The Stock Market Boom and Crash of 1929 Was Not a Bubble
After the 1929 crash, Yale Professor Irving Fisher argued the boom was warranted. While his view was dismissed in favor of “irrational exuberance,” this book shows why Fisher was right, pointing to the Smoot-Hawley Tariff as the cause of both the boom and the crash.
Eco-neurobiology investigates how environmental factors impact the brain. This book covers recent findings on how non-genetic factors—the food we eat, stress, and traumatic events—influence our minds, from everyday function to the development of disorders.
This book introduces a new view of agility theory, offering experimental research and theoretical knowledge on both reactive and running agility. It also details a number of agility training methods and exercises.
This book presents physical kinetics from a unique angle, deriving the Boltzmann equation from atomic motion using Landau’s elementary excitations. It details the kinetic theory of classical gas and plasma, the lifetime of phonons, and the features of superconductivity.
This volume publishes work by emerging researchers in the history of medicine, exploring topics from medical classics and the effects of war to conceptions of blood. It features the paper by keynote speaker Dr Thomas Schlich and is well-illustrated.
Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) is a tool for poverty reduction, but attracting it is not the end. This book argues a nation’s absorption capacity is paramount, exploring the ‘Vicious-Circle of Poverty’ and providing new frameworks for plausible poverty reduction approaches.
This volume adopts diverse approaches to pragmatics, comparing a wide selection of languages like English, German, and Japanese. Contributions analyze grammatical expressions, speech acts, and prosody across different social interactions and multicultural environments.
Complex oil and gas extraction is accompanied by grave failures like drill string buckling, resonant vibrations, and bit whirling. To analyze these phenomena, this book elaborates new mathematical models and numerical methods, offering new results for designers and specialists.
This readable, non-technical collection offers a comprehensive guide to international economics and macroeconomics. Explore pressing topics from Industry 4.0 and immigration to productivity and monetary policy.
Is democracy in crisis? Amidst a loss of trust in institutions, this volume brings together experts to shed light on the future of our democracies. By focusing on Japan and Germany, it determines transnational tendencies and country-specific consequences.
This collection presents case studies and reflections on research bioethics from a Latin American perspective. It inspires comparative analyses of research with human subjects and explores the reception of global scientific ideas in the region.
The first International Handbook of Forest Therapy unites over 50 global experts to define this evidence-based public health approach. Drawing on three decades of research and the latest developments, this milestone work sets the baseline for its worldwide implementation.
Energy and Humanity
This book describes human civilization from an energy perspective, showing how mastering energy catapulted our species to supremacy. It weaves a fascinating story from Stone Age tools to climate change, discussing the dark side and the future of renewables.
Two Jewish scholars explore the historical Jesus and Messianic Judaism, bridging the gap between Jewish and Christian scholarship. This series of essays forges a new understanding across religious boundaries, turning serious research into a means for vital interfaith discourse.
For students of statistics, mathematics, and engineering, this book provides the concepts and methods of linear and integer programming. It presents formulations of diverse problems and solutions to numerical examples, making the subject matter easier to comprehend.
Human Adaptations to the Last Glacial Maximum
This book assembles new insights into humanity’s developments during the Last Glacial Maximum in Western Europe. It gathers up-to-date research on the Solutrean techno-complex, exploring excavations, lithic analysis, human-environmental interactions, and artistic expressions.
Native-speakerism in English Language Teaching
The first large-scale study of native-speakerism in China’s ELT. This critical examination reveals how the ideology is enacted and legitimized through the attitudes of students, teachers, and administrators toward language, culture, and teaching methods.
L2 Writing Assessment
When reading and spelling problems are not detected early, they can become lifelong disabilities. Early intervention is the key. This book is a practical guide for educators to identify such problems and use active writing programmes for instruction and assessment.
This scholarly edition of Lincoln Steffens’ muck-raking classic dissects Gilded Age corruption in America’s cities. With new analysis and historical context, it reveals the timeless moral and social-political phenomenon of corruption and the nature of reform.
This is the first in-depth English analysis of the nine short poems, or romances, by Spanish mystic Saint John of the Cross. Focusing on the Trinity, it explores their literary, theological, and mystical elements, tying them to San Juan’s better-known works.
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