Quantum gravity seeks to reveal physical laws beyond the Planck scale, in a background-free world where time and distance are lost. This book introduces a renormalizable theory that helps us understand the history of the universe, from its birth to the present.
Reflecting the complexity of the problems of formalization, computation and digitalization of data and resources, this collection of cutting-edge, high-quality papers is a fundamental step towards a better definition of the role the “Digital Humanities” will play in the future.
Scientific Programming
Calvo offers an introduction to computer programming, numerical analysis, and other mathematical ideas that extend the basic topics learned in calculus. He illustrates how mathematicians and scientists write computer programs.
Most of the previous scholarship on Apulian red-figure pottery has focused on the cataloguing of collections and stylistic matters. Herring takes a different approach by identifying patterns in the decoration of Apulian vases that cast light on the choices made by vase-producers.
Nigeria’s telecommunications industry is fast-growing but legally under-researched. This book bridges that gap by providing an essential analysis of the legal and policy instruments that regulate this dynamic sector, from licensing and competition to consumer protection.
Principles and Practices for Psychodynamic Group Career Counseling
The first manual on psychodynamic group career counseling, this book offers insights into unconscious processes affecting career decisions. It provides a complete intervention with detailed sessions, methodological tools, case illustrations, and scripts for practitioners.
Chen extensively scrutinises visible and under-the-table power struggles with regards to aspects of communities, connections, cultures, and communication related to Chinese language teaching in US higher education in the past two decades.
A chance discovery revealed a unique 1504 globe, hand-engraved on an ostrich egg and linked to Leonardo da Vinci. It shows secret knowledge, riddles, and is the first to name countries like Brazil. This book details 500 years of mystery, scholarship, and forensic testing.
Ayyıldız fills a remarkable void in literary studies which has escaped the attention of many researchers. Her work interrogates the extent to which nineteenth-century children’s adventure novels justify and perpetuate the British Imperialist ideology of the period.
Making America Green and Safe
To build a resilient future, we must learn from the past. This book explores the history of climate science and policy, offering crucial insights on how to achieve strong economic growth while protecting our environment for generations to come.
This publication raises profound economic, ethical, political, sociological, and psychological questions. It explores our fears and fantasies as it examines a range of fictions, films, and TV programs that speculate about the possibilities of humans in the future.
Ágnes Heller and Hannah Arendt
This book reconstructs a timely conversation between Hannah Arendt and Ágnes Heller on the malaises of modernity. Two great thinkers enlighten the great moral and political problems of our time, from the demise of totalitarianism to the perennial problems of this century.
Challenges of Communication in a Context of Crisis
This book questions the tools and values of objective communication in our institutions. What is the fate of involuntary drifts—misunderstandings and troubles—in our decision-making protocols? It explores their critical potential and questions how we can revalue these drifts.
Acculturation, Otherness, and Return in Adichie’s Americanah
This title examines the concepts of diaspora in Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s Americanah (2013), investigating the novel through diasporic concepts such as self and Otherness, acculturation, cultural diversity, hybridity, ambivalence and mimicry, unbelonging and return.
Caldwell explains how and why leaders fail to earn the trust of others and why ethics, integrity, and moral behaviour are so critically important for leaders of both today and tomorrow.
Participation, Culture and Democracy
The underlying question of this compendium focuses on the very core of our democratic culture. It investigates how one can actively take part in its political, legal, educational, informational, social, cultural and economic mechanisms.
The Well-being of Chinese Older Adults
Ouyang studies the well-being of the Chinese elderly through the relationship among personal factors, environmental factors, person-environment fit, and the mediating effects of supplementary fit.
Factors Relating to Information Skills
Using a judiciously planned and scientifically carried-out study, Kumer provides empirical evidence that the information skills of students of higher learning institutions can be improved using a set of personal and environmental variables.
Dental professionals face musculoskeletal problems from stressful work and awkward postures. This practical guide offers a holistic, systematic program for self-management, helping you recognize the causes, effectively manage your condition, and prevent recurrence.
This book explores the possibility of life on other planets, moons, and exoplanets. It covers topics from the origin and evolution of life to cosmological effects like dark energy, highlighting the interdisciplinary methods used to detect possible advanced alien technology.
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