A riveting account of higher education advancements in Kenya, Uganda, Tanzania, Rwanda, and Burundi. While some nations enjoyed calm, others endured turbulent pasts of civil war and genocide. This book reviews the past, present, and future of their tertiary education.
This book covers the spatial anisotropy of induced optical effects in crystalline materials. It details analytical descriptions, 3D geometric representations, and experimental methods for studying electro-, piezo-, elasto-, and acousto-optic phenomena.
The Future of the Creative Industries
The creative industries are crucial to the future of culture and national wealth. This collection of papers from researchers and industrialists explores the role of design, covering applied art, fashion and textiles, the built environment, and spatial design.
Post-Truth
In an era of misinformation, this anthology offers a vital resource. Scholars spanning communication, politics, technology, and more explore the challenges of our post-truth age, providing a cornerstone for dialogue and action in confronting this complex phenomenon.
Writing chemical reactions correctly is a key indicator of chemical literacy. This book teaches the fundamentals: predicting products and balancing equations. It contains 93 problems with answers and is useful for high school and university students, teachers, and professionals.
A guide to analyzing financial data using econometric techniques. Covering topics from time series analysis to machine learning, it provides students, researchers, and finance professionals with the essential tools and real-world examples to make more accurate predictions.
Precision Agriculture and Food Production
The world faces a dilemma of food scarcity and abundance, with massive waste. A cocoa farmer in Africa earns less than $1 a day, yet rich countries have easy access to food. This book studies the food system, from corporate models to the role of science and technology.
The Limits of the Human Species in the Face of Sustainable Development
This book reveals the link between the COVID-19 epidemic and the environmental catastrophe, confirming that human survival depends on radical change. It offers anthropological, religious, and philosophical tools for understanding the present and future of humanity.
Master the core methods of statistical research. This practical guide covers key techniques, from sampling to interconnection analysis, teaching you how to apply them effectively and interpret your results with confidence.
Sex Tourism on the Kenyan Coast
This book challenges suppositions about sex tourism. Elderly men seeking romance are taken advantage of, while women delude themselves searching for a mzungu to fulfill their dreams. The success of the few becomes a false promise for the majority. Based on a Kenyan coast study.
This book reveals invisible relationships in public health systems. Learn not only how to use computer models to understand epidemiology, vaccination, and health policy, but also how to build your own models to solve any complex problem.
Witchcraft in Africa
This book examines the complexities and challenges of witchcraft in contemporary Africa. It opens new areas of research into the intersections of witchcraft with governance, development, and conflict, providing holistic knowledge on this phenomenon in African ontology.
A Liturgical Praxeology on the Rehearsal of Attitudes
This book connects liturgy to attitude, cognition, and remembrance, arguing for a liturgy that engages with everyday life to enhance its meaningfulness. It is for scholars, liturgists, and anyone interested in an interdisciplinary approach to liturgy’s power.
This book highlights the usefulness of magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) for lung and thoracic tumors. Economical and with no radiation exposure, MRI offers advantages over CT and PET-CT, allowing for qualitative analysis of disease and early assessment of therapeutic effects.
The first comprehensive guide to facial aging, for general readers and scientists alike. This book takes a step-by-step approach, from basic background to cutting-edge techniques developed by the author. Using many photos, it provides an intuitive understanding of the field.
Climate change and biodiversity decline are today’s major challenges. This book offers a bird’s eye view of these interconnected crises and details practical policy imperatives for mitigating their impacts, promoting the essential link between biodiversity and climate action.
Post-Dictatorship Argentinian Cinema as a Renarration of Collective Memory
This book reflects on Argentinean cinema’s role in constructing social memory. In the post-dictatorship decade, as institutions fostered forgetting the trauma of military repression, non-hegemonic cinema (1985-1996) became a symbolic mediation for a negotiated, poetic truth.
Oligarchic Structures and Majority Faction
High hopes for global prosperity have given way to crisis, division, and conflict. This book places contemporary threats to American democracy and the rise of authoritarian systems within the context of US history, moral authority, and the need for constitutional balance.
This systematic, illustrated guide presents methods for bone marrow aspiration and trephine biopsy. It offers a step-by-step approach to obtaining and processing samples safely and effectively, with practical advice on resolving common problems and complications.
This book offers original, internationally significant contributions from all fields of marine biology. It explores the enigmas of our oceans, from biodiversity and survival to commercial utility, proving beneficial for students, researchers, scientists, and industrialists.
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