An Introduction to Viticulture, Winemaking and Wine
This book describes the science of growing grapevines and transforming them into the world’s many wine styles. It covers everything from harvesting to how to taste, buy, store, and sell wine. Intended for novice growers, winemakers, sommeliers, and students.
This volume analyses the economies of Asia, Central Asia, and the Balkans. It explores their transition towards a market economy and global integration, covering topics like economic growth, international trade and finance, labor markets, and energy sectors.
This text covers the fundamentals of physical metallurgy, emphasizing structure-property correlation. What is unique is its introduction of new concepts on heat treating steels—missing from existing books—providing new scope for academic research and industrial implementation.
Next Generation Healthcare
This book explores how deep learning AI can solve healthcare’s challenges with fragmented data and security. It covers diverse applications from disease detection to EHR management and telemedicine, offering cutting-edge insights for researchers, practitioners, and policymakers.
Decolonizing Science
Science denial is rising, partly because science, falsely portrayed as a European invention, alienates most of the world. This book traces how colonial agendas shaped science’s history, embedding racial and gendered prejudices into its concepts and divorcing it from reality.
This richly illustrated textbook is a step-by-step guide to the most common techniques in Oral Rehabilitation. It explains the rationale for each procedure and is an essential learning tool and quick reference for both dental students and qualified dentists.
Sectoral Structures Theory is a novel, interdisciplinary framework for studying arrangements of circular sectors. This work establishes its foundations in geometric combinatorics, graph theory, and number theory, integrating concepts from algebra, topology, and group theory.
The dominant theory of plate tectonics fails to fully explain continental deformation. This book explores intracontinental tectonics, classifying orogeny and proposing that global tectonics is a combination of transcontinental, plate, and intracontinental tectonics.
Early Public School Football Codes
Puddings, bullies, squashes. These were the names for the brutal melee of early football, when half a school battled the other. Uncover the lost codes that existed before the FA and RFU rewrote the rules and nationalised the game.
For students of medicine and biosciences, this book explains biomolecule-related organic chemistry. It explores fundamental theories not covered in basic textbooks and describes the chemistry of important biomolecules like carbohydrates, lipids, proteins, and nucleic acids.
The next generation of oncological hyperthermia selectively heats malignant cells. Due to its selectivity, this innovative concept is safer, less toxic, and uses significantly lower energy. This book shows the challenges, theoretical basis, and clinical results of the method.
In the quest for a ‘magic bullet’ against cancer, nanoparticles show great promise. These engineered nanostructures can target specific tumors, but their effectiveness must be weighed against toxicity. This book explores diverse nanotechnological advances.
Reading Hobbes Backwards
Beyond Leviathan lies Hobbes the peace theorist. Unable to speak freely as a courtier’s client, he used clandestine philosophy and satire to attack the sectarian causes of religious war and champion classical civic humanism.
Baptist Engagement with Islam
This is the first detailed study of Baptist engagement with Islam. While some Baptists have fueled Islamophobia, others stress common ground and mutual respect. The survey spans four centuries of this complex relationship, from the USA and UK to the Indian subcontinent.
This book explores various leadership styles and models, demonstrating their dynamic nature. It is an essential reference point for both academics and practitioners.
This book is an introduction to computational methods in physics. It details how to make a physical problem computable, using numerous examples and solved problems from classical mechanics to quantum mechanics, and directly teaches the reader how to implement these techniques.
This volume examines the role of state, non-state actors, and public-private partnerships in improving livelihoods in Sub-Saharan Africa. Combining theoretical reflections with empirical studies from Cameroon, it provides timely insights for today’s global development goals.
Goddess Mystery Cults and the Miracle of Minyan Prehistoric Greece
The cradle of the Mystery Cults is the Aegean, where initiates achieved cosmic consciousness. This book argues that prehistoric Minyans and Minoans, possessing advanced pre-Flood knowledge, sailed the Atlantic and reached the copper mines of America in the third millennium.
How can we build a better society? This book applies insights from philosophy, religion, and social science to offer practical reforms for our core institutions, from government to the economy. A call to action for every big-picture thinker.
Venezuela in the Gordian Knot
Once Latin America’s wealthiest country, with the world’s largest oil reserves, Venezuela is a failed state. How did this happen and how can it get out? This book diagnoses the 40 years of populism that allowed Hugo Chavez to rise and resulted in the nation’s impoverishment.