Performing Arun Sarma
This collection of essays on the life and works of renowned Assamese litterateur Arun Sarma pushes his legacy beyond linguistic and geographical barriers, generating a vibrant community of literary enthusiasts and a new body of knowledge on the theatre of Assam.
Experimental Research in Consumer Sciences
This book covers the experimental research skills needed by graduate students in the food and textile industries. It provides comprehensive coverage of the research process—from proposal writing and designing experiments to analysing data and writing scientific reports.
In a world of numerous challenges, the search for meaning and purpose is an important pursuit. This book offers diverse perspectives on the connections between meaning and service, helping readers integrate them into their own personal and professional life.
The Wooden Carpentry of Roofs in Mediterranean Antiquity
The truss is an extremely efficient structure that has gone through the centuries almost unchanged. But when was it born? This is the first book to address this question, tracing the evolution of roof carpentry that led to the invention across the whole of Antiquity.
Small Farmers for Global Food Security
Modern agriculture has damaged ecosystems and diets. A growing movement of small farmers rejects this, re-creating food systems based on moral ecology—a concept that regenerates nature and serves the common good. We argue they could feed the entire world and eradicate hunger.
This book charts Europe’s evolution from a theocratic culture to the modern nation-state. It examines the Renaissance, Reformation, Scientific Revolution, and Enlightenment, movements that culminated in the French Revolution and the birth of modern democratic ideas.
A groundbreaking, interdisciplinary journey into the numerical systems of South Asian languages. This book unveils their intricate linguistic patterns and cultural significance, offering a new methodology for investigating number systems that can be applied worldwide.
This book analyses clinical encounters through an interpreter from a new point of view. It explores the difficulties in multilingual medical communication, revealing why the risk of misunderstanding is significantly higher in trilingual than in bilingual communication.
Iceland’s mineral exploration is a story of gold fever, geology, and geothermal power. This book covers its history, from early settlers to modern discoveries linking geothermal systems to metal deposition, with stories of gold and silver and a chapter on the Faeroe Islands.
This book analyses land grabbing and displacement in India. Based on fieldwork in Odisha and Jharkhand, it reveals the subsequent impoverishment and trauma, with a special focus on the tribal women who bear the brunt of displacement and lose their autonomy as migrant labourers.
This book explores modern applications of Quality by Design (QbD) and green analytical chemistry in pharmaceutical development. It reveals how to apply QbD principles in process development and quality control to improve product quality and ensure process sustainability.
This book discusses fundamental morals, helping the disciple of Jesus Christ direct human acts to God, their true happiness. It explores how Christ’s teaching, Natural Law, and human reason form a bridge between faith and life, guiding our conscience and moral decisions.
This book assesses mobile technology for development (M4D) and how it addresses socio-economic challenges. It explores the tension between success reports and on-the-ground failures, identifying the real obstacles to affordable technologies that can effect development.
This book examines the connection between mediaeval mystery plays and masonic traditions. It explores how both use symbolic characters, archetypes, stories, and rituals to convey moral and spiritual teachings, a link rooted in the stonemasons’ guilds that performed these dramas.
This book offers exemplary solutions to chemistry problems, with necessary commentary on the processes involved. It is the basis for good preparation for national and international chemistry Olympiads, as well as for university studies in chemistry and medicine.
Oral Traditions in Insular Southeast Asia
Insular Southeast Asia’s extraordinary cultural diversity is matched by its heterogeneous oral traditions. This volume explores oral poetry and storytelling from different corners of the region through perspectives including ecocriticism, poetics, linguistics, and politics.
This book delves into Einstein’s lesser-known journey to Malaya in 1922 and 1923, with stops in Singapore, Malacca, and Penang. Based on his diary, it unravels the theories he was working on, his insightful interactions with locals, and the tropical wonders that inspired him.
Computational Modeling by Case Study
Mathematical models power the modern world, but they are all uncertain. This book provides techniques to quantify uncertainty, allowing you to predict and design with confidence. Learn through case studies and reproducible examples in Python adapted for your own problems.
This book traces the Black American community’s transition to an intersectional model, revealing how capitalism now uses the images of its youth, athletes, and women to assimilate Black people into the neoliberal global order.
No More Pandemics
This book proposes a path to end pandemics and achieve a world without infectious diseases. Using today’s science, it is entirely possible to avoid infection by implementing an air ventilation approach to stop viruses from entering the body. The challenge must be confronted now.
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