This book provides a comprehensive overview of ethics and morality, setting out what the field is about, what its demands are, and the rationale for its injunctions. Without being contentious, it provides a comprehensive account of what the contentions are about.
Integrated Waste Management
This book investigates Circular Economy (CE) solutions to the issue of waste. It merges science and management to offer practical, techno-managerial solutions for transitioning to a low carbon economy, exploring both managerial aspects and advances in technical detailing.
Go on a mathematical adventure that challenges you to think about the “why,” not just the “how.” Featuring relatable characters and real-world problems, this book brings complex topics to life. A fun and engaging read that trains your mind to think mathematically.
This book describes wireless channels for mobile communication system design. It explains mobile propagation and analyses multi-path channel properties, validated by experiments. Topics include street cell design, antenna diversity, and SU/MU-MIMO channel models for 5G systems.
England’s Response to Hitler in the 1930s
This book analyses the political tactics of the ‘Cliveden Set’, aristocrats in 1930s Britain. Scapegoated for the Appeasement Policy, they used their influence to encourage a foreign policy that supported Hitler’s rearmament and the annexation of Austria and Czechoslovakia.
In Sri Lanka, poverty and civil war have created a youth mental health crisis. This book gives an overview of common psychosocial problems and the challenges practitioners face, discussing practical solutions for providing mental health services with limited resources.
With widespread insecurity in Nigeria, this volume brings together military professionals and civilian scholars to explore critical thinking for national security. It fosters debate to answer an age-old question: Whither Nigeria’s national security and strategy?
This book shows how molecular biology reduces life to programs (genes) directing machinery (proteins). This approach is crucial to solving medical and agricultural problems for the future of humanity and will appeal to anyone wanting to understand “what is life?”.
Genetically Modified Organisms
The rejection of GMOs is fueled by a misdirected struggle that fosters public fear. This book explains this contemporary taboo and calls for the well-regulated use of all biotechnological innovations, ending a stalemate which stymies public research and its benefits.
For advanced students, this book establishes a path from the study of phase transitions to the current understanding of living matter. It explores concepts from statistical mechanics, non-linear systems, chaos and self-organization drawn from physics, chemistry and biology.
This book covers the consequences of death for patients and families, including grief and health. It offers a health promotion perspective on palliative care for patients, families, and care workers, stressing the importance of fulfilling patient wishes.
This book is your guide to the political language of the Middle East. It is a tool for translators and interpreters to master the language, combining an academic overview of translating and interpreting with six key themes related to politics.
The cultures of Egypt, Mesopotamia and Greece provide a crucial context for understanding the Bible. Beliefs and practices from literary works like the Egyptian Book of the Dead, the Epic of Gilgamesh, and Homer’s epics deepen our understanding of the Biblical Books.
Revolutionary Essays on Life, Earth, and Politics
Science is our only guide to the Crisis of the Anthropocene. This wakeup call explores climate change, biodiversity collapse, and the political failures behind them. Data shows the US is not an advanced democracy, and threats like Trumpism put freedom itself at stake.
Post-Millennial Perceptions and Post-Pandemic Realities
Even in dystopia, mundane life becomes life-giving. This book attests to human resilience, where the darkest images yield the sweetness of hope. A frontier document on Covid-19, its stellar contributors explore art, medicine, economics, and history with tenacity and awe.
How do we make rational decisions in medicine with contradictory data? This interdisciplinary book explores the scientific and ethical issues of proof, questioning the value of physicians’ experience, the relevance of data, and the reliability of biomedical knowledge.
This book proposes that the physiological motif of plastocyanin dimorphism is a hallmark of higher plants. It also serves as a methodological guide to photosynthesis, offering various methods for the study of proteins.
Countering claims of decadence, this book argues that turn-of-the-century art was energized by a search for meaningful form grounded in psychology. It connects key thinkers to modernists like T. S. Eliot and James Joyce, redefining literary genre through this new lens.
This book discusses the COVID-19 pandemic’s effects on both high-level politics and people’s inner worlds. Through diverse religious, historical, social, and legal analyses, it offers broad perspectives and questions the future of international security.
This book is an easy-to-read, in-depth guide to essential clinical skills: patient history, physical examination, documentation, and diagnosis. It helps trainees succeed in practice and exams, while serving as a trusted companion for clinicians and trainers.
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