While the destruction of archaeological sites in war often makes the headlines, lesser disputes about local heritage sites go unreported. This book focuses on conflicts between archaeological conservation and religious faiths which use archaeological heritage in their practices.
This book presents a theoretical description of fiber Bragg gratings, focusing on channel densification and tunability. It includes full Matlab code to synthesize and optimize various gratings using genetic algorithms, simulated annealing, and tabu search.
This book introduces “AfroSymbiocity,” a paradigm for conflict resolution based on original African strategies. It provides the missing cultural pieces in the puzzle of conflict, using the historical example of King Moshoeshoe to demonstrate an approach with universal relevance.
Beyond the Frontier, Volume II
This compilation presents the latest research in first-year composition, including pedagogy, praxis, debate, and assessment. It will benefit anyone who studies or engages with first-year composition, including graduate students, instructors, and administrators.
These proceedings cover recent advances in plant developmental biology, focusing on photomorphogenesis, flowering time control, and the circadian clock. Explore the role of light in controlling flowering, hormonal regulations, and other key molecular events.
Conflict Analysis and Transformation
This book is a concise guide on how to analyze and address conflict to transform relationships and work towards peace with justice. It details a systematic process and offers a framework to build cultures of peace, based on a critical analysis of hegemony and power.
This introduction to the economics of dentistry applies economic theory to the oral health care sector, showing how everyday decisions are influenced by the laws of economics. It is essential reading for dental professionals, policy makers, and students.
This monograph offers a thorough discussion of the relevance of incorporating robotics into the 21st century classroom. It explores essential topics including outcome-based education, robotics technology, its use in education, and its theoretical underpinnings, among others.
This book appraises André Brink, one of South Africa’s foremost novelists and an acclaimed commentator on apartheid. It highlights the writer’s responsibility to a society in siege, drawing on postcolonial theory to examine the ideological implications of his early novels.
What is the American Dream? This family history, spanning four centuries, finds an answer in the preserved, untold stories of the author’s Mormon ancestors. Their dream was a cautionary tale: a nightmare where coming to America was often not worth the sacrifice.
Mediation across the Globe
This eye-opening book provides insights into what success looks like in a mediation practice. It will appeal to anyone interested in practical experiences in meditation across the globe, or wanting to discover how the most successful mediators operate.
Mastering the Credit Processing Mechanism in Mauritius
Ramlall focuses on the credit processing mechanism used in Mauritius. It is widely known that Mauritius uses a bank-based financial system; however, many people are oblivious to the credit processing mechanism in operation. This book addresses such a lack of understanding.
The muon is vital to particle, nuclear, and atomic physics, and a key component of the Standard Model. Muonic processes provide crucial information on the weak interaction. This book explores the various aspects of muon physics, highlighting the most recent experiments conducted.
The Legacy of Empire
The shadow of Napoleon’s empires haunted the nineteenth-century. In reaction, a unique Anglo-Italian style developed among ex-patriot writers and artists. Contrasting Napoleon’s legacy with an ideal state, their work championed national independence, feminism, and republicanism.
Uncover the hidden life of words. This groundbreaking bifocal approach to lexicology maps the hierarchies of word formation and relationships with crystal-clear distinctions. An essential guide for language professionals and anyone curious about how our words are made.
This text offers a concise overview of introductory neuroscience, from molecules to the mind. Focusing on the primary concepts of brain anatomy and physiology without peripheral details, it is an ideal guide for students and a useful reference for a quick refresher.
Political Correctness in the Era of Trump
This collection explores the intense debates surrounding “political correctness.” It argues that in the era of Trump, the term has been employed as an ideological scapegoat to delegitimize and roll back progress on gender and racial equality, human rights, and democracy.
Breast cancer treatments can induce cardiotoxicity, a risk linked to obesity. This book offers a practical approach for medical teams and patients, integrating modern cancer and heart failure treatments with healthy nutrition, physical activity, and stress management.
This book covers recent advances for quantitative researchers with practical examples from the social sciences. Each chapter, written by an expert, reveals ideas and methods common to fields such as tourism, politics, and sociology.
Teilhard’s Proposition for Peace
Teilhard de Chardin sowed the seeds of peace throughout his writings. This book distills the essence of his case for peace, navigating the complexity of his thought and inviting the reader to confidently “see” the basic unity which underlies all that is.
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