This book shows that behavioural finance began not in the 1980s, but over 300 years ago. It offers the first comprehensive assessment of Joseph de la Vega’s Confusion of Confusions (1688), demonstrating it is the true precursor to modern behavioural finance.
The Mystery of Ball Lightning Revealed
This book explores a new phenomenon: self-confined circulating light. It explains the paradox of ball lightning and microworld anomalies, and shows how nuclear energy can be extracted from ordinary water. Based on over 80 published scientific articles.
Understanding Metabolic Diseases
A silent epidemic of metabolic diseases—including diabetes, obesity, and cardiovascular disease—impacts millions. These conditions disrupt the body’s energy processing, leading to severe health consequences. Adopting a healthy lifestyle is key to combatting this silent threat.
This textbook and reference for students and scientists helps dispel the fear of statistics. With carefully selected material, examples, and computer solutions, it covers topics from basic to advanced, helping you choose the right analyses and reach sensible conclusions.
This book analyzes multilingual academic writing through translanguaging, examining the disparity between thinking in one language and writing in another. It offers practical strategies for educators to acknowledge student voices and identities, decolonizing academic writing.
Discover realist painter Clark Hulings (1922-2011), an artist whose subject was work—daily life in ancient places grappling with modernity. This book highlights the beauty and empathy of his paintings and discusses the work ethic that took him to the summit of realist technique.
This book explores Globally Important Agricultural Heritage Systems (GIAHS) and “Build Back Better” (BBB) initiatives for community resilience. It shows how traditional agriculture can revitalize regions and how disasters can be a trigger to create more resilient societies.
War has been a dominant theme in Australian history, but there is an alternative story. In every conflict, war resisters and conscientious objectors stood firm. They endured violence and prison, branded as cowards, yet showed it took a special type of courage to resist war.
Psychology and Culture
This book uniquely explores clinical psychology and psychoanalysis from a cross-cultural perspective. It covers topics from personality disorders and suicide to cultural emotions and dream interpretation, offering vital insights for psychologists and culture enthusiasts alike.
This book challenges the assumption that Islamism and democracy are incompatible. Drawing from fieldwork in post-Suharto Indonesia, it reveals how these forces can coexist through contestation and compromise, with implications for Muslim-majority countries.
This advanced text on formal logic covers semantics, axiomatics, and proofs of soundness, completeness, and Gödel’s theorems. It also discusses the pictorial semantics of logic diagrams, the evaluation of everyday argumentation, and Nether Logic, the logic of falsehood.
This book summarizes Professor Zhengping Liu’s research on complete placenta previa and the clinical application of Liu’s incision. It discusses advanced approaches in surgery, diagnosis, and anesthesia, combining images and 3D videos to help clinicians master clinical practice.
The Mediterranean Sea
The Mediterranean Sea has experienced significant alterations due to natural processes, but human activities have accelerated these changes. Rising sea levels, pollution, and loss of biodiversity threaten this vital ecosystem, requiring urgent global efforts.
Preventing Inflammation and Cardiovascular Diseases
Cardiovascular disease is the world’s #1 killer, but our focus on cholesterol is flawed and ineffective. This book reveals a new approach: preventing CVD by targeting its true cause—chronic inflammation—through healthy diet and lifestyle choices, without medication.
GeoPolitics and the Media in Asia and the Pacific
This book examines how the media’s adversarial culture ferments geo-political battles across the Asia-Pacific. It questions militaristic reporting, critiques Western narratives like the ‘rules-based order’, and provides guidelines for reporting without a militarist mindset.
After the Genocides
A sweeping memoir of the author’s Jewish and Armenian families, this account moves from genocide and the Cold War to his work with American and Russian leaders to prevent nuclear war, culminating in his organization winning the Nobel Peace Prize.
Global waste threatens our ecosystem, but it also presents an opportunity. This collection of essays discusses transforming underutilized biomass waste into value-added products, covering sources, techniques, and policies for a circular economy.
Nurses’ Extraordinary Experiences During the COVID-19 Pandemic
In their own words, nurses share the joys, sorrows, and grief of caring for dying COVID-19 patients. Often the only ones in the room, they went above and beyond their role, all while fearing they would bring the deadly virus home to their families.
Florence’s English Cemetery, 1827-1877
The restoration of Florence’s English Cemetery reveals the stories of foreign non-Catholics buried there from 1827-1877. It is a democracy in death, where writers like Elizabeth Barrett Browning, artists, and former slaves lie alongside nobility and royalty.
This is the first book to critically examine the relationship between England and Greece, and how England has influenced modern Greece—not always for the better. Written by a former diplomat of dual heritage, it reveals the true story, warts and all, up to the present day.
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