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Hunter-Gatherers’ Tool-Kit
A Functional Perspective
This volume provides a multifaceted overview of the study of stone tools. With case studies from various continents centred on hunter-gatherer communities, it explores tool production and use to address major questions about past human economic and social behaviour.
This volume provides a multifaceted overview of the study of stone tools. With case studies from various continents centred on hunter-gatherer communities, it explores tool production and use to address major questions about past human economic and social behaviour.
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Modelling Offshore Wind Farm Operation and Maintenance
The Benefits of Condition Monitoring
Offshore wind energy is a vital green resource, but its main challenge is the high cost of operation and maintenance. This book explores how to reduce failure rates and make offshore wind energy cheaper, using condition monitoring systems and real-world case studies.
Offshore wind energy is a vital green resource, but its main challenge is the high cost of operation and maintenance. This book explores how to reduce failure rates and make offshore wind energy cheaper, using condition monitoring systems and real-world case studies.
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The Disembodied Mind
An Exploration of Consciousness in the Physical Universe
Is the mind entirely separate from physics? Relying on empirical science, this book presents a model of an objective mind completely unconnected with anything physical. The mind has no effect on the physical world, but, by free volition, navigates the world we experience.
Is the mind entirely separate from physics? Relying on empirical science, this book presents a model of an objective mind completely unconnected with anything physical. The mind has no effect on the physical world, but, by free volition, navigates the world we experience.
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Assessment is a major driver of the student tertiary experience. This book explores the rubric as the key tool in this experience, examining different models and providing data from students and academics on their efficacy for marking and providing feedback.
Assessment is a major driver of the student tertiary experience. This book explores the rubric as the key tool in this experience, examining different models and providing data from students and academics on their efficacy for marking and providing feedback.
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Elemental Encounters in the Contemporary Irish Novel
Reading as Touching
Reading is touching. Words pierce flesh like a knife. Storytelling breathes with air, fire, earth and water. This book explores how novels by Irish authors John Banville and Mary Morrissy revitalise these elements with sensual, social, and tactile textures.
Reading is touching. Words pierce flesh like a knife. Storytelling breathes with air, fire, earth and water. This book explores how novels by Irish authors John Banville and Mary Morrissy revitalise these elements with sensual, social, and tactile textures.
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Vulnerability Studies in the Americas
Extreme Weather and Climate Change
This book assesses climate change vulnerability and adaptive capacity in South America and Canada. The result of a seven-year project, it fills a gap in academic literature with unique comparative case studies of the global North and South.
This book assesses climate change vulnerability and adaptive capacity in South America and Canada. The result of a seven-year project, it fills a gap in academic literature with unique comparative case studies of the global North and South.
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Names are powerful vehicles for human goals. This volume focuses on the intersections of naming, identity and tourism, revealing how names play a role in identity-formation by shaping and promoting tourist attractions, be they topographical or metaphorical locations.
Names are powerful vehicles for human goals. This volume focuses on the intersections of naming, identity and tourism, revealing how names play a role in identity-formation by shaping and promoting tourist attractions, be they topographical or metaphorical locations.
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Dyslexia and Creativity
Diverse Minds
This book explores dyslexia from a cognitive and neurological view, outlining a theory that links this learning difference to the creative process. It shows how artists and writers faced the struggles of dyslexia, harnessing its positive traits to fuel their creative success.
This book explores dyslexia from a cognitive and neurological view, outlining a theory that links this learning difference to the creative process. It shows how artists and writers faced the struggles of dyslexia, harnessing its positive traits to fuel their creative success.
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Emerging Concepts in Bacterial Biofilms
Molecular Mechanisms and Control Strategies
Bacterial biofilms cause difficult-to-treat chronic infections, particularly on medical devices. This book focuses on emerging research into biofilm formation and highlights anti-biofilm strategies to curb these infections and combat antimicrobial resistance.
Bacterial biofilms cause difficult-to-treat chronic infections, particularly on medical devices. This book focuses on emerging research into biofilm formation and highlights anti-biofilm strategies to curb these infections and combat antimicrobial resistance.
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Children, Childhood, and the Future
Cross-Cultural Perspectives
The science of a “good childhood” is based on Western children, ignoring the global majority. This volume bridges that gap by exploring childhood in African countries, offering ways to develop joint ideas about childhood instead of imposing one-sided standards.
The science of a “good childhood” is based on Western children, ignoring the global majority. This volume bridges that gap by exploring childhood in African countries, offering ways to develop joint ideas about childhood instead of imposing one-sided standards.
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Geological and seismic activity alters hydrogen and methane flows from the ground, changing the air's electrical characteristics. This book uses field observations to illustrate how atmospheric-electrical monitoring can be used to solve problems in geophysics.
