This book summarizes Professor Zhengping Liu’s research on complete placenta previa and the clinical application of Liu’s incision. It discusses advanced approaches in surgery, diagnosis, and anesthesia, combining images and 3D videos to help clinicians master clinical practice.
Determinants of Intra-Industry Trade and Labour Market Adjustment
This book highlights changes in the Indian economy following the 1990s economic liberalization, focusing on intra-industry trade (IIT). It conducts an empirical analysis of the drivers influencing IIT and explores their impact on the growth of the Indian economy.
This book makes sense of the political, cultural, and social change in North Africa since the Arab Spring. It argues that the region needs a new political paradigm—one that eschews a ‘one-size-fits-all’ approach for solutions reflecting the cultural realities of its societies.
This innovative study corrects persistent misconceptions about Edward S. Curtis, the influential photographer of American Indians. The author argues that Curtis was keenly aware of the major changes Native Americans faced, providing a reappraisal of his monumental work.
This hands-on guide shows HR practitioners and researchers how to apply the Shannon diversity index to measure workplace diversity. With practical examples, it also illustrates how regression methods can assess the factors that influence age, ethnic, and gender diversity.
Aspects of Time and Memory in Literature for Children and Young Adults
A critical exploration of time and memory in children’s media. Spanning three centuries, these essays analyze traumatic memory, post-memory, and the reimagining of the past in picturebooks, YA novels, films, and adaptations of classic fairy tales.
Feminist Activism in the Digital Era
This collection highlights a rich diversity of feminist activism. From digital resistance to gender-based violence in Pakistan to online organizing against abortion bans in Poland, movements use creative strategies that show a global unity in the fight for equality.
Uniting traditional and technological sustainability, this book explores the India-Japan partnership’s potential. It delves into new tech, international relations, and climate change, offering a forward-looking perspective on sustainable development for policymakers and industry.
Women’s Imaginary Cooking and Appetites Across Cultures
This book explores the cultural implications of women’s engagement with food, tackling the female body, appetites, culinary witchcraft, magic, and cannibalism. It traces how food disorders are alchemically transformed into aesthetics, with a pivotal focus on the Balkans.
Sacred Trees of India
Drawing on 10 years of fieldwork in India, this book documents sacred trees and groves. Featuring hundreds of original photographs, it reveals how a culture’s reverence for trees presents a powerful alternative to the commodification of nature that fuels the ecological crisis.
This book investigates the use of abrasive flow finishing (AFF) to impart a quality finish on gears. It covers the development of the AFF process, machine design, parametric optimization, and laser texturing, showing how AFF is a productive, economical, and sustainable process.
Bridging Worlds through Translatology
Explore the world of Translatology, where language transcends boundaries and cultures merge. Discover how translators bridge linguistic gaps, preserve cultural nuances, and shape our global discourse. An indispensable guide for anyone intrigued by the power of words.
Geopolitics to Geocriticism
This collection analyses TV series (‘dizi’) from Türkiye, Serbia, and Romania. It explores their role in identity building, social reflection, and soft power, stressing the importance of these cultural products for public diplomacy in the Balkans and their global reach.
Digitalization and artificial intelligence are rapidly changing our world, but traditional education fails to prepare us for this new reality. A century ago, Alfred North Whitehead developed a new learning cycle approach. This book investigates his philosophy for our time.
Coaching and Teaching Soccer
This book introduces an innovative, evidence-based model to coach soccer. It provides practical examples and useful resources for physical education teachers and coaches to systematically develop players’ technical ability, tactical knowledge, and overall game competence.
Helen Waddell’s classic novel tells the powerful love story of 12th-century teacher Peter Abelard and the learned Heloise. This annotated edition introduces the extensive literary and historical sources Waddell incorporated into the best-selling story of love and theology.
Removable Partial Dentures
Of value to any dental student, dentist, or technologist, from beginner to experienced practitioner. The book offers detail in all clinical phases of RPD diagnosis, fabrication, and delivery, based on documented research and decades of university-level teaching experience.
How Uruguay Became a Religious Ghetto
Why is Uruguay an intensely secular society in a highly religious continent? This deviant case study argues that secularization is not an inevitable process, but is carried out by people and groups who manifestly want to laicize society and its sub-structures.
A Critique of British Marxism
This book argues that the British Marxist focus on human agency is misconceived. It recommends recovering classical concepts like ‘modes of production’ and focusing on the ideological unconscious, resulting in a radically new take on the history of ideological production.
In memory of Dr. Zsuzsánna Biedermann, Hungarian scholars explore African studies from the unique perspective of “the other Europe.” Case studies delve into African-Eastern European connections, development, and migration, with a special focus on Rwanda and East Africa.