This book guides the switch from traditional source-based optical radiation measurements to more efficient, higher-accuracy detector-based applications. It covers improved standards from the UV to the IR range, enabling low-uncertainty radiometric and photometric measurements.
What happens after genocide? Drawing on newly discovered archives, this groundbreaking collection explores the aftermath of the Holocaust and other atrocities through perpetrator trials, victim commemoration, Jewish renewal, and cultural memory in literature and film.
English as a Foreign Language
This book introduces the reader to ongoing research on teaching English as a foreign language, highlighting recent trends in acquisition, pedagogy, and the development of communication and intercultural skills from a wide variety of global perspectives.
Food and Cultural (In)Compatibilities
Specialists in fields from anthropology to linguistics explore how we understand the cultural heritage of food and how it defines the stratification of society. Providing insights into physical and cultural food, this book offers a higher level of understanding of our world.
Responsible Business Professionals
This collection explores responsible business in the context of India’s growing global trade. It delves into creating responsible business ecosystems, developing leadership, and managing cross-cultural communication to enhance the human accountability of business.
This volume explores rewritings of the Robinson Crusoe desert island myth. It offers a unique historical scope, ranging from medieval precursors to modern cinematic adaptations, and analyzes the genre through themes of colonialism, environmentalism, and industrial progress.
Learning Disabilities
While smart, many students with learning disabilities don’t know how to learn. This book examines evaluation procedures and intervention programs that recognize student strengths and address their needs, providing guidance for educators and building their capacity to help.
This book proposes a new theory of the rhetorical situation for our age of new media. By merging theories of technology, geography, and rhetoric, it frames rhetoric as a non-linear entity, offering an innovative way to broaden the research scope of the field.
A Journey of Ethnicity
The Cham are descendants of the glorious Champa kingdom, whose ancient temples attest to its past glory. This book is a journey to understand what it means to be Cham in modern Vietnam, exploring the complexity and dynamics of their identity through prolonged interactions.
In an over-sexualised culture, sexuality education is a sensitive and important issue. This book dispels the myth that sexuality is a taboo in Islam, exploring the subject within the matrix of Islamic beliefs and its moral grid of rights, obligations, justice, and equity.
This book focuses on Maurice Chapelan’s poetry and aphorisms. His poems encompass the essence of the man, his heart and soul, whereas his aphorisms express his philosophy. A master of the prose poem, Chapelan was a moralist and a fine practitioner of l’humour noir.
The texts of India’s ancient materialist philosophy, Cārvāka/Lokāyata, were all lost after the twelfth century. Based on the most recent research, this book reconstructs the fundamental tenets of this system from available fragments and the works of its opponents.
This book draws parallels between different cultures. It explores how culture plays an important role in the development of personality, examines how behavior has a positive and negative effect, and interrogates how literature portrays the reality of a culture.
This book explores strategic management with a focus on innovative business models and the new economy. It covers the principles of the sharing, circular, and networked economies for academics, students, and business practitioners seeking to transform their organisations.
Challenges and Initiatives in Refugee Education
When over 50,000 refugees were stranded in an unprepared Greece, this collection of papers presents educational initiatives for teaching them Greek. The studies highlight challenges and argue for innovative, holistic approaches that empower students through the learning process.
Alexandre Dumas as a French Symbol since 1870
The mixed-race author of *The Three Musketeers*, Alexandre Dumas has long been a controversial symbol in France. This collection explores how his legacy became a battleground for a nation grappling with its colonial past, diversity, and its own identity.
Language Planning and Policy
This volume offers cross-cultural perspectives on language planning and policy in diverse African and Middle Eastern contexts, including the diaspora in Brazil. It inspects the intersection between language policy and its social, political, and educational functions.
In provocative essays, scholars from Asia explore the dynamic relationship between animation and philosophy. Using thinkers like Deleuze and Guattari, they see animation not as a representation of an idea, but as a philosophical thinking-device in itself.
This study of Thomas Arne’s cantatas and odes reveals his evolving musical style. Restricted by his Catholic faith, Arne found an outlet in London’s pleasure gardens, setting pastiche texts from Pope and Congreve and challenging critiques of his ability to set Italian.
Plasma Agriculture
Plasma agriculture is an emerging science where treating seeds with gas plasma stimulates growth and increases yield. This book uses garlic as a model organism to explain the underlying principles, connecting plasma physics to biological responses.
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