Africa’s indigenous peoples are the victims, rather than the beneficiaries, of land grabbing and infrastructure development. Based on research across Africa, this book highlights the impediments to their livelihoods and proposes local and regional actions to mitigate this crisis.
Volatile fuel prices can bankrupt an airline. Hedging offers protection, but which financial instruments should be used? This book explores hedging strategies and the operational levers—airfares, capacity, and fleet size—needed when that protection wears off.
Many students struggle to visualize the frequency domain, essential for technologies like MRI. This book depicts the transformation in detail, from Fourier series to image filtering, with a progressive introduction to Matlab and numerical applications on functions and images.
Since UNESCO recognized Sutartinės, Lithuania’s ancient dissonant music, studies have flourished. This book presents new findings, revealing analogies with foreign folk music and analyzing hymns of mythical beings through data from ethnology, archaeology, and linguistics.
Origins of Power Struggles
The cause of evil is human nature. Progress depends on political-legal institutions, not improved morality. This book reinterprets history, showing how 20th century Communism betrays socialist utopianism and is a modernized restoration of traditional tyranny.
Untold Histories of Nigerian Women
This book frees women from the margins of Nigeria’s history, chronicling their resistance movements. From protests against colonial taxation to contemporary struggles against oil exploitation and mass abductions, it highlights the voice and agency of Nigerian women.
Wars and the World
This book analyzes the Soviet/Russian wars in Afghanistan, Chechnya, and Georgia and their framing in popular culture. Russian and Western remembrance are locked in a world war of memory, proving that the Cold War, in many ways, never really ended.
Service Analytics and Management
This book covers key issues on service strategy, planning, design, and delivery. It explores service capacity management, resource planning, quality improvement, and the role of IT and Analytics. The text includes detailed cases for extensive class discussion.
Putin’s war in Ukraine is a stark violation of international humanitarian law. This book analyzes the International Criminal Court and alternative judicial avenues to hold perpetrators accountable for war crimes and secure justice for the victims.
A History of Magnetism in Human Civilisation
Journey through millennia as humanity unravels the mysteries of magnetism. From mystic reverence to modern science, this book explores history, philosophy, and scientific phenomena with rigour and clarity. A compelling read for academic minds and general readers alike.
Explore the microbiome’s dynamic relationship with human health. This book highlights its role in disease prevention and management, from immunity and diabetes to cancer, while delving into cutting-edge research, futuristic diagnostics, and innovative therapeutic interventions.
Language and State
This book argues that language shapes human society. By enabling media for mass communication, language allows us to form large societies, nations, and states. These states are then governed through linguistic mechanisms like constitutions, elections, and representation.
An Encyclopaedia in Spatio-Temporal Dimensions
This encyclopaedia highlights India, a diverse country that has played a significant role in world affairs for over two thousand years. With information on a vast range of subjects, this accurate and reliable book is useful for general readers, researchers, and academics.
The Fundamental Principles of Physics
This book provides a precise idea of what an atom or molecule is using quantum theory. To overcome student comprehension difficulties, it insists on the importance of underlying physical principles, such as particle-wave duality, indeterminism, and presence probability.
This book maps the vital substances of traditional Chinese medicine (TCM), like Qi, to modern signaling molecules. By explaining the molecular mechanism behind TCM’s proven success, it bridges Eastern and Western medicines to enable more effective treatment of disease states.
Each wave of technological innovation and economic freedom has fueled a destructive cycle of consumerism and ecological degradation. This book is a stark warning: our addiction to growth is driving us to our demise. Hybel challenges readers to confront uncomfortable truths.
Understanding the Metaverse and its Technological Marvels
Explore the Metaverse, the new digital frontier where VR, AR, and AI converge. This guide details its transformative potential in education, healthcare, and commerce, while addressing the critical challenges of privacy, security, and inclusivity for a responsible future.
Chalcidoidea of Turkey (Insecta
This work presents a detailed account of Turkey’s Chalcidoidea fauna, an insect group of paramount agricultural significance. It uncovers 1,024 species, providing comprehensive information on their distribution, hosts, and associations. A valuable resource for researchers.
While we worry about over-population, swift undercurrents are reshaping our world: depopulation, increasing longevity, and reducing fertility, aggravated by economic pressures and COVID-19. This book delves deeper to understand these issues, which cannot be captured by censuses.
Voice Classification by Phonetography
An essential guideline for all voice professionals. This book uses phonetographic analysis to present an age- and gender-specific pattern card of the human voice, based on a database of more than 1000 phonetograms, enabling basic voice classification for education and therapy.