This book provides a deeper understanding of the autobiography as a genre and a data collection method. It presents various forms of autobiographies, with a unique focus on foreign language education, and applies a wide variety of qualitative and quantitative analytical tools.
This book identifies grammatical constraints on adverbs, proposing a novel syntactic hierarchy with five distinct classes to explain their distribution. Unlike with adjectives, adverb ordering is not predictable from a single factor, but is connected to meaning and usage.
This book explores the ecology of Mediterranean evergreen oaks, vital for biodiversity. It details Quercus calliprinos’s role in combating climate change and the forest management needed to conserve crucial species like Quercus ilex and Quercus suber.
A hands-on guide to solving industrially relevant problems. Master basic and advanced calculations for key chemical industry processes. Features real-life exercises with answers, covering complex installations with recycle-loops and cascades of reactors.
Mine Planning for Resource Sustainability
The first of its kind, this book offers a detailed, step-by-step guide to solving mine planning problems. For students and professionals, its integration of spreadsheet modelling allows the reader to analyze meaningful exercises beyond traditional assignments.
The New York Yankees in the Twentieth Century
This is not for baseball fans only. This exploration of Yankee history examines how design, corporatism, and philosophy created a global franchise. It reveals the distinction between looking and seeing by exploring the meaning of the pinstripes, the stadium, and the iconic cap.
This textbook provides an introduction to physics for undergraduate students of geology and Earth sciences. It explains basic physics theories first, which are then applied to geological phenomena, using accessible math with figures and solved problems.
With no approved drug for Autism, this book presents a novel approach validated by brain imaging and large clinical trials. It details a repurposed drug’s unprecedented potential to be the first pediatric treatment, describing specific cases of children who improved.
This book analyzes why sustainable development goals are unmet. It shows how global economic institutions are biased against developing countries, enabling stronger economies to dominate weaker ones and perpetuating international inequalities.
Literature and Image in the Long Nineteenth Century
This book explores how word and image worked together, negotiated, and competed in nineteenth-century pictures, poetry, and fiction. It covers the Pre-Raphaelites’ fusion of text and image and the tensions between writer and artist in book illustration.
This book takes a philosophical approach to technocultural studies in Margaret Atwood’s science fiction. It explores how technology and culture reconstitute her literary landscape, from the gender politics of cyborgs to the hyperreal dimensions of video gaming and digital sex.
Complex Art Conservation and Preservation Problems
For the first time, this book examines Egon Schiele’s painting technique through his 1918 work, “Stadtende/Häuserbogen III.” A conservation campaign uncovered hidden portrait sketches, unmasked a forged signature, and identified the original frame, guiding future preservation.
This guide to forecasting adverse weather in the tropics combines theoretical foundations with practical methods for short-range forecasting in Northeast Brazil. It uses synoptic analysis, satellite data, and numerical models, making it essential for students and professionals.
Visualization and Critical Digital Pedagogies
Drawing on anthropology and music analysis, this study of digital visualization explores its import for critical pedagogy. It offers a hands-on approach for researchers, educators, and artists seeking to open passageways between theory and praxis in the digital humanities.
This innovative biography of Luigi Einaudi, an outstanding Italian political personality of the 20th century, highlights his lesser-known contributions. His proposals for a European federation inspired the EU, and his monetary policies prefigured today’s European Central Bank.
Introduction to Clinical Pharmacology
Built around patient presentation, this textbook advances from symptoms to diagnosis and treatment, mirroring clinical practice. It provides concise information on pharmacology, with relevant cases and questions. For medical and pharmacy students, practitioners, and pre-meds.
This book shows how artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) are used to prevent security assaults on blockchain. It explores use cases and security methods, arguing that integrating AI and ML is crucial for increasing blockchain security.
Reinforced Concrete Design
This book provides the fundamentals of analysis and design of reinforced concrete (RC) elements in a simple way. A valuable guide for students and practicing engineers, its design procedures provide a roadmap to create your own programming codes to increase design productivity.
This book shares the poignant, captivating, and hard-to-believe true tales of four teachers in Indonesia. Described as modern dervishes, they sowed the seeds of successful education through altruism and teamwork, even rescuing three orphans from the aftermath of a tsunami.
Emergent Bilingual Students and Their Academic Performance
Emergent Bilinguals are a fast-growing but underserved subgroup. Based on multiyear studies of their reading and mathematics performance, this book provides educational leaders, researchers, and policymakers with vital pre-pandemic baselines to inform changes in instruction.
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