inspire further research into their ways of life and contributions.
PhotographyDigitalPainting
This anthology explores the connections between photography, the digital, and painting in contemporary art. Renowned artists, academics, and theorists investigate medium-fluidity through essays on AI generation, hyperreal photography, and art that synthesises the three mediums.
This textbook provides detailed insights into costing methodology for practical application. It fosters critical thinking and highlights traditional and current practices using real examples from the service industry to help you understand relevant costs.
Literature and the Arts since the 1960s
This collection of essays explores the imaginative wake of the rebellious late 1960s. Focusing on the awakening moment of May 1968, it discusses the impact of the era’s challenges to power and its rich consequences for literature and the arts.
Secret Services, 1918-1939
This book examines the secret services and police of Britain, Russia, and Germany in the interwar years. It compares the development of Britain’s “Gentleman’s Club” MI5 and MI6 to the German Gestapo and the Soviet NKVD, shaped by the emerging signals of another World War.
Precision medicine requires “magic bullet” drugs that are effective without side effects. This book summarizes the key requirements for developing them and offers a new paradigm for site-specific drug delivery, essential for professionals in drug development.
Moving Pictures
This book argues that the most illuminating perspective for studying movies is ‘play’. Moving pictures were a major ludenic innovation, becoming a source of human knowledge and an important medium of not only popular entertainment, but also popular enlightenment.
Computational models must be adequate for real physical processes, yet the issue of adequacy is poorly understood. This is the first book to address constructing adequate mathematical descriptions, proposing two criteria and algorithms for specialists in mathematical modeling.
A Discourse Perspective on Bunreacht na hÉireann
This book takes a new discourse perspective on the Constitution of Ireland. It explores the charter’s impact on the country’s public sphere, examining how it has been argued by the Irish press and judiciary since its enactment.
As modern life creates new health challenges, scientific research reveals the benefits of forests. This collection highlights up-to-date findings on the beneficial effects of forests on human health, providing evidence that can be implemented in practice and policy.
Experiences in the Biocontinuum
This book addresses the central question of what makes living systems unique. Building on information theory, thermodynamics, and systems theory, it forms a singular unifying concept and develops a dynamic mathematical framework for the study of life’s fundamental processes.
Once considered mild, psoriatic arthritis (PsA) is a potentially serious disease that is difficult to diagnose early. This book illustrates a systematic approach to accurate diagnosis, presenting typical and rare case studies for clinicians, patients, and their families.
This book covers the key principles, theories, and applications of information and communication technologies for academic and professional audiences. It explores network architecture, information theory, wireless communications, network security, and optimisation methods.
Understanding Institutionalized Education
This book opposes defining schools solely by their effectivity. It defends the school as a place that enables young people to become sociable and as a place of self-education, stressing the importance of teachers and curricula for creating social cohesion.
Radical Identity Politics
This book argues that radical leftist identity politics organizes arguments around friend/enemy schemes, sacrificing core values and undermining democracy. It proposes a more fruitful approach based on Foucault’s and Rawls’s analyses of free speech and public reason.
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