This book explores the complexity of physical and social systems, covering science policy, networks, and education. It argues that academies uniting top scholars are the best advocates for managing ideas to benefit society, and describes their vital current tasks.
Lipid Oxidation Products
This book describes the neglected processes of photooxidation and autoxidation in phototrophs. It details their mechanisms, focusing on oxidation products as tracers, and discusses how temperature and solar irradiance affect them, impacting the ultimate fate of organic matter.
The Notes and Queries Folklore Column, 1849-1947
For the first time, a consolidated index to England’s folklore heritage from the periodical Notes and Queries (1849-1947). This book provides ready access to a neglected corpus of material, with over 12,000 references to folklore, proverbs, nursery rhymes, songs, and dialects.
Food Cultures across Time
This vibrant, inter-disciplinary collection of essays maps food cultures and routes in fiction. Analyzing authors from countries as diverse as Ireland, Romania, the UK, and the USA, it explores the interconnections between food, fiction, and culture.
This book bridges Christian sacramental praxis with philosophy of mind. Through a new philosophy of incarnation, it argues self-consciousness must develop towards the Absolute Idea, where religion becomes intellectual virtue. A new theology is here. It is time to put it to work.
This study unearths the singular concept of “parama-mukhya-vṛtti” from the Dvaita Vedānta philosophy of Madhva. Discover the 12th-century thinker’s unique hermeneutical technique used to establish Viṣṇu as the focus of Vedic writings and its relevance for any sacred text.
As we awaken to environmental crises, climate fiction (cli-fi) depicts our transformed Earth. This book analyzes apocalyptic works of literature, media, and art, shedding light on the inevitable interconnection of humankind with the nonhuman environment.
This book covers the Laplace transform technique for linear systems in electrical and mechanical engineering. It focuses on Laplace and inverse transforms, transfer functions, and applications for solving initial and boundary value problems.
This book uses complexity research to overcome the categorizations and opposites that limit our descriptions of existence. It offers innovative philosophical insights to arrive at a unified vision of nature and society, governed by the same laws of non-linearity.
This book provides a new, interdisciplinary model of consciousness, offering a multidisciplinary bridge between the brain, mind, philosophy, self-consciousness, human identity, and free will.
This book is a comprehensive investigation of the morphosyntax of Tarifit Berber. One of its most significant findings is that Tarifit has undergone a grammatical shift from VSO word order to a topic-prominent system. Novel analyses are also proposed for clitics and causatives.
Approaches to Building a Smart Community
This book offers unique ‘glocal’ approaches to ‘smart communities’, drawing on South African experiences to address this global issue. It blends social and technical aspects, presenting insights from a range of community practitioners, academics, architects, and engineers.
This insider account shows how working-class students in a conservative region initiated radical changes in the Sixties. Their vivid story of bringing students around to support social justice illustrates how democratic change can reshape a nation, inspiring today’s activists.
English Writings from Northeast India
This volume explores English writings from Northeast India, analysing issues of ethnicity, identity, migration, and insurgency born from ongoing conflicts. These are voices from the periphery answering the mainstream and re-examining their own history.
This book presents writings on Heinz-Uwe Haus’s productions of Brecht and ancient Greek drama in Cyprus and Greece, beginning with his 1975 launch of the Cyprus National Theatre. It includes reviews, academic articles, and reflections by Haus, cast members, and designers.
This collection re-examines the work and life of Arthur Conan Doyle from multiple perspectives. It considers overlooked aspects of his oeuvre, offering fresh perspectives on his fiction and his relationship to contemporary writers and movements.
This collection explores global issues in business, from wellbeing at work and marketing innovations to sustainability in the food industry. The volume analyzes the organizational behavior of ISIS and offers insights into secrecy by analyzing scenes from John Grisham’s The Firm.
For students and specialists in nonlinear dynamics, this book develops original methods to study dynamical chaos, synchronization, and dynamic structures in lattices of coupled rotators, using methods from bifurcation theory and qualitative numerical methods.
Tackling Online Education
Leading experts from eight countries discuss how national policy responses to COVID-19 shaped higher education. This book offers solutions to common problems like Zoom fatigue and lack of student engagement, and provides techniques for effective online teaching and learning.
Explore the wanderings of Odysseus in books 5-13 of Homer’s Odyssey. This guide provides a readable translation, summaries, and in-depth analysis to enhance your enjoyment of the epic’s most famous segment. It also includes exercises and topics for further investigation.
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