The history of spices and plantation crops is deeply entwined with colonialism, trade disputes, and revolution. This comprehensive work explores their antiquity, cultural significance, and global spread, revealing how these plants have historically shaped the world order.
An accessible guide for students of biochemistry, medicine, and life sciences to understand biochemical tests and their clinical interpretation. This book covers routine analyses, how modern labs work, lab automation, metabolic disorders, diagnostic enzymology, and more.
Everything You Need to Know About Black Holes
What are black holes? They may hold the key to unifying Einstein’s gravity and quantum mechanics. Are they the final stage of a collapsing star? Or do primordial black holes reveal a different origin? This book presents the latest insights into these enormous challenges.
Mechanism Design for Public Goods and Environmental Externalities
This book discusses crucial environmental problems, like global warming and nuclear disasters, by applying the unique Gorman-Lancaster-Sen’s approach. It provides a new way of thinking about the environment as a public good for students, professors, and policy makers alike.
This book presents up-to-date research on climate and land use change impacts on water resources. Illustrated with case studies and mathematical modelling, it provides a concise overview for graduate students, engineers, and researchers in the environmental sciences.
Management Footsteps and Foundations
For the first time, the foundations of management are brought to life through historical analysis. This daringly innovative book takes the reader on a journey through human history from a management perspective, utterly transforming our understanding of the subject.
Facilitating with Stories
This book connects theory and practice for professionals working with stories. It offers a unique inquiry into the ethics and philosophies of facilitation, supporting educators, facilitators, and consultants towards more effective and considered practice.
The integrated musical emerged not in the 20th century, but in the 18th with Charles Dibdin. He wrote, composed, and performed in innovative musicals, blending Italian opera and English ballads to create an organic musical theatre that paved the way for the art form today.
This book explores the principles of stereoisomers in a clear, accessible manner. Covering topics like symmetry and chirality with illustrations and cartoons, it helps students prepare for exams with chapter exercises and provided solutions for self-assessment.
Next-Gen Solutions for Sustainable Agronomy
This book examines the technological landscape that underpins the future of sustainable agriculture. From precision farming and robotics to crop genetics, it unveils diverse tools for more efficient practices, fostering increased food production to address global food shortages.
The Christian Cross in American Public Life
From towering monuments to roadside memorials, the cross is a vital symbol in American life. It marks identity, grief, and sacrifice, while sparking legal debates over church and state. This volume explores the cross in art, politics, and culture in an accessible A-to-Z format.
In 1767, the Jesuits were expelled from Spanish America. This book provides an overview of their urban colegios and frontier missions at the time of the expulsion, focusing on the Guaraní missions. This volume contains a visual catalog of historic maps and images.
Explore the latest findings on the tumor molecular microenvironment’s role in cancer progression. This book highlights new therapeutic targets based on apoptosis, autophagy, and tumor signaling, and reveals how nanoformulations are revolutionizing the future of cancer therapy.
High-performance Titanium Alloys and Lattice Structures
Explore high-performance titanium alloys and 3D-printed lattice structures. This comprehensive reference for scientists and engineers covers their design, fabrication, mechanical properties, and application in lightweight, high-strength components for sustainable engineering.
Explore the future of medicine with this guide to drug delivery systems. Discover how targeted delivery and precision medicine can enhance therapeutic outcomes while minimizing side effects, revolutionizing the way we heal for a healthier tomorrow.
This book explores the roles Nigerian women have played since pre-colonial times in shaping their culture and society. It highlights the effects of patriarchy, colonialism, and industry on women in Africa’s most populous country, making a major contribution to women’s history.
This study examines François-Adrien Boieldieu, composer of the masterpiece La Dame blanche. Collaborating with dramatist Eugène Scribe, he stimulated the flowering of the Romantic opéra-comique. Based on Sir Walter Scott, his work influenced composers across Europe, even Wagner.
General Principles of Ecological Risk Assessment
This book provides a comprehensive overview of the modern concepts and tools for ecological risk assessment of environmental stressors. It describes methods to evaluate exposure and effects, with sections on bioaccumulation models, emerging stressors, and regulatory instruments.
This book departs from western prescripts to shed light on tested Afrocentric methods for community development. It draws lessons from African models of communal unity to show how governments can enhance their development models to reduce poverty and unemployment.
This volume explores the historical background of contemporary social and economic issues. It argues that globalisation is not new, and that deep history offers essential lessons about wealth, the nature of money, and the understanding of justice.