For aquatic scientists and students with little fluid dynamics exposure, this is a self-contained introduction to flows at small scales. It explains the effects of flow on processes like nutrient uptake, particle coagulation, and suspension feeding.
Servant Leadership
Develop a servant leadership style that builds effective organizations and achieves outstanding results. This book details a holistic leadership approach that builds community through a common mission. It features examples, tips, practices, and questions for self-reflection.
This collection of essays presents current research in Classics. Contributions cover subjects from Greek and Latin papyrology, epigraphy, and key literary texts to navigation, coinage, and sculpture. A useful, up-to-date research tool for any classicist.
Atheism, Morality, and the Kingdom of God
This treatise argues that moral virtue is independent of God. It shows that Jesus’ Parables, stripped of their theological overlay, reveal an account of real-time, secular flourishing—a good life incompatible with faith and achievable only here and now.
Beyond the Genre
What is the value of travel writing in a digital age? This volume compares printed books and travel blogs to explore how media choices impact writing and travel. Based on interviews with Western and Chinese writers in China, it deconstructs the genre’s traditional ethnocentrism.
The Mature Corporation
This book critiques concepts like CSR and traces capitalism’s malaise to the mantra of ‘shareholder value’. It provides a practical navigation chart for a new system where every stakeholder benefits, and true wealth creation and sustainability go hand-in-hand.
This book explores the quality of care through patient decision-making. It examines the nurse’s relationships with patients, families, and health teams, guiding managers to create policies that improve care and increase patient autonomy.
The Neurolinguistic Approach (NLA) for Learning and Teaching Foreign Languages
Germain details the development of the Neurolinguistic Approach to Second-language Acquisition, from its inception in Canada in 1998 as a method for teaching French as a second language in a school setting to its current use in teaching adults in several other countries.
New Postcolonial Dialectics
This book scrutinizes how Indian and Nigerian plays reframed their cultural terrain in international terms. It offers a comparative guide for studying literatures from Asia and Africa, providing an essential framework for all intercultural literary studies.
In a globalized world, new media are dissolving linguistic boundaries, creating a pressing need to reconfigure identity. This book explores the centrality of language in this process, bringing together cultural and social perspectives from a range of disciplines.
The mysterious petroglyphs of Northumberland are more than ancient art. They are a prehistoric star atlas, depicting the night sky 4,500 years ago with stunning accuracy. This book decodes their messages and provides a field guide to interpreting the rocks for yourself.
Semiotics for Art History
Reading art from a semiotic perspective, this book offers a new interpretation of Chinese landscape painting and outlines a new framework for contemporary semiotics and critical theory. Learn how to put theory into practice and acquire a new point of view in appreciating art.
A comprehensive source for IMGs preparing for USMLE step 2 CS. This book addresses common IMG challenges with easy approaches to prepare efficiently, recall key points, and build confidence. Simple language with illustrations and mnemonics facilitates learning and recall.
Verbs, Clauses and Constructions
This volume offers contributions on the role of verbs, clauses, and constructions in a rich variety of languages. Using empirical data, the book contributes to current literature on functional-oriented linguistics, incorporating linguistic typology and corpus-based perspectives.
Essays on the Medieval Period and the Renaissance
Spanning three centuries of English literature, from 15th-century texts to Milton, this collection reinterprets tradition with innovative methods. Essays explore genre experiments, contemporary Shakespearean adaptations, and new perspectives on Milton.
A Mashup World
Hybridity is a hallmark of our age. In our new “post-reality,” the internet fuels the spread of fake news, where make-believe events have real-life effects. This book provides the analysis needed to differentiate this manipulated non/reality from authentic stories.
Music and Sonic Art
This title gathers practitioners and theorists of music and sonic art to discuss a range of historical, artistic, pedagogical and critical issues from multiple perspectives, emphasizing the continuities and links along a broad spectrum of hearing and listening practices.
Your electricity bills have doubled for a reason. Failed state policy has put our power supply at risk. An engineer reveals the true costs of renewables and the radical solution politicians have missed.
Discomfort and Moral Impediment
This book connects human suffering with morality. It explores our condition through the moral requirements of not harming or manipulating, and questions the ethics of responsible procreation and the moral quality of abstention.
The Sharing Economy
The sharing economy’s use of digital technology blurs traditional economic roles, but the legal framework is unable to cope. This book highlights where new regulations are required, with a focus on the Portuguese, Spanish, Italian, British and Brazilian contexts.
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