Geological and seismic activity alters hydrogen and methane flows from the ground, changing the air’s electrical characteristics. This book uses field observations to illustrate how atmospheric-electrical monitoring can be used to solve problems in geophysics.
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Vanishing Voices
Silence(s) in the Poetry of Gerard Manley Hopkins, T. S. Eliot and R. S. Thomas
This first study bringing together Hopkins, Eliot, and Thomas explores silence in their poetry. Situated at the crossroads of poetics, philosophy, and theology, it shows how the poets sought a new language to talk about the Ineffable God and one’s experience of the divine.
This first study bringing together Hopkins, Eliot, and Thomas explores silence in their poetry. Situated at the crossroads of poetics, philosophy, and theology, it shows how the poets sought a new language to talk about the Ineffable God and one’s experience of the divine.
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This book argues that to achieve sustainable development, developing countries must revamp their financial systems. The failure to grow is often caused by investors’ inability to access capital. Modernizing financial sectors can make resources available and industrialize growth.
This book argues that to achieve sustainable development, developing countries must revamp their financial systems. The failure to grow is often caused by investors’ inability to access capital. Modernizing financial sectors can make resources available and industrialize growth.
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Accountability and Leadership in the Catholic Church
What Needs to Be Improved
The Catholic church is an organization, but its structure is failing. A leadership gap above the bishops allows an unaccountable curia to illegitimately run the church. Applying modern organizational knowledge, this book proposes a new role for cardinals and a restructured curia.
The Catholic church is an organization, but its structure is failing. A leadership gap above the bishops allows an unaccountable curia to illegitimately run the church. Applying modern organizational knowledge, this book proposes a new role for cardinals and a restructured curia.
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Communicating English in Specialised Domains
A Festschrift for Maurizio Gotti
This volume honors Maurizio Gotti's academic career and his significant contributions to specialized discourses, lexicography, and the history of English. This collection brings together essays by scholars who have interacted with his ideas in these fields of enquiry.
This volume honors Maurizio Gotti’s academic career and his significant contributions to specialized discourses, lexicography, and the history of English. This collection brings together essays by scholars who have interacted with his ideas in these fields of enquiry.
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Rethinking Thomas Jefferson’s Writings on Slavery and Race
“[God’s] Justice Cannot Sleep Forever”
For decades, Jeffersonian scholarship has uncritically depicted a less-than-human Jefferson: an inveterate hypocrite and racist. This book offers a provocative challenge to these stale revisionist claims, appealing to all who believe it is time to gain fresh insights.
For decades, Jeffersonian scholarship has uncritically depicted a less-than-human Jefferson: an inveterate hypocrite and racist. This book offers a provocative challenge to these stale revisionist claims, appealing to all who believe it is time to gain fresh insights.
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Tones in Zhangzhou
Pitch and Beyond
This book explores tones in Zhangzhou, an under-described Southern Min variety, based on quantitative analyses. It overturns previous studies by finding Zhangzhou has eight tones, not seven, and will interest linguists as an exemplar in using statistical methods in phonology.
This book explores tones in Zhangzhou, an under-described Southern Min variety, based on quantitative analyses. It overturns previous studies by finding Zhangzhou has eight tones, not seven, and will interest linguists as an exemplar in using statistical methods in phonology.
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Critical Perspectives on Hollywood Science Fiction
A Neoliberal Crisis?
This book investigates how science fiction films like Avatar, District 9, and Elysium critically interrogate neoliberalism, connecting this ideology to the rise of populist politics, growing income inequality, and racist attitudes.
This book investigates how science fiction films like Avatar, District 9, and Elysium critically interrogate neoliberalism, connecting this ideology to the rise of populist politics, growing income inequality, and racist attitudes.
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Body, Space, and Place in Collective and Collaborative Drawing
Drawing Conversations II
This volume explores collective drawing through the crucial themes of body, space, and place. International artists, designers, and thinkers uncover exciting new contexts, relationships, and materials, redefining collaborative artistic practice.
This volume explores collective drawing through the crucial themes of body, space, and place. International artists, designers, and thinkers uncover exciting new contexts, relationships, and materials, redefining collaborative artistic practice.
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This collection of essays tackles classic questions: What is life? What is consciousness? It explores whether evolution is predetermined, if science and spirituality can harmonize, and if AI is at odds with the human spirit. Each chapter includes science fiction stories on AI.
This collection of essays tackles classic questions: What is life? What is consciousness? It explores whether evolution is predetermined, if science and spirituality can harmonize, and if AI is at odds with the human spirit. Each chapter includes science fiction stories on AI.
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