This volume brings together innovative research across Iberian Studies. The collection includes cutting-edge work on memory politics, dictatorships, the Spanish Civil War, and colonial exchanges, exploring themes of migration, resistance, trauma, sexuality, and feminism.
Artificial intelligence is the most disruptive technology today. This volume explores the problems of ethical AI and the prospects of human-like intelligence, with a broad spectrum of approaches from ethics, economics, defense studies, computer science, and philosophy.
This book presents the spiritual foundations of occupational therapy, arguing the profession originated in existentialist philosophy and the humanist approach. The main goal of treatment is to rehabilitate the fallen spirit of the patient.
This book compares dynamic mathematical models to solve problems of impact and shock. Its methodologies help determine the life-resource of large constructions, simulate dynamic contact processes, and design new composite materials. For scientists, students, and engineers.
The Evolution of the US Healthcare System
Why does the US spend more on healthcare but get less? This book exposes a system built for the opportunistic motives of powerful corporations and politicians, answering how it became so expensive and hard to use, and why this failing system is a threat to national security.
This book explores the mechanics of smart nanocomposite sandwich plates, covering theories of buckling, vibration and dynamic instability. It presents models for material properties and derives governing equations using the energy method and Hamilton’s principle.
An Atlas of Renal Transplant Pathology
This compilation of renal transplant biopsies, with clinical cases and microphotographs, is a practical guide for nephrologists, pathologists, and surgeons. It serves as a resource to plan treatment strategies and aid in the interpretation of biopsies.
This book analyses the sociocultural adaptation and integration of temporary migrants and refugees. Based on global research, it explores the interpersonal dimensions of these processes, from the friendships of students to the family dynamics of refugees in camps.
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.
This book develops Jordan canonical form and shows how to apply it to solving systems of dynamic equations on arbitrary time scales. Beginning with the diagonalizable case, it proceeds to the general case, covering all situations. For senior undergraduate and graduate students.
The Seven-String Guitar in Russia
This definitive history of the seven-string guitar in Russia explores its cosmopolitan origins, diverse repertoire, and unique sound. It details the tradition’s connections to the country’s cultural and political context, including the role of the Russian Roma in its formation.
This book chronicles a 40-year battle against glioblastoma, a fatal brain tumour, and the revolutionary treatment that emerged. Cancer Gene Therapy turns a patient’s own cancer cells into a vaccine, inducing an immune response to increase survival and improve quality of life.
Language Teaching and Learning during the COVID-19 Pandemic
This book bridges theory and practice for online English Language Teaching (ELT). It offers innovative approaches and digital tools to help practitioners reshape their teaching, enhance online interaction, and meet the challenges of the post-pandemic era.
Contemporary Neuropsychiatry
This volume explores contributions from cognitive-affective and social neuroscience to mental health and disorders. It integrates translational neuroimaging and molecular neurobiology to explain conditions like anxiety.
How History and Genetics Define Jewish Diversity and Identity
This book links Jewish genetics, history, diversity, and identity on a quest to answer “Who is a Jew?” Journeying from the ancient world to today, it explores the Jewish gene pool, where modern genetic research sheds new light on old debates.
An essential guide for practitioners and students in Aesthetic Medicine and Cosmetic Surgery. This book defines new technologies, reviews traditional therapies, and sets a new consensus for the field. Topics include energy-based devices, injectables, and common cosmetic surgery.
This book introduces ‘ELF Transcultural Competence,’ a new model of skills for communicating successfully in English as a Lingua Franca (ELF). It explores key strategies and offers practical pedagogical examples for teachers, teacher educators, and researchers.
This book explores foreign banks in the Western Balkans, their relationships with consumers, and their convergence to the rule of law of the European Union. It is of great use to students of the economics of the Western Balkans and others interested in the subject.
News-Reporting and Ideology in 17th-Century English Murder Pamphlets
This book explores how 17th-century murder pamphlets evolved from moralizing tales into political propaganda. It analyses how persuasive discourse was used to bias people’s perception of crime and justice in relation to the ideological imperatives of the time.
The Jagannath temple’s heterogeneous tradition has given rise to a vibrant oral and written culture. This volume explores the representation of Jagannath in literary texts, oral tales, songs, and dance, investigating the different modes of representation of the deity.
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