A Multimodal Exploration of Non-Fiction Read-Aloud Performances in English as an Additional Language
This book explores how non-fiction picturebooks can be mediated for children’s language education in an EAL context. It examines multimodal mediation, showing how storytellers use spoken language, gesture, and props to scaffold comprehension and invite active participation.
Based on research with 300 young Albanian males from post-conflict Kosovo, this book explores how physical training shapes the body. It reveals distinctive biological profiles in athletes and non-athletes, with vital implications for sports science, medicine, and public health.
Why does technology integration in education still reflect traditional, teacher-centred methods? This book offers a practical guide for developing a learner-centred philosophy of teaching with technology by examining the core beliefs that guide educators’ decisions.
Zoology Unveiled
A comprehensive exploration of General Zoology offering a foundational understanding of animal biology. It unifies key subfields like Cytology, Vertebrates, Physiology, and Immunology into a coherent framework, making it a valuable resource for students and researchers.
Plasticity in solids is determined not by defects, but by the distribution of valence electrons. An isotropic distribution causes lattice instability, making solids more plastic but less strong. This work introduces a novel model of a plastic crystal based on this concept.
Multilinguality, Vitality, and Endangerment
Languages are not lost; they are displaced. This book challenges conventional narratives by exploring why the Toda language is declining while Kota remains resilient. It demonstrates that language endangerment is a consequence of systemic marginalization, not modernization.
This study examines the relationship between denominational affiliation, class and gender in Edinburgh between 1850 and 1905. Churches played a leading role in social reform, while religious revivals stimulated growth and philanthropy as an expression of faith.
Interpretation is the medium through which the world becomes thinkable and shaped. This book journeys through domains from alchemy to dark matter and living ecologies, showing how meaning unfolds across time and scale. An invitation for readers who seek to cross boundaries.
Statements of Truth
This book proposes to make explicit the information that enables us to assert a declarative sentence. Those interested in the philosophy of language will find a fresh and unorthodox perspective on meaning and a non-metaphysical approach to various semantic issues and puzzles.
Disruptive Creativity with Generative AI
Generative AI is profoundly reshaping creativity. This book explores how AI acts as both a tool and a collaborator, enabling innovations that challenge traditional boundaries. Discover how this disruptive force will shape the future of innovation across all industries.
Non-Financial Information
This guide to corporate sustainability disclosure links theory with real-world practice. It offers practical tools to interpret sustainability data, unpacking not just how companies report but what can be inferred, giving readers a deeper understanding of corporate transparency.
2D-Nanophotocatalysts for Hydrogen Generation
This book explores 2D nanomaterials in photocatalytic hydrogen generation for clean, sustainable energy. It covers principles, synthesis, and enhancement strategies for materials like graphene and TMDs, while also exploring applications in CO2 reduction and future challenges.
William Stevens Fielding was one of Canada’s most influential statesmen. From journalist to premier of Nova Scotia, he became Laurier’s finance minister and heir apparent, negotiating the 1911 free trade agreement before returning as finance minister under Mackenzie King.
A Culture of Endless Consumption
This provocative book challenges our relationship to possessions, value, and identity. It explores how things have come to define our sense of self and what lies behind our endless consumption, revealing how our material world shapes our well-being and ecological futures.
This book provides an in-depth description of the why and how of offset QPSK. Topics move from time-domain descriptions and benefits to detection, synchronization, equalization, and offset QPSK’s relationship to continuous phase modulations, illustrated with detailed examples.
This book highlights the core importance of metacognition in improving English reading at the university level. It shows that acquiring cognitive and metacognitive strategies requires explicit instruction, offering insights and implications to enhance EFL reading performance.
Undoing the Visual Arts Since 1960
This timely study assesses how contemporary art replaced the artistic medium with art as text. The rise of the institutional theory of art, its academisation, and an ideological agenda made contemporary art immune from criticism—completing the undoing of visual art.
Re-reading Kazantzakis’s Askitiki
Emerging and established scholars plunge into the abyss of Kazantzakis’s most arresting philosophical treatise, Askitiki. This volume sheds new light on one of his most misunderstood works, bringing fresh voices to the study of one of Greece’s most important figures.
Psychology, Interregna and the Struggle for New Orders
When an old order collapses and a new one is yet to emerge, “monsters” arise. This book decodes the psychological and economic dynamics of systemic instability, providing a critical lens to understand the populist surges and digital disruptions shaping the future.
Volcano-Sedimentary Interactions in the Tadpatri Formation
This book unravels the interplay between volcanism and sedimentation in ancient India. Drawing on detailed fieldwork, it explores how volcanic activity shaped early crustal evolution, presenting a rare synthesis for geologists, researchers, and students of Earth’s ancient past.