IMVIP conferences bring together academics and practitioners to share cutting-edge research in image processing. These proceedings contain papers from the 14th event, hosted by the University of Limerick, Ireland in 2010.
Meštrović provides critical insights into the defining questions of our age, tracing the imbalance between market globalisation and society to contradictions within capitalism. He searches for a new commons and a movement towards freedom beyond the market’s restrictions.
This book addresses the critical gap between traditional teaching and Technology Enhanced Learning (TEL). It bridges the divide by exploring theories, principles, and pedagogies for 21st-century learning, covering course design, online assessment, and quality assurance.
“Crouching Tiger”
The Irish software industry faces new challenges from competitors like India. This volume explores attitudes towards software process quality in both nations, comparing their implementation and concluding with recommendations to support Irish competitiveness.
The Supervisory Assemblage
A nomadic inquiry into the doctoral process, this book uses Deleuzian and feminist poststructuralist thought to raise questions, not answer them. It reveals academic production as a complex process, offering a powerful statement on learning’s capacity to transform a life.
Open Codes
Challenging the view that technology and society are distinct, this book explores how human action can be re-centered to democratise technology. It focuses on open source as a new participatory model for creatively re-inventing used technologies.
Yea, Alabama! A Peek into the Past of One of the Most Storied Universities in the Nation
Battles relates the narrative of the storied University of Alabama in Tuscaloosa, in the United States, bringing to the fore many new facts, new stories, new characters, new revelations, and new photos that offer the fullest picture of the University provided to date.
Eminent scholars and administrators analyze fiscal federalism, centre-state relations, and decentralization. This collection addresses growing fiscal stress and offers strategies for sustainability for national and sub-national governments in a globalized world.
This collection explores the problem of the preservation of cultural identities in the present-day global context. It highlights that gender equality, ethnicity, religion, tradition, modernity and linguistic affinities are recurrent in many contemporary national literatures.
Leonardo da Vinci and Verrazzano’s Royal Discovery of New York (1524-2024)
The discovery of explorer Verrazzano’s 500-year-old travel report led to a world map found among Leonardo da Vinci’s papers. Astonishingly, their families were neighbors. Did Leonardo influence his countryman? This book offers new evidence on their connection.
Muge 150th
This book brings together papers on the Mesolithic period and its transition to the Neolithic across Europe. Including theoretical discussions, it also ventures outside Europe with case studies on shell middens from Patagonia and the Red Sea.
This book is a collection of exquisite coloured photographs illustrating Jordan’s diverse wild medicinal and aromatic plants. It discusses 281 species from diverse habitats, with information on taxonomy, chemical constituents, healing properties, and uses in folk medicine.
African Democratic Montage
African states have the tools for democracy, but their varied application leads to fragile outcomes, rights violations, and military coups. This book explores why, using case studies to reveal the path to true democratic consolidation and good governance.
Digital By-Product Data in Web 2.0
Every online action is recorded as digital by-product data. This hidden information provides a road map to who we are and what we want. This book shows how social scientists can analyze this data to better understand our society and ourselves.
The Wild Pig
In war-torn Algeria, a narrator travels a land of stunning beauty, meditating on good and evil. As a primordial wildness wells within him, he chooses solitude. But will he be able to avoid confronting the wild beast in its lair?
Pathways to Professionalism in English Language Teaching
This seventh volume on English Language Teaching (ELT) and Applied Linguistics shifts its focus to data-driven, empirical research. The assembled papers emphasize an empirically grounded approach to teaching and acquiring English, offering new Pathways to Professionalism.
Explore Jordan’s medicinal and aromatic plants in this valuable reference. Illustrated with full-color photos, it presents up-to-date information on 209 species, covering their taxonomy, medicinal values, healing properties, and uses in folk medicine.
The first scholarly analysis to focus on the novels of the critically acclaimed Scottish writer Louise Welsh, this study explores the image of the labyrinth as one of the sites for horror in classic Gothic literature and its rewriting into 21st century Scotland.
This book illustrates the Europe of the 1500s-1600s, focusing on England and Italy. It explores how military interventions, literature, art, and philosophy formed the continent we have inherited, and delves into the mystery of who wrote the Shakespearean works.
Acquiring Lingua Franca of the Modern Time
Explore modern ESL/EFL teaching strategies for a globalized, digital world. International scholars apply linguistic theory and multi-cultural communication to today’s classrooms.