EFL Learners’ Acquisition of the English Article System
This book addresses controversies in second language acquisition, including the role of the first language and universal grammar, by investigating how speakers of Arabic and Japanese acquire English articles. Useful for researchers, students, and teachers in language education.
Bridging Classical and Non-Classical Signal Processing Approaches for Enhanced Communication Systems
Explore the fusion of classical and cutting-edge signal processing. This book introduces hybrid systems that boost the performance, reliability, and efficiency of communication networks by integrating foundational techniques with modern advancements like machine learning.
Demystifying Medical Data
“Demystifying Medical Data” equips you with the essential statistical tools for analyzing medical data. From descriptive statistics to hypothesis testing and experimental design, each chapter builds your competence, making this a comprehensive guide for medical data analysis.
From an expert team, this guide provides a comprehensive overview of green chemistry techniques. Learn to integrate sustainable approaches into your work, using fewer chemicals and less energy for higher yields. A useful guide for academic and industrial researchers.
Liquidity and Asset Pricing
Explore the role of liquidity in asset pricing models, from risk premiums to market crises. This book empirically tests how augmented liquidity factors improve models and explains policy implications relevant to researchers, regulators, traders, and portfolio managers.
A Shakespearean Reading of Pirandello’s Henry IV
This innovative comparative analysis of Shakespeare’s Hamlet and Pirandello’s Enrico IV delves into the intertextual relationship between the two tragedies, presenting an original interpretation that connects concepts like original sin, farce, and simulacrum.
A refreshing new look at the Book of Psalms, this analysis of its postmodern poetry reveals its enduring relevance as a source of sustenance, comfort, and a practical handbook for life.
Take a tour of our Solar System, from rocky planets and gas giants to asteroids and comets. Informed by the latest space missions, this accessible guide explores our home system, its origin, distant exoplanets, and its cosmic context as a wellspring of life.
This textbook on hydroacoustics covers the reflectivity of elastic bodies and the synthesis of hydroacoustic antennas. Along with classical diffraction theory, it uses numerical methods like the finite element method and the boundary element method.
Housing the Poor on the African Continent
This book uses Ubuntu philosophy to address low-cost housing in Africa. It argues that reciprocity and collective solidarity are key to housing rights, informing policy and practice while raising red flags about the challenges of implementing these ideals.
This book reveals the core paradox of Samuel Richardson. Fearing his own novel *Pamela* normalized abuse, he became both a staunch defender of patriarchy and a fierce advocate for women’s safety, happiness, and subjectivity.
The discovery of Claude Vincendon’s lost novel, *Golden Silence*, opens a window into her world. These essays explore her life with Lawrence Durrell, the novel’s tale of a cursed mute girl, and the profound themes of silence, fate, and the Evil Eye in her final work.
Based on 60 years of research, this book reveals a powerful message: qualitative data is more informative than quantitative data. Learn how to analyze it quantitatively to extract more information, using simple illustrations of difficult topics that anyone can understand.
Exchanges of Culture, Policy, and Goods from 1492 to the Future
This anthology of essays on international relations focuses on Latin America’s place on the world stage. Featuring contributions by recognized authorities and new scholars, it provides a global view of the intricate relationships between nations, cultures, and global politics.
This book solves scattering problems for elastic waves in solids using analytical approaches. It provides benchmark solutions for numerical methods and introduces applications in ultrasonic non-destructive evaluation, material characterization, and geophysics.
This volume offers Biblical Theological investigations into God’s righteousness. Scholars explore how the attribute unfolds throughout Scripture’s progressive storyline, providing new research on topics that have not been adequately explored in the past.
Sustainable Development of Territories in Contexts of Uncertainty
This practical guide helps policymakers navigate sustainable development amidst crises. Using case studies, it addresses territorial and social challenges, providing the knowledge to adopt sustainable strategies, socially inclusive policies, and innovative governance models.
Developing Third-Generation Learning Organizations
To build the agile, knowledge-creating organization of the future, leaders must first undergo their own transformation. This book offers the theory and methodology needed to guide this process, outlining how developing people leads to enhanced profitability.
Managing Change in Business
This jargon-free handbook is a practical guide to help you ‘make it happen’. It makes the process of change easier to understand, adapt, and accept by explaining key drivers, significant change models, and crucial tools, supported by real-life case examples.
This volume digitally reconstructs a 15th-century Book of Hours that was dismembered by a notorious dealer. It restores a cultural treasure, confronts the ethical challenges of manuscript destruction, and advocates for the preservation of our shared heritage.