New Ways of Thinking about Nursing
The research-based, technical approach to nursing is failing our patients, students, and profession. This book challenges the assumptions of modern evidence-based practice, proposing a person-centred philosophy of nursing that addresses the needs of each individual patient.
This study explores how Ahlam Mosteghanemi’s novels on the Algerian War’s trauma challenge the myth of a single national story, revealing nationhood as a polyphonic dialogue of competing memories and imagined futures.
This book highlights the importance of hygiene in the food industry with regard to biofilms. Good hygiene practices can increase product shelf-life and improve food safety. This book provides essential information on biofilm detection methods, prevention, and control strategies.
Public fear of breast cancer obscures the facts. Treatments can increase other health risks, while fear itself can impair quality of life. This book explores the history and mystery of breast cancer, from Ancient Egypt to the future, to champion the totality of women’s health.
This book is a practical guide to developing a crime-prediction model by gathering and analysing big data. It covers text mining, opinion mining, and machine learning to predict rapidly-changing social phenomena and draw creative conclusions.
Exploring Identity in Literature and Life Stories
In an era of globalization and migration, what defines our identity? This collection of essays explores key dimensions—culture, religion, ethnicity, gender—as they appear in international narratives, from literary texts and film to theatre and more.
India is in an era of great upheaval, making a complete break with its past to redefine its role in the world. This collection of essays captures these extraordinary times, chronicling the changes and fault-lines shaping its future and impacting the world around it.
What is gesture? What is multimodality? This volume provides answers through an eclectic set of recent studies. It investigates gesture in relation to speech, language acquisition, the performing arts (music, dance, theatre), and Artificial Intelligence.
This book explores modern polymeric composites and their applications in information technologies, such as polarization holography, light electro-optical modulators, polarization sensitive gratings, and photovoltaic elements.
Is Nationalism a recent phenomenon? This book argues it is as “old as the hills,” rooted in humanity’s ancient drives for territory, power, and our alienation from others. Though ancient, it became dangerously aggressive in the twentieth century and remains a serious issue.
This collection explores linguistic, cultural, and cognitive diversity. Contributors from linguistics, literary studies, and more offer insights on topics from the relationship between eye contact and mindfulness to the universality of critical thinking.
Traditional Counselling
This book narrows the gaps in the under-researched field of traditional counselling. It articulates a theoretical framework rooted in African sociocultural values and community-based practices, underscoring the relevance of this thought-provoking counselling model.
Inertia of History
This book predicts international changes between 2013-2023. It forecasts China’s rise as a superpower, creating a bipolar world in strategic rivalry with the US. This shift will move the world’s center to East Asia, see the UK withdraw from the EU, and Russia deteriorate.
Conventional theories about alloys are wrong. This book is the first to present exhaustive evidence that processes in alloys are determined by the chemical interaction between nearest atoms, radically changing our ability to consciously design new materials.
This volume contains proceedings from the BML Munjal University International Innovation Conference 2016. Featuring discussions between global academicians and industry executives, it will appeal to academics in management, business and economics, and to managers in innovation.
The Wor(l)ds of Neapolitan Arts and Crafts
The terminologies of the numerous trades examined in this bilingual volume—including pizza and pastry making, and the art of presepio (crib), lute-making and coral dealing, among others—represent an important component of the cultural heritage of Naples and the Campania region.
Depictions of the Three Orders and Estates around the Year 1500
This volume highlights the copious depictions of society’s three orders—the oratores, bellatores, and laboratores—in the Late Middle Ages and Early Modern Period. The vast visual material proves this trifunctional division was a widespread ideological foundation.
This book is a contextual analysis of the Romanian rural architectural landscape in the communist and post-communist eras. It examines the legal framework for constructing private houses under the Ceausescu dictatorship and the social actions that transform a house into a home.
This book is the second in a series showcasing outcomes of the Maryvale Institute’s doctoral research programme. It provides an overview of the breadth of work by its students in the UK, Europe, the USA and Africa and their contribution to new knowledge in Catholic studies.
Dark Tales of Illness, Medicine, and Madness
A strange and mordant journey through the world of illness, doctors and patients. A forensic psychiatrist exposes the extremes of human nature in the dangerous relationships between them, revealing medical quacks, murders, and other crimes in the world of medicine.
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