This book promotes gender diversity and social justice by focusing on “equity” over “equality.” It creatively addresses challenges and proposes solutions for women’s empowerment, LGBTQ+ issues, and disability rights in leadership, education, health, and public policy.
Reversion of Disease and Aging
Discover a clinically proven medicine that can reverse disease and aging. This book reveals how to activate your body’s self-curative mechanisms through conditioning, diet, and exercise, creating a natural path to improved health and longevity for all.
What if the future of construction could be redefined? Concrete is a top carbon emitter, and optimizing its composition has been a challenge for decades. This book is a groundbreaking exploration of how machine learning can revolutionize concrete mixtures for a demanding world.
Modeling Problem Solving in Physics with Simulated Experiments
Bring physics to life with this engaging collection of lab activities using free online simulations. Perfect for high school and undergraduate students, these self-guided activities connect theory with practice and are adaptable for both online and in-class learning.
Unleash Python’s potential in electrical and electronics engineering. This guide gives you the tools to tackle real-world problems, from data analysis to test equipment automation. Each chapter combines theory with practical examples to help you gain hands-on experience.
Technology-Enhanced and Corpus Based Language Learning and Teaching
This pivotal resource explores how AI reshapes EFL education. It provides educators with practical, data-driven strategies from corpus linguistics to enhance student autonomy and learning outcomes, creating more adaptive and personalized teaching frameworks.
Turbulent Two-Phase Jets of Mutually Immiscible Liquids
This work develops mathematical models to simulate mixing and heat transfer in turbulent multiphase jets. It presents a new method to calculate important characteristics impossible with other techniques and reveals the phenomenon of kinetic energy amplification.
This textbook explores the principles and best practices of quality in pharmaceutical products. It bridges the gap between theoretical knowledge and practical application, preparing students and professionals to meet the dynamic demands of the pharmaceutical industry.
Unifying the Field of Psychosexual Therapy
This groundbreaking book gathers insights on psychosexual therapy from leading experts. What distinguishes this volume is its dedication to diversity, offering a rich mosaic of perspectives on the psychological, cultural, and ethical dimensions of sex therapy. An essential read.
This book explores the skills for effective language teaching in a changing world. Covering multilingualism, assessment, and digital tools, it presents innovative approaches to foster competent teachers. A valuable resource for teacher educators and scholars.
The New Cold War
We are entering Cold War II. This time the fraught relationship is between China and America. With military build-ups, constant cyber attacks, and militarization of the South China Sea, what are the risks of this new Cold War descending into a hot war?
Matriculture, Shamanism, and the Authority of Women
This book explores intersections between matriculture—the cultural worlds of women—and power in societies worldwide. Contributors analyze the forces that support or suppress women’s authority and agency, pointing to the social benefits of a thriving matriculture for all.
Bear Tales in Minority Languages
This multilingual collection of stories from endangered languages is united by a common theme: the Bear. These previously unpublished tales provide a precious source of community values—beliefs and visions in danger of extinction along with the languages that transmit them.
Digitalisation, Inclusion, and Exclusion in Higher Education
Moving beyond access, this collection examines how the digital divide perpetuates inequality in higher education. Through a social justice lens, it analyzes the issue from theory to practice with global case studies and showcases innovative policies to bridge the divide.
Current theories fail to adequately account for energy dissipation in modern materials. Based on a new theory, this book solves problems of minimizing energy dissipation, reducing vibrations in machines, and preventing resonances, with applications in geophysics and beyond.
This volume explores D. H. Lawrence’s search for an ideal primitive society. Combining literature and photography, it analyses Sicilian and Sardinian society, offering new perspectives on *Sea and Sardinia*, including its ecological approach, gender roles, and local identity.
This book covers the theory and practice of discrete optimization for mathematics and computer science researchers. It presents new theoretical results, models, and algorithmic approaches for problems in integer programming, combinatorial optimization, scheduling, and logistics.
Intangible Cultural Heritage in Southern Portugal’s Sacred Celebrations
Journey through the 72 Marian feasts of Portugal’s Algarve, where Catholic heritage and local culture intertwine. This visually captivating book explores the sacred processions, pilgrimages, and rituals that express the region’s unique blend of faith, community, and devotion.
Global Perspectives on Development of the Digital Workplace and Digitalisation of Business Functions
Uncover the digital transformation of business, from leadership to ethics. Combining theory with real-world case studies, this book builds the essential analytical skills for students to thrive in the modern digital economy.
This book presents the financial performance of the shipping industry since 1896, tracking how fortunes were made and lost through market cycles. It examines the underlying causes that moved the market and evaluates when players got their speculative act right or badly wrong.