Explore the microbiome’s dynamic relationship with human health. This book highlights its role in disease prevention and management, from immunity and diabetes to cancer, while delving into cutting-edge research, futuristic diagnostics, and innovative therapeutic interventions.
Service Analytics and Management
This book covers key issues on service strategy, planning, design, and delivery. It explores service capacity management, resource planning, quality improvement, and the role of IT and Analytics. The text includes detailed cases for extensive class discussion.
Origins of Power Struggles
The cause of evil is human nature. Progress depends on political-legal institutions, not improved morality. This book reinterprets history, showing how 20th century Communism betrays socialist utopianism and is a modernized restoration of traditional tyranny.
This guide offers a biopsychosocial approach to headache, focusing not just on causes but on sleep, mobility, nutrition, and social life. Through an interactive, case-based design, it explores therapies from yoga and manual therapy to dietary programmes and CBT.
Symbols in Arts, Religion and Culture
Abbaszadeh discusses how we learn about our human nature and how we fit into the larger scheme of life and spirit. She argues that we do this by understanding how our ancestors, through art, symbol and myth, expressed their relationship with the natural world.
The Exploitation of Raw Materials in Prehistory
This collection presents state-of-the-art approaches to the use of inorganic raw materials in the period known as prehistory. It focuses on stone-tools, adornments, colorants and pottery from Europe, America and Africa.
The Canterbury Catch Club 1826
In 1825, a lithograph was commissioned to celebrate a Canterbury musical society. This book analyzes that image and, using unique archives, uncovers a contradictory history where the respectable coexisted with the libertine and culture was a strategic assertion of identity.
The Viennese operetta masterpiece *Der Seekadett* delighted audiences for 80 years. This book restores the lost work, presenting the complete libretto in English, German, French, and Italian. The story features humour, romance, a deadly duel, and a chess game with live figures.
This volume brings together 49 chapters related to the field of education. The main topics explored here include teacher-student interactions, pre-service teachers, early childhood education, digital education, and attitudes of students towards the environment, amongst others.
Dying to Eat
Trevan examines our oft emotional relationship with food, and challenges how the science and knowledge of food, health and nutrition are derived. He also investigates those foods that come ready loaded with poisonous compounds and carcinogens.
This book explores landscape management and ecology, investigating issues from urban park design and green urbanism to protected areas and urban transformation. The volume will appeal to researchers, local authorities, academics, and students.
This book is a monograph on Albert Einstein’s odyssey to Special and General Relativity. Bringing together recent studies, it offers an in-depth analysis of the genesis of his theories, Einstein’s own derivations, and the philosophical perspectives of his work.
Emblems and Impact Volume I
The study of emblems allows this two-volume work to look back at the collaborative endeavours of creative minds of earlier times. It argues that while the world seeks to come to terms with globalization, emblems allow reflection on strongly shared cultural values and connections.
Fashion through History
This book analyzes fashion as a main indicator of social change. It explores issues from economy, copyright, and trademarks to the impact of globalization, new technologies, and social media on the dynamic fashion system in the virtual world.
The Global Reach of the Fandango in Music, Song and Dance
This book lays the foundations for learning about the fandango, an 18th century dance and music craze across Spain and the Americas. It describes how the dance became a conduit for the syncretism of music, dance and people and how it signified freedom of movement and expression.
Nigeria’s telecommunications industry is fast-growing but legally under-researched. This book bridges that gap by providing an essential analysis of the legal and policy instruments that regulate this dynamic sector, from licensing and competition to consumer protection.
Agriculture in an Urbanizing Society Volume Two
This conference proceedings represents the academic work of worldwide experts in food planning and urban agriculture. It is an overview of the latest research in the field, drawing from areas such as spatial planning and governance.
Harbors, Flows, and Migrations
Here, thirty-two American Studies scholars from around the world interrogate the manifold significance of ports and the exchanges they enable or restrain, casting a decentered look onto the complex positioning of the United States in its relationships with the rest of the world.
Formal Methods in Musicology
Techniques from mathematics and statistics are successfully applied to music analysis, helping us understand style and composition. Using examples from various musical styles, this book explains how to use these techniques, supported by case studies from expert researchers.
Dictionary of French Family Names in North America
This dictionary provides the origins, meanings, and variants of French family names in North America. Uniquely, it also includes genealogical information on the migrants who brought them to the continent.