Acetylcholine is a universal messenger, from bacteria to humans. While best known as a neurotransmitter, our understanding of its action has completely changed. This book explores its vital physiological and toxicological importance, since it can be perturbed by many substances.
Leading scholars explore the understudied history of collecting in the American South. This volume examines the rich Renaissance and Baroque art in Southern public and private collections, revealing how these works were acquired, curated, displayed, and preserved.
For physics scholars and general readers, this book explores the action of ultra-low doses on biological systems. It covers medicinal remedies like homeopathy, the influence of color and form, and the Twin Correlation.
Modern challenges cause stress and poor health. This book develops the concept of ‘emotional health’ as a bio-psycho-socio-cultural balance, bridging medical treatments with alternative therapies to highlight new solutions to these problems.
Explore new trends in Internationalisation at Home (IaH) and the internationalised curriculum. This volume features insights from academics and practitioners across diverse fields, including curriculum development, language teaching, and academic support.
This user-friendly text uses illustrations and college math to analyze dynamic phenomena in everyday life. It presents dynamics as a unified framework, showing how simple concepts expand to complex design formulae for engineering structures.
Despite its key role in medicine, epidemiology is faltering. No other specialty can track diseases in populations, assess health risks, or evaluate medical care. A lesson from COVID-19 is that enhancing this work is crucial for public health. This volume shows how.
This book interrogates how stigma ‘others’ individuals and groups. Focusing on mental health, disability, and transgender politics, it reveals the progressive and regressive aspects of campaigns to challenge stigma, and warns how they can threaten our political freedom.
Jewish Humor
Explore the evolution of Jewish humor from the Bible to today. Tracing its development across Eastern Europe, the US, and Israel, this book reveals how historical experience, survival, and wisdom created a truly unusual sense of humor.
The Physical Reality of Applied Quantum Optics
This book scrutinises quantum optic experiments, revealing hitherto ignored phenomena. It shows that there are no quantum optic “miracles” once the physically present effects are correctly identified, leading to a new understanding of quantum locality and realism.
Quine on Ethics
This first comprehensive treatment of Quine’s foray into ethics defends his infamous challenge to ethical theory: the methodological infirmity of ethics compared with science. The book demonstrates that the challenge is not only valid but valuable for reforming ethical reasoning.
Gaps and the Creation of Ideas
This artist’s book is a portrait of the space between things, from neurons to comic-book frames. Juxtaposing quotations and images from hundreds of sources, it explores the gap as a ubiquitous phenomenon that crosses the boundaries of neuroscience, art, and popular culture.
This book is a guide to performing uniform broadband measurements with low uncertainty. It discusses radiometric, photometric, color, and LED measurements, and shows how to avoid large errors by standardizing the measurement procedure and using properly selected meters.
Culture, Crisis and COVID-19
The pandemic is a priceless opportunity for a Great Reset. Can we re-vision capitalism as a life-preserving phenomenon? We must create an economy that serves all stakeholders, not just shareholders. The true mission of business is to serve humanity with higher goals.
Space Systems Architecture for Resource Utilization
Space resources will transform human enterprise. This practical workbook is an invaluable guide for start-ups, students, and space enthusiasts. Learn how to start a space business, engage regulators, and coordinate teams to gain the confidence to build, live, and work in space.
This book provides up-to-date, evidence-based information on prenatal and neonatal cardiology. It presents a multidisciplinary approach to managing congenital heart defects in the fetus and newborn, covering advances in diagnosis, screening, and therapeutic treatment options.
This book sheds light on the modernist short story cycle and its pivotal role in depicting place. Modernist writers found this form suitable for capturing a fragmented world through short, interconnected narratives that reflect an ever-changing attitude towards what place means.
This book provides up-to-date, evidence-based information on neonatal cardiology, presenting a multidisciplinary approach to managing infants with congenital heart defects. This second volume explores individual cardiac defects, cardiomyopathies, and hypertension.
This book covers the diffraction, radiation, and propagation of elastic waves in isotropic and anisotropic media. It details key methods and their application to hydroacoustic antennas, loudspeakers, and the acoustic monitoring of oil products.
Working Women, 1800-2017
This book examines how women have adapted their dual role as carers and breadwinners, from the industrial revolution to the digital age. Drawing on original fieldwork, this volume sheds new light on gender, family, and labour issues across Europe.
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