This book refutes the Malthusian paradigm—which forecasts conflicts due to water scarcity—by showing that this perspective has no empirical or conceptual basis. It argues that sharing water politics and the use of technology can annul the scarcity-conflict paradigm worldwide.
Exploring Local Linguistic Scenery amongst Superdiversity
This book provides a linguistic snapshot of Veliko Turnovo, Bulgaria, investigating its public signs from the perspective of linguistic landscaping studies. It focuses on the presence of foreign languages, especially English, in the context of globalization and super-diversity.
Social enterprise is a crucial feature of higher education, connecting the public, private and voluntary sectors. This volume provides a joined-up approach, examining theoretical approaches and offering best practice examples for teaching and learning in the social sciences.
Tuberculosis is a leading cause of death, but its multidrug treatment often causes adverse effects. This practical clinical guide is for health personnel managing TB. It details drug side effects on the body’s systems and offers clear therapeutic strategies for their management.
This book focuses on nematode parasites of crops in Ghana and West Africa. It covers nematode types and their population densities on key crops, including trees, vegetables, and fruits.
This book uses mathematical modeling to increase enterprise efficiency. Instead of devouring competition, it proposes a cooperative ‘win-win’ benchmarking model, proving its advantage through implementation in real companies, banks, and industrial enterprises.
This volume provides an international debate on social, environmental, and sustainable accountability. It considers how companies must be legitimated in a sustainable world to prevent environmental destruction and give the world its best chance of survival.
Personal Identity between Philosophy and Psychology
What is personal identity? What makes a person an individual? This book analyses these questions from the dialectical perspective of psychoanalysis, psychiatry, and philosophy. It offers a new point of departure and a dynamic vision of identity.
Local Traditional Knowledge in Its Urban Context
From the perspective of Bai minorities, this book studies the role of Local Traditional Knowledge (LTK) in the cultural preservation of Dali. It captures the dynamics of integrating LTK during rapid urbanization and explores potential solutions for an inclusive urban governance.
The Ailing Turkish Democracy
Turkey’s ailing democracy is trapped between liberal and totalitarian rule. This book diagnoses the “disease,” exposing its roots in socio-economic issues, the Kurdish question, and a weak opposition, and analyzes the ruling elite’s conservative response to social change.
This book argues that early British women writers created a new expressive mode for melancholy. During a time of cultural and political transitioning, they forged a melancholy aesthetic to articulate their own experiences of loss, depression, and artistic angst.
This book investigates the acquisition of Tense and Agreement in Spanish and Catalan from a Minimalism Program perspective. It argues that children have these functional categories at a very early stage, covering subject-verb agreement, clitic pronouns, and subject position.
This book examines literary and cultural representations of old age in Africa. Using ageism as its central theme, it explores the ambiguity associated with the elderly, who are often highly venerated for their wisdom but also stereotyped because of their advanced age.
Journalism Standards of Work Today
In an age of new technology, are journalism ethics still relevant? This book examines the first national code of ethics from 1923, finding timeless values that can be applied to media today to equip citizens for representative governance without abandoning essential principles.
The Rise of the GCC States and Turkey
Once strategic partners, the GCC states and Turkey have become rivals for regional influence. Their relations are dynamic, shifting from agreement to conflict. This book studies their commonalities and differences and proposes ideas to make convergence possible again.
This user-friendly text uses illustrations and college math to analyze dynamic phenomena in everyday life. It presents dynamics as a unified framework, showing how simple concepts expand to complex design formulae for engineering structures.
This collection of papers is divided into two categories: poetry and prose. The poetry section covers the Pre-Romantic, Romantic, modern, and contemporary eras, while the prose section concerns the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.
A mathematics researcher searches for technologies to ensure humanity’s survival, struggling to defend scientific truth against the powerful and wealthy. The book explores philosophical ideas from mathematical perspectives and their universal application in science.
An innovative way to study American history from the colonial period to the 20th century. Learn how to analyze primary sources in a scholarly manner, then explore 20 historical texts, each with its own set of activities. A vital handbook for both students and professors.
Vocabulary Strategy Training to Enhance Second Language Acquisition in English as a Foreign Language
This volume reviews studies on vocabulary learning strategies, provides new research on their effectiveness, and proposes a practical training program. With exercises and examples, it illustrates their utility in the foreign language classroom for teachers and learners.
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